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SpaceX’s market debut jumped 19% on day one, lifting Elon Musk’s fortune past $1 trillion and making him the world’s first trillionaire, according to the Bloomberg index.
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have built ReAAP, a reconfigurable processor that pairs a smart software compiler with adaptable hardware to run deep neural networks up to 5.7x faster than a leading GPU and 3.3x faster than an ARM CPU.
Northwestern University researchers jet-printed flexible artificial neurons that fire like real brain cells – realistic enough to trigger live mouse neurons – pointing toward neuromorphic chips that could one day cut the punishing energy cost of AI.
The US Department of Defense has tapped Argonne spin-out Parallel Works to link its supercomputing centres to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle through one secure platform – speeding up the AI and simulation workloads now reshaping defence research.
OpenAI’s new policy paper proposes a “public wealth fund” that hands every citizen a stake in AI-driven growth – but critics argue it just ties the public’s wellbeing to the tech industry’s boom-and-bust cycles instead of expanding tested safety nets.
Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to build a “Robo-Engineer” that designs and manufactures everything from jet engines to drugs – even as Bezos bets the result will be a labour shortage, not mass unemployment.
JAXA’s eight-ounce SORA-Q sphere unfolded into a wheeled rover, drove itself across the lunar surface and beamed back images – the first real demonstration that cheap robot swarms, not lone giant rovers, could open up the Moon.
Frankfurt Airport has switched on the world’s first “solar fence” – a 2,800-metre run of 37,000 vertically mounted PV modules along Runway 18 West that powers terminals and EVs while letting the soil beneath keep breathing.
Wärtsilä has run the world’s first large-scale engine on 100% pure hydrogen, supplying Spain’s national grid and showing fossil-free, grid-connected generation is viable at scale.
Researchers warn that AI capabilities are increasingly discovered rather than designed, and that the window to understand how these black-box systems reason is closing as their influence grows.
A PwC analysis of over a billion job ads finds employers in AI-exposed fields now expect entry-level candidates to bring traditionally senior skills like leadership, judgment and emotional intelligence.
IBM shares suffered their worst day in 25 years after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could modernise COBOL – the language still behind 95% of US ATM transactions – in quarters rather than years, stoking fears AI will erode IBM’s mainframe business.
Anthropic is lobbying the White House to reverse a foreign-access ban on its Mythos and Fable 5 models — a ban reportedly set in motion after Amazon’s CEO raised concerns with the Trump administration.
Complying with a Trump-administration export-control directive, Anthropic has suspended all foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — and disabled the models for everyone, including US users.
Anthropic has made Fable 5, the first commercial model from its advanced Mythos class, available to the public — while reserving the unrestricted Claude Mythos 5 for vetted cybersecurity partners.
The CIA’s ‘Ghost Murmur’ supposedly found a downed US airman by detecting his heartbeat from afar, but physicists say the heart’s magnetic field is far too weak to read at any distance.
Two decades after being ousted from PayPal, Elon Musk is launching X Money, a payments service inside X that analysts say could disrupt his old company and reshape US payments.
Elon Musk has called Bitcoin an ‘energy currency’ whose value is rooted in physics and electricity rather than government policy, and mused that AI and robots could one day make money itself obsolete.
Cisco has launched Cloud Control, a toolset that lets companies build their own armies of defender AI agents, a response to a world where cyberattacks increasingly come from swarms of hostile agents.
Chinese researchers say a nine-qubit quantum system beat a 10,000-node classical network at weather prediction for under 1% of the cost, a hint that compact quantum machines could undercut today’s giant AI data centres.
China has made ‘ciyuan’ the official translation for AI ‘token’, a move widely read as the seed of a token-based currency for the AI age, and a long-term challenge to the US dollar.
China has launched a state-backed space-computing institute in Beijing, taking its AI rivalry with the US into orbit just as SpaceX eyes a $75 billion listing to fund its own space data centres.
CATL and Changan have unveiled the world’s first mass-produced sodium-ion EV, a 248-mile car that keeps most of its range at minus 40C, a potential turning point away from lithium.
CATL is chasing lithium-air batteries with a theoretical energy density of 12,000 Wh/kg, roughly that of petrol, a leap that could obliterate the range gap between EVs and combustion cars.
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