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1. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Zoe Corbyn

   Autonomous aircraft: Pilot-free crop dusters lead the way (opens the original)

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   Over an alfalfa field in California's San Joaquin Valley, a small crop-spraying plane is flying scarily low to the ground. There's little risk to humans though, as the plane is pilot-free. "We can actually go lower than a human pilot can," says Russ Marotzke, as the aircraft skims over the crop. Flying lower means less spray drift and therefore less chemicals are needed than in conventional manned crop-dusting, he says. The pilotless plane belongs to Pyka, where Marotzke works as a flight test e

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2. Article · Jul 8, 2026 · Zoe Corbyn

   Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring (opens the original)

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   On a tree-lined street in the affluent Duboce Triangle residential neighbourhood of San Francisco, the top half of a white, Edwardian-era, detached house was drawing visitors from prospective buyers. The opulently renovated three-bedroom apartment was on the market for almost $3m (£2.3m). And it had been attracting increased attention due to an unusual payment possibility - the seller would consider shares in artificial intelligence companies OpenAI or Anthropic instead of cash. "The value [of t

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