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A fifth-tier city in Inner Mongolia has 12.5 gigawatts of data-center capacity committed. Goldman Sachs and UBS research notes call the headline number; a QbitAI (Chinese tech-media) field visit says the rest is pre-construction.
RAND says self-driving lab experiments keep arriving from U.S. groups while the shared benchmarks, data standards, and ten-year institutional homes to compound them still don't exist.
In a rare Council-wide session, New York City summoned the major AI labs to testify on advanced AI risks and pending legislation that could establish the nation's first municipal AI regulatory framework.
Warwick researchers propose using phonons (vibrations in a chip's lattice) as a 'quantum bus' to link distant qubits, targeting the coupling bottleneck that caps machines at a few thousand qubits.
Space-based solar, satellites that collect sunlight in orbit and beam it to ground stations, is one candidate answer to AI's electricity crunch, with per-kilowatt cost tied to Starship's launch cadence.
The 2026 prize honors the researchers who turned a single-celled alga's protein into a millisecond-precise tool for switching specific neurons on and off.
Their pitch: real-time text-to-speech running on Tenstorrent's RISC-V servers — an open-source chip architecture competing with Nvidia — with usage-based pricing and no upfront commitment.
A 900°C chamber at Berkeley Lab pairs micro-CT (high-resolution X-ray 3D scanning) with AI reconstruction, closing the simulation gap that surprised NASA's uncrewed Artemis I Moon test in 2022.
JEDEC, the chip industry's standards body, just published JESD264, a rulebook assigning reliability ownership across the silicon photonics supply chain.
A 7-day smart-speaker A/B test delivered +4.53% active users and +6.30% total listening time, both statistically significant (p<0.
Two ownership paths remain open: TSMC own-and-operate, or a SpaceX majority stake. No site, no chipmaking process, no capital-expenditure figure, and no signed agreement have been disclosed.
arXiv, the free, public preprint server where researchers post papers before peer review, took in 40,363 submissions in September 2026, and working mathematicians say the volunteer system is straining under the load.