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GM’s Next Battery Bet Is Moving From the Lab to a Tennessee Factory
GM and LG plan a US$1 billion factory upgrade for a new electric-vehicle battery chemistry. The promised energy and cost gains still face a manufacturing test.
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DeepSeek and Huawei Are Building the Software Around AI Chips
DeepSeek says it is opening programming tools for Huawei Ascend chips, addressing the software layer that often decides whether alternative AI hardware is usable.
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Megaport’s New AI Deals Put a Price on the Compute Boom
Three new contracts worth about A$978.6 million show the scale of AI compute demand, alongside a substantial hardware and power buildout still to deliver.
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The UN Wants to Unblock the Wires Behind Clean Power
A new Global Grids Accelerator aims to turn electricity-network plans in Africa and Southeast Asia into projects that can attract financing and get built.
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A Stress Switch Helps Scientists Reprogram Cells
A new cell study links two proteins, PARK7 and PINK1, to the metabolic changes that help ordinary cells become stem-like cells.
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Huntington’s Gene Therapy Reaches Four Years With a Complicated Result
A small Phase I/II follow-up suggests lasting functional benefit, but its main composite comparison was not statistically significant at four years.
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A Two-Drug Strategy for Resistant Lung Cancer Heads to the FDA
AstraZeneca has filed for US approval of a targeted combination after a global Phase III trial reported survival gains. The detailed results are still to come.
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Roche Wants AI Drug Discovery to Run Through the Laboratory
Roche is developing autonomous AI-driven laboratories that connect predictions with experiments. Its latest update shows how drug-discovery workflows could change, without establishing a new clinical breakthrough.
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Codexis Wants More Control Over the Chemistry of RNA Medicines
Codexis has agreed to test a more precisely controlled way of making RNA-drug components. The collaboration will compare manufacturing quality before any claim of clinical benefit can be established.
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AI Helped RNA Vaccines Survive Two Months at Body Temperature
A new study used AI to identify dried vaccine formulations that stayed active after prolonged warm storage. Tests in rodents and nonhuman primates support further development, but this is not a human vaccine approval.
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A Tiny Turbine Under Pressure Could Help Wind Farms Produce More Power
Researchers used dense, pressurised air to make a small wind turbine behave more like a much larger machine. The experiments suggest better control settings could unlock additional energy.
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Nvidia Is Building a Safety Boundary Around AI Agents
Nvidia’s new platform puts controls outside the AI agent itself, combining software permissions with a separate hardware watchdog. The goal is to make increasingly capable agents easier to contain.