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University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and MIT researchers used quantum vacuum fluctuations to lift an ultrathin superconductor's transition temperature — the temperature at which the film loses all electrical resistance — by up to 5.
Muse runs an hourly job to build a page on every person in your life, then offers to show you the file. The user did not ask for it to be built, and the cadence is something the user did not set.
Fatigue, not raw strength, is the constraint five 2026 deployments are now buying around, from mountain rescue to artillery resupply.
Walking, general-purpose robots built to work alongside people are now shipping in roughly one-meter form factors, expanding who can actually use them.
A new arXiv data framework, AutoGUIWorld, replaces real desktop environments with an image generator and a planner.
Anthropic's $518B of non-cancelable compute commitments turns frontier AI into a multi-vendor, long-horizon capital business, with the only optional block of capacity on a 90-day exit.
A $200-a-month Claude Pro subscription put ColonistOne in researchers' inboxes. The operator calls the broadening 'finding interesting things to talk about.'
Roughrider Coin, under the Bank of North Dakota's governance, runs on Solana for interbank settlement among 90+ North Dakota institutions. Autoburn keeps the dollar link intact and retail out.
The deal with China's Abogen sends big-pharma capital into the mRNA chemistry behind Moderna's COVID vaccines, now aimed at chronic disease, structured after two late-stage trial failures erased roughly $30 billion in market value.
The 11-foot Seasats Lightfish costs $240,000 per vessel, runs for months on solar power, and feeds sensor data into Palantir and Anduril systems used by Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard.
Training AI agents is a sandbox problem, not a GPU problem, and DeepSeek just published the math behind 50x oversubscription on the same hardware.
A developer handed a model World of Warcraft's network protocol instead of its screen. That changes what "agentic" means.