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The Department of Energy has unveiled the Genesis Mission, a national initiative combining AI systems with top-tier supercomputers to tackle 26 designated challenges of national importance. The program brings together major technology firms including AMD, Nvidia, and Microsoft alongside smaller startups pursuing novel computing approaches, such as dataflow-based AI processors.
A widely venerated Christian legend about two saints, Barlaam and Josaphat of India, turns out to be a retelling of the Gautama Buddha's biography. The tale traveled from Sanskrit accounts of the Bodhisattva through Persian and Arabic versions before appearing as a Georgian Christian text in the 10th century, eventually spreading across Europe as far as Iceland.
Paramount reportedly enlisted a nonprofit called Neighbors for Strong Communities to send Californians mass text messages urging them to pressure state Attorney General Rob Bonta to drop his antitrust suit against the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros deal. The messages warned that blocking the merger could cost thousands of jobs, citing owner Larry Ellison's reported threat to relocate Paramount to Texas.
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party more than doubled its vote share to 44% in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt state election, while the ruling CDU lost over half its 2021 support. Chancellor Friedrich Merz called it the worst defeat his party has suffered in decades and warned of consequences beyond the region.
Conway's book Trade World examines the Chorleywood Bread Process, a postwar industrial technique that changed how most British sliced bread is made, leaving telltale air cells visible in supermarket and sandwich loaves. He argues this shift, largely invisible to consumers, was actually one of the most consequential industrial policy interventions in modern British history, reshaping farming and the food supply chain nationwide.
Apple announced five new titles joining Apple Arcade next month: Pusheen's Place, River City Survivors, Terraria+, Touchgrind BMX 2+, and 4 Pics 1 Word+. The '+' titles are ad-free, purchase-free versions of existing App Store games, while Pusheen's Place and River City Survivors are entirely new releases.
A new Burning Glass Institute analysis, reported by the Wall Street Journal, shows workers aged 22-34 without college degrees are experiencing some of their lowest unemployment rates in decades, while their degree-holding peers face one of their worst job markets in years. Chief economist Gad Levanon says this shift appears structural rather than temporary.
DigiTimes cites supply chain sources claiming Intel will raise CPU prices by another 10%, following earlier increases in Q1 2026 and July, likely hitting server and mobile chips first. The same report says Intel plans a major product launch in March 2027, with AMD responding with its own releases between June and July that year.
Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday release addresses 966 vulnerabilities, its largest batch ever, including 105 rated Critical and two zero-days already being exploited in the wild. The count excludes 204 additional flaws Microsoft patched earlier in the month across products like Azure AI Language, Copilot Studio, and Entra ID.
Hunter Biden is preparing to launch a cryptocurrency token called LAPTOP, following an extended run of podcast and media appearances that raised his public profile. The move mirrors the memecoin ventures previously pursued by Donald Trump and his family.
Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, a genome-wide dataset predicting the functional consequences of nearly every possible single-letter DNA change. Academic partners, including researchers from the Broad Institute working with the GREGoR Consortium, used the tool's AVI scoring system to identify a previously overlooked variant in the DNM1 gene linked to epileptic encephalopathy, showing it creates a faulty splice site that abnormally extends the resulting protein. The prediction was later confirmed through lab experiments.
Developer Ayghri released i-have-adhd, an open-source skill/plugin for coding assistants like Claude Code that rewrites how the AI communicates: it leads with the next action, numbers steps, gives time estimates, caps lists, and cuts preambles, tangents and closing pleasantries. It installs via a CLI prompt pointing to the project's GitHub repo and can be customized by forking and editing its SKILL.md rules file.