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Author of DNC's 2024 "autopsy" says he concluded Gaza war hurt Harris

The author of the Democratic National Committee's 2024 election "autopsy" confirmed an Axios report that he concluded the war in Gaza hurt Kamala Harris politically — and that he'd privately shared that assessment with a pro-Palestinian group.He said he drafted that finding late last year but never submitted it to party leadership.Why it matters: Democrats have

Senate panel holds Fauci in contempt over refusal to answer COVID-19 questions

A Senate panel voted Thursday to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt for repeatedly declining to answer questions last week from lawmakers investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.Why it matters: Sen.

Singapore Consults on New Legal Safeguards for Genetic Information

Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has launched a public consultation on a proposed Bill aimed at strengthening safeguards for the use of genetic information outside healthcare settings. The consultation, which runs from 7 August 2026 to 4 September 2026, seeks views from the public and stakeholders on measures covering areas such as insurance underwriting and […]

How Africa can power its trillion-dollar critical minerals revolution

Australian researchers predict strongest El Niño since 1950

EBID supports Bauchi State's economic transformation with US$91.6 million transport infrastructure facility

The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns

Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app surged during India’s internet blackout — and the government’s response suggests a new tech battleground.

DeepSeek signals ‘significant’ price hike amid surge in demand for low-cost AI models

DeepSeek announced on Thursday a “significant” price hike, amid surging global demand for a new ultra-cheap model, which sparked debate over how the Chinese AI start-up has delivered powerful performance at rock-bottom prices. DeepSeek would raise overall pricing for its application programming interface (API) services “in the near future”, with specific plans to be advised later, the Hangzhou-based company said in a statement on its developer platform on Thursday. A “significant increase” was..

At the Embodied-AI Crossroads, WUWENAI Chose to Pave the Road

WUWENAI founder Liu Shengxiang bets that embodied AI's bottleneck is data. The startup built a closed-loop Real-to-Sim-to-Real pipeline that he says arrives months ahead of World Labs' SceniX move.

Westlake University's Yu Kaicheng Builds a Concept World Model and Speaks for the First Time

After a 100-million-yuan seed-plus-angel round, Awomo founder Yu Kaicheng makes his first public case for an implicit, concept-space world model that beats the data-driven scaling law he once helped write.