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Nvidia and Google Want Data Centres That Know When to Turn Down the Power
A new alliance wants AI facilities to ease pressure on the grid by changing when they consume electricity. The promise depends on commitments utilities can verify.
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Starship Flight 14 Aims to Turn SpaceX’s Giant Rocket Into an Orbital Workhorse
SpaceX’s next Starship test targets orbit and 26 Starlink V3 satellites. The crucial advance is not just reaching space, but operating there and returning safely.
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Paper2Agent Turns Research Papers Into AI Tools That Can Do the Work
A new Nature study moves beyond chatting with PDFs: Paper2Agent packages research code into tools that an AI assistant can actually use.
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Huawei’s Million-Processor Plan Takes the AI Fight Beyond Nvidia’s Chips
Huawei’s Peerium architecture targets million-processor systems. The important contest is shifting from individual chips to the machines built around them.
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Claude’s Next Home Could Be a Giant Data Centre in Regional Queensland
Anthropic’s first Australian data-centre agreement puts regional Queensland on the AI map. A signed lease, however, is only the beginning of a very physical project.
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Nvidia Is Using AI to Untangle the Supply Chain Behind AI
A fast GPU cannot fix a missing component. Nvidia and Palantir are bringing AI to the complicated chain of decisions that turns parts into working AI systems.
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Rocket Lab’s New Solar Cell Cuts Weight From the Space Power Race
Rocket Lab’s new space solar cell tackles a practical challenge: producing useful power without carrying unnecessary mass into orbit.
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Human Brain Tissue Is Growing Inside Mice, Opening a New Window on Disease
Stanford researchers have given human brain tissue more room to develop inside mice. The result is a striking research model—not a human brain or a treatment.
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Snap’s New Glasses Want to Put the Office in Your Field of View
Snap’s new AR glasses are targeting the moments when pulling out a phone gets in the way. The workplace pitch is compelling—and still has plenty to prove.
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Intel’s Reported Memory Talks Reveal a New Route Into the AI Boom
The AI chip race has another pressure point: memory. Reports of an Intel–SK hynix tie-up are intriguing, but the confirmed US project tells a different story.
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A New MRI Dye Could Make Tiny Lung Tumours Harder to Miss
An experimental MRI agent uses the tissue around cancer as a signpost. Mouse results are promising, but human testing still lies ahead.
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MIT’s Hydrogen Experiment Tackles a Stubborn Clean-Energy Bottleneck
Researchers have used electricity to help release hydrogen from ammonia at lower temperatures. The laboratory result addresses a difficult transport problem, with cost and scale still unresolved.