Harry Kane has added another honor after a remarkable season for Bayern Munich and a strong World Cup with England. Bayern also took the top prize in coaching, and the club's Giulia Gwinn won women's Player of the Year.
Andon Labs' AI agent Luna fired a human employee at a San Francisco store for the first time but needed a clear push from the operators to do it. When the scenario was replayed with seven models, more capable AIs recommended termination more consistently, while weaker ones hesitated. When it came to hiring, nearly all models were uncritical. The article An AI boss fired its first employee but only after humans reminded it of its own rules appeared first on The Decoder .
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President sharply criticises proposal, saying ‘elections right now are a tsunami for the state that will split Ukraine’ Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said holding elections in Ukraine during wartime would risk splitting the country at a time when Russia is amassing ballistic missiles and considering whether to mobilise an extra 300,000 soldiers. The Ukrainian president, responding for the first time to a demand made by the sacked former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, sharply criticised an idea that he said was impractical given Russia appeared to have no interest in a ceasefire. Continue reading...
The U.K. government says the incident did not pose a risk to the country's energy system, adding that it briefed CEOs of companies in the sector with advice.
Embassy in London says Andrey Kelin left last month after seven years in diplomatic post Russia has withdrawn its ambassador to the UK, it has emerged, as the Kremlin continues to try to put pressure on Britain over its support for Ukraine. Andrey Kelin left last month after seven years in the diplomatic post, according to the Russian embassy in London. Continue reading...
The Ukrainian president says wartime elections, as called for by the ex-defense minister, could "split Ukraine." He also said Russia was planning to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops after September polls there.
AI agents have consumed more tokens than humans on OpenRouter since February 6, 2025. Agentic usage has grown 14x since then, while human usage is up just 2.8x. Nearly 70 percent of agent token consumption comes from cheap cached prompts, though, so actual costs are rising far more slowly than the raw numbers suggest. The article AI is becoming AI's biggest customer as agentic token usage jumps 14x on OpenRouter appeared first on The Decoder .
The Housing First policy led to the number of homeless people in Finland dropping by half. Those with firsthand experience explain why it worked At 3.30am, Vello Senkel awoke to a knock on his door. Standing on his doorstep were his neighbours with an urgent request: “Do you have salt? We want to boil macaroni.” He acquiesced, but it turned out that salt wasn’t the only ingredient they were missing: “And do you also have macaroni?” His warm face, framed by jaw-length white hair, is at once charmed and outraged as he recounts the interaction while smoking a cigarette outside his apartment building the following morning. Senkel, whose nickname is Velho (Finnish for wizard), is known for his proficiency in the kitchen. In his apartment, where he lives alongside 77 other formerly homeless people in a Helsinki suburb, he shows me his fully stocked freezer. From his neatly organised fridge he pulls out the jars of pickled cabbage and shrimp salad he has prepared to take to a friend’s house for lunch later. Continue reading...
Obesity rates climbed in the US for years, but now there are signs this could be changing. Use of weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy has increased rapidly — are they helping?