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🔮 Nations reeling from a year of climate devastation gather for COP31 in November but negotiations are not expected to deliver major progress in cutting the fossil fuels driving the crisis.
🔮 The tech giant is nearing a deal to pay Constellation US$1 billion (S$1.28 billion) or more over the course of a multi-year agreement that is expected to be announced as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the discussions, who asked not to be named because the information is private.
🔮 Italian media have reported that even if approved, the application would not by itself prevent the use of her voice in AI-generated deepfakes, though it could create additional legal obstacles for those seeking to replicate it.
🔮 On Israel’s border with Lebanon where Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets and drones, previous backers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they are rethinking how they will vote in the first election since the war.
🔮 Speaking to reporters at the White House before departing for a rally in Nebraska on Monday afternoon, Trump said his supporters could vote by mail in the coming congressional midterm elections on November 3, even as he said he preferred in-person voting.
🔮 In inflation-adjusted terms, the AI sector is expected to borrow more in 2026 than US cable operators did to build out the entire internet, or than railroad companies did during the 19th-century US rail boom.
🔮 The 2026 Nobel literature prize could go to a Chinese or a Caribbean woman when it is awarded later this week, literary critics say, in a bid to diversify an award that has most often gone to Western male authors.
🔮 British Airways will introduce what it called the world’s biggest business class on its upgraded double-decker Airbus A380 jets, targeting premium passengers as airlines rush to cash in on upscale travel.
🔮 In one assignment to test students’ ability to evaluate scientific arguments, Paustian, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s bacteriology department, was suspicious that they might simply copy the instructions into a chatbot.
🔮 Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s rogue agents possibly tied to data service disruption in May
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