"The Pulse With Francine Lacqua" is all about conversations with high profile guests in the beating heart of global business, economics, finance and politics. Based in London, we go wherever the story is, bringing you exclusive interviews and market-moving scoops. Today's guests: Beata Manthey, Citi Head of European Equity Strategy; Leslie Vinjamuri, Chicago Council on Global Affairs CEO; Peter Trubowitz, London School of Economics Professor of International Relations; Alexander Sagel, RENK CEO (Source: Bloomberg)
On Sunday, Nvidia announced it was launching an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, an AI executive and agent of the Chinese government. In addition to the Board of Directors announcing the investigation, Huang sent a memo to Nvidia employees acknowledging the affair. You can read the full text below. To my […]
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots or Meta's Muse. While Federighi has delivered a functional version of Siri AI on an incredibly short timeline, the company has no illusions that it's […]
Suno is facing yet another pair of lawsuits. A group of rights holders of Elvis Presley's music and the publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records are suing the AI music company, claiming it illegally generates music and lyrics that mimic those artists. The lawyers in the Presley suit claim that Suno has violated Tennessee's […]
Without their most frequent bettors, digital sportsbooks could lose about 60% of their gross revenue. Bloomberg analyzed more than three years of betting deposits to understand who these apps depend on, and the potential risks for their customers. Aaron Gordon and Polly Mosendz report. (Source: Bloomberg)
Scientists have observed a bizarre quantum state of matter that combines the structure of a crystal with the frictionless flow of a liquid, all at room temperature. The breakthrough overturns a major practical limitation of exotic quantum experiments and could help bring powerful new light-based computing and sensing technologies closer to reality.
After more than 35 years of research, scientists have uncovered surprising clues about what really drives Lyme disease risk. Contrary to longstanding assumptions, deer populations appear less important than mice, which can fuel a 40% increase in tick numbers the following year. Even acorn production can predict tick population surges two years in advance, while extreme temperatures may be far less deadly to ticks than scientists once believed.
A surprising new study from UCLA suggests that a naturally occurring molecule could help breast cancer survivors overcome the frustrating brain fog and exhaustion that can linger long after treatment ends. Researchers found that women taking an oxaloacetate supplement for eight weeks experienced substantial improvements in memory, concentration, mental clarity, and fatigue.
NASA has revealed an accelerated plan to land astronauts on the Moon in 2028, with SpaceX and Blue Origin developing competing lunar landers and a crucial orbital test scheduled for 2027. Faster rocket preparations, new lightweight spacesuits, and redesigned missions could help pave the way for a permanent lunar presence and future human exploration of Mars.
New research reveals that participating in cancer clinical trials can cause financial burdens that are shaped by both socioeconomic and logistical factors. The analysis published by Wiley online in CANCER, indicates the need for better reimbursement programs to improve equitable access to, and retention in, cancer clinical trials.
The Shroud of Turin, one of history's most mysterious religious artifacts, is yielding surprising new clues through DNA analysis. Scientists have uncovered a complex mixture of biological traces that may reveal more about the cloth's past and the environments it encountered. The findings offer a fresh scientific perspective on a centuries-old mystery that continues to spark fascination and debate.
Scientists have discovered that the stickiness of underwater “marine snow” plays a surprisingly important role in how much carbon reaches the deep ocean. Gooier particles resist bacterial breakdown and can transport more than six times as much carbon to the depths, revealing an unexpected connection between ocean slime and Earth's climate.
CEO reportedly had close relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who passed information to Beijing Nvidia said on Sunday it “is initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort”. The Republican-led foreign affairs and intelligence committees of the US Congress asked Huang to testify next week at a closed-door briefing on Nvidia’s “security protocols against foreign adversary espionage” in response to a New York Times report in October alleging he had a close relationship with a C
Prosecuting barrister asks for a ‘category one’ sentencing length which ranges from 10 to 15 years Proceedings are beginning now. Chief prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones KC is up on her feet. She’ll be the first to deliver remarks. The sentencing has been pushed back as court staff attempt to rearrange the courtroom so one of the victims can be protected, PA reports. Continue reading...
Terrorism investigation was opened after attacker opened fire in a market square The EU has filed a lawsuit against IBM and two other companies involved in its troubled border-management system, an internal document has revealed. The bloc’s IT agency, EU-Lisa, filed a case last year against IBM, the French IT company Atos and Italian defence contractor Leonardo , the three members of a consortium to implement and maintain the EU’s entry/exit system , which was launched in October 2025. Continue reading...
Louise Haigh is expected to agree to cut a target for EV sales by about a quarter Last week Rupert Lowe , who leads Restore Britain, a small, far-right party that is even more hardline than Reform UK (the party Lowe represented when he became an MP in 2024), issued a statement saying the party would not accept any “foreign influence” in its affairs. Lowe was referring in particular to engagement with lobbyists. But today the Financial Times is running a story pointing out that, in another respect, Lowe is the beneficiary of foreign influence to a very significant degree. Some 43 per cent of Lo
Violent storms lash northern Iraq and parts of Iran, while Portugal faces strong winds and Japan braces for further snowfall Deadly flash floods hit northern Iraq on Saturday as severe thunderstorms swept across the region, including in neighbouring Iran. The city of Erbil, in Iraq, was particularly badly hit, with extensive damage to homes and businesses. Streets were inundated as torrential rain fell over a short period. Rainfall exceeded forecasts, with an estimated 80mm falling in the city, compared with expectations of 30mm. Two people were killed in the floods. Continue reading...
Lawsuit filed last year against IBM, Atos and Leonardo after delays to passengers blamed on the system, first reported in the FT The EU has filed a lawsuit against IBM and two other companies involved in its troubled border-management system, an internal document has revealed. The bloc’s IT agency, EU-Lisa, filed a case last year against IBM, the French IT company Atos and Italian defence contractor Leonardo, the three members of a consortium to implement and maintain the EU’s entry/exit system , which was launched in October 2025. Continue reading...
When the U.S. Federal Reserve announces a change in its interest rate, consumers expect shifts in borrowing costs elsewhere and potential price adjustments for things like housing and some consumer goods. New research, however, shows that stock market analysts generally give a collective "meh" around the time of Fed meetings when it comes to forecasting how much stocks will trade for in the future, called a price target.
Ultrasound scanners usually spend their days giving expectant parents a first grainy look at their baby. Now Canon has pointed one of its machines at coral to see if it’s egg-laden, and to maybe help with its reproduction issues too. Continue Reading Category: Imaging & Diagnostics , Medical Innovations , Body and Mind Tags: Ultrasound , Canon , Coral Bleaching , Coral , scanning , Conservation
This week, as countries meet in Antalya, Turkey for the United Nations climate conference, one topic likely to dominate the conversation is artificial intelligence. The host has already called on countries to commit to ensuring that AI is designed, powered, and deployed in ways that support climate action. But so far, industries around the world…
Not every tiny house needs to be an exercise in squeezing as much as possible into the smallest footprint. The Cali 9.6 takes a more relaxed approach, with an easy to navigate single-floor layout that opens up to the outside. Continue Reading Category: Tiny Houses , Outdoors Tags: Building and Construction , Tiny Footprint , Micro-House , House , Home
A cloud of atoms has been brought within a whisker of absolute zero in a recent space experiment, shattering the previous record in pursuit of the lowest possible temperatures. Continue Reading Category: Materials , Engineering Tags: Bose-Einstein condensate , Temperature , Quantum Physics
To understand how societies might react to climate change, archaeologists look at social responses to extreme climate events in the past—and in some places, that included measures as drastic as human sacrifice. Mass ritual sacrifices along the desert coast of northern Peru have been linked to catastrophic flooding caused by El Niño, which made researchers wonder if such sacrifices were part of a rise in violence driven by resource scarcity. But a new survey of the Lambayeque Valley suggests that violence was extremely rare, even during periods of ecological upheaval.
arXiv:2611.08572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This research involved the study of an application of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) in the field of academic advising. Academic advisement has been recognised as an important function of higher education. However, there is a widespread desire to improve the advisement services provided by many educational institutions (e.g., colleges and universities) around the world. In the last ten years, CBR expert systems have made important contributions in many domains by applying CBR methodology to a variety of areas of human problem solving. However, to dat
arXiv:2611.08613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normative competence, the ability to infer socially enforced expectations from interaction and adjust behavior accordingly, is essential for agents operating in unfamiliar human communities. Yet existing evaluations largely test whether agents can recognize or apply norms they may already know, rather than whether they can acquire previously unknown norms from social interaction. We introduce NormGym, an interactive benchmark for normative competence in which a newcomer must infer a hidden, arbitrary norm while pursuing its own task in a multi-ag
arXiv:2611.08626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: E-commerce supply chains generate large volumes of customer feedback and operational data that remain underutilized in inventory management. Traditional inventory classification techniques such as ABC analysis rely primarily on annual dollar usage, while multi-criteria inventory classification (MCIC) methods extend this but still depend on structured quantitative data and do not utilize unstructured information available in modern supply chains. This paper proposes an LLM-based feature extraction approach that transforms unstructured sources such
arXiv:2611.08640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling test-time compute has proven highly effective at improving LLM reasoning. A popular method is best-of-n sampling, where a model generates many candidate solutions and one is selected. This motivates the question: how can we select the best candidate? When humans make choices, we find it more natural to compare two options than judge each in isolation. Additionally, when the options become complex, we like to judge the options one aspect at a time, such as comparing two job candidates on experience, communication, etc. In the test-time set
arXiv:2611.08644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents do not learn from corrections across sessions. A user fixes the same mistake at the start of every conversation. Existing agent memory systems primarily handle facts, such as preferences, entities, and conversational history, rather than procedural knowledge. We present Forge Decision Context (forge_dc), a system that captures behavioral signals from human corrections and self-assessed tool-call failures, compiles them into imperative RULE directives, and injects them at the decision points where they apply. We evaluate forge_dc alongs
arXiv:2611.08647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intra-weight injection lets one model change another model's behaviour by editing its weights directly, without gradients. Such edits can range from altering lexical associations to enforcing output formats or updating factual knowledge. Despite growing interest in these approaches, there has been no systematic way to evaluate how well models perform them. We introduce IWIBench, which measures a large editor model's ability to modify the weights of a smaller target model (typically Gemma 3 4B IT) to achieve one of ten classical text-editing objec
Meta is globally expanding the age estimation technology it uses to find teenagers on Instagram who haven't correctly disclosed their age. The rollout will automatically place "millions more teens on Instagram into Teen Account protections," according to Meta's announcement, after launching the AI-powered age assurance updates in the US, EU, and Brazil last year. The […]
When Jane first heard about Memory and Imagination, a rare 1990s documentary about the Library of Congress, she was intrigued. But the Canadian writer in her 30s couldn’t find the movie anywhere — not on streaming services, not on YouTube, not on pirate sites — and her intrigue turned into obsession. Worried it might become […]
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The City striker hit a WSL hat-trick for the ninth time while Eva Olid’s United have found defensive stability Not only did Khadija “Bunny” Shaw score a record-extending ninth WSL hat-trick, she scored a “perfect hat-trick” for the fourth time in the competition, something nobody else has managed more than once. Against West Ham the Jamaica striker opened the scoring with her left foot, headed home her second off the underside of the crossbar and tucked in her third with her right foot late on. It helped her side towards a 5-0 win that opened up a two-point gap at the top of the table and stre