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The former world champion, will face fellow Eisa Al Dah in a middleweight contest on December 2 in Dubai - but missed the announcement in Dubai after recently suffering an injury.

It will play a "leading role" in protecting the area by reducing the risk of flooding

Google DeepMind's chief business officer says Alphabet's drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs "is preparing to launch human trials of AI-designed drugs," according to a report in Fortune, "pairing cutting-edge AI with pharma veterans to design medicines faster, cheaper, and more accurately." "There are people sitting in our office in King's Cross, London, working, and collaborating with AI to design drugs for cancer," said Colin Murdoch [DeepMind's chief business officer and president of Isomorphic Labs]. "That's happening right now." After years in development, Murdoch says human clinical trials for Isomorphic's AI-assisted drugs are finally in sight. "The next big milestone is actually going out to clinical trials, starting to put these things into human beings," he said. "We're staffing up now. We're getting very close." The company, which was spun out of DeepMind in 2021, was born from one of DeepMind's most celebrated breakthroughs, AlphaFold, an AI system capable of predicting protein structures with a high level of accuracy. Interactions of AlphaFold progressed from being able to accurately predict individual protein structures to modeling how proteins interact with other molecules like DNA and drugs. These leaps made it far more useful for drug discovery, helping researchers design medicines faster and more precisely, turning the tool into a launchpad for a much larger ambition... In 2024, the same year it released AlphaFold 3, Isomorphic signed major research collaborations with pharma companies Novartis and Eli Lilly. A year later, in April 2025, Isomorphic Labs raised $600 million in its first-ever external funding round, led by Thrive Capital. The deals are part of Isomorphic's plan to build a "world-class drug design engine..." Today, pharma companies often spend millions attempting to bring a single drug to market, sometimes with just a 10% chance of success once trials begin. Murdoch believes Isomorphic's tech could radically improve those odds. "We're trying to do all these things: speed them up, reduce the cost, but also really improve the chance that we can be successful," he says. He wants to harness AlphaFold's technology to get to a point where researchers have 100% conviction that the drugs they are developing are going to work in human trials. "One day we hope to be able to say — well, here's a disease, and then click a button and out pops the design for a drug to address that disease," Murdoch said. "All powered by these amazing AI tools."

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Braintree Council has relaunched a scheme offering free hot desks for small businesses at the Plaza Enterprise and Innovation Centre.

A slice of royal wedding cake and a painting linked to the Titanic have gone under the hammer in Colchester.

Jota, who helped Liverpool win the Premier League title last season, and his younger brother were killed in a car accident close to the Portuguese border in northwestern Spain on Thursday.

Matthew McConaughey broke his silence on the devastating floods that killed dozens in Texas as he issued a plea to his fans to 'lend a helping hand.'

The woman who lost her arm after a lion attacked her at a Queensland zoo had worked alongside the animal for 20 years, it has been revealed.

The silver screen legend, 80, said that he has officially retired from acting during a press conference at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

"The China Film Foundation, a nonprofit fund under the Chinese government, plans to use AI to revitalize 100 kung fu classics including Police Story, Once Upon a Time in China and Fist of Fury, featuring Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee, respectively," reports the Los Angeles Times. "The foundation said it will partner with businesses including Shanghai Canxing Culture & Media Co., which will license 100 Hong Kong films to AI companies to reintroduce those movies to younger audiences globally." The foundation said there are opportunities to use AI to tell those stories through animation, for example. There are plans to release an animated version of director John Woo's 1986 film A Better Tomorrow that uses AI to "reinterpret" Woo's "signature visual language," according to an English transcript of the announcement.... The project raised eyebrows among U.S. artists, many of whom are deeply wary of the use of AI in creative pursuits. The Directors Guild of America said AI is a creative tool that should only be used to enhance the creative storytelling process and "it should never be used retroactively to distort or destroy a filmmaker's artistic work... The DGA strongly opposes the use of AI or any other technology to mutilate a film or to alter a director's vision," the DGA said in a statement. "The Guild has a longstanding history of opposing such alterations on issues like colorization or sanitization of films to eliminate so-called 'objectionable content', or other changes that fundamentally alter a film's original style, meaning, and substance." The project highlights widely divergent views on AI's potential to reshape entertainment as the two countries compete for dominance in the highly competitive AI space.... During the project's announcement, supporters touted the opportunity AI will bring to China to further its cultural message globally and generate new work for creatives. At the same time, they touted AI's disruption of the filmmaking process, saying the A Better Tomorrow remake was completed with just 30 people, significantly fewer than a typical animated project. China is a "more brutal society in that sense," said Eric Harwit, professor of Asian studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "If somebody loses their job because artificial intelligence is taking over, well, that's just the cost of China's moving forward.... You don't have those freestanding labor organizations, so they don't have that kind of clout to protest against the Chinese using artificial intelligence in a way that might reduce their job opportunities or lead to layoffs in the sector..." The kung fu revitalization efforts will extend into other areas, including the creation of a martial arts video game. The article also includes an interesting statistic. "Many people in China embrace AI, with 83% feeling confident that AI systems are designed to act in the best interest of society, much higher than the U.S. where it's 37%, according to a survey from the United Nations Development Program."

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As a health journalist, I've spent years writing about medical emergencies, even those in the air. On a recent cross-country flight, I witnessed my own. Here is why it's nothing like the movies.

Kim Kardashian is continuing to mourn the heartbreaking loss of her childhood friend, Lindsay May, who died in November following a long battle with cancer.

Cohen, whose full name is Stefanie Cohen Magarici, was charged with sexual cyber-harassment, offenses against computer users, criminal mischief and resisting arrest without violence in May 2024.

The 22-year-old man was reportedly drinking heavily with friends on the rented boat close to the shores of Nikki Beach on Sunday afternoon when he plunged overboard and cut himself.

On the first attack, which occurred shortly after Mark Bridger was jailed, he was slashed with a knife made out of a razor and needed stitches on his face.

A 32-year-old was found by police officers with several knife injuries in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The organisation is directing its supporters to a secret platform under the name Direct Action Training.

Scary Spice, 50, has revealed she and new husband Rory McPhee, 37, will be jetting aboard for another ceremony.

A man has been charged after a four-year-old girl was killed in a fatal car crash.

Ozzy Osbourne's pals have lifted the lid on his future plans, saying he won't stop making music as it's 'in his DNA'.