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Meta is working on an AI storytelling app called StoryKit, which creates AI-generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents, “You don’t need to write a single word.” At last, a tech company has found a wa

Great Apes kiss and cuddle to keep the peace, says study - Published Touching, embracing and kissing before stressful events may be an ancient way of building trust, according to scientists studying the behaviour of our closest ape relatives. Researchers at Durham University stud

Judge rules Trump must hand over records sought by BBC in defamation case - Published A judge in Florida has ruled President Donald Trump must hand over financial records sought by the BBC as it defends itself in his $10bn (£7.5bn) defamation lawsuit. The order came during the fi

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Indian police briefly detained the country’s top opposition leader and his sister during a protest on Tuesday, as a fresh wave of public outrage puts pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Rahul Gandhi was criticizing the authorities’ use of tear gas and batons on

The US will scrutinize top Chinese AI models for signs they ripped off American competitors — as Beijing eyes restrictions on overseas access to those same systems. Washington has accused Chinese tech firms of what it calls intellectual property theft through a process called dis

Biotech is commanding attention from dealmakers and investors. Pharma companies have acquired 37 biotech firms worth at least $1 billion this year, more than all of 2025, as they race to bolster pipelines before several blockbuster drugs lose their patent protections in the comin

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The News President Donald Trump is toying with a return to tariff maximalism, deploying a legally dubious negotiating tactic against Canada that promises to again spike Republican lawmakers’ blood pressure. Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed Tuesday “to intensif

WOLVERHAMPTON, England—One can argue about whether or not Range Rover invented the luxury SUV category, but there’s no question that since the first Range Rover went on sale in 1970, the brand has made itself the standard that other luxury SUVs have to measure against. But what i

Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk sued Eli Lilly on Tuesday, accusing the US drug giant of misleading advertising practices. The lawsuit reflects the companies’ intensifying rivalry in the US weight-loss drug market. Novo argued that Lilly’s ads used outdated comparisons for how much we

Why AI apps fail in production (And how Google solved it) Stephanie Wong Global Lead, Developer Programs We are living in the golden age of the weekend AI side project. Thanks to agentic engineering and LLMs, the time to go from a blank IDE to a functional local application has d

Investors concerned about the stock market and looking for ways to prepare their portfolio for a potential equities downturn typically turn to the U.S. treasuries market as a "flight to safety" allocation. But if you followed the dual stock and bond market warning issued this wee

The White House’s Iran war problems are compounding as it faces scrutiny over its military budget and the deaths of US service members. “This is what a quagmire looks like,” one person close to the Trump administration told Politico. The estimated cost of the Iran war is $37.5 bi

A lobbying arms race between Kalshi, Polymarket and the casino and gaming sectors is unfolding in Washington, with all sides vying to win over lawmakers amid increasing scrutiny of prediction markets from Congress and regulators. Kalshi's lobbying spending totaled $990,000 during

What can Hearts pick from debris of ongoing summer of hurt? - Published There's crashing back to Earth with a bang, and there's whatever Hearts fans have been going through since 16 May. As if losing out on their first league title in 60 years with moments left of the season wasn

The AI era runs on AI infrastructure. Many of these advanced systems are built and tested in Texas. Wistron opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility today in Fort Worth — a 324,000-square-foot greenfield plant producing superchips at the heart of some of the world’s most capa

In April, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department convened an extraordinary meeting with the CEOs of the nation's top banks. Officials rang the alarm bell about an advanced new artificial intelligence model that could pose an unprecedented cybersecurity threat to the nation's

Ukraine’s president on Tuesday dismissed his top general, in the country’s biggest military shakeup since 2024. Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s move followed widespread protests triggered by the removal of the country’s popular, young defense minister, who spearheaded an embrace of technol

Littler throws nine-darter in superb Matchplay win - Published World number one Luke Littler threw a thrilling nine-darter as he booked his place in the quarter-finals of the World Matchplay with a 11-8 win over Nathan Aspinall. Littler began the contest at Winter Gardens in Blac

Tokyo urges men to wear shorts to work, but some women say it's 'leg hair harassment' - Published As temperatures rise this summer, Japanese men are baring more leg at work than ever before. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is pushing company employees to ditch their usual suit

US President Donald Trump plans to unleash new tariffs on 60 more countries as soon as Friday, setting up another round of bruising trade wars. Trump has already hit Canada and Brazil with fresh levies; the US’ trade representative said Tuesday, “We do expect action soon.” The du

Shares of Super Micro Computer jumped 15% after the server maker said Tuesday it now sees higher margins than previously projected for the June quarter, with a surge in new orders. The company said its gross margin and adjusted gross margin should come in between 15% and 17%, a s

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that’s loosely based on Peter Watts’ 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp’s new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios,

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday said that the ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis is "under control." "We've identified the source of the outbreak, and the companies that are involved have implemented a recall," Kennedy said, responding to ques

One of Rhode Island’s most-wanted fugitives was arrested in New York last week after being on the run for more than 20 years, which was at least partially spent hiding as a biotech executive, according to Stat News. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday, Californi

OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model” discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment

Bournemouth reject £64m bid from Chelsea for Scott - Published Bournemouth have rejected a £64m bid from Chelsea for midfielder Alex Scott. The Cherries made it clear to the Blues that any further approaches would not be welcomed and that they intend to keep hold of one of their

Off the Wire Press Releases July 21, 2026 — As quantum computing matures toward fault tolerance, a pressing question faces the high-performance computing (HPC) community: why is tightly integrating quantum processors to classical supercomputing infrastructure important? Today, al

OpenAI said it appointed longtime financial executives David Vélez and Robin Vince to its nonprofit and for-profit boards of directors, as the company marches closer to a prospective IPO. Vélez is the CEO of Nubank, the largest digital bank in Latin America, and Vince is the CEO

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Over the past months, many countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens. Australia became the first to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting a precedent that other countries are closely watching. France is now the latest