2026-07-09
Alchemab lands £25m from British Business Bank in record life sciences bet
Cambridge biotech Alchemab Therapeutics has extended its Series A round with a £25 million ($34 million) investment from the British Business Bank, which the company says is the state-owned lender’s largest backing of a life sciences company to date. The money will help the clinical-stage firm build its drug pipeline and expand a proprietary antibody […]<br /> This story continues at Th [...]
2026-07-09
US states could sue next week to block Paramount’s $110bn Warner Bros deal
A group of US states could sue as soon as next week to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, opening a fresh front against a deal that federal regulators have already waved through. The threat lands weeks after the Justice Department cleared the merger without […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-08
Disney just agreed to pay out $50 million to some YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers — here’s how to make a claim for your share and find out if you’re owed it
YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers, listen up — you could be owed a share of $50 million thanks to a Disney lawsuit settlement. [...]
2026-07-08
Chinese DoorDash rival smashes open source record with 1.6-trillion-parameter LLM with a 1-million-context-token model crafted without Nvidia hardware
Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained entirely on domestic chips, avoiding Nvidia hardware entirely. [...]
2026-07-08
‘Dolby Atmos has a curious ability to reveal not just the details within a recording, but also the memories embedded within it’: Dire Straits’ producer says that mixing spatial audio rescues lost elements that were ‘sacrificed’ for stereo
Dire Straits' Guy Fletcher says that Atmos can deliver more emotion from the music you love [...]
2026-07-08
DeepSeek accidentally built a working ransomware strain, experts note, 'What we are witnessing is a fundamental shift in how novel cyber attacks are born'
DeepSeek accidentally created a working browser ransomware technique targeting Android photos, Check Point Research found, without human guidance involved. [...]