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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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Shanghai 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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