Chinese companies doubled down on science after US tech restrictions
Researchers examined how Chinese firms adjusted their ways of accessing knowledge after the US government put them on an Entity List. The list prevents those on it from licensing certain materials and engaging with joint…
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First for RNA therapy: man with rare motor-neuron disease improves after treatment
Researchers say the early results are exciting and lay the foundation for more treatments for neurodegenerative diseases caused by rare mutations. The man had a slowly progressing form of motor neuron disease, also…
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Daily briefing: How to turn a paper into an AI agent
He experienced improved symptoms and continued to work as a physician a year after starting treatment. Antisense oligonucleotide therapy uses short strands of genetic material to target RNA produced by a faulty gene…
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China’s UBTech opens world-first factory that builds a humanoid robot every ten minutes — 14,000 square meter plant will deliver army of 10,000 robots a year
The factory is the first of its kind in the world, according to the Seoul Economic Daily . It’s located in Liuzhou, in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and is focused on producing UBTech’s Walker S and Cruzr…
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US carmakers could soon be forced to offer AM radio for free in new vehicles — 100-year-old technology to make a comeback after being ditched by Tesla, Volvo, BMW, and more
The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act will now head to the Senate, but it could require the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to create new rules that would make AM radio standard in new vehicles. While…
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AI cracked the Navier–Stokes challenge. What does that mean for physics?
The AI solution proved mathematically that there are instances in which the Navier–Stokes equations — famous, nineteenth-century formulae that model how fluids flow — produce a ‘singularity’, predicting physically…
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How to make a brain: new experiments challenge existing picture
But experiments now challenge that fundamental picture, providing evidence that it takes not one but two flavours of progenitor cell to make the complex organ 1 . Mini-colon and brain ‘organoids’ shed light on cancer and…
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Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
The massive round was co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners. Founders Fund, GIC, Nvidia, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Radical Ventures, and TPG also participated, according to…
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Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
The institute lists DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, Google executive James Manyika, and Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis as directors, with Legg serving as managing editor. The new institute aims to surface differing…
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Marvell pushes GlobalFoundries to light up wafer production
On Thursday, Marvell took a big step towards securing that status by announcing an expanded partnership with GlobalFoundries, an American wafer fab well known for its work in silicon photonics manufacturing. The tie-up…
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