The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance

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• Infections caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses that have evolved ways to evade treatments are now associated with more than 4 million deaths per year

  80% confidence

• Local residents disputing plans to build a massive AI data center near Potters Bar should get with the program

  80% confidence

• NASA's AI drove the Mars Perseverance rover 456 meters across two days without human intervention

  80% confidence

• Vehicle transport fraud has rocked the industry over the past two years while remaining under the radar

  80% confidence

• AI tools can search genomes far and deep for peptides with antibiotic properties and assemble them into configurations never seen in nature

  80% confidence

• Antimicrobial resistance deaths could surge past 8 million by 2050 according to a recent analysis

  80% confidence

• About 47,000 heat-related deaths are believed to have occurred in Europe in 2023

  80% confidence

• The Arctic's rivers are turning bright orange due to climate change, not mining

  80% confidence

• Climate change could add an extra 2.3 million European heat deaths this century

  80% confidence

• The Pentagon cutting ties with Anthropic would force anyone who wants to deal with the US military to cease working with Anthropic

  80% confidence

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