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Nuclear Turbines raises £15M for compact reactors it says could undercut fossil fuels

Nuclear power usually arrives with a very large price tag and a very long wait. Nuclear Turbines, a Manchester startup spun out of BAE Systems, has raised £15M to argue that it need not be either, at a moment when nuclear power startups…

FIFA's Infantino targets critics he says spread 'hate and false rumors' about World Cup

Infantino praised FIFA for “delivering the best show in the world” and spoke of the World Cup bringing “joy and togetherness,” in a 900-word statement published across a 15-page post on his Instagram account and on FIFA’s website.

Closing the data loop in AI-driven drug discovery

Drug discovery is a high-cost, high-risk endeavor that is under growing pressure from a market increasingly defined by first-mover advantage. Since the 1950s, the cost of developing new pharmaceuticals has roughly doubled every nine…

Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI

For the enterprise, the promise of agentic AI is much more than just a better chatbot. It is software agents that execute business tasks end-to-end across people, business workflows, data, and systems. The platform best-suited to run…

Starship came home in one piece, and SpaceX finally got to look at an undamaged heatshield

The headline number from Starship’s 13th flight is not 20 satellites. It is one word in SpaceX’s own flight report: intact. Starship lifted off from Starbase in Texas at 5:51pm on Friday, after delays and engine replacements pushed the…

‘Access to truth at risk’ as attacks vs media rise to 256 – NUJP

MANILA, Philippines — The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) on Monday, July 27, said it had documented 256 cases of attacks against the press since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assumed office in 2022. The latest…

Gunmen kill ex-Rivers Council Security Chief

Some yet-to-identified gunmen on Sunday evening shot dead a former Chief Security Officer (CSP) of Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Mr. Letam Kine. The incident has thrown the entire Bori, headquarters of Khana Local Government…

Trump continues pause on Iran strikes as Pentagon reveals higher casualty figures | First Thing

Eighteen American troops have been killed and 624 wounded since White House launched war on Tehran. Plus, International Cowboy Day in Kenya Good morning. The US has paused strikes on Iran for a third night as top military officials advised…

Government-appointed media regulatory body chief resigns citing court freeze on tenure

Ben Hai Segev says 'silence is complicity' with High Court ruling against Second Authority appointments. Petitioners allege she was appointed to thwart media buyout by government critics The post Government-appointed media regulatory body…

I don't think Googlebooks are just Chromebooks — they're a direct shot at Windows

While OpenAI continues to sit pat on whatever device it is planning to build with Jony Ive , it is embarking on a journey that Google began years ago with the launch of the Android and Chrome OS operating systems followed by its own Pixel…

Google has promised to pay $44bn of rent on buildings it will never own

Start with the number, because the number moved fast. Google has agreed to cover as much as $44bn of lease payments on data centres owned by other people, should the tenant default. It disclosed the figure last week. At the end of…

Did OpenAI’s AI agents go ‘rogue’? Why the answer is more complicated than it seems