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xAI's Grok agent is making headlines for its ambition and its appetite. The system can navigate workplace software and coordinate with other AI bots on your behalf, but to do any of that, it needs access to your accounts. Security researchers are already asking who's really in control when an autonomous bot holds the keys.
Shifting to storage, Chinese firm DapuStor has unveiled what may be the world's largest solid-state drive, packing five hundred twelve terabytes into a single enterprise form-factor unit. That's half a petabyte in one drive, powered by PCIe five point zero and NVMe two point zero. It's aimed squarely at data centers, but it signals where the capacity ceiling is heading.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of biology and technology, Japanese scientists have used CRISPR to remove the Y chromosome from male mouse embryos, producing viable female clones. It's the first time this has been done deliberately, and reproductive biologists say it could reshape how we think about genetics and cloning research going forward.
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