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Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled a suite of updates to its Claude Managed Agents platform at its second annual Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco, introducing a new capability called "dreaming" that lets AI agents learn from their own past sessions and improve over time — a step toward the kind of self-correcting, self-improving AI systems that enterprises have demanded before trusting agents with production workloads.
Anthropic introduces "dreaming," a system that lets AI agents learn from their own mistakes
But Nvidia, the company powering much of the AI revolution, appears to be betting on something very different for the future: an AI supercomputer inside your home. At least, that’s the idea gaining traction after viral posts claimed Nvidia wants to turn your house into an AI data center. While the idea might sound a little too sci-fi for most of us to grasp, it’s actually rooted in a very real shift happening across the tech industry. Moving AI out of centralized cloud systems and directly onto personal devices is closer than we think.
The Silicon Valley giant Anthropic is preparing to buy microchips from a British start-up in a deal that would underscore London’s status as an AI hub. Anthropic is in talks with Fractile, a tech start-up founded in 2022 whose chips are designed to make AI models work faster and more cheaply, The Telegraph understands. Fractile is one of a handful of challengers to Nvidia, whose prowess in AI chipmaking has made it the world’s most valuable company.
Silicon Valley giant in talks to buy AI chips from British start-up
Around Wall Street, Jeremy Grantham – the 87-year-old British-born billionaire investor and philanthropist – is known as “The Permabear”. He earned the sobriquet for his early exit from the stock market bubbles of 1999 and 2008. Unlike all the bulls who stayed too long at the party, he avoided the carnage when the bubbles popped.
He is still living up to the name. The US market is now in a “super-bubble”, he says. It’s at least as big as 1929 and the inevitable crash could be as grim as the Great Depression. He doesn’t deny that artificial intelligence, which has underpinned the soaring US market, is a world-altering technology. But he says history shows that even this won’t stop the bubble bursting.
“You have populations shrinking, climate problems, resources running out, geopolitics, global trade – it’s a long list and yet the market is even higher priced than 2000 and getting more high-priced by the day,” he says. “It is highly unlikely that this high will not be followed by a fundamental unravelling, like it was in 1929.”
We’re in the biggest stock market bubble ever, warns British investment oracle
The answer for the past couple months has been consistent: Oil producers are operating at maximum output, there’s nowhere to put the crude they’re extracting, refineries are at or near max capacity, and it just doesn’t pay to explore and drill new wells. The underlying challenge is that oil drilling is a complex and expensive process that takes years to come to fruition. Wells drilled in 2026 may not start to produce until 2036. That kind of long-term investment makes financial sense only if oil prices sustain above $90 a barrel.
The obvious solution to the global oil shock finally makes sense
So I was thrilled to read a new study that should have made headlines around the world. This meta-analysis investigates another dietary question: does when you eat make a difference? Researchers analysed 41 randomised controlled trial studies to look at the impact of early or mid-time restricted eating on a number of body weight and blood markers. Around 2,200 participants (42% women) with a mean age range of 19-69 years old were tracked for 4-48 weeks, depending on the study. Early-time restricted eating meant the last meal was eaten before 5pm, while mid-time was a meal ending between 5-7pm and late-time was ending a meal after 7pm.
A game-changer for good health? Scientists believe ‘we are when we eat’
'Nearly 80 times cheaper than lithium': China is working on ultra affordable iron battery that can run 16 years without degrading — using one of the most abundant elements on Earth to store power and a water-based electrolyte system that cannot explode
Donald Trump has halted wind farm projects across the US, suggesting they are a threat to national security and the environment. More than 150 projects are understood to be on hold amid suggestions that they interfere with defence radar systems. It marks the latest crackdown on wind power by the Trump administration, with the president branding it a “con job” and criticising turbines for ruining the landscape. Approvals for 165 projects are being withheld by the Defence Department, according to the Financial Times, including some that were awaiting final sign-off and others that are deemed too far from any radar to be problematic.
Trump blocks wind farms on national security grounds
Researchers at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science claim to have developed a new gel electrolyte that will help stabilize anode-free lithium-ion batteries. This should improve the safety and longevity of this emerging battery technology, while presenting a cost-saving to manufacturers. Anode-free lithium-ion batteries have been explored for a number of years, with a South Korean research team using an anode-free lithium metal battery architecture last year to double the volumetric density of a battery, without increasing its size.
It's still hard to buy your own home robot. Humanoids like Tesla Optimus and Figure AI have yet to go on sale, and 1X's $20,000 Neo Home Robot is still on pre-order. But at least Neo is doing its best to move the operation along, as it, according to a newly released video, assists in its own production. 1X released a nearly three-minute-long video on Thursday that shows virtually the entire Neo robot production process, from machining key components to weaving the touchable or huggable fabric to dropping in an Nvidia GPU. The video has close-up views of lathes, CNC systems, and overhead shots of a large factory where a legion of workers are assembling the robot. Throughout, however, are 1X Neo robots assisting; in essence, they're building each other.
New data has claimed 86% of all phishing attacks are now driven by artificial intelligence, meaning that for the first time in a long time, they're becoming far more sophisticated. With an increase in scale and automation comes the power to attack across more surfaces – in the past six months, KnowBe4 says it observed a 49% rise in calendar invite attacks. This shows email inboxes are no longer the only attack surface, with collaboration tools, calendar invites and messaging platforms equally at risk.
Grabbing useful stuff out of the trash isn’t a new endeavor, but the internet has amplified it. Items that were found pre–social media often felt like secret wins. Now the treasures are displayed online for everyone to see. Perhaps as a result of this increased attention on dumpster diving, getting the good stuff has become more competitive. Still, several dumpster divers told me there are plenty of perfectly good products to be found in the garbage. Indeed, that might be an understatement. It’s challenging to nail with precision just how much retail waste is generated globally. The supply-chain-management company Blue Yonder estimates that an unfathomable 3.5 billion products are returned in the US every year, and 9.8 billion pounds of returned products end up in the landfill.
More than 10,000 years ago, dogs made a farseeing bet on humans. They padded carefully up to our campfires, ate scraps, and kept watch, hitching their fates to a species that would soon bestride the planet. They have since become the fourth-most-populous large land mammal, trailing only sheep, cows, and goats, which all lead less pampered lives. Now we’re trying to keep our best animal friends around longer too. If only I could have explained all of this to Forrest before our walk with Halioua. As a Portuguese water dog, he hails from a clever breed, but he doesn’t understand advanced pharmacology, so I worried that he might be indifferent to her, or even rude. But Halioua, who is 31, had arrived with a plan. She stooped down, squealed his name, and opened her hand, revealing a treat that he promptly devoured.
For almost two decades, British retailers have told customers that if they were born after the current date 18 years ago, they can’t buy cigarettes. Starting next year, that date will freeze. Under a recently passed law, selling cigarettes to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009, will be illegal—in perpetuity. As long as the law is in effect, no one who is 17 or younger on New Year’s Day 2027 will ever be allowed to buy tobacco legally. This generational tobacco ban represents a very different approach from the tobacco-control policy that most Americans are used to. The U.S. regime looks more like what the drug-policy scholar Mark Kleiman called “grudging toleration” toward cigarettes: tax, regulate, and scold, but stop short of outright bans. The new British approach will, eventually, lead to outright prohibition.
The End of Cigarettes Is Coming
By the United States military’s estimation, about 1,550 marine vessels—oil tankers, bulk carriers, container ships, and more—are idling in the Persian Gulf right now. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively blockaded, their crews, many of them uninvolved in the ongoing war with Iran, are slowly using up supplies as they await safe passage through the mine-filled waterway. Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the U.S. would rescue these “victims of circumstance” by guiding them out of the war zone in an as-yet-unspecified way. On Monday, though, Iran’s military rejected the plan, warning that American military forces would be attacked if they approached the strait.
“If you look at the most violent, darkest moments in history, they all have one thing in common: a disproportionate number of young men who lack economic or romantic opportunities. I don’t care if it’s Weimar Germany or genocide in Rwanda, you have a bunch of young men with too much time on their hands, and then there’s an economic shock, and then a strong man comes along and tells them it’s not their fault.”
Scott Galloway: ‘Britain must implement mandatory national service to save its lost young men’
Fertiliser shortages caused by the Iran war have driven up costs for UK farmers by up to 70% and will have a “dramatic” impact on food prices globally next year, according to one of Britain’s most powerful property and farming companies. Mark Preston, executive trustee of the 349-year-old Grosvenor Group, controlled by the Duke of Westminster, said fertiliser “was already quite expensive” before the 50% to 70% surge in prices since the start of the Iran war in late February.
Fertiliser shortages will have ‘dramatic’ effect on global food prices, warns farming boss
In the balmy cloud forests of Central America, the operatic calls of Alston’s singing mouse, a small, short-tailed rodent famous for its courteous communication, can often be heard echoing through the trees. These minuscule mice, each of which weighs less than a lightbulb, sing unique, chirp-filled songs to one another that can last as long as 16 seconds. Both sonic and ultrasonic sounds flow from the mouse’s mouth, creating a song reminiscent of the buzzing of a cicada. What’s more, the mice never interrupt each other; they hold their tiny tongues until their conversational partner is done singing. Scientists have long wondered what enables these mice to have such uncannily complex conversations without the help of human brains. But as it turns out, our brains may not be so different.
A Mutation Gave Humans the Gift of Speech. These Mice Have It, Too.
The beer box ruse was a crude experiment. I wanted to see how easy it is to conjure the nocebo effect – and the answer is “very”. Sometimes, all it takes to make someone feel genuinely unwell is a few carefully chosen words. You don’t just have to take my word for it. There is a plethora of peer-reviewed studies confirming this idea. In one, patients fresh from minor keyhole surgery received a harmless saline infusion that they were told would temporarily increase their pain. It did just that. In another, 40 asthmatic adults breathed in water vapour from an inhaler they were told contained an irritant. Nineteen went on to feel wheezy. Twelve had a full-blown asthma attack. These are artificial situations, but the nocebo effect is out there in the real world too. Whenever we have negative expectations about health, they can generate a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you’ve felt lousy after having the Covid-19 vaccine, there’s a good chance your symptoms weren’t caused by the vaccine. Combining data from 12 separate clinical trials involving more than 45,000 participants, scientists found that large numbers of people who got placebo shots had adverse side-effects, leading them to conclude that the nocebo effect accounted for a whopping 76% of all common adverse reactions to the jab.
I made my husband ill with a few words – nobody is immune to the power of the nocebo effect