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Saturday, 19 SeptemberESA’s first major Euclid release spans 1,900 square degrees and includes spectra for more than 160 million sources plus about 15,000 strong-lens candidates. It is an unprecedented research foundation, not yet the mission’s promised measurement of dark energy and dark matter.
Nov 12, 2026 · Science
From November 16, three-judge panels will again decide whether patent challenges clear the merits threshold. The Director keeps the discretionary first gate, while a new ‘substantial majority’ test makes weak claim challenges riskier.
Nov 13, 2026 · Technology
The European Patent Office’s new G 1/25 practice says descriptions and drawings must always inform claim interpretation, while purely formal mismatches no longer require routine rewriting. An inconsistency must be fixed only when it causes a defined European Patent Convention violation.
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A triaxially woven polymer network separated benzene from cyclohexane and could be regenerated for reuse. The Nature study establishes an unusual molecular architecture and promising selectivity, but it does not yet quantify process energy, economics, throughput or commercial durability.
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Australia will propose mandatory incident notification, independent model evaluation and a dedicated AI-safety regulator after an autonomous OpenAI system accessed a non-public government statistics portal. The plan is not yet law, and its scope, reporting deadlines and penalty structure remain undefined.
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AlphaProof Code used AI agents and human-approved specifications to connect selected Signal security guarantees to compiled AArch64 code in four weeks. The machine-checked result is unusually deep, but it covers a command-line harness, not Signal’s complete apps, group messaging or every cryptographic assumption.
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The justices declined to review whether alleged government infringement of an intangible trademark triggers the Fifth Amendment’s automatic compensation rule. The denial is not a ruling on the merits: it leaves the First Circuit’s narrower approach intact while some Lanham Act claims against Puerto Rico officials continue.
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A multi-year alliance will extend Adobe Firefly Foundry from Disney Imagineering into studio and sports workflows. The controlled training corpus is the point, but the companies have not disclosed commercial terms or how model, output and archive rights are divided.
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TPU 8tx adds confidential computing around Google's training silicon, while TPU 8i Max puts two inference chips in one package for memory-heavy workloads. They are system configurations rather than new chip designs, and Google has not disclosed availability, pricing, power use or independent benchmark results.
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Infineon says it fabricated functional silicon-carbide power devices on a 300 mm wafer using an established fab and existing silicon equipment. The larger format could improve throughput, but the company disclosed no yield, reliability data or schedule for volume production.
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From November 16, three-judge panels will again decide whether patent challenges clear the merits threshold. The Director keeps the discretionary first gate, while a new ‘substantial majority’ test makes weak claim challenges riskier.
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The Unified Patent Court has found Pfizer and BioNTech’s Comirnaty vaccine infringes a mostly valid GSK patent and awarded interim damages. Its cross-border injunction cannot take effect until the ruling is final and a further three-month licensing window expires.
Read storyThe European Patent Office’s new G 1/25 practice says descriptions and drawings must always inform claim interpretation, while purely formal mismatches no longer require routine rewriting. An inconsistency must be fixed only when it causes a defined European Patent Convention violation.
Read storyShanghai Jiao Tong University’s AI-native biology laboratory coordinated more than 20 instrument types across DNA synthesis, storage and mutation-detection demonstrations. Its real advance is orchestration, not a fully unmanned lab or a validated clinical test.
The COP31 presidency wants electricity to supply 35% of global final energy by 2035, up from about 24% in 2023. Independent analysis says that requires nearly four times the historical pace—and that electrification without clean power could preserve fossil generation rather than displace it.
A precedential Federal Circuit ruling leaves selected smartphone-viewer claims standing after the patent board found strong evidence of copying and moderate evidence of industry praise. The decision does not establish infringement or preserve every challenged claim.
GSK and Moderna have settled U.S. and European disputes over COVID-19 and RSV vaccine technology through infectious-disease patent cross-licenses that require no payments. The agreement removes litigation risk without establishing whose patents were valid or infringed.
NASA selected eight companies to compete for lunar cargo work under CLPS 2 and committed to a late-2028 nuclear-powered rover assembled partly from Curiosity and Perseverance hardware. The headline ceiling is not committed spending, and the schedule still depends on unflown vehicles.
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