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Waymo has publicly detailed the onboard computer of its sixth-generation Driver, showing how a custom 5nm ASIC handles sensor fusion alongside CPUs and GPUs to cut latency and keep driving through hardware failures.
OpenAI is testing with early customers a Zero Data Retention (ZDR) compliant method that examines related conversations while keeping raw content on customer-controlled infrastructure and returning only limited safety signals. The company plans a phased rollout and a technical white paper in September.
China's semiconductor equipment makers are growing sales, but their reported profit increases of over 400% mix in fair-value gains and swings from losses to profits. This article examines, through their financial results, what it would take to turn the current global equipment shortage into a lasting market share gain.
Google has begun rolling out Advanced Flow for unverified Android apps. A 24-hour wait and developer identity verification are reshaping the default path for sideloading, with the September rollout in four countries and full global deployment by 2027 determining how effective the measure will be.
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem used millisecond light pulses to instantly heat a bismuth oxide thin film to about 2,000°C while keeping the underlying glass below 100°C, locking in a metastable beta phase at room temperature. Photocurrent rose by up to 50 times. The reversible phase-switching this achieves on transparent conductive glass was previously unreachable with furnace heating.
China is moving forward with limited imports of NVIDIA H200 chips, with roughly 10,000 units each arriving at ByteDance and Tencent. A large gap remains between the 400,000-plus approved units and actual supply, since both US and Chinese approval are required.
IBM cooled two connected modular cryostat cells to below 15 millikelvin simultaneously. Here's what the demonstration actually proves—and what remains unverified for long-distance quantum wiring and qLDPC implementation.
While grid interconnection queues for AI data centers now stretch up to eight years, Amazon and Meta are securing generation capacity outright through nuclear PPAs and self-funded gas turbine investments, bypassing the wait entirely. That cost is increasingly being passed on to household electricity bills through PJM's capacity auctions and Japan's transmission tariffs.
Claude autonomously operated a suite of existing protein design tools, producing binders for 14 of 15 targets. Reproduction would require model access, computational budget, and wet-lab validation.
Flinders University trapped polyiodides in a 'cage' using a starch-derived cyclodextrin polymer, extending the cycle life of an aqueous zinc-iodine battery beyond 60,000 cycles. The nonflammable, low-cost materials bring the technology closer to meeting the requirements of large-scale energy storage, though zinc anode corrosion and scale-up to real cells remain the next hurdles.
