The eye’s outermost protective shield—the cornea—is crucial to focusing our vision. It’s also prone to damage from blows, scratches, and other forms of harm that can render it opaque or otherwise useless.
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THE U.S. ALREADY MINES ALL THE RARE EARTH MINERALS IT NEEDS—AND NOW HAS A POSSIBLE METHOD TO COLLECT SOME OF THEM
Strategic minerals such as cobalt, gallium, lithium, and rare earths are crucial in applications ranging from smartphones and LEDs to electric vehicles and jet fighter planes.
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A MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY WAY TO KILL DRONES
Israel is done using conventional weapons against drones. This month, it will deploy its first 100-kilowatt drone-killing laser known as Iron Beam—but the beam was equally effective in its September field tests against missiles, mortar shells, and other airborne threats, according to the country’s defense ministry.
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THE FINAL WINNER OF THE AI ARMS RACE
Right now, there’s much talk about who’s up and who’s down in the AI Arms Race.
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OPENAI PARTNERS AMASS $100 BILLION IN NEW DEBT
Companies partnering with OpenAI to build data centers have taken on about $100 billion in new debt “as the ChatGPT maker benefits from a debt-fueled spending spree without taking on financial risks itself,” the Financial Times noted.
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ALTMAN DECLARES “CODE RED” AT OPENAI
Seeing his company slipping to second place in the West’s race for AI dominance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a company-wide “code red” in a memo to employees.
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ATTENTION WALMART SHOPPERS! SPARKY HAS AN EYE ON YOU
Walmart has a new employee – an AI agent named Sparky who wants to make buying things from Walmart even easier.
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CURRENT AI MODELS COULD TAKE 12 PERCENT OF U.S. JOBS, MIT SAYS
Today’s AI systems are able to do 12 percent of U.S. jobs, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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A NEW AI DIAGNOSES RARE GENETIC ILLNESSES
Researchers at Harvard University and Spain’s Center for Genomic Regulation have created popEVE, an AI intended to accurately diagnose rare and complex illnesses.
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AMAZON’S NEW AI AGENTS WORK AROUND THE CLOCK
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is releasing a new AI agent that can work for days on end without the need to check with a human for guidance or information, the company said.