Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the Trump family’s media company, has been selling premium subscriptions to posts by Donald Trump and other influential Americans on Truth Social since Saturday. The “Truth API” subscriptions give users access to Trump’s posts a few seconds earlier.
Beachgoers at Marina di Ragusa, on the Italian island of Sicily, were surprised last Wednesday when banknotes worth hundreds of thousands of euros suddenly washed ashore.
Due to the protracted war with Iran, U.S. stocks of Patriot and THAAD missiles are rapidly dwindling. The Pentagon is therefore pinning its hopes on defense startups in Silicon Valley, now that traditional suppliers like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are unable to scale up production. In late June, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth convened about fifteen top executives from companies such as Shield AI, Anduril, CoAspire, and Castelion with a clear message: “Solve it.”
Elon Musk has lost nearly half his fortune in six weeks. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his net worth fell from a peak of about $1.33 trillion in mid-June to roughly $684 billion by the end of July. Despite the setback, he remains by far the richest person in the world. Moreover, his net worth is still greater than that of the second- and third-richest people combined.
This coming Sunday, Kinepolis will screen the blockbuster “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” in a Ukrainian-dubbed version at several of its Belgian locations. The initiative comes in response to a request from the Ukrainian community in Belgium, which has grown since the Russian invasion in 2022.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has withdrawn his controversial plan to sell a stake in World Cup rights to private investors. Following fierce opposition from the European soccer community, threats of a boycott, and resignations among his own leadership, the FIFA president admitted: “The project has caused divisions that are no longer in the interest of the original goal.”
It was supposed to be a dream week for Leopold Aschenbrenner (24), the young Wall Street prodigy who, with his AI fund Situational Awareness, posted a whopping 439 percent return in just six months. Instead of celebrating, a financial bloodbath unfolded this week: his fund lost an estimated tens of billions and was forced to sell nearly all of its public equity positions.
Russian billionaire Valery Kustov, co-founder of the food company Efko, was arrested this week in Moscow on suspicion of large-scale fraud involving the production of drones for the Russian military. According to several Russian media outlets, several top executives from Efko and an official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade were also taken into custody.
Several influential figures in European soccer are trying to promote Nasser Al-Khelaifi, owner of PSG and chairman of the European Football Clubs (EFC), as a potential challenger to FIFA President Gianni Infantino in the next elections in 2027. This comes in response to Infantino’s controversial plan to sell shares in the World Cup to private investors—a multibillion-dollar deal that has drawn fierce criticism worldwide.
The United States is banning the import of new Chinese humanoid robots. “An unacceptable risk to our national security,” officials say.