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Property firm Landsec has agreed to buy the Metrocentre shopping centre in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, in a £516 million deal. The Metrocentre, formerly owned by collapsed mall group Intu, is one of the UK's largest shopping centres. The purchase marks Landsec's continued push into major retail destinations alongside its London portfolio.

General Intuition, a startup working on world models, has closed a $220 million investment round, according to a report by SiliconANGLE. The funding makes the young company one of the notable new entrants in the increasingly crowded field of AI firms building models that understand and simulate physical environments. Details on the investors and valuation have not yet been made public.

Writers and technology commentators are revisiting Isaac Asimov's ideas about robotics and machine intelligence, arguing that the problems he imagined around 75 years ago are now visible in today's artificial intelligence. The discussion, circulating on El Lado del Mal, points to his robot stories and the Three Laws of Robotics as early warnings about control, safety and ethics in AI.

Intuit announced that QuickBooks is joining Muse, a partnership aimed at supporting small businesses. The move ties QuickBooks' accounting and financial tools to Muse's platform, expanding resources available to small business owners. Further details about the scope of the collaboration were not provided.

Meta and Intuit have announced a partnership focused on small business intelligence, combining Meta's advertising and platform reach with Intuit's financial software such as QuickBooks. The collaboration aims to give small businesses better data-driven tools for marketing and financial decision-making, and the news is circulating in business coverage of the two companies' expanding AI strategies.

BBC Radio 3's In Tune programme is broadcasting music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, specifically selections from his Six Studies in English Folksong, in performances credited to cellist Gerald Peregrine and Antony Ingham. The pieces, drawn from traditional English folk melodies, remain a staple of British classical programming, with listeners following the station's live playlist updates.

IT administrators using Microsoft Intune can fully disable WSL containers on Windows machines, or limit developers to only approved container registries. The capability gives security teams tighter control over what development environments and code sources are permitted on managed corporate devices, an approach being discussed among IT and infosec professionals.

Intuit is expanding its IDEAS Accelerator programme with a new cohort tied to the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The financial software company, known for TurboTax and QuickBooks, is backing entrepreneurs connected to the Los Angeles 2024... 2028 Games. Details on the participants and funding were not included in the available reporting.