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Ypsilanti Township has temporarily blocked the electrical substation needed by a University of Michigan data center intended for nuclear-weapons research. The township also imposed a one-year moratorium on the facility’s requested water connection, adding local infrastructure barriers to the 220,000-square-foot project.
Google is working with the UK government on Operation Blue Skies to address aviation contrails with AI. The initiative will subtly reroute flights to test whether contrail formation can be avoided.
TerraPower’s nuclear power plant may hold a strategic advantage over competing energy projects seeking AI data center contracts. The article highlights nuclear power’s potential role in meeting the rapidly growing electricity demand from AI infrastructure, but does not disclose the reactor’s specific competitive advantage.
Callosum has raised $100 million in early financing to develop software that matches specific AI tasks with suitable models and chips. Backers include the UK’s public AI fund.
A Chinese-led team from Nanjing University and the National University of Singapore developed 光语芯, an ultra-low-power intelligent vision sensor chip that directly converts light into tokens. The tokens can be fed into an encoder for image recognition.
Moderna and Merck reported that a personalized mRNA therapy, intismeran, combined with Keytruda met key recurrence and distant-metastasis survival endpoints in a prespecified interim analysis. The approach uses AI to select up to 34 tumor-specific neoantigens for an individually manufactured treatment.
A hyper-optimized Qwen3.8-27B inference stack using DFlash2 reaches about 138 tokens per second on a power-limited RTX 3090, while 64-request throughput reaches 942 TPS. Prefix caching also reduces long-chat follow-up latency from roughly 23 seconds to under 1.4 seconds in reported tests.
Google is introducing a button that lets readers mark publishers as preferred sources across Search, Discover, and Google News. The feature could help publishers recover traffic as AI-powered search generates fewer direct clicks to websites.
Meta is expanding Pocket, an experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. The app was previously tested quietly in Brazil.
Amid lawsuits, executive departures, and preparations for an IPO, Greg Brockman has emerged as an increasingly powerful figure at OpenAI. The article analyzes how the co-founder and current president has consolidated influence over the company’s engineering and strategic direction.