Technology Ignores Regulators Perhaps as expected, EU member states failed to agree to the latest compromise language on allowing the development of new genomic techniques. Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Sydney have developed a gene editing tool, seekRNA, that could provide higher accuracy and flexibility than CRISPR. A similar dynamic will play out in AI where governments will seek to control it, and especially delay its progress in competing countries, but progress does not wait for politicians. Two Records in One Year U.S. net farm income (adjusted for inflation) will drop to $116.1 billion in 2024, the largest single year percentage drop in income ever. The U.S. agricultural trade deficit will top a record $32 billion.&n...

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