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When corporate leaders discuss climate strategy, the message that still dominates is that, despite competing priorities and external pressures, sustainability matters.  According to the 2026 State of Supply Chain Sustainability report from the MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Lab, which surveyed 1,810 supply chain professionals across 91 countries, 83 percent rate sustainability as important or very

Interest in rent controls has increased as the cost of living and rents continue to rise. (Alamy) 6 min read13 October The political discussion around rent controls has become a hot-button topic in England and Wales as record-breaking rents continue to put pressure on households struggling with the rising cost of

Insider Brief Neura Robotics has introduced Neuron AI, a multimodal foundation model that combines vision, touch, audio, robot-state data, language and memory to help robots understand and act in the physical world. Neuron AI uses a Perception-Language-Action architecture and memory to maintain context, track objects when they leave view and connect previous actions with their

Gift shopping on a budget is stressful. Prices sometimes soar around the holidays, making it tough to find genuine bargains. To help, we spent countless hours testing all manner of gizmos and gadgets to bring you expert advice on what is worth buying. These gifts are sure to bring a smile to your loved ones’

With artificial intelligence capabilities continuing to expand, universities now face complex, urgent questions about how to navigate increasing challenges, as well as new opportunities. Much attention is now directed toward this, including an MIT report on AI and education published this summer.  A new essay from MIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director Sasha Rakhlin, the Distinguished

(TT News Agency/Alamy) 7 min read10 October A chance encounter with a wild hare changed Chloe Dalton’s life and inspired her to champion the campaign to give the species greater legal protection. Zoe Crowther speaks to the author and former political adviser about why a close hunting season for hares is

President Donald Trump has announced $2.4 billion in AI research commitments from 11 industry partners to support the Genesis Mission, the administration’s effort to apply AI tools to scientific research across the federal government. The announcement was made on October 8, 2026, at a White House summit titled Science: A New Golden Age. The pledges

Evangelizing to his 512,000 TikTok followers occasionally requires that dating coach Chad Franklin post the private communications of his clients, who pay upwards of $5,000 for his services. In September, Franklin shared a DM conversation in which a woman implied she couldn’t afford an Uber with the text overlay “Don’t date POOR women!!!” That same

“By managing resources more effectively in the cloud, the end user gets more predictable performance from the application running on their smartphone,” she adds. Mathematical beginnings Delimitrou grew up in a midsized town within the vast plains of northern Greece. Her early interest in math and science was sparked, in part, by the ancient history

Andy Street speaks at a Prosper UK event in September 2026 (John Rose/Alamy) 10 min read3 hr Prosper UK is on a mission to pull politics – and the Conservative Party – in a centre-right direction. Will it succeed? Noah Vickers reports In a hotel bar in Newbury, confusion reigns. Seven