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  • Yahoo News UK

    What happened in Hainault sword attack that killed 14-year-old boy

    A female police officer was in surgery for several hours after suffering “horrifically serious” wounds to her arm during the attack.

  • Reuters

    RPT-AI fuels cloud computing boom for tech giants

    Three of the Wall Street's heavyweight technology firms have reported better-than-expected sales at their cloud computing units in recent days, as interest in artificial intelligence drives a rebound in spending by corporate customers. Growth in the $270 billion cloud infrastructure market, a cash engine for Amazon.com, Microsoft and Alphabet, gives the clearest sign yet that AI investment is bearing fruit after investors drove those stocks to record highs, thanks to optimism about the emerging technology. Many big customers have started spending again on cloud computing after pausing last year to cut costs, executives and analysts said.

  • Associated Press

    Lawmakers want the Chiefs and Royals to come to Kansas, but a stadium plan fizzled

    Some Kansas lawmakers see a chance to lure Kansas City's two biggest professional sports teams across the Missouri border, but an effort to help the Super Bowl champion Chiefs and Major League Baseball's Royals finance new stadiums in Kansas fizzed over concerns about how it might look to taxpayers. Members of the Republican-controlled Legislature pushed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed Kansas officials to authorize at least $1 billion in bonds to cover the entire cost of building each new stadium, paying the debt off with tax revenues generated in the area over 30 years.