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- Liverpool Soccer Star Diogo Jota Killed In Car Crash In Spain
The 28-year-old Portuguese soccer superstar and his brother died in a car crash in Spain near the country’s border with Portugal.
- Private equity firm Capitol Meridian started in 2021 to bet on defense. Suddenly it’s the hottest sector around
Founded by two veterans of the Carlyle Group, Adam Palmer and Brooke Coburn, Capital Meridian is one of a newish breed of sector specific funds.
- Congress just backed off an AI regulation moratorium—Here’s how states like California are trying to regulate ‘robo bosses’ at work
California has a bill in progress, and Colorado already has one on the books.
- The World’s Biggest Carbon Emitters—And The Story Behind The Numbers
China, the U.S., and India top the CO₂ list—but per capita and economic efficiency stats show a deeper climate divide. What the numbers really reveal.
- RFK Jr.‘s top FDA vaccine official restricts 2 COVID vaccine approvals against advice of agency scientists
The new memos from the FDA show how the agency’s vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, personally intervened to place restrictions on COVID shots from vaccine makers Novavax and Moderna.
Technology
- Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing
We got two big pieces of energy news from Google this week. The company announced that it’s signed an agreement to purchase electricity from a fusion company’s forthcoming first power plant. Google also released its latest environmental report, which shows that its energy use from data centers has doubled since 2020. Taken together, these two…
- Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality
Google’s recent unveiling of what it calls a “new class of agentic experiences” feels like a turning point. At its I/O 2025 event in May, for example, the company showed off a digital assistant that didn’t just answer questions; it helped work on a bicycle repair by finding a matching user manual, locating a YouTube…
- TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google’s Veo 3
Google and TikTok have rules against this sort of thing, but it doesn't seem to matter.
- Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes
X says AI can supercharge community notes, but that comes with obvious risks.
- New evidence that some supernovae may be a “double detonation”
It may be possible to blow up a white dwarf before it reaches a critical mass.
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