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Google DeepMind has dismantled the team behind AlphaFold, the protein-folding system that earned its researchers a Nobel Prize. The move signals a strategic pivot at DeepMind, where leadership appears to be consolidating resources around newer priorities, raising real questions about what happens to groundbreaking science once the trophy is on the shelf.
Shifting from biology to geopolitics, the United States government has moved to effectively ban imported advanced robots, citing supply chain vulnerabilities and national security concerns. The decision came through a National Security Determination alongside an FCC update, and it reflects a growing pattern of Washington treating hardware, not just software, as a matter of strategic sovereignty.
On a more technical but quietly significant note, engineers at Collabora have been working to port RADV, the open-source Vulkan driver built for AMD graphics hardware, over to Windows. That might sound like plumbing work, but it chips away at the assumption that open graphics infrastructure belongs exclusively to Linux, and it could matter a great deal for developers navigating both worlds.
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