DeepMind Develops AI Map of the Human Genome, Enabling Direct Lookup of 9 Billion DNA Variations.
Beating AI News reports that Google DeepMind has launched the AlphaGenome Atlas, a searchable database precomputing all ~9 billion possible single-letter DNA variations in the human genome. The entire dataset is around 1 petabyte (PB), over 30 times larger than the AlphaFold Database. With the human genome containing roughly 3 billion DNA letters, each position can be replaced by 3 other bases, leading to the ~9 billion single-letter variations. Previously, researchers had to analyze variations individually using AlphaGenome; now they can directly retrieve results from the Atlas, avoiding repeated model runs. The Atlas also provides an AVI score for each variation, integrating predictions from AlphaGenome and AlphaMissense to help researchers prioritize variants most likely to have functional impacts. It covers both the ~2% protein-coding regions and the remaining 98% non-coding regions, which are harder to study. Multiple research teams have already used the tool to identify previously overlooked rare disease-related variations, with experiments confirming one such variant causes abnormal RNA splicing.
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Bitcoin rebounds to break through $79,000, while Ethereum rebounds to surpass $2,500.
According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has rebounded to break through $79,000, while Ethereum has also rebounded above $2,500.
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US journalist: Apple's foldable iPhone will be named iPhone Duo, with a starting price of $2,000.
US tech journalist Mark Gurman has revealed that Apple (AAPL.O) has finalized the name of its first foldable iPhone as iPhone Duo, with a starting price of $2,000 — a figure that accounts for additional memory costs. The device will offer a maximum storage capacity of 2TB, corresponding to a price tag of around $3,000. The iPhone Duo is slated for an official launch in October, supports the Apple Pencil, and comes in two color options: dark blue and white.
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Ant Bailing has officially open sourced its first native multimodal model, Ling-3.0-flash-VL.
Ant Bailing has officially open-sourced its first native multimodal model, Ling-3.0-flash-VL. The model was previously launched via API; this release includes BF16 and FP8 weights under the MIT license, with FP4 and INT4 versions to follow later. Ling-3.0-flash-VL can process images, videos, documents, and software interfaces, then call tools to complete operations, and further check and modify based on execution results. For example, when building a webpage, it can write code based on reference images, then review the actual page performance and adjust it on its own. The model uses a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, with approximately 124 billion total parameters and around 5.5 billion activated parameters per inference run. Its context window can be extended up to 1 million tokens. Ling-3.0-flash-VL inherits the core advantage of Ling-3.0-flash as an efficient execution node in agent workflows, balancing output quality and operational efficiency in visual feedback loops, enabling it to complete full tasks at lower cost and in less time.
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A crypto whale transfers another 209 BTC to a centralized exchange (CEX), with its total cashout over the past three months exceeding $12.9 million.
According to EmberCN’s monitoring, a crypto whale transferred 209.1 BTC to Binance roughly half an hour ago, worth about $16.44 million. Over the past three months, this whale has sold a total of 329.1 BTC at an average selling price of $75,392. The BTC were originally accumulated in 2022 at an average cost of $36,066, generating a total profit of approximately $12.94 million and a return of 109%.
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LIT climbs another 10% in 24 hours, lifting its market capitalization to $1.277 billion.
According to HTX market data, LIT has risen 10% in the past 24 hours, currently trading at $5.11, with its market cap climbing to $1.277 billion and fully diluted valuation (FDV) exceeding $5.1 billion. The token has gained 43.7% over the last seven days and 108.4% over the past 30 days.
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