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Researchers have published findings in Nature on a divergent betacoronavirus discovered in South American bats — one that carries a functional furin cleavage site, the same structural feature that made SARS-CoV-two so transmissible. Scientists say the discovery underscores how widely these mechanisms exist in the wild, and why surveillance matters long before a virus reaches humans.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, a researcher named Greg Diamos is making waves with work on outrageously small neural networks — models capable of emergent reasoning running at over six thousand tokens per second on a single Intel AMX core. It's a pointed challenge to the assumption that intelligence at scale requires massive infrastructure, and it's drawing serious attention from the efficiency-minded corners of the AI community.
And on the hardware side, GMKtec is pushing a mini PC called the NucBox M five Ultra into the market at a starting price of three hundred thirty dollars. It pairs a Ryzen seven processor with dual two-point-five gigabit ethernet and Wi-Fi six E. The chip is a few generations old under the hood, but for budget-conscious buyers, the value proposition is genuinely hard to dismiss.
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