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NVIDIA closed its latest quarter with revenue nearly doubling to close to one hundred billion dollars, as CEO Jensen Huang declared a new golden age of computing. Amazon is underscoring that confidence by tripling its chip order, adding two million NVIDIA GPUs to its data centers over the next two years to meet what it calls surging demand. The scale of capital flowing into this infrastructure is genuinely hard to overstate.

Shifting from silicon to the stars, a researcher with no formal astronomy background has just had a paper accepted by The Astronomical Journal after statistically validating sixty-four new exoplanets using data from NASA's TESS satellite. Using AI to automate the data pipeline, this independent contributor helped produce one of the largest exoplanet validation studies ever conducted, which is a remarkable reminder that scientific participation is quietly being democratized.

And closer to home, Google has published research on GlucoFM, a foundation model trained specifically on continuous glucose monitoring data. The goal is to better predict and interpret blood sugar patterns, with real implications for how diabetes is managed at scale. It is an example of AI being applied not to generate text, but to genuinely extend clinical insight.

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