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• 🍎 Apple's Siri makeover: Google partnership leaked?

• 💰 U.S. government quietly becomes Intel's biggest owner

• 🧬 OpenAI transforms stem cell research with protein engineering.

• 💧 Researchers challenge Gemini's environmental footprint data.

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💧 Google puts Gemini’s footprint under the microscope

How green is your chatbot?

This week, Google released a blog post unpacking the environmental footprint of Gemini — and it sparked more questions than answers.

The big claim? Each Gemini request supposedly uses the same energy as watching 9 seconds of TV and only five drops of water.

But here’s the catch: researchers say that number leaves out most of the actual water usage.

🌍 What Google Claims

• ⚡ Each Gemini request = 9 seconds of TV

• 💧 Water used = 5 drops per query

• 📉 Gemini became 33x more energy efficient

• 🌱 Carbon output cut by 44x

🔎 What Researchers Say

• Google skipped a major factor:
  🌊 Water used by power plants powering data centers

• That’s where the real footprint lies.

⚖️ Gemini vs. ChatGPT

• Gemini query: 0.24 Wh

• ChatGPT query: 0.34 Wh
  ➡️ Gemini comes out slightly leaner.

❓ Why It Matters

AI is booming, but so are concerns about its environmental cost.

• 📊 Reports may paint a rosy picture

• 🏭 Industry-wide third-party standards may be the only way to get the full story

📢 Takeaway

Google says Gemini is sipping water…
💧 But critics argue the real impact is leaking out.

Full Story here —  Google says Gemini sips water, but is the full story leaking out?

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🧬 OpenAI + Retro Biosciences: Rewinding Aging Cells

Science just bent the rules of aging.

OpenAI teamed up with Retro Biosciences to reprogram human cells — and the results are 50x more powerful than the Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough from 2012.

🔍 What Happened?

• 🧪 Researchers built GPT-4b micro — trained on biology, not internet text

• 🔄 It re-engineered Yamanaka proteins (the ones that rewind aging cells back into stem cells)

• 🚀 The result: 50x higher efficiency + stronger DNA repair

🧨 The Breakthrough

✅ Old cells turned into stem cells at record speed
✅ Reversed one of the cellular signatures of aging
✅ Multiple labs confirmed the results

💡 Why It Matters

This isn’t just anti-aging science.
It’s a new way of doing science.

🖥️ Custom AI trained on biology =
Decades of lab work → compressed into weeks

Imagine the same for:
🔬 Chemistry
⚙️ Materials science
💊 Drug discovery

📈 The Big Picture

AI won’t just talk back to us.
It could reprogram life itself.

Full story here — AI Just Reversed Aging - 50x Faster Than Science Thought Possible

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Trending Today

• SF Weekly Pulse: AI to design Humanoid Robots making other Robots.

• Apple is exploring a major overhaul of Siri and is reportedly in early talks with Google to use its Gemini AI. Bloomberg says Google already trained a custom Gemini model on Apple’s private servers for testing. Inside Apple, two Siri versions are being developed: “Linwood,” powered by Apple’s own models, and “Glenwood,” which uses external tech. Apple has also spoken with OpenAI and Anthropic, but hasn’t made a final call yet. If it partners externally, Siri’s long-delayed revival could reach iPhone users sooner than the expected 2026 upgrade.

• The U.S. government has quietly become Intel’s biggest shareholder after converting nearly $11 billion in earlier grants into a 10% equity stake, largely through the CHIPS and Science Act and Secure Enclave program. The move gives Washington no board power or governance rights, but it strengthens U.S. control over critical chipmaking. Intel’s stock jumped on the news, giving the company more room to rebuild its struggling foundry business.

• Google is adding new "agentic" features to AI Mode, enabling it to book dinner reservations based on your preferences across multiple platforms — though you'll need to shell out $250 monthly for the Ultra subscription to access it. A new sharing feature also lets users collaborate on searches, making it easier to plan trips or events together. The company has also unveiled plans to roll out AI Mode to over 180 countries.

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