4 min read27 August The Labour MP behind the campaign to make 2026 the “summer of sex” said she wants to talk about the subject so much in Parliament that it becomes “boring”. The MP for South Derbyshire, Samantha Niblett, said she wanted to shift the Overton window – a term which means ideas being accepted
Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, told analysts on August 26 that demand from the labs Nvidia backs with its own balance sheet will contribute toward roughly a quarter of its business
My wife and I bought our mattress roughly five houses and 13,000 miles ago. It’s a “Bob-O-Pedic” purchased from Bob’s Discount Furniture in Newington, Conn., that we brought with us to West Palm Beach, Fla., and have moved to multiple homes. It’s more than 10 years old, which exceeds the suggested life of a mattress,
Insider Brief Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.1 billion for a new Machine Age Fund focused on AI hardware and infrastructure, including chips, memory, networking, data centers, robotics and edge devices. A16z said rising AI demand is pushing computing density, rack power and data-center scale beyond current infrastructure limits, creating investment opportunities across memory, interconnects, cooling, electrical
It’s no exaggeration to say the large language models that power AI bots like ChatGPT and Gemini are changing the world. Many of us are now relying on them for coding, writing, summarizing, and searching the web. Whatever directions AI goes in over the next few years, LLMs will be part of that future. If
The average household’s energy bill will rise to the highest level in three years following Ofgem’s new price cap announcement. (Alamy) 4 min read28 August Ofgem announced this week that the energy price cap would increase to the highest level in three years as the war in Iran continues to drive up
A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by its sequence of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Many methods for designing novel proteins, including examples that could bind to a disease-causing molecule in our cells, involve a two-step process: The structure comes
Prices are something all American households still complain about. However, that does not mean they aren’t going out to purchase clothes. Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) reported record second-quarter net sales of $1.27 billion, about 5% higher than a year ago and its 15th consecutive quarter of sales growth. It’s no small feat, considering the state
Shadow secretary for local government James Cleverly (Alamy) 4 min read26 August Exclusive: Wandsworth Council and the Conservative Party are preparing to formally appeal cuts to local government funding after PoliticsHome revealed that the South London borough was preparing to raise council tax by 160 per cent. Leaders of Tory-run Wandsworth and members of Kemi Badenoch’s shadow
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless freight operations across North America. The round was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, Intact Private Capital, and other investors. Gatik said it has more than $600 million in