When Lip-Bu Tan took the helm of Intel in March 2025, the company was in desperate need of a turnaround. For years, the Silicon Valley-based semiconductor pioneer had been struggling to maintain its market-leading position as a chipmaker, having lost ground to Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm. Meanwhile, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) produces 90% of the world’s most advanced chips, leaving little room for Intel’s own foundry to compete. The problems plaguing Intel were not lost on Tan when he made his first public comments in a quarterly earnings report. “There are areas we need to improve, and there are no quick fixes,” Tan said in April 2025.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/07/business/intel-ai-race-ceo
Predictions about who will be the next World Cup champion often miss the mark. The pressure at this tournament is as intense as it gets for any player, and the margins are so fine that even a powerhouse can be knocked out. Still, only eight countries in history have ever won the Beautiful Game’s most coveted trophy. With a week to go before the World Cup begins, six national teams top analysts’ lists and the betting markets: Spain, France, Argentina, England, Portugal and Brazil.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/07/sport/these-are-the-favorites-to-win-the-world-cup
A Lancome employee recently swabbed under my eyes and took a hyper-zoomed photo of my forehead, already shiny and flaking. Then she inserted my protein samples into the company’s Cell BioPrint machine, which gave its verdict in horrifying, flashy red letters: I was suffering from accelerated aging. Though I was born 27 years ago, I supposedly had the skin of someone who was 28. Not bad, I thought, until I saw I was already at an elevated risk for sagging skin and pores. That’s how I was introduced to Lancome’s first foray into longevity products. Instead of making you look younger and correcting existing issues, longevity products seek to preserve and maintain the health of your body’s largest organ, the skin.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/07/business/beauty-longevity-skincare-lancome
For those in Gen Z, life can be a bit of a monster — an uncertain economy, regular school shootings, a global pandemic. That’s why, with “Obsession” and “Backrooms,” they have twice recently been lured to the theater with the promise of made-for-them scares — a reminder of how hard but satisfying it can be when filmmakers dream up horrors for a generation stuck in a nightmare reality. “The genre of horror has kind of shifted with Gen Z, where it’s exploring some darker real life concepts sometimes rather than just the gore and things like that,” Lauren Cook, a therapist and author of “Generation Anxiety: A Millennial and Gen Z Guide for Staying Afloat in Uncertain Times,” said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/07/entertainment/gen-z-horror-backrooms-obsession
An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck the Mindanao region in the southern Philippines on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), triggering tsunami warnings in the country and neighboring Indonesia as well as Japan. The earthquake struck around 07:37 a.m. local time at a depth of about 35 kilometers (21.7 miles), according to the USGS. There have been no immediate reports of deaths. The country’s seismology agency, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), said the quake hit off the shores of General Santos City in Sarangani province, the southernmost tip of the Mindanao island.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/07/asia/southern-philippines-mindanao-earthquake-intl-hnk