ChemLex has launched a self-driving drug discovery lab in Singapore after closing a $45 million funding round, betting that robots and artificial intelligence can compress years of lab work into weeks.

The new global headquarters and fully automated facility sit in Singapore’s one-north innovation district and are designed to run around the clock with minimal human intervention.

The move matters because AI-powered drug discovery is shifting from slides and pitch decks to physical infrastructure. ChemLex is not just selling software; it is wiring AI directly into automated “chemistry factories” that design, execute, and learn from experiments at industrial scale. If the model works, it could reshape how big pharma and biotech approach early-stage research.

Behind the launch is a market that is starting to take off. Analysts now expect the AI drug discovery segment to grow from a low single-digit billion-dollar market in the mid-2020s to tens of billions by the mid-2030s, as more of the industry shifts to algorithm-driven screening and design.

The Federal Reserve is heading into its final policy meeting of 2025 with interest rates already lowered several times and its committee more openly split than at any point in recent years. The federal funds target range now sits at 3.75% to 4.00%, down from the 5%-plus levels that prevailed in 2023 and early 2024.

Investors are heavily positioned for another quarter-point cut, which would take the range to 3.50% to 3.75%. Yet inside the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), there is sharp disagreement over whether the central bank has already done enough—or too much—to cushion a slowing economy while inflation remains above target.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is in London for high-stakes talks with European leaders, as the United States steps up pressure on Kyiv to accept a controversial peace plan with Russia.

The meeting, hosted by British prime minister Keir Starmer, brings together French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Friedrich Merz, top EU officials and NATO’s secretary general.

At issue is whether Europe will rally behind Washington’s push for a ceasefire deal that many in Kyiv fear could lock in Russian battlefield gains.

The United States has framed its latest proposal as the quickest path to stop the war and restore stability. Zelenskiy’s team has signaled deep concern, saying Ukraine will not sign up to any agreement that freezes the front lines in place or leaves the country without firm security guarantees.

If China ever decides to resolve the Taiwan question by force, the first 24 hours would be fast, violent, and confusing.

A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would not begin with beach landings. It would start with screens going dark, runways cratered, and satellites under attack.

Jeffrey Epstein theories have surged back into the spotlight as a new federal law forces the U.S. government to unseal long-hidden files about his crimes and his death.

In the same year, a detailed Justice Department and FBI review reaffirmed that Epstein died by suicide and found no evidence of a secret “client list” or a blackmail operation, directly challenging the most popular conspiracy narratives.

Those two moves pull in opposite directions. The coming document releases promise fresh material for anyone convinced there is more to the story. The official memo, supported by video analysis and years of investigative work, tries to draw a firm line under years of speculation.

As of late 2025, the question is no longer just what happened in a New York jail cell in August 2019. It is which Jeffrey Epstein theories still matter once the newest government findings and impending releases are taken seriously.

Japan has accused Chinese fighter jets of locking fire-control radar on its military aircraft near Okinawa, in what Tokyo calls a “dangerous” and unprecedented airborne confrontation.

The radar standoff near Okinawa, involving Chinese J-15 jets from the carrier Liaoning and Japanese F-15 fighters, has triggered formal protests, sharp denials from Beijing, and fresh worries about a miscalculation in one of the world’s most tense flashpoints.

In Benin, a group of soldiers has appeared on state television to announce that they have dissolved the government and removed President Patrice Talon from power.

They introduced themselves as the “Military Committee for Refoundation” and named Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri as their leader, declaring that the constitution and state institutions were suspended.

Sydney Sweeney has finally broken her silence on the American Eagle “great jeans” campaign that turned a denim spot into one of 2025’s strangest culture-war flashpoints.

In a new interview, she says staying quiet on the controversy has “widened the divide” and stresses that she rejects the extremist views some people tied to the ad.

Artificial intelligence has moved from the sidelines of fusion research to the center of the lab.

In the past few days, fusion scientists, nuclear regulators, and energy officials have gathered in Vienna to discuss how AI and nuclear technologies can be tied together, just as governments launch new AI-focused nuclear offices and fusion programs

In just a few days, three big AI announcements have sharpened the sense that the AI arms race is no longer a vague idea but a daily reality.

OpenAI has triggered an internal “code red” to urgently upgrade ChatGPT as rivals close the gap. At the same time, French startup Mistral has released its Mistral 3 family of open-weight models,