Scientists at Imperial College London worked for 10 years to figure out exactly how a superbug virus—one that has become drug-resistant—gained its ability to infect a range of kinds of bacteria instead of just one or a related few.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Mar 25 2025
YUM BRANDS IS IN THE CHIPS
The conglomerate that owns KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell has partnered with Nvidia, the world’s dominant maker of AI chips, to ease and improve customers’ experiences, boost franchisees’ technological infrastructure, and earn more money for shareholders, Joe Park, the company’s chief technology officer, said in a statement.
TOP U.S. COLLEGE GRADS SEND THEIR RESUMES TO CHINA
New graduates from Harvard, Stanford, and other leading U.S. universities are applying for work at China’s Manycore AI company, Bloomberg reported.
THE BLACKROCK-MICROSOFT AI PARTNERSHIP JUST GOT BIGGER
Market-leading chipmaker Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI have joined the partnership between Microsoft and private equity giant BlackRock to build up to $100 billion worth of AI data centers and electricity supplies to power them.
“DISTILLATION” IS AI’S NEW THING
On 20 January, Chinese start-up DeepSeek revolutionized the AI industry by unveiling a new, world-class platform that it had created for a fraction of the cost that Western industry giants had spent.
A “SUPERINTELLIGENCE” TO SPEED SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
Behind closed doors near Boston, Lila Sciences has worked for more than two years to fashion a “superintelligence” to automate scientific progress.