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er of 2028. That creates a tightrope for SK Hynix: it’s expanding capacity in South Korea and investing in the US, but new factories and advanced packaging lines have long lead times, and a sudden wave of new supply can quickly flip a shortage into a glut. For now, though, big cloud companies keep spending…

President Lee Jae-myung has formalized plans to create a “Future Response Fund” that will convert the massive additional tax revenue anticipated from the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor boom into strategic investment resources for the nation’s future. The strategy aims to secure national growth engines by aggressively deploying the government’s fiscal capacity during a critical window…

Scientists have successfully shown a quantum computer can improve the accuracy and reach of generative artificial intelligence drug discovery models. And they did it using their spare time and money leftover from other projects. The Technical University of Denmark team ran their generative AI model for predicting proteins in conjunction with a printer-sized quantum computer…

Daring tree climbers and researchers have challenged a major assumption in tree drought biology.  In rainforests on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, water transport systems of a colossal, dominating family of trees are not more impaired than shorter trees in the face of drought, researchers report July 2 in Science. The find counters the notion that…

Lost in CuriosityRoberta KwokSourcebooks, $27.99 Earning my Ph.D. was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I distinctly remember the first time I wanted to quit. I was a first-year grad student at the University of Chicago, and while taking images of my nanomaterial with a fancy microscope, I accidentally rammed the material into…

Few events in history have tested the U.S. energy grid like the AI revolution. As data centers proliferate across the country, their cumulative power demand is projected to double by next year, rising from 31 gigawatts to 66 gigawatts. In some parts of the country, the energy needs of AI are already outpacing available capacity,…