Paramount completes $81bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
Skydance-owned Paramount has completed its $81bn (£61bn) takeover of Warner Bros Discovery – bringing together the two media giants under a combined company.
Sierra announces Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for personal AI agents
Sierra and Meta are developing Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard defining how personal AI agents authenticate with businesses and what those businesses let them
Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices
Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into a single space and runs entirely on
US CDC says it’s ‘aware of and closely monitoring’ Russian plague case
The top US public health agency’s remarks come as the Trump administration said it’s ‘closely’ watching the incident.
Cornell names Sally Yates to review university’s response to rape case
Yates will examine Cornell’s sexual assault investigations, disciplinary process and campus police response.
Why Flavio Bolsonaro outperformed the polls in Brazil’s election
A late right-wing shift, a banking scandal and economic frustration may be behind Bolsonaro’s last-minute gains.
Earth is in the firing line of a strange new type of cosmic object, astronomers say
Researchers have observed the strongest candidate yet for a “microblazar” — a dazzling object that has long been predicted to exist but never spotted. Observations
Archaeologists discover a child’s skull built into the floor of a 2,500-year-old Scandinavian house
Archaeologists have unearthed evidence that men, women and children were subjected to violence within their communities in ancient Scandinavia — and that these victims were
‘She knew she had something really important on her hands’: Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA’s helical structure before Watson and Crick, study suggests
Rosalind Franklin, whose photographs of the molecular structure of DNA led to a 1962 Nobel Prize for three other scientists, knew that her famous images
US death row inmate Christa Pike conscious after failed execution, lawyers say
Pike, 50, continues to receive critical medical care while handcuffed in hospital, according to a statement from her lawyers on Tuesday.
Tear gas in Paris and Marseille as school protests grow across France
Crowds of mainly teenagers called for more resources for schools and an end to what they called police repression.
Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres
The order affecting two planned data centres follows concerns over forest clearance.
Fear and disruption for Ukraine’s rail passengers as Russia escalates drone attacks
Ukrainians travelling by train are increasingly caught in the crosshairs of Russia’s attacks.
Zambia says it will sign $3.6B US health deal after stripping patient data clauses
Zambia plans to sign a revised health agreement with the United States that excludes controversial clauses about sharing patient data and specimens