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Defense startup Anduril is dealing with a serious setback after an explosion destroyed its rocket motor test site in Mississippi. The facility was central to the company's work designing and testing prototype motors for military customers, and the disruption raises real questions about delivery timelines on active contracts.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, a panel of forty scientists convened by the United Nations has released a sobering assessment — one that says researchers simply cannot rule out catastrophic harm from advanced AI systems. The panel found that AI capabilities are advancing faster than both scientific understanding and government oversight, a gap that policymakers have yet to seriously close.
And in a move that would shake up the cloud computing landscape, Meta is reportedly building its own server infrastructure business, putting the social media giant in direct competition with Amazon and Google. For years Meta has been one of the biggest buyers of cloud services — now it appears to want a seat on the other side of that table.
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