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Anthro Energy has broken ground on a 25GWh-equivalent electrolyte plant in Louisville. The question for Proteus, which cures a liquid precursor inside the cell, is whether it can demonstrate mass-production uniformity and yield by 2028.
Seven months after China's export controls on Japan, this analysis breaks down a structural weakness in rare metal supply chains. By-product minerals like gallium have low production elasticity since they depend on the output of other metal refining, unlike primary minerals protected by large market size. It also reviews Japan's recycling and seabed resource countermeasures.
Examining materials claiming Qwen3.8-27B inference at 30+ tokens/s on a hypothetical 64-core XuanTie C950 configuration. We unpack the SHL optimizations behind the performance, the undisclosed test conditions, and the distance to mass production.
OpenAI has automatically applied a dedicated ChatGPT experience for 13- to 17-year-olds, integrating learning support with interpersonal protections. The accuracy of age estimation and safety metrics in actual use remain undisclosed, and constraints on parental linking persist.
Google won a $10 million bid for the internal data of bankrupt, liquidating Spirit Airlines — including 100 million emails. This piece examines the bidding war with runner-up Mercor, the 100x gap versus typical Asset Hub pricing for liquidation data brokerage, and how effective the line drawn around excluded personal information really is.
Demand for AI server SSDs and tight supply pushed the combined revenue of the top five NAND makers up 77% in Q2. We unpack how this price-driven growth could reverse when supply increases in 2027.
A team from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Harvard University used inverse-design algorithms to shrink wavelength demultiplexers, mode demultiplexers, and mirrors on silicon nitride photonic chips to as little as 1/500th the area of conventional designs, publishing the results in Nature Communications. To the researchers' knowledge, this is the first such demonstration on thick-film silicon nitride, opening a path toward integrated quantum photonics.
Roughly $1.3 billion worth of HBM headed to Malaysia. Export statistics alone can't pinpoint Intel's orders, but overlaying Penang's capacity expansion with EMIB-T's commercialization stage reveals signs of movement in AI semiconductor back-end processes.
In a Qualcomm-commissioned comparison of retail laptops, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme machine posted major gains in CPU and AI performance. Intel's machine retains an edge in GPU performance and battery life.
A research team at UMass Amherst has discovered a design flaw unique to Visa's contactless payment kernel: the expiration date is excluded from cryptographic signing. Using two off-the-shelf smartphones, they revived an expired card and successfully completed a transaction at a real store. Mastercard and Amex proved resistant, pointing to the issue as a Visa-specific implementation choice.
