US’s AI Lead Over China Rapidly Shrinking
The U.S. is still the global leader in state-of-the-art AI, but China has closed the gap considerably. Institutions based in the U.S. produced 40 AI models of note in 2024, compared with 15 from China and three from Europe, according to the eighth edition of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Index, released Read more…
No, the Dire Wolf Has Not Been Brought Back From Extinction
Colossal Biosciences has claimed it “successfully restored” the extinct dire wolf after a “10,000+ year absence,” but scientists clarify these are actually genetically modified grey wolves. The U.S. company announced three pups — males Remus and Romulus born in October, and female Khaleesi born in January — as dire wolves, Read more…
Apple Rushes Shipments From India To Dodge Tariffs
Apple rushed five planeloads of iPhones from India to the U.S. in just three days to beat new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, Times of India reported Monday, citing sources. The urgent shipments during the final week of March aimed to avoid the 10% reciprocal tariff that took effect Read more…
As Stocks (and Cryptocurrencies) Drop After Tariffs, France Considers Retaliating Against US Big Tech
“U.S. stock market futures plunged on Sunday evening,” reports Yahoo Finance, “after the new U.S. tariff policy began collecting duties over the weekend…” The EU will vote on $28 billion in retaliatory tariffs Wednesday. And those tariffs will be approved unless a qualified majority of 15 EU members representing 65% Read more…
America’s NIH Scientists Have a Cancer Breakthrough. Layoffs are Delaying It.
Scientists demonstrated a promising step toward using a person’s own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers at America’s National Institutes of Health (or NIH). But the results were published in Nature Medicine on Tuesday — “the same day the agency was hit with devastating layoffs…” The treatment approach is still Read more…




