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• L'industrie des Life Sciences aux États-Unis a pris de l'ampleur en 2026 malgré les coupes du NIH et les menaces commerciales, portée par les avancées de l'AI et des Pharma deals majeurs. • Les tests génomiques AI de Karius pour les patients immunodéprimés détectent 50 % de pathogens en plus en une seule journée, analysant des millions de DNA reads après avoir testé plus de 100 000 cas. • L'hiver Biotech a pris fin, déplaçant l'attention vers la santé préventive via l'AI, les data et les therapeutics de précision, au cœur des priorités de l'administration.

La banque a déclaré avoir retiré les poursuites engagées devant la haute cour contre les anciens propriétaires du Telegraph, Aidan et Howard Barclay. • Les anciens propriétaires du Telegraph ont évité la faillite après avoir conclu un accord avec HSBC concernant plus de 140 millions de livres de dettes impayées. • Lors d'une audience à la haute cour mardi, la plus grande banque d'Europe a déclaré avoir retiré les poursuites contre Aidan et Howard Barclay, dont la famille a perdu le contrôle du Daily et Sunday Telegraph en 2023 en raison de 1,16 milliard de livres de dettes non payées envers Lloyds Bank. Lire la suite...

Washington est confronté au choix entre une longue guerre économique ou une action militaire risquée pour rouvrir le détroit d'Ormuz – lequel pourrait désormais s'avérer plus précieux pour l'Iran qu'une arme nucléaire.

Tech company is latest Silicon Valley firm to sign agreement with US military despite widespread employee oppositionGoogle has reportedly signed a deal with the US Pentagon to use its artificial intelligence models for classified work. The tech company joins a growing list of Silicon Valley firms inking agreements with US military.The agreement allows the Pentagon to use Google’s AI for “any lawful government purpose”, the report from the Information added, putting it alongside OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, which also have deals to supply AI models for classified use. Similar agreements, both at Google and other AI firms, have sparked significant disagreements with the Pentagon and major employee pushback. Continue reading...

Sakharov prize winner was given eight-year sentence after process widely condemned as politically motivatedThe Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, the 2025 Sakharov prize winner, has been freed after five years in a Belarusian penal colony as part of a US-brokered multi-country swap deal.His release has been confirmed by Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, who posted a picture of him on social media, saying: “Andrzej Poczobut is free! Welcome to your Polish home, my friend.” Continue reading...

Ittai Gradel died of renal cancer days after museum awarded him medal for ‘very significant contribution’The academic turned antiquities dealer who exposed the theft of hundreds of artefacts from the British Museum has died aged 61.Dr Ittai Gradel, from Denmark, alerted the British Museum and the police after he was able to buy dozens of museum artefacts on eBay over the course of several years. Continue reading...

• Google and the U.S. Department of Defense have finalized an agreement allowing the Pentagon to use Google's AI models for classified military and defense purposes, amending an existing contract between the two entities. • The deal grants the DOD access to Google's artificial intelligence capabilities for what the company describes as "any lawful government purpose," expanding the scope of prior defense collaborations. • The partnership marks a significant expansion of Big Tech's involvement in U.S. defense operations, continuing a trend of major tech companies providing AI infrastructure to government agencies.