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Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming integral to everyday infrastructure, with applications in email composition, software programming, job application filtering, recommendation systems, education, healthcare, finance, and public administration. While industry leaders advocate for "AI for everyone" and governments draft national AI strategies, decades of working on digital inclusion and literacy projects have revealed a persistent pattern: new transformative technologies are introduced on landscapes already divided by connectivity, skills, and institutional capacity.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the prominent figure in America's COVID response, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday. The Republican-led hearing, chaired by Senator Rand Paul, aimed to investigate the origins of COVID-19 and whether Fauci misled Congress and the public. Fauci labeled Paul's pursuit of him an "unhinged obsession."

Despite a declining cinema scene and the shift towards streaming, Singapore's Shaw Theatres is investing more than ever. After 90 years in operation, the theatre chain continues to operate eight outlets across the nation, maintaining its flagship at Shaw House on Orchard Road. Instead of aggressively expanding, the company has focused on reinvesting in existing cinemas and finding ways to keep audiences coming back.

For the past two years, conversations surrounding AI have primarily centered on software development. This has led to debates about models, benchmarks, agents and the competitive race between technology companies. However, an often-overlooked story is emerging as the AI boom progresses. The growth of AI is not just about creating digital products; it is also driving physical investment in infrastructure.

Andy Burnham's passionate speech on social care reform suggests there is now clear political will for change. The new PM acknowledged that he had been here before, referring to his failed 2010 proposals to overhaul social care that were met with right-wing media hostility and political disputes. Despite previous failures, Burnham outlined his broad ambitions for social care reform in a speech at a Jewish care home in north London.

Chickens now make up roughly 70 percent of all bird biomass, with a global population that has skyrocketed to about 31 billion since the 1960s. This explosive growth has inadvertently set off an extensive evolutionary process within the birds themselves, particularly concerning the Campylobacter jejuni bacterium, which is the leading cause of foodborne diarrhea globally.

When temperatures soar, a good night's sleep can prove elusive. Hot nights tend to disrupt sleep, causing people to wake up frequently and feel less refreshed the following day. This is largely due to our body's thermoregulation process, which relies on maintaining an optimal internal temperature for restful sleep. Sleep and body temperature are closely intertwined; falling asleep and staying asleep generally requires the body to shed some heat.

Astronomers have discovered the best example yet of a supermassive black hole wandering freely in space. Typically, these colossal black holes are found at the centers of galaxies, but this one was located over 750 million light-years away, far from its galactic home. The discovery was made possible by an exceptionally bright event—a tidal disruption event (TDE) triggered when a star was torn apart by the black hole's powerful gravitational forces.