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Americans who rely on lower-cost prescription drugs imported from Canada may soon find that option disappearing. US Customs is moving to restrict cross-border access to those medications, a shift that could hit patients managing chronic conditions especially hard, reigniting the long-running debate over drug pricing in America.
On a lighter but telling note, the Trump administration has been quietly pushing to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," with some close to the president adopting the term in public remarks. Experts are skeptical it will stick, and the episode says something interesting about how political circles are trying to shape the narrative around a technology they know voters are watching closely.
And for developers working without dedicated hardware, a new tool called RGPU lets you tap into a remote Nvidia GPU directly through PyTorch, even if the machine you're sitting at has none. It's a small but practical idea that speaks to a broader trend of democratizing access to compute power, especially as AI workloads grow heavier and local hardware stays expensive.
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