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Chinese AI Video Generators Unleash a Flood of New Nonconsensual Porn (www.404media.co)

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Pentagon to give AI agents a role in planning, operations (www.theregister.com)

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Aspirin: Scientists crack how painkiller might stop cancers from spreading (www.bbc.co.uk)

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AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games: These newer models appear more likely to indulge in rule-bending behaviors than previous generations—and there’s no way to stop them. (www.technologyreview.com)

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The Most Dangerous Time in AI Policy: If the deployment of human-level AI systems disrupts our political institutions, we won't be prepared for further progress. (writing.antonleicht.me)

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Digital Doppelgangers: Ethical and Societal Implications of Pre-Mortem AI Clones (arxiv.org)

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Woolly Mice experiment as step to create mammoth-like elephants (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Europe is committing trillions of euros to pivoting its industrial sector to military spending while turning against Starlink and SpaceX. What does this mean for the future of space development? (self.futurology)

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As the US pivots to aligning itself with Russia, and threatening two NATO members with invasion, the NATO alliance seems all but dead. Russia is openly threatening the Baltic states and Moldova, not to mention the hybrid war it has been attacking Europe with for years.

All this has forced action. The EU has announced an €800 billion fund to urgently rearm Europe. Separately the Germans are planning to spend €1 trillion on a military and infrastructure build-up. Meanwhile, the owner of SpaceX and Starlink is coming to be seen as a public enemy in Europe. Twitter/X may be banned, and alternatives to Starlink are being sought for Ukraine.

Europe has been taking a leisurely pace to develop a reusable rocket. ESA has two separate plans in development, but neither with urgent deadlines. Will this soon change? Germany recently announced ambitious plans for a spaceplane that can take off from regular runways. Its 2028 delivery date seemed very ambitious. If it is part of a new German military, might it happen on time?

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Chinese breakthrough engine seeks to reduce flight times to half an hour (www.msn.com)

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Scientists discover a protein that reverses cellular aging (www.earth.com)

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Drilling the deepest hole in history: Unlocking geothermal energy (newatlas.com)

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China claims it is developing a 66 satellite network that will enable it to globally track hundreds of millions of shipping containers in real time. (interestingengineering.com)

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Second-ever privately funded space craft touches down on moon (news.sky.com)

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How DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth - AI-powered BaZi analysis has become the new oracle for a disillusioned generation seeking answers. (www.technologyreview.com)

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10,000x Smaller: Tiny Nano-Antenna Could Revolutionize Wireless Tech (scitechdaily.com)

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The lacklustre performance of ChatGPT 4.5 provides further evidence that the era of steady pretraining scaling is over. This has many implications for AI governance. (www.tobyord.com)

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Scientists identify 'inflammation' gene that hastens aging (medicalxpress.com)

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A noninvasive brain stimulation device has shown promise in treating depression, PTSD, and addiction. (medicalxpress.com)

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China and the US are taking divergent approaches to commerciazing AI (aiproem.substack.com)

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Researchers at Imperial College London have reported that an AI-powered scientific tool developed by Google accomplished in just 48 hours what took them nearly a decade to solve and verify. (www.techspot.com)

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Apptronik signs bold deal to let Apollo humanoid robot build humanoids (interestingengineering.com)

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The Engineers that EVs Made Expendable. At Ford, combustion engine experts used to be rock stars. Not anymore. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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People are forming relationships with AI chatbots. Some of these are purely professional, others more complicated. (www.technologyreview.com)

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Alibaba's Wan2.1, an open-source suite of powerful video generation models that outperform SOTA open-source & closed models such as Sora on key benchmarks — while generating videos at 2.5x the speed. (wanxai.com)

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MIT team takes a major step toward fully 3D-printed active electronics (news.mit.edu)

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