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Toyota said on Wednesday it would build an electric vehicle model at its factory in the Czech Republic, its first fully-electric model to be made in Europe, and would also invest in a new battery assembly facility at the plant.The Japanese automaker did not disclose details of the model or timing for production, but said it would invest about 680 million euros ($796 million) to expand its plant in Kolin. The Czech government will invest up to 64 million euros in the dedicated battery facility, Toyota said.The auto industry makes up around 10 per cent of Czech gross domestic product,…

new video loaded: How Trump Could Gain Control of the FedBy Ben Casselman, Melanie Bencosme, June Kim, Gabriel Blanco and Jon Hazell•August 28, 2025President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook has laid bare the erosion of the Federal Reserve’s independence, which could lead to economic consequences for Americans, The New York Times’s chief economics correspondent explains.Recent episodes in Behind the ReportingShow more videos from Behind the Reporting

Mozilla engineers have accelerated the Firefox AI Runtime by replacing its WebAssembly-based backend with a native C++ ONNX Runtime implementation.This architectural shift has yielded performance gains of 2-10 times for on-device machine learning features, eliminating WASM warm-up overhead and using hardware-specific CPU instructions for faster model execution.Mozilla explains the WASM bottleneck it faced for FirefoxThe original architecture Mozilla used for Firefox AI features like Smart Tab Grouping and PDF.js alt-text was powered by Transformers.js, which uses onnxruntime-web—a WebAssembly (WASM) build of ONNX Runtime.While functional, this approach presented several performance challenges:JS/WASM boundary overhead: A typical inference cycle involved multiple crossings between…

A feisty Deion Sanders is pushing back against anyone second-guessing his clock management or calling out his coaching staff.The Colorado coach also announced highly touted freshman quarterback Julian “JuJu” Lewis would see the field against Delaware this weekend and suggested the NCAA should consider some rule adjustments to promote kickoff returns.Sanders had a lot on his mind Tuesday after taking a few days to ponder a 27-20 loss to Georgia Tech to open the season. It’s the first time Sanders has started 0-1 at either Colorado or Jackson State.”If we hit the darn plays, we wouldn’t be asking these questions,”…

Japanese government bond yields have been notching fresh highs as investors price in persistent inflation, tighter monetary policy, as well as fiscal uncertainty. Japan’s 30-year government bond yield notched a record high on Wednesday to hit 3.286%, surging more than 100 basis points this year, while yield on the 20-year debt is at its highest since 1999 at 2.695%, up 80 basis points, LSEG data showed. The benchmark 10-year bond yield is hovering at its highest since 2008 at 1.633%, over 50 basis points higher in 2025. The 40-year yield is up around 90 basis points year-to-date at 3.506%. Rising…

new video loaded: How Tariffs Will Affect This Unique CheeseBy Eshe Nelson, Nikolay Nikolov, Laura Salaberry, Emli Bendixen and Jon Hazell•August 20, 2025Stilton is a special type of blue cheese that can be made in only three English counties. There are just four producers of Stilton left, but this one was crowned best cheese in the world, according to one of the industry’s top awards last year. Eshe Nelson, a business reporter for The New York Times, went to Clawson Farms, the producer of the award-winning Stilton, which is trying to expand its business in the United States, despite the…

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has reported its production and retail operations have been significantly disrupted by a cyber attack. As first reported in the Liverpool Echo, JLR workers at the company’s Halewood plant in Merseyside were told by email early on Monday morning not to come into work, with others sent home. The company has issued a statement on its corporate web site: “JLR has been impacted by a cyber incident. We took immediate action to mitigate its impact by proactively shutting down our systems. We are now working at pace to restart our global applications in a controlled…

Who’s starting, who’s hurt, and who’s on the move? NFL news is nonstop, and we’re breaking it all down week by week this season.Here’s the latest on what’s happening around the league entering Week 1:Buccaneers, RT Luke Goedeke agree on extensionThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers and right tackle Luke Goedeke came to terms on a four-year extenstion, worth $90 million ($50 million guaranteed). The Buccaneers selected Goedeke in the second-round of the 2022 NFL Draft and 2025 was the final year of his rookie contract. Now, he and the team are tied together through the 2029 season. In 2024, Goedeke ranked 30th…

Lisa Cook, governor of the Federal Reserve, speaks during a Fed Listens event in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2024.Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook “did not ever commit mortgage fraud,” her lawyer Abbe Lowell said Tuesday in a new court filing bolstering arguments why a judge should temporarily block President Donald Trump from firing her.Lowell argued in the same filing that any of Cook’s statements that she made on mortgage applications — which Trump has cited as the reason for her termination — do not give the president legal cause to remove her.Lowell…

[SINGAPORE] The city-state has benefited from its ability to connect with both the US and China, but these relations risk having a “worst of both worlds” outcome if it gets wrongly caught up in the sharpening rivalry between both superpowers, said Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on Wednesday (Sep 3).Instead, local businesses should respond to these tensions by doubling down on internationalisation and exploring opportunities in the region, as well as in emerging markets such as India, South America, Africa and the Middle East.“As we navigate these changes globally – regionally and domestically – we need to reimagine how we do…