Category: Americas
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Google halved the price of its coding model, OpenAI previewed a tier fourteen times faster, DeepSeek is charging more — while AI infrastructure commitments approach $1.5 trillion. The arithmetic only works one way.
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Google halved the price of its coding model and OpenAI previewed a tier running fourteen times faster, while DeepSeek raised prices. The AI contest has shifted from capability to cost per token — and someone is absorbing the difference.
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Washington is reportedly telling 35 countries they cannot join both its Pax Silica framework and Beijing’s rival AI organisation. The 5G fight was the rehearsal; this one runs deeper.
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A draft State Department letter tells the 35 signatories of a US AI statement that they cannot hold Pax Silica membership alongside China’s rival framework. One country has already joined both — and the letter never names China.
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A study of 111,646 women found 30% fewer breast cancer diagnoses among GLP-1 users. The absolute difference was 0.69 percentage points, the design cannot show causation, and a trial review found no overall cancer effect.
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Webb has found an object from 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like a star the size of the solar system but radiates 100 billion times more energy than one can. It may explain the “little red dots.”
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Eight infant macaques given a three-part regimen within 72 hours of infection showed no detectable HIV a year after treatment stopped. A striking result — and a long way from a treatment for babies.
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From Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover watched Earth — a single point of light 195 million miles away — vanish behind the Martian moon Phobos. A first from the surface of Mars.
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The USS George Washington is heading to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, deployed more than 250 days with no port call in 200. What that does to a crew, and what the swap signals.
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The toll from Colombia’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake has reached 281 dead and nearly 4,000 injured, with more than 12,000 homes destroyed. Rescue has given way to recovery, and the missing-persons figures need careful reading.