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The ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling was awarded to a 26-member team in recognition of being the first ever to develop a full Earth simulation at 1km resolution. The team explained its model "captures the flow of energy, water, and carbon through key components of the Earth system: atmosphere, ocean, and land.” To achieve the simulation, the team utilized 8,192 GPUs on the Alps supercomputer and 4,096 GPUs on Europe’s fastest supercomputer, JUPITER.

From "Team Behind 1km Global Earth System Simulation Awarded Gordon Bell Climate Prize"
ACM Media Center (11/20/25)
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The New York Times

U.S. national laboratories are accelerating efforts to integrate advanced AI systems into scientific supercomputing. Pressured by the fast pace of private AI development, U.S. Energy Department-backed labs like Argonne and Oak Ridge are striking deals with Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD to help finance, build, and share use of new AI machines. The systems promise massive performance gains, enabling faster breakthroughs in areas like materials science, nuclear fusion, and drug discovery.

From "U.S. Labs Race to Meld AI with Supercomputers"
The New York Times (11/20/25) Don Clark
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Gizmodo

Clemmons, NC, has become the first U.S. town to deploy drones carrying automated external defibrillators (AEDs) during 911 emergencies as part of a Duke Health study. The drones fly directly to cardiac arrest scenes guided by 911 operators, reducing response times from six to seven minutes to about four minutes. Explained Duke Health’s Monique Starks, if a cardiac patient “can be shocked within two to five minutes, we could see survival of 50 to 70%.”

From "NC Town Deploys Defibrillator Drones During 911 Emergencies"
Gizmodo (11/21/25) Margherita Bassi
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Chemistry World

ACM Fellow Kathleen Fisher has been named the next chief of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), the U.K. funding body that supports "high-risk, high-reward" science. She will replace Ilan Gur, who has headed ARIA since its launch in 2022. Fisher, who will assume the new role in February 2026, previously held senior positions at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where the cybersecurity work she led was named the agency’s most influential program of the last decade.

From "Computer Scientist Kathleen Fisher to Head U.K.’s ARIA"
Chemistry World (11/21/25) Jamie Durrani
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The Guardian (U.K.)

French authorities are investigating allegations that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok posted Holocaust-denial statements on X. The Paris public prosecutor expanded an existing inquiry into X to include comments by Grok that claimed Auschwitz’s gas chambers were designed for disinfection rather than mass murder and echoed antisemitic tropes about Jewish “lobbies” controlling narratives. The posts, online for three days and viewed by over a million users, were later deleted.

From "French Authorities Investigate Holocaust Denial Posts by Musk's Grok AI"
The Guardian (U.K.) (11/20/25) Jon Henley

Australian Financial Review

The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria are moving to tighten workplace surveillance laws as AI-driven management tools and remote work become widespread. A bill recently introduced in NSW would give unions the right to enter workplaces and examine AI and digital work systems to ensure they are not used to track performance unreasonably. A proposal backed by Victoria’s government would require employers to prove any workplace surveillance is necessary and extend protections to remote work.

From "Australian States Tighten Rules on Worker Surveillance"
Australian Financial Review (11/19/25) Paul Karp; David Marin-Guzman
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