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GridCARE's AI "Energize" has uncovered idle capacity in the US grid, securing over 650MW of actual connection capacity with National Grid and PGE. The 300GW figure the CEO cites, however, remains a forward-looking projection on a different scale entirely from that track record.
New Zealand's Zenno has successfully completed the world's first on-orbit demonstration of a magnetic actuator using superconducting magnets. The device generates torque by interacting with Earth's magnetic field while maintaining extremely low temperatures, positioning it as a next-generation technology for satellite attitude control and momentum management without consuming fuel.
To control tritium formation in molten salt—essential for fusion reactors to breed their own fuel—a new method combining quantum computers with classical computation has been developed. By simulating the complex behavior of electrons with high precision, it tackles the prediction of corrosive compound formation and efficient fuel recovery.
In-memory computing, which performs calculations directly within memory, is drawing attention as a way to improve AI power efficiency. A joint US-Korean research team has developed a proprietary memristor SoC with zigzag wiring to eliminate the inefficiency of operations widely used in lightweight AI models, demonstrating extremely high power efficiency that surpasses existing GPUs.
MP Materials, Energy Fuels, and Phoenix Tailings secured more than $3 billion combined in government loans and M&A in June 2026, but the main buyers of their output are Japanese companies via Sumitomo Corporation of Americas and South Korean manufacturers. US neodymium magnet production capacity remains under 1,000 tons per year.
It has been revealed that the root cause of dendrite formation, which has hampered the commercialization of solid-state batteries, lies in the "space charge layer" that forms at the grain boundaries within the electrolyte. This finding—that this region traps electrons and triggers the deposition of metallic lithium—could become a critical key to dramatically advancing the safety and performance of next-generation batteries.
US-based Deep Fission has delivered a prototype non-nuclear canister to its test site as it works toward realizing a concept for installing small reactors roughly one mile underground. Through verification of drilling and installation procedures using full-scale equipment, the company aims to demonstrate on-site the validity of its design and its operational capability for underground deployment.
Cheap, safe energy storage is essential for renewable power, and flow batteries, which control power and capacity independently, are a leading option. Researchers are now developing 3D-printed test cells to cut research costs and working to make experiments more reproducible.
A research team at KAUST has developed a next-generation optical authentication system that combines the unpredictable chaos generated by lasers with AI. By never storing a physical key in memory and instead generating a "light fingerprint" only at the moment of authentication before letting it vanish, the system can withstand both quantum computers and physical attacks.
A research team at the University of Tokyo has proven that, in the technical challenge of storing and retrieving unknown quantum operations, quantum memory mathematically surpasses classical memory. For isometry operations in which the dimension of information increases or decreases, the team showed that while classical strategies remain bound by the standard quantum limit, quantum strategies exploiting entanglement can store operations with far greater efficiency—opening a new frontier in quantum information science.
