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Tuesday · 21 July 2026
Trump team wants to block Kimi K3. Anyone can grab it now.
Axios says the White House is weighing new curbs on Chinese open-source AI. But Kimi K3, the model that spooked them, is free code you can download tonight.
AI
→Bitcoin miner Hut 8 rents its Texas campus to AI for $9.8B
The 15-year lease fills the site with an AI customer instead of Bitcoin rigs.
Crypto
→Bristol Myers touts pharma's biggest AI. It's the third.
BMS is the third pharma company in nine months to claim it has the industry's most powerful AI machine — a race that's suddenly very crowded.
Biotech
→Pacific Fusion's new machine survived 3,000 test pulses
Sirius handles only the electricity side, not the actual fusion fuel — but it stayed reliable across thousands of test pulses.
Energy
→SpaceX's giant Starship gets a second try Thursday
After four Raptor engines failed to ignite on July 16, SpaceX swapped two out and now aims for July 23 — carrying the first Starlink V3 satellites aboard.
Space
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