AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoSewage to the UN: In South Africa’s Boipatong, an environmental activist escalated a long-running raw sewage disaster to the UN, alleging collapsing infrastructure is flooding streets and homes with health hazards, and naming Geneva as the next stop for complaints about government and oversight failures. Wearables & chips: Swiss startup Mosaic raised $3.8m to build ultra-efficient “perception” chips aimed at smarter, lower-power wearables—pushing real-time spatial awareness without heavy battery drain. Data-centre water pressure: Switzerland’s AI boom is driving more data centres, and with them more cooling demand that could strain local water resources. Hantavirus after cruise outbreaks: New attention is focused on hantavirus persistence after infection, including findings that raise questions about sexual transmission risk—while cruise demand appears to stay strong. Swatch-Audemars frenzy: Swatch shut or cancelled sales of its Audemars Piguet collaboration in multiple cities over crowd-safety concerns, turning a luxury-meets-pop launch into a queue-and-chaos story. Plant resilience: Swiss researchers traced how cork-like root barriers form in nature, a step toward crops that better handle drought.
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