The state banquet is the spectacular showstopper of a state visit, a glittering feast with speeches, royal toasts, trumpet fanfares and fancy food and wine. It's diplomacy served up with fine dining. A cut-glass shock-and-awe approach to hospitality designed to make a visiting leader like President Trump feel special. The setting in St George's Hall inside Windsor Castle is a remarkable sight, a mix of medieval banquet and Harry Potter film. Elaborately uniformed staff around the hall are as drilled as the soldiers who have been on parade during the day.

Feedback was amazed to hear that dog ownership could cause a hurricane across the other side of the world. Or are we barking up the wrong tree? Kristian Steensen Nielsen seems like a sensible type. A researcher at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, he studies "the role of behavior change in mitigating climate change and conserving biodiversity". In other words, how can we make our lives more environmentally friendly, and how and when do those changes scale up to become truly effective?

BirdCast can help you follow their fall migration. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Open up the weather radar and you might see what looks like precipitation when it's not raining at all. Those bright green spots are often birds during their annual fall migration -and you can follow along. According to BirdCast, 262 million birds are predicted to hit the skies tonight alone.

Bird photos that really take flight. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. An estimated 50 billion wild birds populate our planet, according to a 2021 study . From garbage-eating urban pigeons to colorful parrots in tropical forests, the diversity of birds is impressive. For the past 120 years, the National Audubon Society has worked to helped Earth's birds through conservation and awareness campaigns.

Artificial intelligence can predict people's health problems over a decade into the future, say scientists. The technology has learned to spot patterns in people's medical records to calculate their risk of more than 1,000 diseases. The researchers say it is like a weather forecast that anticipates a 70% chance of rain - but for human health. Their vision is to use the AI model to spot high-risk patients to prevent disease and to help hospitals understand demand in their area, years ahead of time. The model - called Delphi-2M - uses similar technology to well-known AI chatbots like ChatGPT.

Has Elon Musk really been awarded a $1 trillion pay deal? Tesla shares jumped 6 percent on Monday after CEO Elon Musk disclosed that he had bought $1bn worth of the company's stock. The move reinforces Musk's push for greater control over Tesla and comes a week after the company's board offered him a $1 trillion pay package over the next decade. Musk's stock purchase - his first open-market buy-up of shares since 2020 - comes at a critical time for Tesla, as it races to transform into an artificial intelligence and robotics firm whilst also grappling with falling sales of electric vehicles (EVs). Last weekend, Pope Leo decried the widening pay gap between corporate bosses such as Elon Musk - whose estimated wealth now stands at $367bn - and ordinary working people, which he said was a major factor in growing global unrest.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Bananas for Google Gemini's AI Image Generator The Nvidia CEO reveals his consuming love for Google's image generator, the artsy side of Grok, and what exactly he uses Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT for right now. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is in London, standing in front of a room full of journalists, outing himself as a huge fan of Gemini's Nano Banana . "How could anyone not love Nano Banana? I mean Nano Banana, how good is that? Tell me it's not true!" "Tell me it's not true! I was just talking to Demis [Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind ] yesterday and I said'How about that Nano Banana! It looks like lots of people agree with him: The popularity of the Nano Banana AI image generator--which launched in August and allows users to make precise edits to AI images while preserving the quality of faces, animals, or other objects in the background--has caused a 300 million image surge for Gemini in the first few days in September already, according to a post on X by Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs and Google Gemini. Huang, whose company was among a cohort of big US technology companies to announce investments into data centers, supercomputers, and AI research in the UK on Tuesday, is on a high. Speaking ahead of a white-tie event with UK prime minister Keir Starmer (where he plans to wear custom black leather tails), he's boisterously optimistic about the future of AI in the UK, saying the country is "too humble" about the country's potential for AI advancements. He cites the UK's pedigree in themes as wide as the industrial revolution, steam trains, DeepMind (now owned by Google), and university researchers, as well as other tangential skills. "No one fries food better than you do," he quips. Nvidia announced a $683 million equity investment in datacenter builder Nscale this week, a move that--alongside investments from OpenAI and Microsoft--has propelled the company to the epicenter of this AI push in the UK. Huang estimates that Nscale will generate more than $68 billion in revenues over six years. "I'll go on record to say I'm the best thing that's ever happened to him," he says, referring to Nscale CEO Josh Payne. "As AI services get deployed--I'm sure that all of you use it.

Nvidia boss'disappointed' by reported China chip ban The boss of Nvidia says he is disappointed that China has reportedly ordered its top technology companies to halt purchases of the firm's artificial intelligence (AI) chips. Jensen Huang added he would be patient in response to the move from China's internet regulator. There are a lot of places we can't go to, and that's fine, he told reporters on Wednesday. Mr Huang is one of a number of tech bosses, including Microsoft's Satya Nadella, accompanying US President Donald trump on his state visit to the UK. Nvidia - the world's leading chipmaker - had previously been banned from selling its most advanced chips to China, before Trump reversed the ban in July.

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Ben & Jerry's co-founder quits over social activism row Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield has left the ice cream maker after almost half a century at the firm, deepening a dispute with parent company Unilever. In a letter shared on social media by fellow co-founder Ben Cohen, Mr Greenfield said the Cherry Garcia maker had lost its independence after Unilever put a halt to its social activism. His exit marks the latest episode in a row that started in 2021 when Ben & Jerry's said it would stop selling its ice cream in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. A spokesperson for The Magnum Ice Cream Company, which is being spun off from Unilever, said it was grateful to Mr Greenfield but disagreed with his stance. In his letter Mr Greenfield said leaving the firm was one of the hardest and most painful decisions he had ever made but he could no longer in good conscience work for a business that had been silenced by Unilever.