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Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, January 6th.

I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Eli Lilly and AI Drug Discovery Company Nimbus Therapeutics are partnering to develop an oral

treatment for obesity and other metabolic diseases. Nimbus announced today it's eligible for

upfront and near-term milestone payments totaling $55 million,

as well as up to $1.3 billion in development, commercial, and sales milestones.

The collaboration comes as pharmaceutical companies raised to develop oral weight loss

treatments following the success of GLP1 medications.

Meta has said it'll delay the rollout of its latest smart glasses model to countries outside

the U.S. amid high demand from American customers and limited stock.

The meta-rayband display smart glasses were developed in partnership with Iwear group Esselaur Laxotica

and had been planned to be made available for sale in Canada,

France, the UK, and Italy early this year. The meta-rayband display was launched in the U.S. last year.

The device can be used to take photographs and stream content and includes AI features.

And a Bill Gates back to nuclear fusion company has teamed up with Nvidia and Siemens to bring fusion a step closer to commercial reality.

Commonwealth fusion systems is working with the tech giants to develop a virtual replica of CFS's nuclear fusion machine.

Fusion engineers will use this so-called digital twin to run simulations and speed up the goal of producing fusion energy at a commercial scale.

Fusion is the energy process that powers the sun by joining atoms together.

And that's it for your T&B Tech Minutes.

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