Health
European Commission allocates 225 million euros via pre-commercial procurement to push next-gen flu vaccines through clinical trials over 98 months.
WHO prequalified Biological E nOPV2 vaccine type 2, adding an India-based maker and widening UN procurement for type 2 outbreak control worldwide now, this week.
WHO and IARC say 37% of 2022 cancer cases were tied to preventable risks, led by cigarettes and infections, pointing to vaccines and stronger controls worldwide.
South Ural State University scientists in Chelyabinsk developed soft brined cheese fortified with berberine, using an emulsion method to keep it stable in tests.
Technology
European Parliament disables built-in AI tools on work-issued devices in Brussels, citing cybersecurity and data-protection risks tied to cloud processing today.
Antonio Guterres called India a successful emerging economy, and said it is the right place to host the AI Impact Summit, now under way in New Delhi, Feb 16-20.
Maia 200 is Microsoft’s second-gen AI chip for inference, designed for Azure data centers with HBM3e memory, on-chip SRAM, and linked scaling.
Apple boosts wireless performance on supported Macs and iPads through software updates that unlock wider Wi-Fi channels and higher throughput on 5 GHz networks.
At CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia introduced Alpamayo, an open AI model suite for autonomous vehicles, alongside new chips designed for training and inference workloads.