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XPeng's IRON Walks Off the First Automated Humanoid Line - TCR 09/08/26
XPeng's IRON robot walked off the first automated humanoid line, as Malaysia weighs Huawei chips for a sovereign AI build.
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Washington's Fable Ban Fuels the Push for Truly Open AI - TCR 06/14/26
Reporting traced Anthropic's worldwide model shutdown to a rival CEO's warning, and India answered by accelerating toward open-weight AI.
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Why Antivirals Keep Failing COVID - TCR 05/11/26
The 20-Second Scan * Iowa State researchers led by Yang Yang captured the SARS-CoV-2 proofreading enzyme interacting with antiviral compounds at 2.4-angstrom resolution, the highest yet recorded for the enzyme, in papers published in Nature Communications and PNAS. * A nanopore sequencing protocol decentralized malaria genomic surveillance across six sub-Saharan African