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In today's Techpresso:

📈 US government may buy a stake in Intel

❌ Meta AI rules allowed romantic chats with minors

📱 Google's latest open AI model can run on your smartphone

💾 China is about to launch SSDs the size of a SIM card

💊 AI designs new antibiotics for superbugs

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📈 US government may buy a stake in Intel LINK
  • The Trump administration is considering taking a stake in Intel, a move that could provide a capital injection to speed up construction at the company's slowed Ohio fab project.
  • This potential government investment follows a meeting between Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and President Trump, after which the chip-maker’s shares rose by approximately seven percent on the news.
  • The plan would be another federal intervention in a key industry, similar to when the Defence Department took a preferred equity stake in US rare earth producer MP Materials Corporation.
❌ Meta AI rules allowed romantic chats with minors LINK
  • An internal Meta document with standards for its AI chatbots contained a policy that explicitly allowed them to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual."
  • The guidelines, approved by company legal and ethics staff, included an example of an acceptable flirtatious reply to a user identified as a high school student.
  • Meta acknowledged the text was real but called the specific notes "erroneous," claiming the rules have been removed and no longer permit provocative behavior with kids.
📱 Google's latest open AI model can run on your smartphone LINK
  • Google's Gemma 3 270M is a 270-million-parameter model small enough to operate locally on a smartphone like the Pixel 9 Pro SoC, entirely without an internet connection.
  • An INT4-quantized version shows strong energy efficiency, using just 0.75 percent of a device's battery for 25 conversations during internal tests, making it practical for mobile hardware.
  • Beyond smartphones, the lightweight AI also runs directly inside a web browser or on a Raspberry Pi, powering offline creative apps like Google’s Bedtime Story Generator demo.
💾 China is about to launch SSDs the size of a SIM card LINK
  • Chinese company Biwin has revealed a new "Mini SSD" that measures just 15mm x 17mm, a size slightly larger than a MicroSD card but smaller than a United States penny.
  • This tiny drive offers up to 2TB of capacity and uses a PCIe 4x2 connection for sequential read speeds of 3,700 megabytes per second, more than triple new MicroSD Express formats.
  • It uses a dedicated slot with a tray that ejects with a pin like a smartphone's SIM and will appear first in two Chinese gaming portables, including the GPD Win 5.
💊 AI designs new antibiotics for superbugs LINK
  • An AI model designed new antibiotics atom-by-atom, creating drugs to specifically fight the superbugs gonorrhea and mRSA which are now resistant to existing treatments.
  • The research addresses the crisis of antibiotic resistance, which has raised fears that modern medicine could collapse since very few replacement medicines are currently being produced.
  • While these drugs are a long way from the clinic, researchers hope this AI approach can create a new pipeline for drug development against other impossible-to-treat bugs.

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Other news & articles you might like

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  • Stanford's brain-computer interface turns inner speech into spoken words LINK
  • Beijing's first World Humanoid Robot Games open with hip-hop and martial arts LINK
  • Cohere hits a $6.8B valuation as investors AMD, Nvidia, and Salesforce double down LINK
  • US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says LINK
  • SpaceX redesigns Starship to get Mars-bound rocket to stop exploding LINK

Trending research and tools

DINOv3: a family of versatile vision foundation models that produces high-quality features for various imaging tasks, achieving strong performance without needing additional fine-tuning. LINK
Happy Coder: an end-to-end encrypted mobile client to access and control Claude Code from your phone with push notifications and instant device switching. LINK
Where Are All the Tourists from 3025?: this paper examines the distinct lack of clear examples of time-travellers and proposes an explanation for their absence without assuming technical barriers to constructing time machines. LINK

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