They created an artificial 'mental map', with pleasantness along one axis and bodily reactions along the other, and charted how the brain responded while watching clips from films. The results revealed clear groupings in the way that our brains represent emotion - with guilt, anger and disgust in one corner and happiness, satisfaction and pride in the other.
Pre-tax profits rose by 5.8%, totalling €8 billion (£6.9 billion), with Zara alone contributing €5.6 billion (£4.8 billion). All of Inditex's brands, including Massimo Dutti, Bershka, and Stradivarius, experienced growth, particularly during the spring and summer collections.
Oscar is on track to return to profitability this year. We expect a significant year-over-year improvement of nearly $750 million in earnings from operations in 2026, representing the midpoint of our guidance. Oscar's 2026 guidance targets earnings from operations of $250 million to $450 million, against a 2025 loss from operations of $396 million.
AI will be capable of further automating tasks such as document intake, classification, and preliminary adjudication, making it more feasible than ever for VA to deliver benefits in 'minutes not months.'
The US stands with all of the children throughout the world. I hope soon peace will be yours. A nation that makes learning sacred protects its books, its language, its science and its mathematics. It protects its future.
Avisi Technologies develops nanotechnology-based ophthalmic devices to address vision loss from glaucoma and related eye conditions. Founded by Adarsh Battu, Brandon Kao, and Rui Jing Jiang in 2017, Avisi Technologies has now raised a total of $18.7M in total equity funding and is backed by Accanto Partners, Gemseki, Golden Seeds, Good Growth Capital, Life Sciences Greenhouse of Pennsylvania, MedVenture Partners, OneOneFive, Quaker Capital Investments, LLC, SBI US Gateway Fund, and Sherpa Healthcare Partners.
Alaska's House of Representatives unanimously passed HB47, a bill that imposes sweeping limits on when and how minors use social media apps, along with bans on generating or distributing harmful deepfakes of children.
I had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. I chose the latter. We're already seeing that the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company.
For $20,000-or a $499 per month rental fee and a six-month commitment-the lanky robot can do simple tasks around the house, such as unloading the dishwasher and watering plants, and can answer your questions through its built-in large language model.
We believe AI should be something people can depend on every day, designed to work consistently for everyone and without the need for expertise. This statement from TM Roh, CEO and president of Samsung Electronics' Device eXperience Division, encapsulates Samsung's philosophy regarding artificial intelligence integration in the Galaxy S26 series, emphasizing accessibility and reliability as core design principles.
Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as oppositesone deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet argues, is one of our most ancient and enduring technologies, a system of meter and rhyme invented to store vital information. She views AI as its natural heir. Stiles's path to AI began with literature, not code.
Biology is undergoing a transformation. After centuries of studying life as it evolves naturally, researchers are now using a combination of computation and genome engineering to intervene, generating new proteins and even whole bacteria from scratch. The use of artificial-intelligence tools to design biological components, an approach known as generative biology, is set to turbocharge this area of research. Just last year, scientists used AI-assisted design to produce artificial genes that can be expressed in mammalian cells.
Email marketing should seemingly be obsolete. The first "email," after all, occurred in October 1971, nearly 55 years ago. Surely, social media platforms, text messaging, and various applications such as WhatsApp and Discord could have supplanted it. And let's not forget the grim industry concerns when Gmail introduced the "Promotions" tab in 2013. Today, AI inbox summaries are the latest marketing threat.
The so-called democratic backsliding isn't the future: it's the present. This is what Human Rights Watch (HRW) has laid bare in its annual report, released this month. The compilation of human rights violations confirms that we're witnessing the collapse of the global order that was meticulously crafted over decades, amid the apparent passivity of many of its defenders. The new executive director of HRW, 52-year-old Philippe Bolopion,
The west London club have been without a long-term shirt sponsor since their lucrative agreement with mobile phone company Three ended in 2023. IFS' agreement with Chelsea will see their logo feature on the front of the men's and women's teams' kits with immediate effect, meaning Liam Rosenior's side will wear the new shirts for their Premier League match against Burnley on Saturday and Sonia Bompastor's team will do the same against Manchester United in Sunday's Women's FA Cup clash.
Some clinicians have an uncanny quality. A colleague describes herself and others with this instinct as "witchy"-a capacity to know things about patients they haven't said yet, to follow a stray association to a song lyric or a half-remembered cultural reference and arrive, reliably, at something the patient urgently needed to say but couldn't reach on their own. We see with artificial intelligence these intriguing possibilities for discovery, especially as connections that human beings never would see pop out of apparently unrelated data.
