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- Dodgers All-Star Offers 5-Word Response On Season-Ending WBC Injury
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ new star sent a clear response on his World Baseball Classic decision after a brutal injury.
- Can Myrtle Beach Build The Next Carlsbad-Style Golf Industry Cluster?
A new partnership aims to leverage Myrtle Beach’s $1.6 billion golf tourism engine to recruit equipment makers, apparel brands and golf-tech firms.
- A shiny new Fed Chairman will be keen to start with an interest rate cut—but the bank is growing more hawkish due to Iran
"Clearly there’s growing scepticism that a new Chair can start cutting straight away, particularly with the data as strong as it is right now," noted Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid.
- Exclusive: The Pentagon is committing $150M to a maritime tech VC fund and appears to be ramping up venture deals
The Department of Defense, which has now backed more than 23 funds, hadn’t announced any new commitments over the last year.
- The Fed Could Do Real Damage If The Iran War Doesn’t End Fast
An overlooked danger of the Iran war is the Federal Reserve's reaction.
Technology
- How much wildfire prevention is too much?
The race to prevent the worst wildfires has been an increasingly high-tech one. Companies are proposing AI fire detection systems and drones that can stamp out early blazes. And now, one Canadian startup says it’s going after lightning. Lightning-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian wildfires of 2023 generated nearly 500 million metric…
- Online harassment is entering its AI era
Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library that he helps manage. Like many open-source projects, matplotlib has been overwhelmed by a glut of AI code contributions, and so Shambaugh and his fellow maintainers have instituted a policy that all AI-written code must be…
- TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant
Plant won't be done until 2030 at the earliest, and it still needs an operating license.
- Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space
"I am not aware of anything that is extraterrestrial, other than comets and things like that."
- Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases
System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more.
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