In this week’s News of Note, Google and the General Services Administration make a deal to bring Google Gemini to federal agencies, NASA and IBM create a “digital twin” of the Sun, and the largest satellite antenna in history gets launched into space. Elsewhere, plans have been announced to start issuing Department of Commerce statistics to the blockchain.
- Google launches “Gemini for Government” AI platform for federal agencies. (AI News, Dashveenjit Kaur)
- NASA & ISRO launch largest satellite antenna in history to assist in natural disaster response. (Wired, Ritsuko Kawai)
- IBM & NASA create AI tool to predict future solar storms. (Wired, Fernanda González)
- IBM & Advance Micro Devices announce team-up to develop “quantum-centric supercomputing.” (Yahoo! Finance, Nisha Gopalan)
- U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says Department of Commerce will start issuing economic statistics on the blockchain. (The Block, Danny Park)
- Vox AI raises $8.7 million to bring autonomous voice ordering to restaurant drive-thrus. (Restaurant Technology News, Lea Mira)