DOE will invest more than $500 million and Biohub $500 million over five years in open cell data for AI models, under a pact with NIH. Biohub puts the whole effort at $1.8 billion, a total that counts NIH-coordinated datasets built with earlier federal money.
Publishers:biohub.org · energy.gov
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Amazon made 34 payments worth $538,000 to Australian Labor and Liberal branches over six years, some within days of datacentre deals, the Guardian found. The payments are legal, but backlash over fast-tracked datacentres has put their timing under scrutiny.
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USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego on Thursday after a record 321-day deployment supporting the US war with Iran. The Navy's published figures measure what its air wing flew and burned, while the strain on the crew came to light through Congress and the press.
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President Trump is keeping his tariffs even as more than 64% of US adults say he has gone too far, up from 58% in January. Importers deciding whether to absorb the duties until the Nov. 3 midterms have little in the record to suggest relief follows the vote.
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ICG has hired advisers to find a buyer for Buzz Bingo, Britain's biggest bingo hall chain, after revenue rose 11 per cent to £241m. Bidders have to price a chain whose chief executive warned last month that a machine games duty rise would put bingo's viability at risk.
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Red diesel has almost doubled in price since the Iran conflict began in late February, just as UK arable farmers need it to plant next season's crop. How much growers can afford to put in the ground this autumn will shape domestic food supply when that crop is harvested.
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British Airways is refitting its A380s with what it calls the world's largest business-class cabin, 106 suites across the upper deck. The seat map puts the airline's money behind a forecast that premium long-haul demand will hold on its biggest jets.
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Cmit, the LSE-led City taskforce, has asked Chancellor John Healey for pension tax breaks, including a dividend credit costing up to £742m a year. The measures aim to draw pension and ISA money into UK shares over years to 2042, so a board choosing between London and New York this year would still list into today's market.
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Personal AI agents that cancel subscriptions and chase refunds could put $2.8bn a year of US insurance premiums at stake, by one Business Insider scenario. Investors may already be pricing the threat, though one strategist expects little effect until 40% to 50% of customers use agents.
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Treasury licensed Russian diesel sales after President Trump said Vladimir Putin would immediately release hundreds of thousands of tonnes onto world markets. NBC News reported that the authorization runs until April 7, 2027, so operators have a fixed end date to budget against while the promised tonnage rests on Trump's account.
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M&S and John Lewis bosses are pressing Chancellor John Healey to cut retail's tax burden, with the Budget less than three weeks away. Most of what they want is protection from new charges, so their campaign is a fight to stop retail bills rising further.
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Daft as a Brush, a Newcastle cancer charity, says diesel costs have swallowed the money it planned to spend replacing its 30 vans with electric ones. With the UK average above £2 a litre, the extra fuel comes out of donations and keeps the fleet on diesel for the next price rise.
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Kemi Badenoch would scrap the future homes standard, whose energy measures cost £5,000-£8,000 a home at build but over £20,000 to retrofit. Buyers of homes built without them would carry that gap, in a country the Guardian says needs about 6m new homes.
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Sublime Security says calendar phishing is growing exponentially as apps like Google Calendar add invites automatically, even from emails sent to spam. That moves the defence from the mail filter to calendar settings and to what staff do with an unexpected meeting.
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ORNL researchers say their AI worked more than 25 hours without a human operator to assemble a 37-molecule artificial graphene lattice. The result puts software in charge of the physical moves inside an experiment, at a pace of about 1.5 molecules an hour.
Publishers:ornl.gov
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Koos Bekker has bought more than 2,700 acres around Bruton and Castle Cary through the Newt, according to Guardian analysis. Now that the buying has moved from farmland into the towns, residents hold the hotel answerable for changes well outside its gates.
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Pakistan's new EV policy targets 30% electric new-vehicle sales by 2030 and puts its first Rs 9bn of subsidy into electric bikes and rickshaws. Car assemblers get none of it, so this year's plan is a two- and three-wheeler programme.
Publishers:pid.gov.pk
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State of AI Report 2026, the ninth edition, says changing GLM-5.1's setup lifted its coding success from 52.5% to 65.5% without retraining. For teams setting AI budgets, the report puts much of the return in setup and user skill, though its introduction's main evidence for that is one 100-task study.
Publishers:stateof.ai
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AI risk scores read from mammograms rose from a median 2.1 to 6.6 over the six years before breast cancer diagnosis in a Radiology study of 54,014 women. The retrospective result supports tracking each woman's score across screening rounds and leaves open what a rise should trigger.
Publishers:rsna.org
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OpenAI published 372 families of math results from an unreleased model on Oct. 6, more than mathematicians have yet been able to check or understand. Each claim now waits on human readers, who must work without the prompts OpenAI chose not to publish.
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Kubernetes v1.35 sets failCgroupV1 to true by default, so the kubelet will not start on a node still running cgroup v1. Teams below v1.35 now decide before upgrading between migrating every Linux node and carrying a temporary override the project plans to remove.
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Kubernetes' project blog says NVMe-backed node swap, generally available since v1.34, packed up to 3x more pods onto memory-bound nodes in benchmarks. The gain comes from paging out memory that agent sandboxes hold idle between prompts, so swap-based budgets depend on how much of each pod is truly dormant.
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UNDP's No Time to Recover report says governments shielding up to 130 million of the world's poorest from high oil prices are running out of money. With conditions expected to worsen into spring, the cost of $100 oil is moving from state budgets onto households.
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City minister Lucy Rigby says London's listing reforms are "not a job done", citing the £5.3bn Airtel Money IPO as a sign of "renewed momentum". For boards choosing a venue, the Treasury is signalling more reform but has not yet named a measure they could price.
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Lancet Commission experts rank malicious AI use, including bioweapons, alongside nuclear war as the threats that could end humanity by 2100. Their report says each of its 17 risks has a realistic route to action, so AI misuse reaches policymakers as a problem with a solution.
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Ukraine's Third Army Corps says its heavy drones dropped armed ground robots roughly six miles behind Russian lines during Operation Vivaldi. Brave1 says only a few units can do it so far, so the open question is how fast unit-built kit reaches serial production.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told companies to treat both closed and open-weight AI models as insider risks that must be contained from the start. That puts the containment work on companies running AI agents, and a proposed Senate bill would hold those operators liable for hacking incidents.
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Adidas is suing Sydney label White Fox in Australia's Federal Court, saying its four-stripe clothing is deceptively similar to the Adidas three-stripe mark. Its barrister calls it a simple case because of a 2013 win over four-stripe shoes, a ruling White Fox distinguishes as being about footwear.
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George Williamson, the Alan Turing Institute's new head, says the UK must not depend on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice. He wants a domestic fallback for critical services, built without trying to match the budgets of the frontier labs.
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The UAW is canvassing Michigan for its Democratic midterm slate, two years after 44% of union-household voters backed Trump. For automakers and campaigns, the union's recent wins at the bargaining table say little about whether it can move its own members' votes on Nov. 3.
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