Taylor Swift, by most measures the all-time queen of the American Music Awards, has plenty of chances to extend her historic lead even further this year. She leads the race for the 2026 AMAs with eight nominations, in a ballot revealed Tuesday morning. Four artists are tied for second place in the nominations tally, with…
Controversy over attendance at the 2026 NeurIPS meeting reflects a growing divide in artificial intelligence research between the two nations.Credit: Marciobnws/Shutterstock A key Chinese research organization is set to boycott the prestigious NeurIPS conference, which is run by a US-based non-profit organization, after a row over a policy that initially seemed to exclude many Chinese…
In brief Deutsche Börse has acquired a $200 million stake in Kraken’s parent company, valuing the crypto exchange at $13.3 billion. The deal deepens a partnership spanning FX, custody, settlement, and tokenized assets. An expert said the investment points to a wave of TradFi consolidation around crypto incumbents, with compliance increasingly becoming a competitive advantage….
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The updated scheme will enable customers to be rewarded for running appliances such as washing machines and dishwashers, and charging electric vehicles, when more green energy is being generated and demand is low, such as on weekends or Bank Holidays. Source link
As NASA’s Artemis II mission headed for the Moon, the Trump administration unveiled another attempt to cut the agency’s science budget. Yet some insiders, perhaps buoyed by déjà vu and a little post-traumatic resilience, are less alarmed than you might expect. “They feel they have a stable future,” a person familiar with the matter told…
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Speaking on the Monday Night Club, former Premier League striker and BBC Sport pundit Chris Sutton says Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta must win the Premier League or the Champions League this season or risk losing his job at the Emirates. WATCH MORE: Man City v Arsenal – winner takes all? Source link
Paris-based sales company Luxbox has acquired Katharina Rivilis’ drama “I’ll Be Gone in June,” which has been selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. The film, whose producers include Wim Wenders, is distributed in Germany and Switzerland by DCM. In 2001, Franny, a 16-year-old exchange student from Germany, arrives in the sleepy desert town of Las…
In January, the social-media platform Moltbook opened exclusively to artificial-intelligence agents (see Nature 650, 533–534; 2026) — it was acquired by Meta six weeks later. Within days of the launch, it hosted self-declared rulers demanding loyalty, the policing of ‘inauthentic’ participants and cryptocurrency-token launches framed as liberation from human gatekeepers. As AI agents permeate commercial…