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China Will Close the Semiconductor Gap After EUV Lithography Breakthrough

China has built a prototype EUV (extreme ultraviolent) lithography machine in a high-security laboratory in Shenzhen. They had a semiconductor Manhattan Project”. The prototype was completed in early 2025 and is now undergoing testing. It occupies nearly an entire factory floor and was assembled using reverse-engineered components. Ramp-up timeline Functional for chip production around 2028. …

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Google AI Lead Shane Legg Defines Levels of AGI and Superintelligence and How to Test for It and When he Expects It

Shane Legg talks about the 1997 and later creation and popular definition of general intelligence. Shane Legg, co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, defines levels of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a spectrum rather than a single binary threshold. NOTE: He mentions a 1997 paper on nanotechnology security that defined AGI. I, Brian …

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OpenAI Raising $100 Billion at About $830 Billion Valuation

OpenAI is holding preliminary talks with Amazon for an investment over $10 billion, including use of Amazon Web Services’ Trainium chips for AI training. This is separate from raising up to $100 billion at a $830 billion valuation, up 66% from October’s $500 billion mark. The $100B raise tells you what Sam Altman and OpenAI …

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Crazy – Arrest Warrant Out for Brown Shooter Who Might Also Have Killed MIT Professor

As of December 18, 2025, law enforcement authorities are actively investigating a potential connection between the mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (on December 13), and the fatal shooting of MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts (on December 15). There are reports that some 40 year old …

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