Cathay Pacific Cuts Fuel Surcharges Again as US Launches Fast-Track Visa Option

Cathay Pacific cut fuel surcharges 17% for the third time since March, though rates remain 70% above pre-conflict levels, the same week the US launched a $750 fast-track visa interview option and Japan raised visa fees five-fold. Here’s what these developments mean for international travelers right now.

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MIT’s FloatForm Robots Snap Together Like Ants to Build Structures on Water

MIT developed FloatForm, a swarm of small robots that snap together like fire ants to build reconfigurable structures on water, while a new Nature study uses machine learning and claims data to uncover maternal medication and neonatal outcome associations. Here’s what this week’s machine learning research reveals.

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Bitcoin Slides as China’s Free Kimi K3 Model Beats Claude and GPT

Bitcoin buckled below $63,000 after China’s free Kimi K3 model beat Claude and GPT in a coding benchmark, triggering a semiconductor selloff that dragged crypto down with it. Combined with Trump widening the Iran conflict and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky’s hacked X account, here’s what’s driving crypto’s turbulent week.

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