Airline miles may not go as far as the Iran war drives up fuel costs and summer fares - AP News
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Here's the Bodycam Footage of the Cybertruck That Drove Into a Lake - 404 Media
On Monday a man in Grapevine, Texas drove his Tesla Cybertruck into a lake to test the vehicle’s “wade mode.” Police arrested the Cybertruck’s owner, Jimmy Jack McDaniel, after he and his passengers fled the vehicle. At one point, the owner tried to get back into the vehicle, and law enforcement responded by deploying jet skis and calling a tow truck to pull the Cybertruck from the water, according to hours of related footage 404 Media obtained.
Blackstone Announces Joint Venture with Google to Create New TPU Cloud - Blackstone
Blackstone to make initial $5 billion equity commitment to bring 500 MW of capacity online in 2027, with plans to scale significantly over timeNEW YORK – May 18, 2026 – Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced a joint venture with Google to create a new U.S.-based company that will offer efficient data center capacity, operations, networking, and Google Cloud’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) as a compute-as-a-service offering. The company will give customers another option to access cloud TPUs in addition to using them through Google Cloud.
Arizona students boo former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as he talks about AI during graduation speech - Business Insider
Boos rang out during the University of Arizona's graduation ceremony on Friday as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about a topic that is maybe a little sensitive for those about to enter the workforce: AI.While other speakers received cheers and applause, Schmidt's speech about the impact of modern technology on society struck a nerve."We thought that we were adding stones to a cathedral of knowledge that humanity had been constructing for centuries, but the world we built turned out to be more complicated than we anticipated," Schmidt said, referring to his own contributions to modernization. "The same tools that connect us also isolate us.