DefenseNews

Missile Defense Agency requests $500 million less in new budget

For the first time in three years, the Missile Defense Agency is asking for less money in the upcoming fiscal year, requesting $10.4 billion for 2025, which is about $500 million less than the total leaders said they needed last March. The agency, for the first time in roughly 20 years, did not provide a public briefing on its budget request at the Pentagon. A budget summary provided by the…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tesla-battery maker Panasonic may add 4680 battery capacity to Kansas plant

Tesla battery supplier Panasonic Energy is considering pouring new investments potentially up to $4 billion in its De Soto, Kansas, plant to produce 4680 battery cells for the Tesla Cybertruck and Tesla’s next-gen vehicles. Sources with “direct knowledge of the matter” told Nikkei Asia that the Japanese EV battery maker is considering adding production capacity beyond what is already…
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CryptoNews

Donald Trump Calls BTC 'an Additional Form of Currency' — Says 'I Sometimes Will Let People Pay Through Bitcoin'

Former U.S. President Donald Trump says bitcoin is an “additional form of currency,” emphasizing that the crypto has taken on a life of its own. He also lets people pay for his merchandise with cryptocurrencies. “There has been a lot of use of that, and I’m not sure that I’d want to take it away at this point,” Trump said. Donald Trump Sees Bitcoin as a Form of Currency Presidential…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Insilico Medicine unveils first AI-generated and AI-discovered drug in new paper

Insilico Medicine, the Hong Kong and New York-based biotech startup that has raised over $400 million to connect biology, chemistry, and clinical trial analysis using next-generation AI systems, announced a new paper today that highlights the journey of what it claims is the first AI-generated and AI-discovered drug — which has now reached Phase II clinical trials. The paper, in Nature…
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