Innovation Week: Gene Therapy, Psychedelics, Iris Scans
A Breakthrough Prize for restoring sight, Trump fast-tracking psychedelics, and Tinder scanning irises: innovation this week pulled hard in three directions.
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Innovation Week: Artemis II Returns, Anthropic Meets the White House
Innovation this week: Artemis II crew lands after lunar loop, Anthropic briefs the White House on Mythos, and a French indie sweeps the Baftas.
AI Sovereignty: The UK's £500m Bet and Its Blind Spots
Britain puts £500m into AI, Sequoia raises $7bn, digital twins shadow workers. The money flows — but who's asking the uncomfortable questions?
Alzheimer's Drugs Called Out, AI Stumbles: Innovation's Reckoning
Anti-amyloid drugs show "trivial" effect, AI hallucinates in court, and UK kids stay vulnerable online. Three stories, one uncomfortable pattern.
AI's Credibility Gap: Models, Mainframes and Apple's Answer
Nature flags AI disease models trained on dubious data, Gartner says 70% of mainframe AI migrations will fail — and Apple quietly ships a laptop that just works.
Innovation Under Fire: From AI Threats to Fungal Frontiers
A man charged over an attack on OpenAI's CEO, Stanford warns AI is destabilising elections, and fungi emerge as the overlooked climate hero.
Innovation: Meta's AI Zuckerberg and the clone age dawns
Meta builds an AI clone of Zuckerberg for staff, Vercel eyes IPO on AI agent growth, and Dream Chaser's future hangs in the balance. What it all means.