World Economic Forum Report: From Pilots to Portfolios – Mobilizing Coordinated Finance for Global Food Systems.Food production and supply chain security have reached a critical tipping point as climate volatility, soaring input costs, and geopolitical disruptions expose deep structural vulnerabilities across global agriculture. Despite generating roughly 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, agrifood systems currently capture a mere 7 percent of annual climate financing. To achieve a comprehensive global food system transition by...

Skin boosters made from donated human tissue are booming at clinics across South Korea as patients seek new treatments to restore facial volume.South Korea’s cadaver-derived skin boosters are surging in popularity, promising structural skin regeneration and fuelling rapid growth for biotech leader L&C Bio.The treatment taps donated human tissue to rebuild the skin’s extracellular matrix, commanding premium prices as demand outpaces supply across Seoul’s aesthetic clinics.Rising adoption is prompting ethical and regulatory scrutiny, wi...

“Glasshole” entered Urban Dictionary as word of the day in March 2013, which tells you roughly how long it took society to make up its mind about face-mounted cameras. Google Glass had barely reached early users when bars, restaurants, and theaters started banning it. The device died from a social verdict so decisive it became a punchline. A decade later, Google is back. At Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked in London today, the company helped reveal a new generation of AI-powered smart glasses, co-engineered with Samsung, dressed up in Warby Park...

PsiBot is raising close to $100 million of funding at a $1.48 billion valuation, joining a growing roster of Chinese AI startups.The company has now raised about $300 million since its inception in 2024 and becomes one of the few unicorns operating in the field of embodied AI and world models.PsiBot's models learn from real-world data collected with bespoke hardware, such as gloves and humanoid robots, and the company aims to collect 1 million hours of data this year to build a generalized world action model.PsiBot is raising close to $100 m...

Around seven-in-ten U.S. adults (69%) say they are dissatisfied with the way democracy is working in their country. This share is higher than in most other high-income countries surveyed by Pew Research Center this spring. A large majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (86%) are dissatisfied with how American democracy is working. Around half of Republicans and GOP leaners (51%) say the same.Across all 16 countries polled, a median of 54% of adults are dissatisfied with the way their democracy is working, while a median of...

1. (PDF) Alphabet 2026년 2분기 어닝 리포트 : 매출 24% 및 Cloud 부문 82% 급증에도 설비투자 우려로 주가 하락실적 호조와 Cloud 부문 성장: Alphabet의 2026년 2분기 매출은 전년 동기 대비 24% 증가한 1,198억 달러를 기록했으며, Cloud 사업부 매출이 82% 급증한 248억 달러를 달성하며 시장 예상치 상회.Capex 상향 조정과 Free Cash Flow 적자 전환: AI 인프라 확충을 위해 2026년 전체 Capex 전망치를 최대 2,050억 달러로 상향 조정함에 따라 Free Cash Flow가 음수로 전환되며 주가 하락 압력 가중.AI 경쟁 격화와 Search 광고 사업 방어: Flagship 모델인 Gemini 3.5 Pro 출시...

The company’s cash flow turned negative and its capex forecast entered ‘scary territory,’ overshadowing red-hot cloud revenues.Alphabet shares fell after the company raised its capital expenditures forecast to a range of $195 billion to $205 billion.Alphabet reported second-quarter revenue grew 24% to $119.8 billion and cloud division revenue rose 82% to $24.8 billion.Alphabet’s free cash flow turned negative, a trend the company’s finance chief said would continue as it deepens its investments in AI.Wall Street’s tolerance for artific...

Mimic Hand M1 Places Actuators In The Forearm, Using Pulleys And Tendons For Compact, Human-Inspired Motion.Swiss robotics startup Mimic Robotics has unveiled the Mimic Hand M1, a dexterous robotic hand designed to replicate human hand movements for factory automation.The tendon-driven hand houses its actuators in the forearm, enabling a compact design while delivering enough strength to handle significant payloads.The hand also combines high-resolution force sensing with pressure-sensitive fingertips that detect normal and lateral forces, a...

Capabilities built around insights, creativity, personalization, agentic commerce, and orchestration form the five core pillars of the future of marketing.Consumer behavior has crossed a structural point of no return, fundamentally rendering traditional campaign-era marketing obsolete. A report published in June 2026 by McKinsey & Company, titled *From campaigns to continuous growth: AI capabilities shaping marketing*, reveals that modern shoppers now interact with twice as many channels as they did a decade ago, with nearly half using A...