Beyond product cycles: the systems, research and decisions that change how the world works.
Blue Origin is expanding factories, payload facilities, launch pads and recovery capacity in Florida to support multiple New Glenn flights per week by 2030. The infrastructure plan is substantial, but the rocket must first return safely from a year-long grounding.
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Beijing has proposed prohibitions or licensing controls for 40 AI, biotech and solar technologies while imposing immediate registration on covered transfers. APIs and most public-domain technology remain outside the planned restrictions.
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A Florida jury found that Comcast’s X1 platform infringed claim 1 of WhereverTV’s interactive-program-guide patent and awarded a $213 million reasonable royalty. Comcast disputes the result and says it will pursue an appeal.
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OpenAI alleges a former employee sent more than 100 confidential files about an unreleased device to personal accounts and later briefed Apple leaders. Apple says it has found no supporting evidence, while a federal judge has ordered limited fast-track discovery in Apple’s original trade-secret case.
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A global settlement ends six patent, trade-secret, contract and antitrust disputes. Liquidia can keep selling Yutrepia for PAH, but it must remove PH-ILD from the label, curb promotion, end trial cohorts and make net payments of $380.7 million.
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MIT has sued Amazon Web Services over two patents for deriving reliable cryptographic values from manufacturing differences inside chips. The complaint targets physical unclonable function technology supplied by Synopsys, but infringement has not been established and both patents are listed as expired.
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The French cloud provider will deploy its first supercomputer outside France with AMD Instinct MI355X accelerators and ROCm software. The plan widens Europe’s AI-compute options, but key details on scale, timing and price remain undisclosed.
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A 3.76-metre concept previews a European-built electric model planned for 2028. Citroën is targeting a starting price around €15,000, but crucial battery, range and production details remain undisclosed.
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The trade agency will examine Vicor’s claim that imported vertical power-delivery systems infringe U.S. Patent 10,903,734. The case reaches across a major electronics supply chain, but no merits decision has been made.
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