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Advances in artificial intelligence has a number of academic professions deeply concerned.

Meet the first academic canaries in the AI coal mine

Top mathematicians gathered recently in San Francisco at the offices of OpenAI to discuss what would be left for humans to do when artificial intelligence becomes superhuman at math.

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Victoria Hinks (L) and Lori Schott (R) hold hands as family members of young people who allegedly died from the impacts of social media demonstrate outside the Meta trial in California.

Hook user, harvest data, hide truth: Meta trial hears

Meta Platforms deceived the public for years by targeting children on Facebook and Instagram with technology designed to turn them into compulsive users and drive up advertising revenue, a jury has heard

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Regular exercise during midlife can make the brain functionally younger.

Tap into the fountain of youth — for your brain

THE WASHINGTON POST: Starting exercise in your 40s can help make your brain become more youthful according to a new study on inactive men and women.

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This photo of Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un was posted on Truth Social.

Trump labels North Korea ‘unthreatening and respectful’

President Donald wants to ‘substantially reduce’ joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his ‘very good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.’

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Donald Trump says he made ‌the switch to another plane at the direction of ⁠the Secret Service (AP PHOTO)

When Trump snuck off the plane, this is what they saw

Journalists say the President broke a cardinal pact when he switched planes last month.

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Jason Arday quit his job at Cambridge University after allegations were made he lied on his CV.

Impact of Jason Arday’s shocking death felt beyond Cambridge

A little more than a week after he resigned amid accusations of plagiarism, Jason Arday’s death has ignited a culture-war firestorm about diversity in academia.

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In a post on X, Andrew Puzder (centre) said “it’s time for the EU to deliver” on what he described as the bloc’s pledge to ensure American companies won’t face “undue restrictions” on trade.

US revives pressure on Europe to relax corporate ESG rules

THE WASHINGTON POST: America’s ambassador to the EU said Brussels needs to relax rules designed to protect the environment and human rights, linking the US’s demands to a trade agreement struck last year.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions from reporters during a news briefing.

White House press secretary leaves Trump administration

Karoline Leavitt announces she will leave her post at the end of August to spend more time with her young family.

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New Zealand’s HMNZS Manawanui arrives in Funafuti Lagoon, Tuvalu, in 2022.

China & oil shocks push climate down Pacific Islands’ agenda

For years, the Pacific islands managed to persuade more powerful allies that climate change was the region’s defining security challenge and pushed them to act. That may change.

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The US consumer price index rose at a 3.4 per cent annual pace in the year ending in July.

‘It’s a struggle’: US inflation eases despite Iran crisis

The US consumer price index rose at a 3.4 per cent annual pace in the year ending in July, down slightly from 3.5 per cent in June, according to new Labor Department data.

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Researchers put dogs (awake and unrestrained) in MRI scanners to see the activity in different regions of their brains while the pooches looked at images of human facial expressions.

World-first proof that dogs really are man’s best friend

Canine brains might have a deeper understanding of human emotions than you might think, a new study suggests.

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With less than three months before critical elections in the US and Israel, President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu are being pulled in opposite directions by their own domestic politics.

Trump-Netanyahu rift widens as elections pull them apart

With less than three months before critical elections in the US and Israel, President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu are being pulled in opposite directions by their own domestic politics.

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Volunteers help with debris removal at a collapsed building at Simón Bolívar square in downtown Pereira after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia.

Death toll in devastating Colombia earthquake rises

THE WASHINGTON POST: Rescuers are racing to find survivors trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia.

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Migrants arrive on Tarajal beach after crossing the border between Spain and Morocco on July 31, 2026 in Ceuta, Spain.

Spain’s border chaos shows how migrant flows are weaponised

Authorities have not said who organized a suspicious border breach in Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa. Social media posts in Morocco are urging another push.

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People walk along the exposed lake bottom of the severely shrunk Nussensee mountain lake during ongoing drought in Austria.

Europe’s fifth heat wave to strain rivers, power and crops

Another wave of intense heat is set to sweep across an already parched Europe this week, raising wildfire risks, threatening crops and drying watersheds feeding the region’s critically low rivers.

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the US peace proposal for Gaza.

Defiant Bibi delivers blow to Trump’s Middle East peace plan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a US-backed plan Sunday for Hamas to lay down its weapons in Gaza in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the territory.

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The war on Iran is hitting US partners Australia and New Zealand among those racking up billions of dollars in higher fuel import costs after prices spiked with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Australia bleeds billions as Iran war sparks oil crisis

THE WASHINGTON POST: The war on Iran is hitting US partners Australia and NZ among those racking up billions of dollars in higher fuel import costs after prices spiked with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

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News emerged this week that Qantas’ AI ambitions have prompted the airline to look at offshoring 1000 jobs. NewsWire / Brenton Edwards

New airlines target Qantas’s grip on lucrative Aussie market

A trio of new airlines are eyeing Australia in what’s shaping up to be the biggest assault on the national carrier.

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