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For the first time, NVIDIA’s AI supercomputers will be built entirely in the U.S. — working with leading manufacturing partners to design and build factories.
Without Trump, such a thing would be inconceivable.
Production has also started for NVIDIA Blackwell chips at TSMC’s chip plants in Arizona.
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Meta Platforms (META) is going to federal court today for a long-awaited antitrust trial that will force the tech giant to defend its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta stock was ahead slightly in early trading.
The $1.4 trillion market cap social media titan is accused by the Federal Trade Commission of abusing monopoly power to acquire photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging platform WhatsApp more than a decade ago. The FTC filed the original antitrust lawsuit in 2020 before it spent nearly five years winding through appeals and other motions in the courts.
Major Study Confirms mRNA ‘Vaccines’ Lead to Organ Failure in Long Term– slaynews.com
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A major new study has confirmed that Covid mRNA “vaccines” sustained cytokine elevations, leading to deadly organ failure in the long term.
An increase in the levels of cytokines in the body is a hallmark of various inflammatory and immune responses.
Cytokine elevations can be triggered by infections, autoimmune diseases, and other conditions and are often associated with disease severity.
An uncontrolled cytokine release, known as a “cytokine storm,” triggers organ damage and other complications, as noted in a review published in the journal Inflammation.
Now, a new year-long study from leading researchers in Saudi Arabia warns that cytokine levels are raised in people who received mRNA injections.
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We humans concoct never-before-heard sentences with ease, embedding phrases within phrases to express the wildest ideas we can dream up (“the purple pangolin that waltzed across the ballroom had a flaming pineapple on its nose”). Such abilities seem unrivaled in the animal world, but a new study suggests they’re not entirely absent: bonobos, our closest living relatives, create combinations of calls that seem to share key aspects of human language.
In a new study published on Thursday in Science, researchers report that bonobo communication is rich in a feature that linguists call compositionality. This refers to the way we string words together to compose larger structures with more complicated meanings. Linguists divide compositionality into two categories, a simple version and a more sophisticated one, and researchers have long thought human language stands alone in the higher tier. Previous studies have found that some primates and birds are capable of “trivial” compositionality, in which words that each have a specific meaning on their own can be added together to create a fuller, more meaning-rich picture (“bake pie”).
But the new study shows that bonobos, like us, seem to do something a bit more advanced than that. In “nontrivial” compositionality, certain parts modify others. An example is the sentence “they baked a pumpkin pie.” Here “pumpkin” and “pie” join to form a new composite idea. This strategy gets more bang for your communicative buck, according to the new paper’s co-senior author Simon Townsend, who studies comparative communication at the University of Zurich. “That’s what we’ve evolved it for,” he says, “to add this important nuance and complexity to the meaning that we convey.”
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A new approach to AI’s “thinking” mimics the human brain and has the potential to revolutionize the AI industry.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can perform complex calculations and analyze data faster than any human, but to do so requires enormous amounts of energy. The human brain is also an incredibly powerful computer, yet it consumes very little energy.
Suin Yi, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering, is on a team of researchers that developed “Super-Turing AI,” which operates more like the human brain.
This new AI integrates certain processes instead of separating them and then migrating huge amounts of data like current systems do.
The “Turing” in the system’s name refers to AI pioneer Alan Turing, whose theoretical work during the mid-20th century has become the backbone of computing, AI, and cryptography. Today, the highest honor in computer sciences is called the Turing Award.
The findings appear in Science Advances.
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A research team from TU Graz and the Vellore Institute of Technology in India is developing a 3D-printed skin imitation equipped with living cells in order to test nanoparticles from cosmetics without animal testing.
Directive 2010/63/EU laid down restrictions on animal testing for the testing of cosmetics and their ingredients throughout the EU. Therefore, there is an intense search for alternatives to test the absorption and toxicity of nanoparticles from cosmetics such as sun creams. A team of researchers from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in India is working on the development of skin imitations that mimic the native three-layer tissue structure and biomechanics of human skin. Such imitations can be produced using 3D printing and consist of hydrogel formulations that are printed together with living cells.
Hydrogels in which skin cells survive and grow
“The hydrogels for our skin imitation from the 3D printer have to fulfil a number of requirements,” says Karin Stana Kleinschek from the Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Biobased Systems. “The hydrogels must be able to interact with living skin cells. These cells not only have to survive, but also have to be able to grow and multiply.” The starting point for stable and 3D-printable structures are hydrogel formulations developed at TU Graz. Hydrogels are characterised by their high-water content, which creates ideal conditions for the integration and growth of cells. However, the high-water content also requires methods for mechanical and chemical stabilisation of the 3D prints.
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The growing policy uncertainty and weakening economic conditions alone may already be causing some of this to occur.
Since Trump took office, companies have canceled, delayed, or scaled back at least nine US “clean energy supply chain” developments or operations, according to the Big Green Machine, a database maintained by Jay Turner, a professor of environmental studies at Wellesley College, and student researchers there. The projects that have been affected represent some $8 billion in public and private investments, and more than 9,000 jobs.
They include KORE Power’s planned battery facility in Arizona, which the company halted; Envision Automotive Energy Supply’s paused expansion in Florence County, South Carolina; and Akasol’s closure of two plants in Michigan.
VW also scaled back production at its recently expanded EV factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, amid slower-than-expected growth in sales and, perhaps, the expectation that the Trump administration will strive to roll back consumer tax credits for vehicle purchases.
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Ford Motor said on Thursday that it was lowering prices on most of its vehicles to the same levels it charges employees in a bid to boost sales as President Trump’s tariffs on imported cars took effect.
The tariffs began on Thursday on vehicles imported from Mexico, Canada, Japan, Germany and other countries. The duties — 25 percent of the value of the vehicle in most cases — are expected to increase prices of new cars and trucks and dampen demand.
About half the vehicles sold in the United States each year are produced in other countries. Mexico is the top source of those cars and Canada is among the largest. For three decades, the United States, Canada and Mexico have had a free-trade zone, and automakers have moved parts and vehicles freely among the three countries.
Ford’s new program, which the company is calling “From America, for America,” could help reduce a large inventory of unsold cars. In February, Ford had more cars in inventory as measured by how many days it would take to sell them all than all but three other brands — Jaguar, Mini and Dodge — according to Cox Automotive, a research firm.
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Denmark has become a participant in the Finnish-led Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS) initiative with the Danish government outlining plans to acquire 130 CAVS units from Patria.
The financial commitment is equivalent to roughly €250m ($270.45m). The acquisition strategy involves procuring a smaller quantity of vehicles within the current year followed by a more substantial order in the subsequent year.
The country anticipates that the integration of CAVS vehicles will bolster its national defence capabilities. Furthermore, Denmark regards the CAVS programme as an efficient mode of collaboration among Nordic nations.
Denmark Minister of Defence Troels Lund Poulsen said: “With the purchase of armoured personnel carriers from Patria, we are strengthening the Army broadly with a contribution to both the light infantry battalion and the heavy brigade, so that Denmark’s defence is modernised and the soldiers have updated equipment. At the same time, it is important to strengthen the European defence industry – and that Denmark supports the industry by buying European. We are doing that with this purchase.”
Chinese automakers push autonomous driving forward, challenging Tesla – DIGITIMES Asia
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Federal judge declares Arkansas social media age-verification law unconstitutional – News From The States
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Update on huge ‘city-killer’ asteroid scientists warned may collide with Earth in 2032 – Daily Record
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Donald Trump’s net worth skyrockets to $5.1 billion, doubles in a year fueled by Truth Social and crypto – The Economic Times
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