Author: Faiqa Chaudhary

Taiwan’s TSMC stunned markets on Thursday with news of another TSMC Arizona investment worth $100 billion, pushing its total US commitment to a staggering $265 billion. The announcement landed alongside a blowout quarterly earnings report, and it confirms what analysts have suspected for months: the AI chip boom has outgrown even the most ambitious expansion plans TSMC had on the table. Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei delivered the news on Thursday’s earnings call, tying the fresh spending directly to insatiable demand for artificial intelligence hardware. The scale of the commitment marks one of the largest single corporate investment pledges in…

Ethereum can’t seem to make up its mind. The world’s second-largest cryptocurrency was trading at $1,780.85 as of 6:15 a.m. ET on July 13, 2026, according to Fortune’s daily tracker — down $18.85 from the previous morning and roughly $1,192 lower than this time last year. Yet just a day earlier, ETH had punched above $1,800 for the first time in weeks. That back-and-forth sums up where Ethereum sits right now: neither collapsing nor breaking out, but grinding against a resistance zone that has decided nearly every major move since June. What’s Driving Ethereum’s Price Action This Week Ethereum’s push…

A six-figure-adjacent reward is now within reach for a small, highly specific group of Pakistani researchers — but only if they know exactly where to look, and exactly what OpenAI is really asking for. The company behind ChatGPT has quietly turned a temporary testing scheme into a permanent, invite-only initiative. And Pakistan, notably, made the eligibility list. What Is the OpenAI Bio Bounty Program? The OpenAI Bio Bounty Program grew out of the earlier GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty, now converted into an ongoing private scheme. It exists to stress-test OpenAI’s most advanced models against biological misuse. Researchers accepted into the…

Alia Bhatt fans rushing out of cinemas with one question have flooded search engines this week. Does Kaul die in Alpha? The short answer: no. But the road to that answer is messier than most fans expect. Does Kaul Die in Alpha? The Direct Answer Colonel Vikrant Kaul, played by Anil Kapoor, survives Alpha from start to finish. He doesn’t just survive — he becomes the head of India’s Research and Analysis Wing after succeeding his late friend Sunil Luthra as agency chief. Kaul isn’t the film’s casualty. His wife is. That distinction has confused a lot of viewers scrolling…

Alia Bhatt fans searching “does Durga die in Alpha” can relax. The character survives the film — but not without a genuinely close call that has UK audiences talking as much as the twist ending itself. Does Durga Die In Alpha? The Short Answer Does Durga die in Alpha? No, she doesn’t. Sharvari’s character is badly wounded during the film’s second act but lives through to the final scene, standing alongside her sister at R&AW headquarters. That survival matters. Alpha, the seventh instalment in Yash Raj Films’ Spy Universe, was always going to be judged on whether it protected its…

It was supposed to be a routine product drop. Instead, it became a geopolitical flashpoint. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 launch rolled out publicly on Thursday, July 9, 2026 — weeks later than planned, and only after the White House itself got involved in deciding who got to use it first. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Finally Goes Live After Weeks of Delay The GPT-5.6 launch confirms what industry watchers suspected for days: OpenAI’s most advanced model family is now open to the public, not just a handful of vetted partners. OpenAI announced on Tuesday evening that GPT-5.6, including its flagship Sol model along with the…

Bitcoin’s price is stuck in a tug-of-war. The Bitcoin $62K price level has become the market’s line in the sand this week, with the token trading near $62,700–$63,500 as of July 5–6, 2026 — a rebound from the 21-month low of under $58,000 it touched just days earlier on July 1. That bounce didn’t happen by accident. Three forces are converging at once: a softer-than-expected US jobs report, a fresh wave of institutional buying into exchange-traded funds, and an unexpected political intervention on crypto taxation from President Donald Trump. None of these forces alone explains the move. Together, they do.…

A blockbuster franchise just bet its future on a family secret — and the gamble is dividing audiences worldwide. Alpha Ending Explained — The Sister Twist Nobody Saw Coming The Alpha ending explained in its simplest form: two women raised as enemies are actually blood. Alia Bhatt’s Sita and Sharvari’s Durga spend the film on opposing sides of a covert war, only to discover in the climax that they are biological sisters, separated as infants after a hospital tragedy. READ MORE: Prince Harry’s Major Security Crisis Over Family UK Visit The reveal doesn’t stop there. Colonel Vikrant Kaul, played by…

Meta wants you to stop handing out your phone number to strangers. Then India stepped in and told WhatsApp to wait. That’s the state of WhatsApp’s long-promised username feature as of early July 2026: partially live, aggressively contested, and now caught in a regulatory standoff in the app’s single largest market. Here’s what’s actually confirmed, and what isn’t. What WhatsApp Announced WhatsApp began letting users reserve a username starting the week of June 29, 2026, ahead of a fuller launch planned later this year. The reservation itself does nothing yet — it simply locks in a name before someone else…

Sweden Sends $5.26 Million Lifeline to Afghanistan as UN Warns Aid Has Hit “Lowest Level in Years” Sweden has just handed over roughly £4.1 million to keep Afghanistan’s humanitarian machinery running. It sounds like a lot. Against what’s actually needed, it barely scratches the surface. The Scandinavian nation transferred 50 million Swedish kronor, about $5.26 million, to the United Nations Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan (STFA) this week. The fund confirmed the contribution in a post on X, thanking Stockholm for what it called a generous gesture at a critical moment. For British South Asian families with roots in Afghanistan…