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• Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has raised over 50 billion yuan (approximately $7.40 billion) in its first funding round, achieving a valuation exceeding $50 billion. • The company utilized a limited partnership structure to ensure founders maintain control, implementing a five-year lock-up period and stripping investors of voting rights. • A notable exception to the voting restriction is China's national AI fund, which retains its influence within the deal structure.

• Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has closed its first funding round, raising over 50 billion yuan (approximately $7.40 billion). • According to a report from The Information on Tuesday, the investment was secured using an unusual deal structure. • This massive capital injection positions DeepSeek as a significant competitor in the global AI landscape, challenging established players with substantial resources.

Dominic Grieve says people are ‘perfectly entitled’ to ask Richard Hermer for review of teenagers’ sentencesAppeal judges would be unlikely to criticise the attorney general, Richard Hermer, if he asked them to review “unusual” non-custodial sentences handed to three teenage boys convicted of raping two girls, one of his predecessors has suggested.Dominic Grieve, who also served as home secretary, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the goal of rehabilitating offenders – particularly younger ones – needed to be balanced with providing deterrence. Continue reading...

After record losses last year, beekeepers report a warm winter has led to bees ‘waking up earlier’ this yearAfter a series of record-breaking US heatwaves, the 2026 bee swarm season in North America has started 17 days earlier than last year, pushing beekeepers to adapt to a rapidly shifting season while raising new questions about how honeybees are responding to the climate crisis.According to a new report published by Swarmed, a tracking network of more than 10,000 beekeepers, focused on safe and ethical honeybee relocation, this year’s unusually early swarm season follows several years of record colony declines worldwide. Continue reading...

• New research reveals the Crab Pulsar's puzzling radio emission patterns result from a 'tug-of-war' between its magnetic field and gravity acting as lenses on plasma in the magnetosphere. • Gravity focuses emissions while magnetospheric plasma defocuses them, explaining the pulsar's unique behavior observed in this well-studied supernova remnant. • This physics discovery advances understanding of neutron star dynamics, with implications for interpreting signals from thousands of known pulsars across the galaxy.