The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds
abcnews - A new study in the journal Nature says most sea level rise research may have underestimated coastal water heights by an average of 1 foot or about 30 centimeters
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UK government to launch new £40m AI research lab
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - The British government is launching a new UK AI research lab backed by up to £40m to host new breakthroughs. Part of its ambition to elevate and maintain the country’s position in global AI, the lab will see researchers invited to pitch ideas, secure proj…
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OpenAI Amends Pentagon Deal As Sam Altman Admits It Looks 'Sloppy'
BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI is amending its Pentagon contract after CEO Sam Altman acknowledged it appeared "opportunistic and sloppy." On Monday night, Altman said the company would explicitly restrict its technology from being used by intelligence agencies and for mass dome…
- Consumer backlash: 'Cancel ChatGPT' surge and rival gains users (3)
- Contract revisions: OpenAI explicitly bars U.S. domestic surveillance (4)
- Internal fallout: Altman defends deal, staff express concern (2)
- NATO push: OpenAI eyes unclassified NATO deployments (2)
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Consumer backlash: 'Cancel ChatGPT' surge and rival gains users
Contract revisions: OpenAI explicitly bars U.S. domestic surveillance
Internal fallout: Altman defends deal, staff express concern
NATO push: OpenAI eyes unclassified NATO deployments
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Antiverse Raises $9.3M Series A To Advance AI Antibody Platform
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - UK-based Antiverse, a biotech startup developing AI-designed therapeutic antibodies for hard-to-target disease proteins, has raised $9.3 million in a Series A round led by Soulmates Ventures, with participation from Innovation Investment Capital, DOMiNO V…
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Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to tackle potato late blight in Europe
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Mycoverse, an agritechspin-out from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) developing fungal-basedbiological crop protection, has raised €2.4 million in pre-seed equity funding.The round was co-led...
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Outpost Bio raises $3.5M pre-seed for human microbiology models
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Outpost Bio, a companyfocused on decoding complex interactions in human biology, has raised a $3.5million pre-seed round co-led by Merantix Capital and Seedcamp, withparticipation from OpenSeed VC, De...
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Researchers discover massive Wi-Fi vulnerability affecting multiple access points — AirSnitch lets attackers on the same network intercept data and launch machine-in-the-middle attacks
tomshardware - A team of researchers discovered that they can break cryptographic client isolation on a number of wireless routers by taking advantage of how Wi-Fi networks work.
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OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office
Joel Khalili / wired - The San Francisco-based AI lab is growing its research team in London. The move puts it in direct competition with Google DeepMind for top research talent in the UK.
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Proxima Fusion secures €400M from Bavaria to build €2B fusion test facility in Munich
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Europe is working hard to achieve energy independence and net-zero goals, but still lacks a scalable, home-grown solution…
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OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems
Reece Rogers / wired - An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.
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How an AI doomsday Substack post caused a mini market crash
Catherine Baab / qz - After a Substack post laid out a striking economic warning, major indexes and a handful of individual stocks sank. The response was telling
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IQM is going public at a $1.8B valuation. Could this be Europe’s first quantum IPO?
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Classical computers struggle to handle complex simulations in drug discovery, materials science, and optimisation because quantum physics demands…
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Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the cou…
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New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart contract vulnerabilities on their own
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - OpenAI and crypto investment firm Paradigm have built EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can find, fix, and exploit security vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts.The article New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart c…
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Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
John Timmer / arstechnica - Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.
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Watch the NASA SpaceX Crew-12 mission dock with the ISS
Mariella Moon / engadget - The Crew-12 mission, SpaceX’s 20th human spaceflight, launched at 5:15 AM Eastern on February 13 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It’s expected to dock with the International Space Station today, February 14, at 3:15 PM, and you can watch the event below a…
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Google Deepmind upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex science and engineering tasks
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Google Deepmind says its upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think mode leads major reasoning and coding benchmarks.The article Google Deepmind upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex science and engineering tasks appeared first on The Decoder.
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Human brain-based AI startup raises £6m
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Stanhope AI, a startup developing artificial intelligence technology that aims to mimic the processes of the human brain, has raised $8m (£5.8m). The company, which previously secured a £2.3m investment back in 2024, is working on its Real World Model pro…
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OpenAI researcher quits over slippery slope of ChatGPT ads
James Farrell / siliconangle - OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig says she left her position on Monday, resigning over the recent introduction of advertisements inside ChatGPT and what she believes is a move in the wrong direction for the company. In a guest essay in The New York Times title…
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Eli Lilly (LLY) Stock Acquires Orna Therapeutics for Up to $2.4 Billion
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Eli Lilly (LLY) announced a deal to buy Orna Therapeutics for up to $2.4 billion in cash to expand its cell therapy capabilities. Orna’s lead asset ORN-252 uses circular RNA technology to create CAR-T therapies inside patients’ bodies for autoimmune …
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