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• O setor de ciências da vida dos EUA ganhou força em 2026, apesar dos cortes no NIH e das ameaças comerciais, impulsionado por avanços em IA e grandes acordos farmacêuticos. • Os testes genômicos de IA da Karius para pacientes imunocomprometidos detectam 50% mais patógenos em um dia, analisando milhões de leituras de DNA após testar mais de 100.000 casos. • O inverno das biotechs terminou, mudando o foco para a saúde preventiva por meio de IA, dados e terapias de precisão em meio às prioridades do governo.

• O banco afirma ter retirado os processos contra os antigos proprietários do Telegraph, Aidan e Howard Barclay, na alta corte • Os antigos proprietários do Telegraph evitaram a falência após chegarem a um acordo com o HSBC sobre mais de £140 milhões em dívidas vencidas • Em uma audiência na alta corte na terça-feira, o maior banco da Europa disse ter retirado os processos contra Aidan e Howard Barclay, cuja família perdeu o controle do Daily e Sunday Telegraph em 2023 devido a £1,16 bilhão em dívidas não pagas ao Lloyds Bank.

Washington enfrenta uma longa guerra econômica ou uma ação militar arriscada para reabrir o estreito de Hormuz – que agora pode ser mais valioso para o Irã do que uma arma nuclear.

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.