President Trump's tariffs have sparked interest from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in investing billions in the massive Alaska LNG project, which involves building an 800-mile pipeline and export facility, as a potential trade deal to avoid high U.S. tariffs.
While OpenAI's o3 AI model underperformed initial claims with a 10% score on a benchmark test, the company's newer models like o3-mini-high and o4-mini show promise by outperforming the public o3 release, indicating progress in AI capabilities.
Despite a $270 billion market value hit due to Trump-era tariffs, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang vows to invest $500 billion in U.S. manufacturing while continuing to serve the crucial Chinese market, defying trade tensions and underscoring the company's resilience and long-term vision.
A renowned AI researcher's startup Mechanize, aiming to automate all jobs using AI agents, has sparked backlash over its ambitious mission to replace human workers and potential conflict with the founder's AI research institute Epoch.
Meta's data center in Georgia disrupts the local community with water issues like low pressure and sediment, frequent power outages, and tremors from ongoing construction, causing significant inconvenience and concern among residents.
Astronomers excited by potential biosignature gases detected on exoplanet K2-18b, but scientific community urges caution, demanding extraordinary evidence before confirming life beyond Earth.
CAMP4 Therapeutics is pioneering a novel approach to treating genetic disorders by targeting regulatory RNA, which controls gene expression, using therapeutic molecules called antisense oligonucleotides to restore healthy protein levels, with lead candidates targeting urea cycle and seizure disorders.
Google has regained its dominance in the AI field, with its powerful models like Gemini 2.5 outperforming rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, thanks to its unparalleled AI capabilities, talent, infrastructure, and resources, allowing it to reclaim a commanding lead after initially stumbling with ChatGPT.
Plandex, an open source AI coding agent, revolutionizes large-scale development by handling massive context, integrating multiple AI models, and offering advanced features like cumulative diff review, automated debugging, project-aware chat mode, and version control for AI-generated code changes.
The Department of Homeland Security is consolidating data from various agencies into a master database to enable real-time surveillance and tracking of undocumented immigrants, raising serious privacy concerns and fears of information being weaponized against vulnerable groups.