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Klarna has paid more than $16 million to nonprofits founded by the wife of its CEO.The Swedish fintech has distributed $16.55 million to nonprofits founded by its chief executive officer Sebastian Siemiatkowski’s wife over the last five years, according to the company’s F-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.Klarna has paid Nina Siemiatkowski’s nonprofit Milkywire $2.75 million for its services since 2022, and a further $1 million to purchase carbon credits, which are permits to offset a portion of its greenhouse gas emissions through supporting projects that remove the equivalent amount of emissions.It has also contributed $12.8…
For nearly a year, Tesla has been teasing a European rollout of Full Self-Driving, its driver-assist software. It has posted videos of its cars navigating narrow Roman streets, busy German boulevards, and Paris’s Arc de Triomphe — all while touting an ambitious timeline for the product.To get there, the automaker has had to contend with what CEO Elon Musk has called a “layer cake of bureaucracy.” As Tesla has pushed for approval of a system it says is four times safer than human drivers, European regulators have moved slowly, requiring a level of testing and oversight far beyond that of…
NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic is 38 and trying to conquer a younger man’s game as he heads into the U.S. Open semifinals on Friday. It’s been two years since his most recent Grand Slam title, which — to him — must feel like an eternity.Last season was his first without earning at least one since 2017. And Djokovic is clear that, at this point in his career, those big trophies from the sport’s four biggest events are all he really cares about. At this year’s three other major tournaments, he exited in the semifinals, two after getting hurt:…
LONDON (AP) — Players at the Women’s Rugby World Cup are more than happy to proudly call their teammates their sisters.Time together often rivals time with their actual families. Long before they lace up their boots and play, the players spent hours and hours together in the gym, in training, and in hotels and buses.But among the sisterhood there are some bonafide sisters sprinkled among the 16 teams in England, and here’s some of their stories:Alana and Chelsea Bremner, New ZealandThe Bremners grew up on a farm in a town of 200. They were unflashy, reliable, tough, and each other’s…
The trio of Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles and Maya Moore will be the most dominant class of women’s basketball players to ever enter the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame when they are enshrined this weekend.Count them up: 11 Olympic gold medals and 10 WNBA championships.Add their record-setting milestones, and this group has no equal. “I think that would be fair to say that they would have the title of best class ever,” Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve said. “They are each Hall of Famers and are terrific in their own right to the extent they impacted their sport.”Their 11 Olympic…
Long-suffering fans in cities like Buffalo,Detroit and Cincinnati hope this is the year when the NFL once again crowns a first-time Super Bowl champion.The league hasn’t had a team win its first Super Bowl since the 2017 season when Philadelphia beat New England to give the Eagles their first Lombardi Trophy.The seven straight seasons without a first-time champion is the second longest in NFL history, trailing only the 10 straight seasons between when the New York Giants won their first Super Bowl in the 1986 season and the Denver Broncos won their first in the 1997 season.It would be far…
The verdict on Google’s lengthy lawsuit is out, and analysts say the search giant left the room largely unscathed.Nearly five years after the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Google, a district judge on Tuesday ruled that Google won’t have to divest its Chrome or YouTube businesses.Instead, District Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling said that Google will be barred from entering exclusive contracts with partners such as Apple to give its search engine priority, and it will be forced to share some data with rivals.Google’s stock jumped 6.7% after hours following the decision.In post-ruling reactions, analysts called the decision…
Google has been spared from the worst, and the business and tech community is weighing in.On Tuesday, Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled that Google will not be forced to divest from Chrome and its Android operating system, after Google was found in 2024 to have illegally maintained a monopoly.In the 230-page decision, Mehta said that Google won’t be allowed to have an exclusive contract regarding the distribution of its search engines and apps and that the company must share information such as user interaction data and search index with competitors.Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, argued earlier this year…
Google just dodged the breakup of some of its key businesses, and it has an unlikely competitor to thank: OpenAI.A federal judge ruled Tuesday that generative AI’s rise has made search more competitive, undermining the Justice Department’s case for carving up Google’s empire, which could have seen products like YouTube or Chrome become totally independent companies.In Judge Amit Mehta’s decision on Tuesday, the rise of generative AI brought about by OpenAI’s ChatGPT was repeatedly mentioned for making the search business more competitive than ever. That weakened the case for radically restructuring Google’s operations.Judge Mehta wrote that while generative AI hasn’t…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Carlie was hoping to spend her senior year savoring her final moments on the palm tree-lined campus of the University of Central Florida. Instead, she sits at home alone, logging on to online courses, afraid to leave her apartment and run the risk of being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A few months ago, Carlie was studying public relations in Orlando, envisioning one day working for nonprofits that help students like her. Thanks to in-state tuition and private scholarships, Carlie had been living a life she had only dreamed of in Haiti, a country…