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Nvidia has teamed up with some of Wall Street’s largest banks and investors to raise $500bn (£370bn) in capital for artificial intelligence infrastructure.The chipmaker said it had struck deals with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR, and that the investors were for the first time treating AI hardware and infrastructure, often referred to as “compute”, as an asset class.”In AI, compute is revenue,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said. “We are bringing the world’s leading long-term capital providers together to independently underwrite AI infrastructure.”The financing will go towards Nvidia’s own projects and those being built by its partners.Infrastructure…

Available for over a yearInsulin has been used to treat type 1 diabetes for more than a century but now there is a new treatment being rolled out on the NHS that can delay the onset of the disease for years. Alongside, screening is gathering pace, identifying those that could benefit. So, is this the beginning of a new era for type 1 diabetes treatment? Dima and his mum Elena explain what it was like to be told that he had tested positive for developing type 1 diabetes and what it was like taking part in the trial for this…

For years now, executives at companies that are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year into developing various artificial intelligence tools have insisted that the technology will ultimately mean people will spend less of their time working.An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025, external.Earlier this year, and just one year after that engineering director’s prediction, OpenAI took up the challenge, in a manner of speaking. It formally urged companies to start testing out a four-day work week (with no change in pay), claiming that AI will soon…

Obesity can be a risk factor for several chronic conditions including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis and some cancers.Reports estimate, external obesity and being overweight costs the UK economy approximately £126bn per year, including £12bn to the NHS – roughly 7% of its annual budget.Since 1992 – the year before data on obesity in England was first collected – 14 national obesity strategies have been published.Campaigners argue progress has been too slow and calls for further intervention have increased in recent years.Tony Blair’s government introduced a ban on junk food advertising during children’s TV programmes -…

Fifa has been forced to U-turn on plans to sell off a slice of the World Cup after fierce opposition, with threats of future boycotts and calls for the governing body’s president, Gianni Infantino, to quit.But why were a group of tech investors interested in the World Cup in the first place, and are similar proposals in the future inevitable? In a world in which AI could upend human recreation and pastimes, executives at Thrive Eternal, a spin-off of venture capital firm Thrive Capital, saw an opportunity to lead a group of investors to place cash in the biggest sporting…

Mehvish says nothing could have prepared her for what she was told after her full body scan. She left Birmingham’s Neko Health clinic with a life-changing diagnosis.”I expected to feel relief,” the 33-year-old says. “Instead, I was told that I had a rare form of diabetes.”After her long-term blood sugar levels came back very high, she had another blood test which confirmed she had suspected diabetes.She was referred back to her GP, who sent her for an urgent hospital appointment the same day, and was diagnosed with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA), a type of diabetes which bridges both…

According to Jonathan Nicholson at the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), for the airline industry, lithium-ion batteries are “if not number one, within the top three risks for a good few years now”.A US recent study showed, external the industry was affected by two lithium-ion battery related incidents a week worldwide, he adds. Those incidents could range from passengers belatedly realising they’d left a device in checked baggage, to devices smoking or catching fire in airport baggage halls, or on flights.But the results can be far more extreme. In January 2025 an Air Busan plane was destroyed on the tarmac…

If you are worried about your porn use, Ince recommends seeking out support from a qualified and experienced professional.A registered psychologist can be particularly helpful because they may consider your mental health more broadly, “and we know that co-occurring mental health problems are more or less the rule, rather than the exception”, he says.This was the case for Craig, who did not realise his porn use may be unhealthy until he started therapy for his mental health.”Porn addiction was like a contributing factor,” he came to learn.His therapist suggested he join a 12-step programme for sex addiction – a recovery…

A US judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest against the company over child safety.Judge Bryan Biedscheid said the social media giant is a “public nuisance” akin to air pollution and that it must put the money in a fund aimed at reducing future harms. Thursday’s ruling is in addition to $375m in fines Meta was already ordered to pay in the case, for a total of $942m.Judge Biedscheid compared Meta to a factory, with advertising and content…

Newly-released security camera footage shows the moment last month’s magnitude 6.8 quake shook Kumamoto General Hospital in Japan.Four surgeries were under way at the time. Footage from a camera in an operating room where an abdominal surgery was being performed shows medical staff shielding the patient with their bodies as equipment swayed violently, and a nurse opening a door to secure an evacuation route.According to the hospital, all four operations were successfully completed. Kumamoto General Hospital resumed normal outpatient services on 5 August , after suspending them following the earthquake on 28 July.