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Computing power is becoming a measure of national strength, and the US no longer leads it alone.
Fast, cheap whole-body scans in spas could move healthcare from treating illness towards catching it early.
Leaders now have months, not years, to treat AI-driven cyber attacks as a core business risk.
Tesla’s best route into AI infrastructure may be power and cooling around the chips, not the chips themselves.
Firms that measure AI by output volume risk eroding the knowledge and trust they need to make good decisions.
Faster simulation could shorten US weapons and aircraft development by moving testing from the real world into simulation.
Long-distance HVDC lines could let wind-rich regions power AI-driven demand growth while cutting reliance on fossil-fuel plants.
Specialised industrial robots, not humanoids, could reach mines, kitchens and roads first, reshaping heavy industry economics.
SpaceX’s market debut jumped 19% on day one, lifting Elon Musk’s fortune past $1 trillion and making him the world’s first trillionaire, according to the Bloomberg index.
Planning for AI beyond human level should start now, with a clear view of what superintelligence could not do.
Northwestern University researchers jet-printed flexible artificial neurons that fire like real brain cells – realistic enough to trigger live mouse neurons – pointing toward neuromorphic chips that could one day cut the punishing energy cost of AI.
The US Department of Defense has tapped Argonne spin-out Parallel Works to link its supercomputing centres to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle through one secure platform – speeding up the AI and simulation workloads now reshaping defence research.