5 min read2 hr Anna Sabine’s emergency surgery led to the loss of her voice. The Frome and East Somerset MP tells Ben Gartside how she is returning to Parliament more determined than ever to be heard When Anna Sabine finished a routine media appearance on Politics Live in the spring, she returned
The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) selected AI-GUIDE, a medical device developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for its 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. This award recognizes federal laboratories and collaborators who have accomplished outstanding work in the process of transferring technology. With funding from the U.S. Army’s Combat Casualty Care
Kohl’s is expanding a key partnership in its stores as its customers tighten their budgets and gravitate toward other retailers. In the second quarter of this year, the department store chain’s comparable sales dipped 0.9% year over year, while its operating income decreased 6.5%, according to its latest earnings report. Recent Placer.ai data also revealed
ASTIK 7 min read2 hr There were once good arguments for the whips’ silence but Sebastian Whale argues it’s now in their own interests to find their voice Why don’t whips speak in public? Is there, perhaps, a helium leak in their lairs just off Members’ Lobby? It would, after all,
JD.com is expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network under a new Physical AI Acceleration Plan, while reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles, and 100,000 delivery drones. The company launched the plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing. JD Logistics also unveiled its industrial Wolf Robot series, designed
(Alamy) 4 min read2 hr Exclusive: The Conservatives are developing a policy to distribute pamphlets to every UK household advising how to respond to a civilian emergency. The plans are inspired by European countries like Denmark, where the government uses literature to instruct the public on what steps to take within the first 72 hours.
Insider Brief Antioch raised $32 million in Series A funding led by Greylock to expand its simulation platform for robotics and autonomous systems. The company said its platform calibrates high-fidelity simulations to customer hardware and runs them at cloud scale, allowing physical AI teams to build, test and validate systems before real-world deployment. Antioch said
While the approximately 8,000 registered travel agencies operating in the U.S. in 2026 can seem like a big number, it is significantly lower than the peak 35,000 businesses that sold trips and tours during the 1990s. If the rise of online booking platforms has been gradually whittling away the need for centralized agencies outside of
Alexa+ also requires that all voice recordings be sent to Amazon for processing, and Amazon has changed its policy for recordings with regular Alexa, too—those now also go to Amazon. There was previously a “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature that you could select, which would process voice requests locally, but Amazon killed that
The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers. However, for two former MIT graduate students and a former postdoc, all now at IBM, working with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab (formerly the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab) during their formative years enabled them to