SWIM just bodied the competition with the biggest Spotify debut of 2026, racking up a massive 14.64 million streams on opening day. The track absolutely demolished the streaming charts, setting a new benchmark that has the music industry taking notice. The numbers don’t lie. SWIM’s debut performance puts it nearly 2 million streams ahead of…
In brief Adobe data shows AI-driven shopping traffic surging into the mainstream. AI-assisted shoppers now outperform traditional retail consumers. Report signals rapid shift toward agent-led commerce in U.S. retail. The dead internet is more alive than ever. A year ago, retailers were debating whether to block AI bots from crawling their websites. That calculation just…
A fire in Malaysia’s Sabah state on Borneo island has destroyed around 1,000 homes and left thousands displaced, the fire department has said. The blaze broke out in the early hours of Sunday in one of Sabah’s water villages, where people live in closely-packed wooden houses built on stilts. The local police chief said 9,000…
Iran’s powerful parliament speaker said there has been “progress” in talks with Washington but that “fundamental” differences remain, while US President Donald Trump rejected what he called “blackmail” by Tehran after it again closed the Strait of Hormuz. “We are still far from the final discussion,” Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who is also Iran’s lead negotiator,…
Liverpool manager Arne Slot says his side’s late derby victory against Everton is “definitely a day for the fans to be happy about” after The Reds’ recent quarter-final defeats in the FA Cup and Champions League. MATCH REPORT: Everton 1-2 Liverpool Available to UK users only. Source link
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticized an easing of sanctions on Russian energy, writing on X that “every dollar paid for Russian oil is money for the war.” His statement on April 19 comes after the United States prolonged its Russian oil waiver earlier in the week with figures showing that Moscow nearly doubled its…
US President Donald Trump said his representatives are traveling to Islamabad, Pakistan, for another round of talks on April 20 with Iran as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Tehran has not yet confirmed it will take part. Writing on his Truth Social platform on April 19, Trump said that “the US was “offering a…
Residents within a 450m radius of the device were told to leave their homes while it was neutralised. Source link
When Olha Puzyk’s son, Viktor, was taken from a children’s home in Kherson after the Ukrainian city was occupied by Russian forces in 2022, she was left with one agonizing question: Is he alive? This Current Time report traces a mother’s relentless search for her son and struggle to bring him home. Source link
Today, we’re announcing our newest generative media models, which mark significant breakthroughs. These models create breathtaking images, videos and music, empowering artists to bring their creative vision to life. They also power amazing tools for everyone to express themselves. Veo 3 and Imagen 4, our newest video and image generation models, push the frontier of…