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In short: Huawei claims to have built the first desktop PC that contains components made exclusively in China. While this claim appears to be true, there are some caveats, including the continued reliance on foreign technology used in chip manufacturing. China has long pushed to reduce its dependence on U.S. technology. Huawei says its Qinyun … Read more
Scientists in Germany have researched a novel method to convert spent nuclear fuel into low-carbon electricity. A feasibility study by the Technical University of Dresden outlines plans for a pioneering recycling reactor called DEMO. “High-level radioactive waste is considered one of humanity’s most dangerous legacies,” said the research team. “In order to get to the … Read more
Agent infrastructure startup Diagrid Inc. today released Dapr 1.19 with changes that reduce the overhead of persistent workflows behind long-running artificial intelligence agents. Open source runtime operators can also delete one of their control plane services. Until 1.19, Dapr’s workflow engine provided the entire execution history to the worker at every step. Everyone contributes to … Read more
A hot potato: Young people in Australia could soon face another restriction in the name of their safety. Google has warned that the country’s proposed digital due diligence law could force it to ban people under 18 from Gmail. Having already banned under-16s from accessing social media, Australia’s push to make the internet safer for … Read more
Swiss startup Embodied AI has introduced AIR, a two-armed mobile robot designed to work with factory workers without a safety cage. The company said AIR initially worked under remote supervision before learning to perform assigned tasks independently over about a month. Embodied AI reported an average task success rate of 95 percent for paid manufacturing … Read more
Agility Robotics Inc. debuted on the Nasdaq today after merging with a special purpose acquisition company. SPAC deals offer an easier path to public markets than a traditional listing. In such transactions, a shell company lists its shares on the stock exchange and then merges with a private company. This deal effectively takes the SPAC’s … Read more
Better late than never The year is 2027 and the US Federal Aviation Administration has just announced that it will replace the floppy disks still used by many US air traffic control systems. The upgrade won’t be complete until the end of 2028, almost 20 years after most floppy disk production ended. At more than … Read more
A defense technology startup will transform undersea logistics with ultra-large autonomous underwater vehicles designed to transport critical payloads through contested maritime environments. Corridian, a New England-based defense technology startup, has emerged from stealth with a $38 million seed funding round to accelerate development of its ultra-large autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The funding round was led … Read more
What just happened? Google, Meta and TikTok are suing California over its latest attempt to stop children from becoming addicted to social media. The companies have filed separate lawsuits challenging a law that restricts addictive features for children under 16, arguing that the state is impinging on free speech and parental authority. The complaints filed … Read more
Over the past two years, corporate AI investment has been dominated by one theme: computing. Companies raced to secure GPU allocations, negotiated infrastructure deals, and deployed machine learning platforms at a rapid pace. What many only discovered after the fact was that the bottleneck they thought they were solving wasn’t the only one in the … Read more