China's retaliation against US tariffs by restricting rare earth mineral exports may backfire, as these elements are not truly rare, and the US could increase domestic mining or reduce reliance on them, mitigating the impact on high-tech products that use small quantities.
Atmospheric CO2 levels surpassed 400 ppm last year, a danger threshold risking catastrophic climate change, with unabated emissions potentially leading to 9°C temperature rises by 2250, while even immediate emissions cuts would take millennia to restore pre-industrial CO2 levels.
German legal tech startup Noxtua has secured $92M to develop AI tailored for the German legal system, capable of legal research, document analysis, and drafting, trained on a vast database of German cases and hosted on German cloud infrastructure, revolutionizing legal practice in the country.
In a groundbreaking development, researchers have harnessed the power of AI and machine learning to analyze patient data, enabling the prediction of Alzheimer's disease up to 7 years before symptoms manifest, with high cholesterol and osteoporosis emerging as key predictors.
In a historic shift, SK Hynix has dethroned Samsung as the world's top DRAM vendor, capturing 36% of global sales in Q1 2023, fueled by strong demand for its high-bandwidth AI chips from Nvidia, ending Samsung's 30-year reign.
AI video avatars revolutionize content creation, enabling lifelike, multilingual videos without cameras, mirroring voice, expressions, and gestures through customizable or stock AI-generated avatars.
The Pliocene Epoch, spanning from 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago, witnessed cooler and drier climates, the emergence of early human ancestors like australopithecines, and major evolutionary changes in mammals like mastodons, camels, and horses in North America.
Meta takes a major step by launching Threads ads globally, allowing businesses to leverage its content filtering system to avoid offensive material, signaling the company's commitment to monetizing its new Twitter-like platform while addressing brand safety concerns.
Tempus AI unveils groundbreaking $200M deals with AstraZeneca and Pathos AI to build the largest AI model in oncology, harnessing multimodal data to drive biological insights, drug target discovery, and therapeutic development for cancer patients.
The IMF cautioned that Trump's tariffs could severely hamper global economic growth, slash US growth projections, fuel domestic inflation beyond the Fed's target, and heighten the risk of a recession in the United States.