Ray Blanco:

Bright Idea: These “Almost Magical” Glowing Succulents Could Offer Sunlight-Powered Sustainable Lighting Systems

While bioluminescence has long allowed more exotic plants to glow, such as ocean plankton, researchers at South China Agricultural University are now bringing that glimmer to common houseplants, with glow-in-the-dark succulents.

The Chinese team injected light-emitting compounds into the plants, allowing the succulents to produce a brilliance comparable to a night light. Since bioluminescence can be recharged simply by exposure to sunlight, the innovation may serve as a tool to create inexpensive, sustainable lighting systems based on living plants.

“Picture the world of Avatar, where glowing plants light up an entire ecosystem,” says first author Shuting Liu of South China Agricultural University. “We wanted to make that vision possible using materials we already work with in the lab.”

“Imagine glowing trees replacing streetlights,” Liu said, offering one of many possibilities for the use of these novel plants.

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Davis Wilson:

NVDA – My 3 Biggest Takeaways (People Forget #2)

Everything is sold out. H100s… H200s… Blackwell… they can’t make enough. Big cloud players are literally renting capacity from each other just to keep up. That’s the reality of Nvidia’s business right now. Yet some investors still call it a bubble.

They said it last quarter. The quarter before that. And the quarter before that. They’ve been wrong every time. Because Nvidia isn’t about what happens in a single quarter. It’s about the scale of what comes next.

Here are my three biggest takeaways from Nvidia’s earnings: Earnings estimates are rising. Growth prospects are accelerating. And a potential China reentry looms as a massive bonus.

This is not a bubble stock waiting to crash. It’s the backbone of a once-in-a-generation technology shift. Own it.

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Alan Knuckman:

Billionaire Ambani Taps Google, Meta To Build India’s AI Backbone

Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries, has unveiled an ambitious plan to build the country’s AI backbone through a new subsidiary — starting with strategic partnerships with Google Cloud and Meta.

At the company’s 48th annual general meeting on Friday, Ambani launched a new venture called Reliance Intelligence, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries. The new venture aims to create a national-scale AI infrastructure, including enterprise tools and services for a variety of sectors. The move comes as India looks to catch up in the global AI race long dominated by the U.S. and China.

“Reliance Intelligence will create a home for world-class researchers, engineers, designers, and product builders, combining the speed of research with the rigor of engineering,” Ambani said in his keynote, “so that ideas become innovations and applications, providing solutions to India and the world.”

To kick things off, Reliance has partnered with Google — one of its major tech partners — to build a dedicated AI cloud infrastructure in India. The network will start with a major data center in Jamnagar, a city in the western state of Gujarat.

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