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- Real Madrid Announces New First Team Summer Transfer
Spanish soccer giant Real Madrid has announced a new summer first team transfer via its official website and social media accounts.
- Mamdani’s Office Denies There Will ID Requirement For City-Owned Grocery Stories— After MAGA Erupts
Mamdani’s administration suggested a “library-card esque” loyalty program at the stores, which MAGA then equated to an ID requirement.
- Sea’s Maribank wants to export its Singapore digital banking playbook—first stop, the Philippines
MariBank launched in 2023 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sea, Southeast Asia’s largest tech firm and No. 12 on the Southeast Asia 500.
- ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4 Opens A New Era: Start Time And How To Watch
The 'Ted Lasso' season 4 premiere drops Wednesday. Learn everything to know about the new season of Apple TV's smash hit.
- Palantir shares jump 13% as U.S. AI demand sends revenue soaring past targets
Revenue surged 93% year over year as U.S. commercial sales climbed 149%, prompting Palantir to lift its full-year outlook above Wall Street expectations.
Technology
- Ukraine’s drones get AI upgrades for kamikaze strikes, future swarm attacks
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
- Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
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- Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model
The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.
- An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Top scores increased by 5x.
- Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children, and despite advances are still worse at using their hands than my toddler. It’s a nascent industry, and such robots…
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