DEEP TECH
IonQ Fixed Quantum Computing’s Boring Bottleneck, and Microsoft Let DARPA In
IonQ's recent press release highlights its advancement in quantum computing by developing a real-time decoder capable of handling errors on a single…
DEEP TECH
AI
21 Countries Demanded Mandatory AI Safety Tests at the UN
Norway's prime minister led a joint statement from 21 countries and the EU, urging mandatory AI testing and external oversight following concerns…
AI
California Wants AI Companies to Build In a Kill Switch
California Governor Newsom signed an executive order urging AI developers to implement an "off switch" and accelerate auditing timelines amid governance gaps…
CHIPS & AI
Sovereign AI Chips Are Where Europe’s Fight Just Moved, From Eindhoven to Lisbon
Euclyd raised more than €200 million with ex-ASML CEO Peter Wennink as chairman, and FuriosaAI's RNGD servers are running PoCs in Lisbon.…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
CMF’s Spin-off From Nothing Puts India in the Driver’s Seat
Carl Pei announced that CMF is now an independent company predominantly owned in India, with its own R&D team. This aligns with…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Earbuds Under $100: The One Number That Separates the Whole Bracket
Every serious ANC contender under $100 scores 4.8 or 4.9 on timbre. One does not. Lab-measured cancellation, battery, and codec data across…
DEEP TECH
The Vega-C Dual Payload Launch Changes Europe’s Launch Math More Than It Looks
Vega-C flew FLEX and Sentinel-3C together on VV30, its first dual payload mission. The Vespa adapter is a small piece of hardware…
CHIPS & AI
Fujitsu Monaka Goes on Sale in November, and Europe’s Sovereign AI Buyers Are the Real Target
Fujitsu will take global orders for its 144-core, 2nm Monaka CPU from November and sell Japan-built Monaka servers in Europe. A CPU…
AI
Is Axelera’s Europa Enough to Build a European Inference Industry?
Axelera Europa is now shipping in validated Dell and Supermicro systems and heading into the EU AI Factories in Italy and Luxembourg.…
AI
Cohere and Aleph Alpha Just Merged Into a $20 Billion Sovereign AI Company
Cohere and Aleph Alpha finalized their merger agreement, creating a company valued at $20 billion with dual headquarters in Toronto and Berlin.…
AI
NVIDIA Cut Fermilab’s Quantum Design Cycle From Five Months to Three Weeks
NVIDIA introduced open-source software, CUDA-Q Logical, at IEEE Quantum Week, significantly reducing Fermilab's fault-tolerant quantum design cycle from five months to three…
CONSUMER TECH & HARDWARE
Nothing Ear (3a) Review: 32MB of Flash Storage Is the Most Interesting Thing in Budget Audio
Thirty-two megabytes of onboard flash is the reason the $99 Nothing Ear (3a) does something no competitor does. A full deep dive:…
AI
Salesforce’s Koa Reasoning Model Runs Inside Salesforce. Nvidia Still Wins.
The Salesforce Koa reasoning model is post-trained from Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Super and runs entirely inside Salesforce's trust boundary. A technical breakdown,…
CHIPS & AI
ASUS Just Shipped the Windows-on-ARM Desktop Qualcomm Canceled Twice
The ASUS Ascent QN10 is the first Snapdragon X2 Elite mini PC you can actually buy, at $1,349. Eighteen Oryon cores and…
AI
Europe Wrote Its AI Sovereignty Rules Into Law. India Just Built a Wall Instead.
This week, differing definitions of AI sovereignty emerged from New Delhi, Brussels, and Beijing. India proposed a stringent cloud sovereignty framework, bypassing…