⚡Natural Hydrogen with AI-Powered Exploration; 🔥 Wildfire Carbon Banks Emerge; 🏭 First Organ-on-Chip Facility; 🏛️ Silicon Valley’s D.C. Move and More | Deep Tech Briefing #48

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In Today's Briefing

• The Big Idea – Turning Fire-Killed Trees Into Carbon Banks.

• The Deep Dives – Quantum computing’s next leap, AI-powered weeding, EV battery recycling breakthroughs, fusion power acceleration, and the AI-defense partnership shaping military strategy.

• Hidden Gems – Emerging deep tech players innovating in RNA therapeutics, methane reduction in cattle, molecular farming, natural hydrogen exploration, and AI-driven protein engineering.

• Deep Tech Power Plays – France’s $Billion AI push, defense tech’s record-breaking European funding, the global AI governance battle, and Silicon Valley’s growing influence in Washington.

• Interesting Reading – If you’re hungry for more context.

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The Big Idea: Turning Fire-Killed Trees Into Carbon Banks. Mast Reforestation’s Wildfire Recovery Bet.

Wildfire destruction in the U.S. is reaching record highs, and the cost of rebuilding is staggering. But while burned houses and infrastructure should, in theory, get insurance payouts, forests don’t.