38 lessons
C1Monday, 2 November 2026
Retailers in Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden confirmed problems with shop refrigeration, with some units reaching 50C. The EU food and…
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Monday, 2 November 2026
This crossword revises the vocabulary from this week’s C1 lessons. The words all come from: At some startups, AI agents outnumber staff; Meta weighed covert push to disavow…
C1Saturday, 31 October 2026
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, discussed an internal “whisper strategy” to undermine the US social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, according to court filings.…
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C1Friday, 30 October 2026
At Anything, an AI startup, Dhruv Amin works with 15 people and roughly 150 autonomous AI agents. There is an agent office manager for kitchen supplies. It is the ratio of agents…
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C1Tuesday, 27 October 2026
OpenAI says its AI models have made discoveries in mathematics, computer science and physics. One claim is that the models proved the local smoothing conjecture in every spatial…
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C1Sunday, 25 October 2026
An Australian-led phase III trial has reported strong results for a personalised mRNA vaccine for melanoma, called intismeran. The study enrolled 1,137 patients whose melanoma had…
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C1Friday, 23 October 2026
Almost all of the world’s shallow-water coral reefs face an extremely high risk of collapse, according to a global assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature…
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C1Wednesday, 21 October 2026
Elon Musk said he is considering a merger of Tesla and SpaceX, and special committees at both companies are examining it. He called himself a 'conflicted party' and stressed that…
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Monday, 19 October 2026
This crossword revises the vocabulary from this week’s C1 lessons. The words all come from: NHS trusts turn away Palantir data platform; Shakespeare led the writing of Edward III.…