UK Tech Governance Shake-Up: Labour’s PM Andy Burnham breaks up the DSIT tech machinery, raising questions about how digital government and AI initiatives will be run after the 2023 creation of DSIT and subsequent digital-data consolidation. Childhood Cancer Research: The J. Craig Venter Institute wins a $200,000 St. Baldrick’s grant to advance dual-action therapy research for MLL-rearranged leukemias in children. Enterprise AI Reality Check: Domino Data Lab finds 57% of enterprises still can’t beat ROI on AI spend, even as 93% report improved production capability—highlighting a last-mile gap between models and business users. Precision Medicine Community: PMWC joins Life Science Connect to extend precision medicine dialogue year-round across drug discovery, cell & gene, clinical, and RNA tracks. AI for Antibiotics: Basecamp Research’s EDEN model, now available via Anthropic’s Claude Science, designs antibiotic candidates and prioritizes vaccine targets against WHO priority pathogens in minutes. FDA Peptide Policy Push: An FDA advisory panel weighs whether compounding pharmacies can make certain unapproved peptides, as demand grows faster than clinical proof. Neuroscience Tooling: Hungarian-led laser microscopy enables high-speed, 3D optical measurement of neuron activity in moving animals for months, aiming to clarify memory and learning mechanisms. Climate & Energy Science: Researchers drill 33 feet into an Alpine glacier to recover a 2,000-year climate record, capturing signals from smelting, fires, dust, and volcanic fallout. AI Hardware Funding: Etched raises $300M at a $10.3B valuation to scale frontier inference hardware production and deployments. Space Computing: Lunar Outpost partners with NVIDIA to bring onboard AI computing to upcoming lunar missions for mapping, autonomy, and data processing.