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Cultural authorities in Cairo have launched a nationwide search for a 3,000-year-old solid gold bracelet which has disappeared from the Egyptian Museum.  The missing artifact once belonged to King Amenemope of the 21st Dynasty (1077 BCE to 943 BCE). It is adorned with beads of blue lapis lazuli, a gemstone which in Pharaonic Egypt was revered above gold for its associations with divine rule. It was last seen in the museum’s restoration laboratory in Tahrir Square, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced in a statement. The matter is now under the purview of law enforcement and the public prosecution office,…

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is being called “the biggest meme stock we’ve ever seen” by Yale School of Management Senior Associate Dean Jeff Sonnenfeld, who made the comments in a recent interview with CNBC. Sonnenfeld’s comments echo those of many of the company’s skeptics, who argue that its price-to-earnings ratio is far too high when compared to other companies also in the tech industry. Tesla is often compared to companies like Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft when these types of discussions come up. Fundamentally, yes, Tesla does trade at a P/E level that is significantly above that of any comparable company. However, it…

PayPal announced on Wednesday a new multi-year partnership with Google that will see the payments giant using Google’s AI technology to create new AI-powered shopping experiences. PayPal’s solutions, meanwhile, will be integrated across Google’s products, and PayPal will work with Google Cloud on hosting and improving its technology infrastructure. The companies did not detail what specific types of agentic shopping experiences they would work together to create, but said Google would contribute its AI technology and expertise, and PayPal would leverage its global payment infrastructure, personalization, and identity solutions. In addition, both companies will join others to advocate for the…

Wheat variety selection sets the stage for the entire crop, but there is no single “silver bullet” variety, explained Dennis Pennington, wheat specialist with Michigan State University Extension. Instead, choosing the right wheat is about balancing yield potential, disease resistance, and agronomic fit for the farm. Yield Is Only Part of the Equation “Yield is the number one thing to look at,” Pennington said. “But yield alone isn’t enough. No variety wins every trial every year. Look for consistency in the top 10% of plots over multiple years and locations similar to your own.” Mark Lubbers, WestBred winter wheat technical…

Tesla Full Self-Driving is amongst the most robust and refined semi-autonomous driver assistance systems on the market today. After three weeks of ownership, I’ve driven around half of my miles using it, and my impressions put me right in the middle of it being very impressive and needing some work. Of course, if it were perfect, it would be driving us all around all the time while we sleep, scroll our phones, or watch movies in the cockpit. It does a lot of things very well, and it has managed to impress everyone I’ve put in the passenger’s seat. However,…

Geisinger Health Plan and software company Cohere Health are teaming up to simplify the prior authorization process and reduce provider burden. Through the deal, Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger is licensing Cohere’s AI-driven utilization management technology and services platform, designed to support value-based care delivery. In the value-based care delivery model, providers are paid based on the health outcomes of their patients and the quality of their services. In a statement, Cohere said that its technology is designed to streamline the prior authorization process and support value-based care delivery while also reducing administrative costs. Cohere also aims to transform Geisinger’s utilization management…

Centari, the AI-powered deal insights platform, has raised $14m in total – with $8.4m gained now via a Series A funding round. The New York-based startup will use the capital to invest in R&D and hiring to scale Centari’s suite of products for dealmakers, they said. The company, whose team includes former lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis, Davis Polk, and Paul Hastings, underlined that Centari and its Deal Intelligence Platform provide a new level of insight into ‘high-stakes transactions’. It does this by moving ‘beyond the capabilities of generalized productivity tools relying on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or user-driven prompt engineering’.…

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGED. Jimmy Kimmel is the latest high-profile figure whose job has been suspended due to right-wing criticism of his remarks about murdered activist Charlie Kirk. He is certainly not alone and is joined by less famous figures, including, most recently, an art history professor at Florida Atlantic University. According to Artnet News, Karen Leader, a tenured art history professor at the school in Boca Raton, has been placed on administrative leave, pending an investigation following her social media posts about Kirk. Leader’s posts in fact address…

The company disclosed the information in a research paper What’s the story Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has revealed that its R1 model was trained at a significantly lower cost than what US competitors have reported. The company made the disclosure in a peer-reviewed article recently published in the academic journal Nature. The revelation is likely to spark fresh debates about China’s position in the global AI race and its transparency regarding technology access amid export restrictions. Costs starkly contrast with US counterparts The training of DeepSeek’s reasoning-focused R1 model cost $294,000 and utilized 512 NVIDIA H800 chips. This…

Alibaba Group Holding has unveiled a “leading open-source deep research” artificial intelligence agent that it says matches the performance of OpenAI’s flagship Deep Research tool, while being more efficient.The agent has been integrated into Alibaba’s maps app, Amap, and its AI-powered legal research tool, Tongyi FaRui, according to a blog post on Tuesday by Alibaba’s AI search development team, Tongyi Lab. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.Users of Amap can leverage the deep research agent’s web retrieval capabilities to plan multi-day trips. Meanwhile, Tongyi FaRui has been updated with the agent’s research functions, enhancing its ability to retrieve case…