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The chief executive of Ukraine’s leading arms company says Kyiv has “learned the hard way” that military strength is an essential precursor to diplomacy, describing deep strikes into Russian territory as a core tenet of the country’s pressure campaign.Missile and drone maker Fire Point, which says it currently facilitates more than 60% of Ukraine’s so-called “long-range sanctions,” has scaled exponentially since being founded in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.The defense-tech startup produced around 200 drones that year, a feat CEO Iryna Terekh described as a “huge achievement.”Since then, the Kyiv-headquartered startup has swelled from three founding members to…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Good news has been hard to find recently for the UK’s housebuilders. They are fighting battles on multiple fronts, from high interest rates and surging construction costs to cautious consumers. The government’s goal of building 1.5mn new homes across England by the next election seems a distant dream. But things are improving in one area, at least: the capital.After two years of extremely depressed activity, new projects in London appear to be returning to normal levels. Construction began on 4,570 new homes…

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., one of the authors of the “AI Kill Switch Act,” said Thursday that the ongoing hacks by rogue artificial intelligence agents are adding urgency to getting the bill passed.”We need to get this bill across the finish line this year because the advanced closed-weight models are already doing, as you noted, unauthorized hacks of other companies,” Lieu said in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Thursday. The Kill Switch Act would require AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down, throttle or suspend their models. It was introduced with Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Texas, last week…

“Significant numbers of people in New Mexico experience harm from Meta’s products due to risks of sexual exploitation, interference with education, and adverse mental health outcomes,” he wrote. Biedscheid said this harm includes child sexual exploitation in which “an online predator threatens or coerces a child for financial gain, typically involving a threat to expose nude or exploitative imagery of that child.” “In sum, the Court finds that New Mexico is in the midst of a teen mental health crisis affecting public health and public safety in and throughout the state, and that Meta’s platforms are a significant contributing cause…

Demis HassabisJeff Chiu | APDepending on where you sit, Google either has the most enviable position in artificial intelligence or is bleeding top talent to leading AI labs and other startups on the frontline of innovation.It’s a contrast that’s been on full display over the past two weeks, beginning with the company reporting 82% revenue growth in its cloud division, followed by a shakeup on Wednesday in Google’s AI organization, as chief scientist Jeff Dean announced his departure after 27 years.For Google, home to the famous 2017 transformer paper that paved the way for the generative AI boom, the recent…

Users could previously add this script manually to Copernicus Browser sessions by copying and pasting it using the custom visualization option under the default layers. But Simon Proud, mission scientist for Sentinel-2 at the European Space Agency, pushed to get the script integrated into Copernicus Browser as a default option. He announced that the integration had finally happened in a Discord channel on a server run by the investigative journalism group Bellingcat. There are other existing and emerging satellite constellations capable of detecting and monitoring wildfires and wildfire smoke. NASA’s FIRMS tool provides free access to a global map of…

Timon Schneider | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesBuilding on the growing popularity of livestreamed shopping, startup market Whatnot said on Friday that it has closed its latest round of funding at a $20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its valuation from less than a year ago.Whatnot, which said that it has more than 650,000 new people joining its platform each week, said in a release that it had already passed the $8 billion in gross merchandise volume it saw last year. Buyers have also more than doubled over the past year.With the funding from this latest round, a $545 million Series G…

The study identified 204 cases in all, but two did not have sufficient data to be included in the analysis. Of the 202 remaining cases, researchers found 145 (72 percent) were in male patients. The age of fly victims ranged from 12 to 93 years, but skewed toward older adults, with a mean of 61. Most of the myiasis cases (77 percent) were in patients with one or more underlying health conditions, most commonly diabetes, alcoholism, cancers, and skin conditions. When the flies infect humans, they seem to have the most success infesting the legs and feet, the study found;…

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) speaks to reporters after a roundtable on rising energy costs on Capitol Hill on March 17, 2026 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesSen. Martin Heinrich will introduce a bill, shared exclusively with CNBC, to end tax breaks for U.S. oil and gas companies that operate overseas while the industry reaps massive profits as the war with Iran spikes oil prices. The bill comes days after President Donald Trump ripped major U.S. oil and gas producers for making “too much money” amid the conflict that has raised gasoline prices, and warned that companies like…

Michael Cannon-Brookes, co-CEO of Atlassian.Scott Mlyn | CNBCThe “SaaSpocalypse” was raging this week. Then it got a reprieve.The pennies-on-the-dollar acquisition of one-time highflyer Airtable, followed by plunges in HubSpot, Datadog and Figma on earnings reports, all served to underscore investor concerns that artificial intelligence models are eating away at the value of costly software products.”I do think that companies are going to continue to use these coding agents to build functionality to maybe act as a little bit of pressure on renewals,” said Matt Hedberg, a software analyst at RBC Capital Markets.But by the end of the week, Wall Street…