Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says his 'victory plan' includes what is a big hurdle for the West: NATO membership

TechCrunch Kenya's Octavia gets $3.9M seed to remove carbon from air In Africa, Octavia Carbon, a Direct Air Capture (DAC) startup is leading the efforts. Octavia, founded in Kenya two years ago, builds DAC machines that it uses to capture carbon, a greenhouse gas that is the biggest contributor of global warming, from the air for storage underground. Octavia, which begun capturing carbon in February after a period of developing the tech, now plans to build more machines to add to its existing two devices with a carbon capture capacity of 50 tonnes per year.

LatticeFlow's LLM framework takes a first stab at benchmarking Big AI's compliance with EU AI Act While most countries' lawmakers are still discussing how to put guardrails around artificial intelligence, the European Union is ahead of the pack, having passed a risk-based framework for regulating AI apps earlier this year. Large language models (LLM), and other so-called foundation or general purpose AIs, will underpin most AI apps. Step forward LatticeFlow AI, a spin out from public research university ETH Zurich, which is focused on AI risk management and compliance.

Yahoo Finance Tech is leading markets higher — but 3 other sectors have joined in: Morning Brief Taking stock of year three of the bull market shows that the rally is spreading out beyond the Magnificent Seven — and even beyond tech. Since the market's recent lows, three other non-tech sectors have taken up the mantle.

Yahoo Finance 'Signature bites' and free umbrellas: Inside JPMorgan's plan to lure more rich people to its branches You won't find teller windows at two new JPMorgan financial centers in New York City and San Francisco designed to reach the 'mass affluent.' Instead there are free snacks, umbrellas and a banker who greets you at the door.

Support automation firm Capacity grows with new cash and acquisitions David Karandish has been busy. Capacity, his support automation company, was planning a $5 million "bridge round" to help the company reach the break-even point. While all this was happening, Capacity acquired three companies: enterprise search firm Lucy (which had raised $5.6 million) and two startups focused on customer service automation, Linc and Envision.

Yahoo Sports Aaron Judge gives Yankee Stadium something to cheer about with home run in ALCS Game 2 victory Judge hit his first home run of this postseason as the Yankees went up 2-0 on Cleveland despite a less than dominant performance.

Yahoo Finance The little-known factor that could help mortgage rates go lower A component of mortgage rates known as the spread has been falling in recent weeks after years of being elevated. If it keeps dropping, that could help send rates lower in the months ahead.

Yahoo Finance One or two more 2024 rate cuts still 'reasonable thing to do': Fed's Daly San Francisco Fed president Mary Daly said Tuesday the Federal Reserve is "resolute" in its quest to achieve a soft landing, making it clear the central bank intends to do what it takes to avoid a recession.