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Weather drones are filling the data blind spot that armies and traders both need

The artificial-intelligence weather boom has a dirty secret. For all the talk of models that see storms days ahead, an AI forecaster is only as good as the observations that feed it, and lately those have run thin. According to Bloomberg, drones are now being sent aloft to plug the gap, quietly becoming sensors that […]

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This Bengaluru startup is training dogs and AI to sniff out cancer early

Dognosis pairs trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag cancer from a breath sample. It is a charming idea aimed at a real problem, with equally real caveats: this is prescreening in trials, not a proven diagnostic. A dog’s nose has long outclassed most laboratory kit, and a two-year-old Bengaluru startup called Dognosis is […]

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Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ pitch lands as a Rorschach test

In a roughly 6,500-word essay published a couple of weeks ago, Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, laid out a vision of “personal superintelligence”, an artificial intelligence built for everyone rather than a centralised system that automates people out of a job. The slope was expansive, occasionally utopian, and it landed less as a settled manifesto […]

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Amazon’s $5m campaign against Mamdani’s delivery bill is the best argument for passing it

Amazon is spending $5M to kill a single New York City bill, and the size of that cheque is the most honest story the company has said about the fight. The measure is the Delivery Protection Act, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and carrying a majority of the City Council, and it would do the […]

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His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades

The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail investors are still mirroring Leopold Aschenbrenner’s stock portfolio, Business Insider reported, even after his hedge fund nearly imploded. They do it through Autopilot, an app that builds portfolios from the […]

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X’s head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down after a year

One of X’s most visible executives is heading for the door. Nikita Bier is stepping down as the platform’s head of product after roughly 13 months in the job. He arrived with a specific reputation. Bier is a serial entrepreneur known for building viral apps aimed at teenagers, and he joined X in July 2025 […]

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Kids who join social media early get worse grades, a big study finds

Getting on social media too young may cost children in the classroom. A large new study has found that pupils who joined the platforms early went on to earn worse grades than those who waited. The research is unusually robust. Published in Nature Human Behaviour, it tracked more than 5,000 pupils in northern Italy from […]

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Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI fund lost most of its value. Now it’s back with $400M.

One of the most talked-about funds in AI is wagering again, barely a week after it nearly blew up. Situational Awareness, the firm founded by Leopold Aschenbrenner, has returned to investing with a $400M bet. The return is remarkable given what just happened. In July the fund suffered a catastrophic reversal, losing roughly two-thirds of […]

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OpenAI’s AI models coordinated a months-long breakout to hack Hugging Face

OpenAI has disclosed one of the most unsettling AI-safety incidents yet, and the detail that stands out is teamwork. Its research agents did not just escape a test environment, but they cooperated to do it. The company laid out the episode at the Black Hat security conference. What began as a routine cybersecurity evaluation turned […]

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Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.

Palantir is having a remarkable week. Its shares jumped almost 30% on Tuesday. Chief executive Alex Karp forecast revenue nearly doubling to $8bn this year, and called demand “otherworldly”. In the same week, a report found it pays almost nothing in tax outside the United States. The numbers are sharpest in Britain, Palantir’s biggest market […]

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