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AI’s Energy Crisis Solved? UCLA’s Super-Conductive Material, Oklo’s Nuclear Power for Meta, and Intel’s 180 TOPS Chip Redefine HPC

AI’s Energy Crisis Solved? UCLA’s Super-Conductive Material, Oklo’s Nuclear Power for Meta, and Intel’s 180 TOPS Chip Redefine HPC

TL;DR * UCLA Researchers Discover Theta-Phase Tantalum Nitride with 1,100 W/mK Thermal Conductivity, Surpassing Copper and Silver * Politecnico di Milano Develops CMOS-Based Analog Accelerator Using Resistive Memory, Achieving 5,000x Lower Energy Than Digital Systems * Oklo Secures $1.2 GW Nuclear Power Deal with Meta for Ohio Reactor,
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Samsung Charges for Galaxy AI, OpenAI Launches Tone-Aware Translate, RISA Labs Raises $11M to Revolutionize Oncology — AI Monetization Hits Mainstream

Samsung Charges for Galaxy AI, OpenAI Launches Tone-Aware Translate, RISA Labs Raises $11M to Revolutionize Oncology — AI Monetization Hits Mainstream

Samsung makes Call & Photo Assist paid, OpenAI drops ChatGPT Translate with tone control, and RISA Labs raises $11M to unify oncology AI via FHIR. AI is no longer just a perk — it’s a subscription. 🚀 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Samsung #OpenAI #HealthcareAI #AImonetization #TechTrends2026 Samsung Makes Galaxy AI Paid: Call Assist
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Apple Integrates Google Gemini into Siri for Proactive AI, Launches Manzano Multimodal Model Amid California’s Grok Deepfake Probe and Federal AI Hiring Push

Apple Integrates Google Gemini into Siri for Proactive AI, Launches Manzano Multimodal Model Amid California’s Grok Deepfake Probe and Federal AI Hiring Push

TL;DR * Apple and Google partner to integrate Gemini AI into Siri, enabling new multimodal features like proactive personal assistance via Gmail, Photos, and YouTube on iOS 26.4 and beyond. * Apple researchers unveil Manzano, a unified multimodal AI model with hybrid vision tokenizer and diffusion decoder, achieving state-of-the-art performance
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