Once dismissed as a playground for interns, social media management has become a business-critical and politically vital career, with institutions and politicians increasingly investing heavily in digital strategy.
The UK government is launching AI boot camps in north-west England to help unemployed young people aged 16 to 21 gain workplace skills and apprenticeships with local companies, amid rising youth unemployment rates.
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has launched a developer preview of Harness, a software framework designed to help developers turn AI models into autonomous agents.
Spain's Río Tinto features striking red waters and high acidity caused by ancient geology, extremophile microbes, and thousands of years of mining, serving as a key research site for NASA.
Software group Palantir paid £2m in UK corporation tax in 2024 despite holding hundreds of millions in public sector contracts, according to a report by Cictar, due to tax breaks and revenue shifting.
Hangzhou-based firm DeepSeek is recruiting open-source project developers for beta testing of its DeepSeek Harness AI agent, as announced by team lead Cui Tianyi. This initiative aligns with CEO Liang Wenfeng's strategy to focus on capable, cost-effective models for achieving artificial general intelligence.
China plans to integrate quantum technologies, including precision sensors and computer simulations, into its national power grid to prevent blackouts, following an 18-month successful trial in Hefei, Anhui province, which rapidly detected equipment faults.
Luke Littler's unprecedented dominance in darts, including multiple major titles, is compared to Tadej Pogacar's similar stranglehold on professional cycling. The article explores the public's complex reactions to such overwhelming athletic supremacy, ranging from admiration to accusations of "ruining" the sport, and reflects on the transient nature of even the greatest periods of dominance.
China advocates for global AI governance and cooperation, proposing initiatives like 5,000 AI training opportunities for developing countries and international application centers, following President Xi Jinping's address at the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai.
An international team led by Dr. Koh Gou-young discovers arachnoid fenestrations, tiny openings in the brain's protective membrane, enabling cerebrospinal fluid to drain into lymph nodes, shedding light on waste clearance crucial for preventing neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
Alibaba Group Holding's mapping unit, Amap, has upgraded its ABot AI framework, which unifies a robot's core functions into a single system. The new framework features five specialized foundation AI models designed to overcome the industry's challenge of siloed, independently operating robot models.
WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warned the UN Security Council that surging global demand for critical minerals risks fueling conflict and poverty in resource-rich nations, urging them to leverage their wealth for local processing and economic transformation.
LimeWire, a generative AI platform, empowers creators to produce, share, and monetize AI-generated content, including images, with upcoming music and video tools, offering NFT minting, ad revenue, and royalty models.
Researchers at CUNY ASRC have successfully recreated the energy extraction process of black holes in a laboratory using a stationary device. This breakthrough, based on a theory by Sir Roger Penrose, uses artificial rotation to amplify electromagnetic waves, with potential applications in communication, optics, and quantum computing.
Apurva Shrivastava, an Indian-origin MIT engineer, co-founded Avoca with Tyson Chen, an AI answering service for home businesses. The company, valued at $1 billion, uses AI voice agents to book appointments and follow up on leads, addressing the critical issue of missed calls for small contractors.
AI analysis reveals sperm whales use a complex system of clicks, akin to a phonetic alphabet with "rubato" and "ornamentation." Separately, Mediterranean sperm whales exhibit a distinct regional dialect, differing from western populations, highlighting cultural evolution in non-human communication.
Scientists have identified a complex communication system in sperm whales, akin to a phonetic alphabet, using AI to analyze clicks. They also found distinct regional dialects, particularly in the Mediterranean, suggesting sophisticated non-human communication and cultural history.
Zhipu AI has launched ZCode, a tool for developers to build autonomous coding assistants, intensifying its competition with US firm Anthropic. The launch includes promotions like increased data quotas and free tokens for new users.
Spain's socialist-led government program to regularize undocumented migrants and asylum seekers has received over 1 million applications, far exceeding the initial target of 500,000. The scheme offers residence and work permits to those meeting specific criteria, aiming to address Spain's demographic crisis and economic growth needs. The initiative faces criticism from right-wing parties.
The Five Eyes national security agencies warn of escalating cyber risks due to AI models' autonomous hacking capabilities, emphasizing the need for defensive AI harnessing amid a widening skill-ability gap.
Cabo Verde's goalkeeper Vozinha, 40, has become an internet sensation and commercial target after his man-of-the-match performance against Spain in the World Cup. His Instagram following surged from 50,000 to over 14 million, attracting interest from Chinese and European companies.
Climate activists, including athletes, are calling on FIFA and other sports organizations to end partnerships with the oil and gas industry, targeting Saudi Aramco as the exclusive energy sponsor for the World Cup. Protests are planned at multiple World Cup stadiums and sports arenas.
NVIDIA researchers developed ENPIRE, an AI harness enabling coding agents to autonomously train robots for tasks like cutting zip ties and inserting GPUs. The system achieved a 99% success rate, outperforming human-led methods in some scenarios, but also revealed limitations in resource utilization and token consumption.
The English Premiership semi-finals showcased brilliant rugby, leading to a Northampton v Exeter final. This presents an opportunity for England to embrace a more dynamic, attacking style, potentially identifying future national team talent beyond current coach Steve Borthwick.
