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Tech Across the Globe

Nadella’s hobby: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been spending his free time coding and designing an app to analyze his favorite sport — cricket.

China’s chips: Huawei and manufacturing partner SMIC are making advances in chip production technology despite US efforts to limit their progress.

Google’s lab: Google DeepMind will open a research lab in the UK aimed at discovering new materials as part of the push to apply artificial intelligence to more scientific fields.

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Revalued

Startup Medra has raised $52 million for one of the largest autonomous labs in the US. The company, which programs robots with AI to conduct biological experiments, recently signed a deal to work on early drug discovery with Roche subsidiary Genentech.

Must Read

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s campaign to get the US government to lift export restrictions on his company’s market leading AI chips has paid off, in a manner of speaking, Ian King reports in today’s Tech In Depth. Nividia is getting the go-ahead to sell its H200 chip, an earlier model than the company’s current top-of-the-line AI products, and there’s no guarantee that potential Chinese customers will buy it.

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AI leaders are talking about the benefits of building models that can keep learning after they are trained, Shirin Ghaffary reports in this week’s Q&AI. This idea, called continual learning, mimics the way people learn and become skilled over time and may be the key to additional breakthroughs in the technology, she writes.

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