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Sadiq Khan agrees to have his texts and emails searched in Palantir legal battle
US tech company has sued London mayor after he prevented it from working with Metropolitan policeSadiq Khan has agreed for his text messages and emails to be searched as part of a…
Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film
Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 News shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped ReformNigel Farage is facing fresh criticism on the eve of the R…
GAO finds Secret Service left drone threats unaddressed before Trump assassination attempt
The Government Accountability Office found delays in how the Secret Service updates its policies regarding threats.
Russia to shut German cultural centers as Moscow-Berlin tensions escalate over Ukraine
Earlier Thursday in Munich, several incendiary devices were thrown at a construction site near a building where several companies are located.
Treasury proposes stripping tax-exempt status from private colleges with DEI policies
Mike Gavin, the president and CEO of Alliance for Higher Education, said the administration is "trying to gaslight the American people into believing that up is down."
Crypto exchange Gate enters prediction market space with white-label builder for businesses
After partnering with Polymarket, Gate is building its own tools for businesses seeking to offer event contracts.
We’re prepared to change the law to reform water industry, says Angela Eagle
Exclusive: New environment secretary insists ‘nothing is off the table’ in dealing with ailing Thames WaterBritain’s insolvency laws cannot deal with the aggressive behaviour show…
Fifa calls Uefa’s legal threat a ‘smear campaign’ in US federal filing
Fifa filed motion opposing Uefa’s request for discoveryUefa said to be considering criminal case v Gianni InfantinoAttorneys representing Fifa have hit back at Uefa’s request for …
Hugging Face goes from a ‘scrappy’ startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition
The deal stands to encourage more mainstream adoption of open-weight models, but AI insiders worry Nvidia will subtly influence them to all run on its hardware.
Google shipped four Gemini Flash models in 106 days. But its flagship frontier model is still nowhere to be seen.
On DeepSWE, Gemini 3.8 tied Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 at a 74% pass rate while costing about one-fifth as much, as Google’s promised Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in limbo.
AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nano particles
Subsense's brain computing interface could compete with Elon Musk's Neuralink, but would not require surgery.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model yet and touts its ability to use your computer
OpenAI president Greg Brockman calls Astra "the start of the AGI era" even as outside experts worry about whether the company has effective safety and security controls in place.
OpenAI hails ‘new era of artificial general intelligence’ with Astra model release
Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’The president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, has claimed the world…
Safety experts warn novel design of OpenAI’s Astra model could make future AI agents harder to monitor
OpenAI's chief scientist says the company is committed to ensuring its models' reasoning remains interpretable.
Grinding up fish to feed to fish is ‘absurd’: fears over UN aquaculture plan
Huge rollout of fish farms could harm ecosystems and threaten vulnerable communities’ food sources, say expertsNearly half of the world’s wild fish catch will be ground into anima…
How climate denialism finds its way to the US 's highest office – video explainer
Although it's scientific consensus that the climate crisis is happening, climate change denialists have found support in the highest office during the second Trump administration …
AI wants electricity now. The electric grid needs years to catch up
Data center demand is surging, but utilities, electric transmission and grid connections can take years to meet the need
Canva’s productivity push is starting to gain traction—and in Southeast Asia, it’s happening on phones
Canva's users have made 4.5 billion presentations and 1.4 billion documents, the first hard numbers on its push into Microsoft and Google's turf.
USS Lincoln sailors finally hit dry land in Thailand after a record 264 straight days at sea
The carrier’s lengthy Middle East deployment raised concerns about crew mental health and food shortages.
Clippers fined $30 million as owner Steve Ballmer is suspended for a year following NBA investigation on behind-the-curtain deal
A near-year-long investigation has amounted to a heavy blow to the LA franchise and its owner for an alleged circumvention of league rules.
Finns who survived Soviet bombings are training the next generation for a possible war with Russia
The goal is for local authorities and civilians to rehearse what they would do if they were under attack from Russian forces.
Japan requires married couples to share a surname, so matchmakers are pairing singles who already have the same one to avoid changing it
A Japanese advocacy group helped organize the events to highlight a 128-year-old law that requires married couples to share the same surname.
Texas evacuates an assisted living facility as flooding from Tropical Storm Edouard strands drivers and cuts power
Hardin County was hard-hit—with flooding, downed trees and powerlines, debris and power outages.
Meloni breaks Berlusconi’s record for longest-serving uninterrupted government, longest since WWII
“For this she is now reaping exactly what she deserves in terms of international credibility,” Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said regarding Giorgia Meloni.