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Imagine living in a country where private companies need the government’s permission to do business.Depending on your age, you might think I’m describing Soviet-era Russia — or Russia in the Putin era. You’d certainly think about modern-day China, where the government is an official partner in many private companies, and has unofficial but meaningful influence over most of them.And in 2025, you might also think that’s beginning to describe America in the second Trump administration.Last week, for instance, Donald Trump called on the CEO of Intel to resign because of his past business connections to China. In June, Trump approved…
In an early trial, a one-size-fits-all vaccine showed promise in preventing hard-to-treat pancreatic cancers from coming back.Pancreatic cancer is of particular concern. The five-year survival rate is about 13%, and up to 80% of pancreatic cancers may come back.“If you were to ask me what disease most needs something to prevent recurrences, I’d say this one,” said Dr. Zev Wainberg co-director of the University of California, Los Angeles, gastrointestinal oncology program, who co-led the Phase 1 clinical trial.The vaccine targets one of the most common genetic drivers of cancer: KRAS gene mutations.KRAS mutations occur in about one-quarter of all cancers,…
Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter “reasoning” vision language model for physical AI applications and robots. Also joining the existing batch of Cosmos world models are Cosmos Transfer-2, which can accelerate synthetic data generation from 3D simulation scenes or spatial control inputs, and a distilled version of Cosmos Transfers that is more optimized for speed. During its announcement at the SIGGRAPH conference on Monday, Nvidia noted that these models are meant to be used to create synthetic text, image, and…
Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend reports that Tesla has disbanded the team working on its Dojo AI training supercomputer, just weeks after announcing he expected to have Tesla’s second cluster operating “at scale” in 2026. “Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some tough personnel choices, as Dojo 2 was now an evolutionary dead end,” Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns, on Sunday. “Dojo 3 arguably lives on in the form of a large number of AI6 [systems-on-a-chip] on a single board.” After bringing…
When I started looking for new college laptops to test, the Acer Swift Go 14 AI was nowhere on my radar. Most Windows laptops use Intel or AMD processors, but this model uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, which hasn’t traditionally been viewed as a top-tier option.But thank goodness I gave it a look, because the Swift Go 14 AI is one of the most exciting laptops I’ve reviewed. Its impressive performance has completely changed my opinion of Snapdragon CPUs, and convinced me that Microsoft’s line of “Copilot Plus” PCs (which includes this laptop) is more than just a marketing gimmick.But…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Li Li Leung repeats the question out loud, leans back, and then does something that’s been all too rare during her transformative tenure as the president and CEO of USA Gymnastics.She stops.“What have I learned?” Leung says again.After a brief exchange to buy some time, she settles on an answer that, in typical Leung fashion, says a lot by saying only a little.“I haven’t had time (to think about it),” Leung told The Associated Press. “And that’s the whole point, is like, I haven’t had time to digest everything that has happened over the past six…
The AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it’s about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the revenue they make from sales of high-end AI chips to China in exchange for licenses to sell to those chips in the country, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. According to the FT’s government source, Nvidia will share revenues from sales of its H20 AI chips in China, and AMD would share a cut of MI308 chip sales. The government has also started issuing licenses for the sale…
It was six months ago that Selin Celikoyar bought her last tampon and switched to a reusable menstrual disc.”I had already been wary of tampons from an environmental perspective and also from a biological perspective. I felt that they were very wasteful and expensive to consistently keep buying,” she said.The flexible discs and other reusable menstrual products are gaining traction as alternatives to the billions of single-use pads and tampons that get tossed into landfills every year. Products such as the discs, silicone cups and period underwear can be reused for years, so they’re cost-effective and long-lasting in addition to…
Aaron Rodgers joined Pittsburgh. Davante Adams went to Hollywood. Cooper Kupp is in Seattle. Russell Wilson’s latest stop is the Big Apple.But the most veteran face in a new place this NFL season is 73-year-old Pete Carroll on the sideline in Las Vegas. Carroll is leading the Raiders after a one-year hiatus from coaching following 14 years with the Seahawks.Rodgers and Wilson are the most notable quarterbacks who changed teams. Geno Smith, Sam Darnold, Justin Fields and Jameis Winston also found new homes.Several star wide receivers joined Adams and Kupp on the move, including DK Metcalf, Deebo Samuel, Stefon Diggs…
For the first time, Texas will open a college football season ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25.The Longhorns hardly have a mandate in the poll released Monday: They edged out Penn State by just five points in the closest preseason vote since 1998.Texas received 25 first-place votes and 1,552 points to give the Southeastern Conference the preseason No. 1 team for a record fifth straight year. The Nittany Lions got 23 first-place votes and 1,547 points for their highest preseason ranking since they were No. 1 to open the 1997 season.The Longhorns face a major test right…