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12 results for “R&D”
RK Partners Adds Lieutenant General (Ret.) John Deedrick as Strategic Adviser to Defense Practice
RK Partners, an R&D tax credit consulting firm, hired retired Lieutenant General John Deedrick as a strategic adviser to its defense practice — a personnel move with no disclosed scope, deliverables, or operational impact.
Aug 19, 2026
Chinese automaker Chery to open UK R&D centre - Financial Times
Chery, a Chinese automaker, announced plans to open a UK-based R&D centre — a strategic move to access European engineering talent, regulatory expertise, and AI/autonomous driving capabilities amid global EV competition.
Aug 19, 2026
Chip equipment maker Lam Research plans to invest $3B+ over five years to expand its global R&D network, aiming to increase its experiment capacity by 50%+ (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
Lam Research announced a $3 billion+ five-year investment to expand its global R&D network and increase experimental capacity by over 50%, positioning itself to support next-generation semiconductor manufacturing.
Aug 14, 2026
Research Assistant: AstraZeneca's Agentic System for R&D
AstraZeneca developed an internal LLM-based agentic system called Research Assistant to streamline biomedical R&D workflows by unifying access to diverse scientific data sources via a chat interface with source-grounded responses.
Aug 14, 2026
Q&A with Redwood Research Chief Scientist Ryan Greenblatt on AI R&D, RSI, whether human expert data is bottlenecking progress, token prices, alignment, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
A podcast interview with Redwood Research's Chief Scientist Ryan Greenblatt explores theoretical AI safety concepts—including recursive self-improvement (RSI), alignment, and data bottlenecks—without reporting new findings, product launches, or empirical results.
Aug 12, 2026
Filing: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Microsoft reduced its product R&D headcount for two consecutive years, and its total FY2026 workforce shrank for the first time since 2016, signaling a strategic pivot away from organic product development toward AI-integrated efficiency and platform leverage.
Jul 31, 2026
Sources: CXMT expelled Huawei-linked SiCarrier staff from its R&D zone amid a pricing dispute, as Chinese memory makers flex their newfound clout to hike prices (Reuters)
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) expelled Huawei-linked SiCarrier staff from its R&D zone during an ongoing pricing dispute, reflecting shifting power dynamics among Chinese semiconductor firms.
Jul 25, 2026
Trump administration to shift R&D funding from academia to individual scientists
The Trump administration proposed redirecting a portion of the $200B annual federal R&D budget from academic institutions toward direct support for individual scientists, citing efficiency and innovation gains.
Jul 23, 2026
Elong Power Holding Limited Announces Closing of US$6.6 Million Public Offering
Elong Power Holding Limited, a lithium-ion battery energy storage systems company, closed a $6.6 million public offering on July 13, 2026.
Jul 14, 2026
Anthropic debuts AI-driven pharma R&D tool, Claude Science - Pharmaceutical Technology
Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI tool tailored for pharmaceutical R&D, positioning it as a specialized extension of its Claude model family to accelerate drug discovery and scientific reasoning.
Published Jul 2, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 5, 2026
Meta-Harness R&D: Enterprise-Grade Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon AI Workflows
OpenAI announces a new internal R&D initiative called 'Meta-Harness' aimed at enabling AI systems to autonomously improve their own code over long-horizon workflows, positioning it as a step toward enterprise-ready self-improvement capabilities.
Published Jun 23, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 9, 2026
Revvity Launches Signals AI, a Native Agentic Framework for Accelerating Scientific R&D – Company Announcement - Financial Times
Revvity announced Signals AI, a new 'native agentic framework' positioned to accelerate scientific R&D, with no details provided on technical architecture, validation, deployment scope, or performance metrics.
Published Jun 22, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 8, 2026