The People’s Liberation Army has released rare footage showing its reconnaissance drones tracking a ‘hostile warship,’ highlighting China’s increasing integration of unmanned systems with intelligence operations.
The video, aired in Forging Ahead, the PLA’s latest military documentary, depicts a coordinated mission involving the WZ-7 and WZ-10 unmanned aerial vehicles. Both are high-altitude, long-endurance platforms built by the Aviation Industry Corp (AVIC) of China for surveillance missions.
The wargaming, which enhances human judgment, has long been a vital method for understanding human decision-making in complex, uncertain environments by harnessing the power of experiential learning.
While traditional wargames offer deep insights into how decisions play out under pressure, their dependence on expert facilitators and labor-intensive design limits their scalability and speed.
APL revealed that Generative Wargaming (GenWar) is a next-generation capability that integrates generative artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation (M&S), and human expertise. GenWar allows the institute to build and run wargames in days instead of months, analyze dozens of alternative futures at scale, and focus human attention on the scenarios that most demand thoughtful deliberation.
Persistent genomic instability compromises cellular viability while also triggers non-cell-autonomous responses that drive dysfunction across tissues, contributing to aging. Recent evidence suggests that DNA damage activates secretory programs, including the release of inflammatory cytokines, damage-associated molecular patterns, and extracellular vesicles, that reshape immune homeostasis, stem cell function, and metabolic balance. Although these responses may initially support tissue integrity and organismal survival, their chronic activation has been associated with tissue degenerative changes and systemic decline. Here, we discuss how nuclear DNA damage responses trigger the activation of cytoplasmic sensing pathways, promote secretory phenotypes, and affect organismal physiology. Targeting DNA damage-driven mechanisms may help buffer harmful systemic responses while preserving regeneration and immune surveillance, offering new ways to delay aging-related decline.
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Elon Musk added that for a limited time, Grok Imagine video generation is free to all users in the US region.
(You can access anything in any region with a VPN 🙄)
Generative Artificial Intelligence (gen AI) firm xAI, earlier this week, introduced the Imagine video generation feature in the Grok AI app for iPhones.
Now, the company has expanded the availability of the video generation feature to the Android version of the Grok AI app. Elon Musk confirmed the news on his social media platform X. Also, Musk added that for a limited time, Grok Imagine video generation is free for a limited time for US region users.
AI Innovation: xAI brings Imagine video generation to Grok AI Android app, now free for US users for a limited time.
SpaceX is making significant progress towards establishing a human presence on Mars, with a major contract, advancements in technology, and plans for infrastructure development, potentially giving them a lead over competitors and raising questions about the future of space exploration and ownership ##
## Questions to inspire discussion.
Mars Exploration and Infrastructure.
🚀 Q: What is SpaceX’s breakthrough in Mars exploration? A: SpaceX’s Starship secured its first paying customer for Mars payloads: the Italian Space Agency, in a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
🔬 Q: What experiments will the Italian Space Agency conduct on Mars? A: The payload includes plant growth, radiation, and local climate monitoring experiments, collecting data during the 6-month flight and on Mars’ surface.
🤖 Q: How will robots assist in Mars exploration? A: SpaceX plans to send 1,000–2,000 Optimus robots to Mars to fix rovers, run experiments, maintain equipment, and scout locations for future missions.
NVIDIA and OpenAI began pushing the boundaries of AI with the launch of NVIDIA DGX back in 2016. The collaborative AI innovation continues with the OpenAI gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b launch. NVIDIA has optimized both new open-weight models for accelerated inference performance on NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, delivering up to 1.5 million tokens per second (TPS) on an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 system.
The gpt-oss models are text-reasoning LLMs with chain-of-thought and tool-calling capabilities using the popular mixture of experts (MoE) architecture with SwigGLU activations. The attention layers use RoPE with 128k context, alternating between full context and a sliding 128-token window. The models are released in FP4 precision, which fits on a single 80 GB data center GPU and is natively supported by Blackwell.
The models were trained on NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, with gpt-oss-120b requiring over 2.1 million hours and gpt-oss-20b about 10x less. NVIDIA worked with several top open-source frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers, Ollama, and vLLM, in addition to NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM for optimized kernels and model enhancements. This blog post showcases how NVIDIA has integrated gpt-oss across the software platform to meet developers’ needs.
Questions to inspire discussion.
👥 Q: What is the ratio of robo taxis to supervisors in Tesla’s network? A: Tesla’s robo taxi network operates with a 10:1 ratio of robo taxis to supervisors, enabling efficient management and cost-effective operations.
Market Disruption.
📊 Q: How is Whim, a Tesla competitor, performing in the market? A: As of April 2025, Whim has 25% of San Francisco gross bookings, surpassing Lyft, with an average price of $20 per mile compared to Uber’s $15 and Lyft’s $14.
Technology Superiority.
🤖 Q: How does Tesla’s robo taxi software compare to human drivers? A: Tesla’s robo taxi software has crossed the uncanny valley, providing a smooth and comfortable driving experience similar to a human chauffeur, outperforming Uber’s inconsistent service.
IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 Nexus aims to democratize access to advanced computing with its groundbreaking capabilities. 🔬 The supercomputer is set to revolutionize scientific research with over 400 quadrillion operations per second. 🌍 Nexus’s accessibility philosophy ensures researchers nationwide can utilize its powerful AI tools. 🔗 Georgia Tech collaborates with the University of Illinois for