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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has unveiled a metal three-D printing breakthrough that could quietly reshape manufacturing. By steering lasers along elliptical loops rather than straight lines, the technique stirs molten metal mid-print, producing stronger custom alloys on demand. Crucially, existing printers can adopt it through a software update alone.
From the factory floor to the battlefield, a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies argues that the next major conflict will be decided less by drones in the air and more by the code running them. The analysis contends that autonomous decision-making software, not hardware, is the real strategic frontier, and that nations investing in algorithms now are building tomorrow's military advantage.
And Microsoft is quietly expanding who gets to use its Copilot-plus artificial intelligence features. Experimental builds of Windows eleven are now allowing those capabilities to run on discrete graphics cards, not just the dedicated neural processing units that most users don't have. It's a pragmatic concession that could bring local AI tools to tens of millions more machines without anyone buying new hardware.
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