Trump rejects the AI slowdown as China challenges its terms. Behind the clash lies a harder question: who controls a race that may begin accelerating itself?
Gotistobart's new lung-cancer data are striking. Its real test is whether molecular precision can produce a repeatable survival benefit.
Skild and Generalist are making robots faster to teach. Their results reveal why learning a task and delivering reliable work are different engineering problems.
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Researchers combined a lymphoid organoid with a bone marrow chip to track how human antibody-producing cells mature and survive. The laboratory platform could improve studies of vaccines, allergies and autoimmunity; it is not a treatment.
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NASA and IBM released an open AI model trained on lunar observations. Researchers can adapt it to map craters, identify volcanic features and estimate where polar ice may persist. Those estimates still require scientific validation.
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IBM and Lockheed Martin launched a quantum research hub with ETH Zurich. A Nighthawk-powered Quantum System Two is planned for Lugano by year-end; cloud access starts sooner. The announcement expands research infrastructure, without establishing a new computational advantage.
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SolarEdge says its medium-voltage-to-800-volt DC converter is running under load in its labs. It also published a protection framework with NVIDIA. Full-system validation continues, and the AI data-center products are not yet generally available.
AI is helping build the next AI. Inside the evidence for recursive self-improvement—and the fight over who gets to steer what happens next.
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic over the AI race. A colleague echoed his warning; Dario Amodei now proposes slower progress and independent scrutiny.
Two seats. No steering wheel. As Cybercab reaches paying passengers, Elon Musk’s boldest design choice puts the entire service on trial.
The ImageNet pioneer is building AI that can imagine spaces beyond a photograph. Knowing what it invented may be the crucial next step.
A Nobel laureate, fresh capital and a protein experiment: Pasqal’s next test is turning extraordinary physics into work that matters.
A new proposal would prohibit superintelligence and pause advanced AI development. Its definition reaches further than the slogan suggests.
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