The mountain section whose collapse triggered deadly floods in Nepal and China on August 26 experienced exceptionally high temperatures in the days before the disaster, according to meteorological data reconstructed and analysed
Cambridge University is reportedly engaging with Reform UK as its leadership seeks to anticipate the potential impact of a party-led government modeled on former US President Donald Trump’s approach to higher education.
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In 2017, theoretical chemist John Jumper took a gamble on a rumor. Fresh from finishing his PhD, he’d heard whispers that Google DeepMind was shifting from game-playing AIs to a clandestine effort
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Our bodies often respond instinctively to music—tapping feet, nodding along, or subtly swaying without thinking. But new research shows that an even smaller, nearly invisible reaction is also happening: our eyes blink
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Weight-loss drugs surged back into headlines this week after Eli Lilly—the maker of Mounjaro and Zepbound—became the first healthcare company ever to reach a trillion-dollar valuation. The explosive success of its GLP-1
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Airbus SE has issued an emergency recall affecting more than 6,000 aircraft — over half of the global A320-family fleet — after a significant software glitch was linked to a JetBlue Airways
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Investor enthusiasm for Chinese robotics stocks is rapidly cooling after months of heightened speculation, Bloomberg reported, as government officials issue rare warnings about overheating in the nascent humanoid robotics industry. The Solactive
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A global surge in demand for data centers—driven by rapid adoption of artificial intelligence and companies increasingly outsourcing data storage—is amplifying one of the industry’s most urgent challenges: how to keep facilities
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The Adani Group is preparing to invest as much as $5 billion into Google’s upcoming artificial-intelligence infrastructure hub in southern India, Chief Financial Officer Jugeshinder Singh said Friday, signaling the rapid build-out
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OpenAI’s data-centre and infrastructure partners are on track to accumulate almost $100bn in borrowing tied to the fast-growing but still lossmaking AI start-up, according to figures reported by the Financial Times. The
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OpenAI may need to raise more than $200 billion in fresh capital by the end of the decade to keep pace with soaring computing demands and global AI competition, according to new
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