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A decade of canine work at Michigan State shows adult retinas can rewire after a single virus-delivered gene correction, with the next test being whether the dog result carries to children.
DeepSeek's five new open-source libraries target Huawei's Ascend chips — Huawei's domestic AI accelerators — and sidestep Nvidia's proprietary CUDA programming layer, while Manus 2.
Ukraine has built 100,000 interceptor drones at $2,100 a shot and demonstrated remote control from 2,000 km away. Now Russia is deploying faster jet-powered attack drones that may break the cost-asymmetric model.
The 2nd Cavalry Regiment calls the in-house strike a service first, with soldiers assembling a commercial first-person-view (FPV) quadcopter and 3D-printing munition casings the unit calls 'Dragoon' bombs.
When the state stops paying for water towers and hospitals, data center operators step in. The deal terms are being written county by county, and rural counties have no comparable counterparty.
A 125-billion-parameter model running at human reading speed on a card a working developer already owns is the latest round of a quieter shift: each consumer GPU generation pulls more of the frontier off the API rails and onto the local machine.
The Director of National Intelligence will chair a new panel the administration calls the "Super Intelligence Force," with a stated mission to prevent "overregulation" before members are named.
Ukraine's 2026 interceptor-drone deliveries are the first hard data that the cheap-drone-per-kill response is industrializing, not just promised.
The patch series splits Rust's type-checker into two passes so dependent packages (Rust's 'crates') can start work as soon as a dependency's public interfaces are known, and the author's measurements span 13 real projects.
Twenty religious leaders convened under NDA by Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah — who leads the team that studies how Claude works — and the story isn't their conclusions but who got a seat at the table.
An open benchmark of 49 language models on grid logic puzzles shows a steep capability gradient: 85% on 5x5, 20% on 15x15, and most failing a 20x20 hard set.
Off-grid solar at the point of use now powers water pumps and desalination in a Ukrainian port city 60 km from Russian-occupied territory, and is rolling out to a dozen more sites.