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MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers researcher skepticism that language-model AI can unlock truly general-purpose humanoid robots, highlights WaveSave's portable SlamDam for flood defense, and notes scientists in Austria and China building the first nuclear clocks.
Researchers in Vienna and Beijing have begun operating the world's first nuclear clocks based on a thorium-229 nuclear isomer, a breakthrough promising unprecedented timekeeping precision and new tests of fundamental physics.