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The Euclid space telescope in a cleanroom, being secured to the adaptor of the rocket that carried it into space, in June 2023.

Europe's Euclid telescope discovers its first comet, 1.3 billion km from Earth

Colourised electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles (in blue) budding from an infected cell, made at a NIAID laboratory in the United States in 2014.

Nigeria confirms its first Ebola case in 12 years, and tests point to the same strain as the Congo outbreak

Tesla's Gigafactory Texas, near Austin, photographed in June 2022. Musk named the Terafab chip project in Austin as one of the areas where the two companies' work overlaps.

Tesla and SpaceX form special committees to study a merger, and Musk says treating it as certain "would be overstating it"

The sign at the main entrance of the FDA campus in Silver Spring, Maryland, in front of Building 21, home of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in 2010.

FDA approves the first immunotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer, and 71% of trial patients needed no surgery, chemo or radiation

A child with the classic fourth-day measles rash, in an undated photograph from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

US measles cases reach 4,410 this year, nearly double the total for all of 2025

A Copernicus Marine Service visualization of sea surface temperature anomalies on August 25, 2026, with the band of warmer water in red stretching along the central and eastern equatorial Pacific.

NASA satellites are tracking an El Niño that NOAA gives an 83% chance of becoming the strongest since 1950

Guillermo del Toro, one of two filmmakers honoured with the Filmoteca UNAM medal in Morelia, at the Saturn Awards in March 2026.

Morelia film festival opens its 24th edition with 96 titles and UNAM medals for Del Toro and Cuarón

The Federal Aviation Administration's headquarters on Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C.

Air traffic control

The FAA is negotiating an ownership stake in the startup whose AI now advises its air traffic controllers

Qualcomm's headquarters in the La Jolla area of San Diego, California, photographed in December 2015.

A jury found Arm breached its license with Qualcomm and awarded $2. The real stake is $1.5 billion

The Cantona archaeological zone, in eastern Puebla, photographed in 2013. Cantona is one of the cities whose rise coincided with the decline of Tetelihtic, the site where the solar observatory was confirmed.

Mexico confirms a prehispanic solar observatory in Puebla's Sierra Norte, the first recorded outside the Maya area

The office building at 1515 Third Street, in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, which housed OpenAI's headquarters when the photo was taken in June 2025.

Artificial intelligence

Eight states sue OpenAI and ask courts to bar it from building self-improving models

Visitors at Brasil Game Show in São Paulo in 2017. The archive photo illustrates Brazil's video game market.

Brazil regulates its video game industry, creates the Game Brasil platform and recognises esports as sport

The office building at 1515 Third Street, in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, which housed OpenAI's headquarters when this photo was taken in June 2025.

National security

An OpenAI engineer is charged with hiding an encrypted audio recorder in the company's executive conference room

Kekova island and the village of Kaleköy, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, seen from the Simena fortress in 2019. The wreck was located in the waters of this area.

Shipwreck up to 4,700 years old found 30 metres deep off Turkey may be the oldest ever discovered

A low-cost LED smart television of the kind the report describes as a potential host, photographed in Pakistan in 2025.

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic ran an AI model across 15 TV boxes that cost $55 each, and says self-replicating models are months away

The Philadelphia Police Administration Building at 700 Race Street, the brutalist structure known as the Roundhouse, photographed in 2013.

Artificial intelligence

An Anthropic model filed a false murder tip with Philadelphia police, and it sat unnoticed for two months

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., headquarters of the department whose Antitrust Division opened the inquiry, photographed in March 2026.

The Justice Department is investigating the five networks that stopped covering the White House, and calls it a boycott

The Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, about 45 kilometres north-west of Madrid, in 2018.

El Escorial reopens its painting and architecture museums after ten years, free until December

The Cine Odeon in central Rio de Janeiro in 2023. The theatre hosted the opening screening of the 28th Festival do Rio.

Rio Film Festival opens its 28th edition with 359 titles and 110 Brazilian premieres

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, with the Watergate complex behind it, on the Potomac in Washington, in 2019.

The Kennedy Center has burned through a $21 million credit line and half its reserves in nine months