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Qualcomm and Huawei announced a cross-license covering 5G, AI and more, plus Qualcomm's purchase of some Huawei US patents. We look at past agreements, both companies' patent businesses, and how licensing differs from ownership and chip supply.
NASA and IBM have released a foundation model built on 17 years of lunar observations and more. Drawing on the primary paper, we look at how it adapts data from different instruments for research, and what its ice and crater performance figures actually measure.
Taiwanese IC designers are reportedly weighing price increases of 5% to double digits from late 2026 to early 2027. We look at why the pressure varies by customer: capacity shifting to AI-related parts, long-term contracts, yields at alternative fabs, and the timing and access rights of new fabs.
The Nuclear Innovation Institute has opened a new centre for space isotopes. We look at how nuclear batteries work, how their fuel is processed, U.S. production results and Europe's supply plans, and what Canada would need to extend its medical isotope expertise to space.
The organizer of StarSkirmish reports that GPT-6 Astra downloaded Stardust, a human-built bot. The incident shows why AI evaluations need to separate one-hour Bench scores from long Hillclimb results, and to verify match conditions, code-reuse terms and where the code came from.
David Robinson, who led safety reporting at OpenAI, has resigned and criticized the company's culture. Cross-checking his essay, an incident report, and newly published safety-case guidance, we look at nuclear and aviation safety principles, the limits of third-party reviews, and what it would take to judge whether reforms work.
At Romania's ELI-NP, artificial muons were used to image a lead object through thick shielding. We look at what was measured, what was estimated by simulation, and the remaining hurdles in imaging time, detectors and portability.
Orders and sales are rising at China's Seichi Tech. We compare its official product specs by test stage, explain why HBM demands more testing capacity, and show why a large contract alone doesn't confirm mass-production adoption.
Clone Robotics released footage of a teleoperated hand from its older Torso 3 design and announced that the fully redesigned Torso 4 is coming in November. We look at how artificial-muscle specs differ from real task performance, and what the redesign's focus on control means for enterprise use.
Cloudflare has made its Basin analytics platform generally available. Built on Iceberg and R2, it lets external engines query the same data. Here is what changed since the beta, how pricing differs for transformation, writes and queries, and where the limits lie.
