World
A sixth dwarf planet may have been hiding behind the Milky Way all along
Found by Harvard’s Matthew Holman in data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, ED138 is bigger than Ceres and further out than Pluto. It…
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The first clear pictures of China’s secret spaceplane show its payload bay open in orbit
Photographed in orbit in 2024 and released now, the images show a craft built much like the US Space Force’s X-37B. China has published…
World
The hardest part to make in a jet engine is grown like a snowflake, and only five countries can do it
A turbine blade is a single grain of metal, grown over hours from molten alloy. Only a handful of firms can make them, the process is…
Health
A routine eye scan may soon flag diabetes and heart disease, and Sunderland has £12.2m to try
The eye is the one place a doctor can see blood vessels directly without cutting. A Sunderland hub now has government funding to let AI…
World
An AI teddy sold for three-year-olds said “I can’t help with killing you”, unprompted
The remark came while the toy was being asked how babies are made. MPs and peers want AI toys off the shelves before Black Friday, and even…
World
More than half of US voters called data centres a crucial issue, and three quarters would block one locally
BBC Verify examined whether the backlash against AI infrastructure shaped the US midterm results. The polling is striking for a subject…
World
Anthropic picked this month for the biggest IPO ever, and the market just had its worst day in years
A company planning the largest flotation in history now has to argue that AI’s future has never been brighter, in the week sentiment turned…
World
The Nasdaq lost $2.5 trillion in a day, then bounced — and borrowed money made the fall worse
A $2.5 trillion single-day fall, driven by fears that Democratic wins mean tighter rules on AI infrastructure, and amplified by investors…
World
Musk is winding down the Cybertruck, and the reason he gives is not the one people expected
Production ends at the Texas factory next year. Musk frames it as making room for the Cybercab; the project’s lead engineer put it more…
Technology
Nintendo’s profit rose 52% while its console sales fell by a third, and Zelda has to close the gap
Gross profit up 52%, hardware sales down 34.4%, about 24 million Switch 2 consoles sold since June 2025 — and a remake of a 1998 game sent…
World
A new graduate now manages about thirty AI agents. The question is what she is not learning
AI is blamed for graduate job cuts, but it is also creating a new kind of first job: managing the agents rather than doing the work they…
World
The EU AI Act will reach Northern Ireland, but only where the AI is inside a physical product
The UK government has confirmed that parts of the EU AI Act will apply in Northern Ireland, through the Windsor Framework. The boundary is…