OpenAI is reportedly weighing a 5% government stake worth about $320 per US household, even as a leaked Treasury report compares AI to the dotcom bubble.
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Four US microreactor startups reached criticality by July 4, meeting a federal target. But none can yet produce electricity for the grid.
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Four US microreactors hit criticality on July 4, while China prepares to let Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek buy Nvidia H200 chips it had previously blocked.
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Anthropic's J-lens tool exposed a hidden region inside Claude Opus 4.6, revealing concepts the model works through internally, including 'panic' and 'fake' as it chose to…
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California dairy farmers are using earthworms to clean manure wastewater, while solar geoengineering research runs into costly engineering limits.
By The Spotlight Desk · 3 min readOpenAI's ChatGPT engineering chief Sulman Choudhry will headline EmTech AI 2026, an MIT Technology Review event centered on AI's shift from model to platform.
By The Spotlight Desk · 3 min readAcross Asia, a growing number of founders are choosing revenue over rounds, quietly rethinking what it means to build a durable company without chasing the next…
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A Lancet-based claim that five minutes of daily exercise keeps you fit sounds appealing. Public health expert Devi Sridhar explains why the headline outran the data.
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Underconsumption core asks people to buy less, not more, a quiet correction to a year of supplements and haul videos. Why the restraint is resonating.
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Across Asia's cities, free weekly running clubs are quietly becoming where people meet, connect, and stay, filling a social gap the bar and the dating app…
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