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Alex KirklandRodrigo FaezOct 28, 2025, 08:09 AM ETFormer Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos has defended Vinícius Júnior’s angry reaction at being taken off in the Clásico, saying “I never liked being substituted either” but admitted that the winger may come to wish he had better controlled his anger.Vinícius was visibly upset at being withdrawn by coach Xabi Alonso in the 72nd minute of Madrid’s 2-1 LaLiga win over Barcelona on Sunday, questioning the decision whilst still on the pitch, and then heading straight down the tunnel.ESPN has reported that the relationship between Vinícius and Alonso is now strained, with the…

Beth LindopOct 28, 2025, 07:25 AM ETCloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.For Arne Slot, this was a career first. As the Liverpool boss stood on the touchline at Brentford on Saturday night, he was serenaded with chants of: “You’re getting sacked in the morning” from the home supporters as they watched their team romp to a 3-2 victory over the Premier League champions.It was Liverpool’s fourth successive league defeat — following losses to Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Manchester United — and, as Slot admitted in his post-match news conference, one…

Online home goods company Wayfair reported a jump in third-quarter revenue on Tuesday, as it beat Wall Street estimates on the top and bottom lines.The company said total net revenue increased 8.1% year-over-year.Here’s how the company performed in its third quarter, compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:Earnings per share: 70 cents adjusted vs. 43 cents expectedRevenue: $3.12 billion vs. $3.02 billion expectedWayfair shares climbed more than 20% in early trading.For the period ended Sept. 30, Wayfair reported a net loss of $99 million, or 76 cents per share, compared to a loss of…

Carlos Domingo, chief executive officer of Securitize Inc., speaks during the Messari Mainnet summit in New York, US, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSecuritize, the “real world assets” platform that powers BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund, will go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, CEO Carlos Domingo told CNBC in an exclusive interview.The fintech firm will merge with Cantor Equity Partners II, Inc., a blank-check company sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald that trades under the CEPT ticker. The deal values Securitize’s business at $1.25…

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., wears a pair of Meta Oakley Vanguard AI glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMeta’s AI app has seen a major jolt in downloads since launching its Vibes feed of AI-generated videos, giving investors a glimpse of the company’s artificial intelligence strategy ahead of Wednesday’s third-quarter earnings.Since releasing Vibes on Sept. 25, the Meta AI app’s downloads on both iOS and Android are up 56% month-to-month to a total of 3.9 million downloads as of…

A cargo ship is loading and unloading foreign trade containers at Qingdao Port in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China on July 28, 2025.CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesGlobal trade is not broken, despite the disruption, pressure and shock of trade tariffs introduced by the U.S. this year, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) told CNBC Tuesday.”Many people have the impression that, because of the unilateral actions of the U.S., that global trade is broken. Yes [they’ve] been a great disruption — the greatest disruption of global trade in 80 years — but we are pleased to see…

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who wrote a book in 2021 titled, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” now says leaders need to shift their approach to climate change.In a letter published Tuesday ahead of next week’s COP30 U.N. climate summit, Gates argued that too many resources are focused on emissions and the environment, and that more money should go toward “improving lives” and curbing disease and poverty.”Climate is super important but has to be considered in terms of overall human welfare,” Gates told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin in an exclusive interview. “I didn’t pick that position because everybody agrees with…

Liverpool are spiralling. What was initially a blip has morphed into a full blown crisis.Arne Slot’s side have now lost as many Premier League games this season as they did in the entirety of their title-winning campaign (four). So, what has caused such a dramatic drop-off? Long-ball catastropheSlot has already admitted Liverpool cannot cope with a long-ball strategy, so you can guess what tactic Keith Andrews employed during Saturday’s 3-2 success. Brentford peppered their visitors with 64 direct passes. Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate spent more time running towards their own goal than doing much else. Datawrapper This content…

The Grok AI logo is seen displayed on a smartphone with the Wikipedia logo in the background. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesElon Musk launched an early version of an AI-powered encyclopedia called ‘Grokipedia’ on Monday, with its website temporarily crashing before coming back online hours later. The new AI service, named after xAI’s large language model Grok, has been promoted by Musk as an improved and less biased version of the popular free and web-based Wikipedia. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced last month that he was working on a Wikipedia rival after a suggestion from David Sacks, a fellow…

Amazon said Tuesday that it will lay off about 14,000 corporate employees, marking the latest cuts in the company’s multiyear effort to rein in costs.In a blog post, the company wrote that the layoffs are being carried out to help make the company leaner and less bureaucratic, while it looks to invest in “our biggest bets” including generative artificial intelligence.”This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones),” Beth Galetti, senior vice president of people experience…