Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank told Graham Bensinger in a YouTube interview published in September 2025 he believes in micromanagement “at certain levels.” “I think it’s totally underestimated,” said Plank, who founded Under Armour in 1996. “I think there’s too much loss on pretense or structure or process. Like, that’s great, but the right answer
(Image Credits: Instagram) What looked like a harmless children’s accessory in a room filled with diplomats and billionaires turned into one of China’s most unexpected viral online conversations. People are suddenly obsessing over an adorable ‘tiger bag’ spotted on Elon Musk’s son, X Æ A-Xii, also known as Lil X online.Chinese platforms quickly started to
For the past year, the Smithsonian Institution has found itself in the awkward position of telling the nation’s story while being supported in part by a government that wants to narrow how that story is told. In December, the White House threatened to revoke funding to the institution if it did not hand over a
This report is from this week’s The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. One look at the roster of U.S. execs that cozied up to U.S. President Donald Trump on the 20+ hours flight from Alaska to China on Wednesday and you get a sense of the American delegation’s key focus
It’s the dawn of a new era on Wall Street — and I’m not talking about the imminent change at the Federal Reserve. After more than half a century at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA 0.07%)(BRKB 0.32%), billionaire Warren Buffett has stepped out of the spotlight and handed the reins to his successor, Greg
Elon Musk may have just called Jensen Huang as his ‘true friend’. X user DogeDesigner recently shared a split-image of the Tesla CEO and Nvidia CEO from 2016 and 2026, showing their decade-long friendship with Jensen in his signature leather jacket. The post is captioned: “The most important thing in life is having true friends”.
Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with Premier of Alberta Danielle Smith at his office in Ottawa on May 8.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Keep calm and… Re “The Iran war has shown why Canada shouldn’t just take the world as it is” (May 8): Our Prime Minister is criticized for putting
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently alleged Delta Airlines of rejecting its space internet service Starlink over Amazon’s Leo. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the world’s richest man alleged that the real issue was the airline requiring passengers to access the in-flight Wi-Fi using the Delta Sync portal, which forces customers to log in
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On 9 May, Russia held its iconic annual Victory Day parade to honour the sacrifices of its soldiers and civilians during its four-year war against Nazi Germany. When the president, Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, he didn’t anticipate a fight that would last longer than the Red Army’s epic struggle against the
May 14 (Reuters) – A bidder agreed to pay $9,000,100 at auction to dine with billionaire investor Warren Buffett and basketball superstar Stephen Curry in a charity fundraiser. The winning bid came in a weeklong auction on eBay that ended on Thursday, according to eBay’s website. The winner’s identity could not immediately be determined. Buffett,
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney posited that the world order was not experiencing a “transition” but rather a “rupture” from the global system established in the aftermath of the Second World War. For Southeast Asia, and its primary institutional forum – ASEAN – this means recognising that some of its most cherished principles might no
US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2026. Kenny Holston | Afp | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump said China has agreed to buy American oil, in a pre-recorded interview with Fox News that aired Thursday evening
Trump said tonight that he brought top business leaders who traveled with him to China into his meeting with Xi and discussed how to increase trade between the U.S. and China. “I suggested that before we start the meeting, I’d like to introduce them to you, and they were surprised, because it wasn’t, you know,
Hello, welcome to Politics Insider. Let’s look at what happened today. Alberta must respect the rights of Indigenous peoples and individual freedoms if it wishes to hold an independence referendum, Prime Minister Mark Carney says. Matthew Scace reports that Carney made the comments today, a day after an Alberta judge struck down a separatist group’s
On the National Mall, where Trump’s new tinge of paint made its way up the basin of the Reflecting Pool, three video-game consoles had been installed with an interactive game called Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell. It allowed players to simulate the Iran war. A few National Guard members took turns trying out the
Elon Musk accuses OpenAI of breaching charitable trust and prioritising profit over AI safety and nonprofit values. Published On 14 May 202614 May 2026 Lawyers for OpenAI and Elon Musk began closing arguments in a landmark trial that could impact the future of the ChatGPT maker. On Thursday, each side presented a concluding statement to
Interview by Doug Henwood Elon Musk needs no introduction. He is one of the leading capitalists of our time. Unlike many in tech, he gets down and dirty with the physical world (or rather, his employees do), building cars and rockets, digging tunnels, even implanting chips in people’s brains. He is also a master of
US stocks stepped higher on Thursday as the artificial intelligence trade came back into focus and after President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, began a high-stakes US-China summit. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose 0.7%, or more than 350 points, to climb above the 50,000 level for the first time since February.
Merve Aydogan 14 May 2026•Update: 14 May 2026 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Canada plans to double its electricity generation over the next two decades to meet rising demand and strengthen the country’s energy resilience. “Electricity demand in Canada is expected to double by 2050, so we will double our grid,” Carney
