The emergence of Anthropic’s Mythos is setting up a scramble from the banking industry to gain access and test the technology as regulators rush to examine the cybersecurity risks the new AI model raises and how prepared financial firms are to tackle them. Mythos is viewed by cybersecurity experts as posing significant challenges to the…
First all-women cohort of winners hails from Colombia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, the UK and the US. This year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to six grassroots environmental activists from around the world for their efforts to fight climate change and save biodiversity. For the first time since the prize was…
Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including humans: the therapsids. They were first described more than 150 years ago, based on fossils from South Africa. Since then, many more fossils have been discovered. James Kitching, one of the most talented South African…
French now ranks ahead of Arabic as the fourth most widely spoken language in the world, according to a report published this week ahead of Friday’s international day of the French language. With 396 million speakers worldwide in 2025 compared to standard Arabic’s 335 million, French comes in behind English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish as…
As the sun rose over a Middle East scarred by weeks of relentless conflict, the call to prayer resonated amidst the distant thunder of the front lines. Yet the region did not retreat into silence. Instead, it responded with a defiant, multi-colored symphony of tradition. Since the opening salvos weeks ago, a war many feared….
Based on more than 9 million data points tracking international flows of trade, capital, information, and people, the report offers the most comprehensive view of globalisation available. Global connectedness stood at 25 per cent in 2025, matching the record high first reached in 2022 Namibia ranks among the top three countries globally for long-term increases…
Women continue to die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, and this is unacceptable. While Africa has made progress in reducing maternal mortality since 2000, the region still needs a twelve-fold increase in the annual reduction rate to meet the Sustainable Development Goal, according to the estimates from the United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation Interagency…
China’s Lenovo Group warned on Thursday about mounting pressure on PC shipments as a worsening memory-chip shortage grips the industry. CEO Yang Yuanqing said in an interview after the company released third-quarter results that the world’s largest PC maker has raised prices to offset surging memory costs, while accelerating its push into the fast-growing AI…
Google DeepMind is transitioning its groundbreaking Genie 3 “world model” from an internal research tool into a public-facing experience called Project Genie. Originally designed to train AI agents by simulating interactive environments, this system can generate complex images and react in real-time as a user “moves” through the software’s simulated space. Starting today, users outside…
Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn’t confined to poor, rural areas – it’s a global threat that travels with people across borders. For decades, the fight against malaria has felt like running in place. Bed nets and drugs…
