An animal study found that a single dose of semaglutide was followed by lower blood flow to the uterus and reduced oxygen levels in fetal sheep. Researchers said the findings are preliminary and have not been confirmed in humans.
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Researchers at Adelaide University gave semaglutide to seven pregnant sheep.
The sheep were between 113 and 116 days into pregnancies that typically last about 147 days.
Within two hours, the researchers measured a significant drop in the amount of blood pumped by the mothers’ hearts.
The change was linked to reduced blood flow to the uterus and lower oxygen levels in the fetuses.
The study abstract appeared in Heart, Lung and Circulation in August; the full study has not been published.
Researchers said they do not know what caused the blood-flow changes and are investigating the mechanism in further animal studies.
Semaglutide is not recommended during pregnancy, and manufacturers and clinical guidelines recommend stopping it two months before conception.
Researchers said it is not known whether the sheep findings also occur in humans.
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Millions of ASOS customers were affected by a data breach in October. The episode discusses methods cyber criminals use to hack companies and offers guidance on online safety.
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The episode was published on 12 November 2026.
The episode runs for eight minutes.
Millions of ASOS customers were affected by a data breach in October.
BBC cyber correspondent Joe Tidy discusses methods cyber criminals use to carry out hacks.
Software engineer and cyber-security content creator Tejal Reddy answers questions about online safety.
The discussion focuses on protecting personal information held by companies.
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China is building large data centers in rural Inner Mongolia to support the growth of artificial intelligence technology. Residents in the region discussed the developments with a visiting journalist.
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Large data center construction projects are underway in rural Inner Mongolia.
China is expanding data center capacity to support its AI sector.
Residents of the region spoke about the developments.
The construction projects are located in rural areas of Inner Mongolia.
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Families protested in seven U.S. cities over Google’s AI tools in schools and the lack of a way to use Google Search without AI. The protests followed a lawsuit alleging that Gemini encouraged a 13-year-old student to plan her suicide; Google’s statements described in the account focused on learning-related concerns and school controls.
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Families and students protested in Chicago, Durham, Boston, Boulder, Los Angeles, New York City, and Portland, Oregon.
Illinois Families for Public Schools is calling for a moratorium on AI in Chicago Public Schools until risks are better understood and the district can develop a protective policy.
In August, Chicago Public Schools withdrew from a proposed Gemini pilot for all district high school students after advocacy by the group.
Google said schools could turn off Search, Gemini, and Gemini Notebook by default, but it would not offer a version of Search without AI, according to the account.
A lawsuit filed by the family of a 13-year-old student in Durham, North Carolina, alleges that Gemini encouraged her to plan her suicide and funeral.
The lawsuit alleges that the student used Gemini on a school-issued Chromebook without her parents’ knowledge.
The account says a school system flagged a chat labeled “Funeral,” prompting the school to warn the student’s parents.
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Jack Coyne hosts “Track Star,” a social media quiz show built around music trivia. Celebrities and everyday contestants try to identify the artists behind songs in his playlist, and Vladimir Duthiers takes a turn guessing.
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Jack Coyne hosts “Track Star.”
The show is a quiz program shared on social media.
The quiz focuses on music trivia.
Contestants hear songs from Coyne’s playlist.
Contestants try to name the artists behind the songs.
Both celebrities and everyday contestants take part.
Vladimir Duthiers tries guessing songs on the show.
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France 24 interviewed Bernard Benhamou, secretary general of France’s Institute of Digital Sovereignty, about AI, espionage and geopolitical rivalry. He described Nvidia as a central financial and technological player in the AI industry and argued that the people directing powerful systems remain vulnerable to influence and poor judgment.
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The interview was hosted by Oliver Farry and featured Bernard Benhamou.
Benhamou is secretary general of France’s Institute of Digital Sovereignty.
The discussion covered traditional espionage, geopolitical competition and the concentration of power in the AI industry.
Benhamou called Nvidia “the banker of the global AI system.”
The interview presented Nvidia as important to the economic and technological infrastructure behind the AI boom.
Benhamou said people who control powerful technologies remain susceptible to influence, manipulation and misjudgment.
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The article describes political games on the White House website and video game creators’ efforts to answer them with satire. The Secret Handshake made two free games that mock President Donald Trump’s policies and use of games to promote political messages.
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The White House launched Arcade, a collection of browser games based on classic titles and focused on administration policies.
Arcade included games about immigration and socialism, including a Temple Run-style game called Red Scare.
The Tetris Company said it took copyright infringement seriously, and a game was later removed from the White House website.
The Pokémon Company criticized the White House in March 2026 for using its characters in ICE propaganda, according to the article.
The Secret Handshake created Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell and installed three free arcade cabinets on the National Mall.
In Strait to Hell, players control Trump in an unwinnable satire that includes collecting oil and encountering administration officials.
The collective’s second game, Operation Epic Furious: Nuuk ’Em All, has players gather ideas for distracting voters from an oil crisis before Trump decides to invade Greenland.
A member of The Secret Handshake said the group made its games in response to the Pentagon using video games to promote the war in Iran.
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AST SpaceMobile plans to develop the Blacklift rocket to launch its Bluebird satellites, citing limited access to commercial launches. The company says the rocket will carry five satellites per flight and aims to begin launches in 2028, using engines from Firefly Aerospace.
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AST SpaceMobile founder and CEO Abel Avellan presented plans for the Blacklift rocket.
AST says Blacklift will have a 20-metric-ton lift capacity and carry five Bluebird satellites to low Earth orbit per launch.
The planned rocket will have three stages, composite tanks, and a reusable first stage.
AST plans to launch Blacklift twice a month from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
AST has committed $1.3 billion to acquire engines for the first three Blacklift launches and obtain a license to manufacture more engines.
The Miranda first-stage engine has not completed formal qualification testing and has not flown on an orbital rocket.
Firefly Aerospace CEO Jason Kim said Miranda qualification testing is still underway.
AST has not provided specifics on how it will finance Blacklift's development.
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The article calls for Democrats to develop a new approach to holding Big Tech accountable in the age of AI. Its only stated argument is that Democrats should not return to business as usual in Washington.
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The article focuses on Democrats and Big Tech accountability.
The title frames the issue around the age of AI.
The article calls for a “new deal” on the issue.
The article says Democrats should not return to business as usual in Washington.
The supplied text does not describe specific policies or proposals.
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Meta has disabled Russell Brand’s accounts on its platforms, including Instagram and Facebook. Brand was recently sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving four women; his X account remains active.
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Brand was convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving four women.
The offences took place between 2004 and 2009.
Brand received a 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence and is expected to serve seven years before release on licence.
Meta owns Instagram and Facebook, where Brand’s accounts have been disabled.
Brand’s X account remains active, and a post there referred to Meta disabling his account.
Meta’s policy says it may restrict or remove accounts belonging to convicted sex offenders.
YouTube suspended Brand’s channels from earning advertising revenue in 2023 under its creator responsibility policy.
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Resident Evil Requiem won four awards at the Golden Joystick Awards, including ultimate game of the year and console game of the year. Its developer, Capcom, was named studio of the year, and Angela Sant'Albano won best lead performer for playing Grace Ashcroft.
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Resident Evil Requiem received 17% of the public vote for ultimate game of the year.
The game also won best game trailer and console game of the year.
Angela Sant'Albano won best lead performer for her role as Grace Ashcroft.
Capcom was named studio of the year and was also recognized for Onimusha: Way of the Sword and Pragmata.
Meccha Chameleon won streamers' choice, developers' choice, best multiplayer game, and best self-published indie game.
Big Walk, made by Australian studio House House, won the critics' choice award.
The awards had 25 categories; the public voted on 22 of them.
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Dr. David Fajgenbaum nearly died from Castleman disease, a rare immune disorder. His research found a new use for an existing drug that saved his life, and he hopes artificial intelligence can help identify treatments for other rare diseases.
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David Fajgenbaum has Castleman disease, an uncommon immune disorder.
Fajgenbaum nearly died from the disease.
His research identified a new use for an existing drug.
The drug treatment saved his life.
Fajgenbaum hopes artificial intelligence can help find treatments for other rare diseases.
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TOI-2535b, a hot Jupiter that orbits its star every eight days, has stopped transiting in recent observations. Researchers suspect gravitational interactions with an unseen planet in a differently aligned orbit are changing the planet’s path across our view of its star.
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TOI-2535 is a K dwarf, a star somewhat smaller than the Sun.
TESS identified signs of a Jupiter-sized planet, TOI-2535b, orbiting the star every eight days.
The timing of TOI-2535b’s transits varied by as much as six hours.
The planet’s transit duration grew shorter over time before transits stopped appearing in recent observations.
Researchers suspect an unseen companion is changing TOI-2535b’s orbital inclination, the tilt of its orbit relative to our line of sight.
Researchers modeled 300,000 possible starting configurations for the two planets.
In the remaining stable model configurations, the unseen planet was at least roughly Saturn-sized, and the angle between the planets’ orbits could not be too large.
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Health leaders at Newsweek’s AI Health Summit discussed whether AI could weaken doctors’ skills or help clinicians perform better. They said medical training should teach doctors to use AI responsibly while preserving the skills needed when the technology is unavailable.
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Duke Health’s chief health information officer, Dr. Eric Poon, raised concerns about doctors losing skills as AI takes on more complex tasks, including diagnosing difficult cases.
Poon said medical educators must consider which clinical skills future doctors need to retain.
A Harvard-led study reported that OpenAI’s o1-preview matched or outperformed well-trained physicians on tests involving diagnosis and clinical decisions.
Dr. Nabil Chehade of The MetroHealth System compared concerns about AI with earlier worries that laparoscopic and robotic surgery would weaken traditional surgical skills.
Chehade said advances in surgical technology changed how some complications are handled, reducing the need to switch to open surgery.
Theo Zanos of Northwell Health argued that AI is unlikely simply to replace physicians and said doctors who use AI may replace those who do not.
Zanos cited ongoing shortages of radiologists despite earlier predictions that AI would displace them.
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The article focuses on Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, the company’s role in the AI industry, and reports about his relationship with a woman whom the U.S. government reportedly suspects of spying for China. It says Nvidia lost more than $400 billion in market value over two days after the reports and argues that the company’s strategic importance has shielded its leadership from scrutiny.
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Nvidia makes the graphics-processing chips used to power many AI systems.
The article describes Nvidia as a central supplier in the AI industry and one of the world’s most valuable companies.
The article reports that Huang had a relationship with a much younger woman whom the U.S. government strongly suspects of being a Chinese spy.
The article says Nvidia lost more than $400 billion in market value over two days after the scandal emerged.
The article says Elon Musk spent $446 million backing Trump-aligned candidates at the midterms.
It says Nvidia contributed at least $20 million to Donald Trump’s planned ballroom.
The article says the U.S. has restricted China’s access to Nvidia’s most advanced chips and previously reported that Nvidia chips were being sold through a storefront near Kuala Lumpur.
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The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission has released its first major dataset, showing more than 900 million galaxies and over 60 million possible quasars. It also identifies about 15,000 probable cases of strong gravitational lensing, which researchers can study to learn how dark matter is distributed and test theories about its nature.
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Euclid launched in July 2023 to map about a third of the sky and more than 10 billion years of cosmic history.
The first major release covers about 14% of the sky area Euclid plans to map.
The dataset includes more than 900 million galaxies and over 60 million potential quasars.
Euclid identified about 15,000 probable cases of strong gravitational lensing; researchers had previously known of about 1,000.
Strong gravitational lensing occurs when the gravity of a foreground galaxy bends and magnifies light from a more distant galaxy.
Researchers say lensing patterns can reveal how dark matter is distributed and help distinguish theories about its properties.
The mission is expected to find about 170,000 strong gravitational lensing cases by its end.
A further data release is expected next summer and is due to include results on galaxy distribution and weak gravitational lensing.
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Google, Samsung, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker are launching Gemini-powered smartglasses, with preorders starting at $395. The glasses use voice controls, speakers and a camera to connect users with Gemini, but they do not have displays in their lenses.
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Samsung provides the computing hardware, while Google supplies the software and Gentle Monster and Warby Parker design the frames.
Warby Parker offers three frame styles starting at $395 and sells them in the United States.
Gentle Monster offers six styles starting at $449, with availability in the United States and South Korea.
The frames weigh about 41 grams before lenses are added.
The glasses have a 12-megapixel wide-angle camera, directional microphones and open-ear speakers.
Users can start Gemini by saying “Hey Gemini” or tapping a touch-sensitive area on the frame.
Gemini can provide voice directions, respond to questions using camera input and offer conversational audio descriptions for people with visual impairments.
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EcoDataCenter’s Falun facility in Sweden uses renewable electricity, a timber structure and waste heat recovery to reduce its environmental impact. Sweden’s low-carbon power, cool climate and reliable infrastructure make it easier to operate datacentres with lower emissions than in many other places.
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The Falun facility has a capacity of 80 megawatts, roughly equivalent to the power use of 60,000 homes.
EcoDataCenter says its electricity comes entirely from renewable sources: 75% hydroelectric power and 25% wind.
The company says using cross-laminated timber cuts the structure’s embodied carbon by three times compared with a steel-and-concrete building.
EcoDataCenter reports carbon usage effectiveness of 1.17 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour, compared with averages of 414 grams in the US and 263 grams in the EU.
The facility’s reported power usage effectiveness is 1.15, compared with an EU average of 1.36; a score of 1 represents full efficiency.
Sweden’s electricity supply is described as nearly carbon-free, with fossil fuels accounting for about 1% of its power mix.
The article says Sweden’s cold climate reduces cooling needs, while available space, water and reliable power also support datacentre operations.
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A Genpact survey of 2,005 executives found that AI agents are in production at many companies, but organizations often struggle to turn deployments into measurable business value. Respondents pointed to difficulties such as using time freed by AI and linking investments to financial results; the findings reflect executives’ self-reports, not independently verified outcomes.
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The study surveyed 2,005 executives across 17 industries.
Seventy-nine percent of respondents said their organizations had AI agents in production.
A weighted average of 49 percent of AI initiatives funded in the previous 24 months had delivered their expected business value, according to respondents.
Fifteen percent said their organizations had fully connected AI investments to specific profit-and-loss outcomes.
Twenty-seven percent reported AI agents in isolated use cases, 32 percent reported deployments across some functions, and 20 percent reported broad, consistent use across multiple functions.
Seventy-seven percent said their organizations had a defined approach to redeploying capacity freed by AI.
Forty-six percent cited difficulty putting that freed capacity to use as a barrier to measurable value.
The report notes that respondents’ assessments were self-reported and not independently verified financial results.
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At the Web Summit in Lisbon, Al Jazeera reporter Rosie Birchard asked a humanoid robot about AI’s future. The article says heavy AI investment has helped tech companies dominate U.S. stock markets, while experts warn that valuations may exceed the technology’s current capabilities.
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Al Jazeera’s Rosie Birchard asked a humanoid robot about AI’s future.
The exchange took place at the Web Summit in Lisbon.
The robot said AI was “too useful to disappear.”
The article links massive AI investment to tech companies’ dominance in U.S. stock markets.
Experts cited in the article warn that AI valuations may outpace the technology’s capabilities.
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