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This memory chip works at 700 degrees Celsius. The startup behind it is already building AI chips that compute where GPUs cannot.

  Every probe humanity has sent to Venus has died. The Soviet Venera landers survived between 23 minutes and two hours on a surface where the temperature exceeds 460 degrees Celsius. Their electronics, designed to endure heat that would melt lead, still failed. The longest-lived mission in the history of Venus exploration lasted 127 minutes. […]

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AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assistants, copilots, and generators, each one promising to change how work gets done. On paper, […]

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Vapi raises $50m Series B led by Peak XV for enterprise voice AI

Peak XV leads. M12, Kleiner Perkins, and Bessemer Venture Partners join; earlier investors return. Amazon Ring, Intuit, and New York Life are named enterprise customers; total funding now stands at $72m. Vapi, the San Francisco-based enterprise voice-AI platform, has raised $50m in a Series B round to scale its voice-agent infrastructure, the company said on […]

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Nscale secures $790m financing for Narvik AI data centre

Nscale, the vertically integrated AI-infrastructure company, has secured an additional $790m of debt financing to continue building out its AI data centre in Narvik, northern Norway, the company said on Monday. The committed facility was provided by ABN AMRO, DNB, Eksfin (Export Finance Norway) and Nordea, with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) acting as Mandated Lead […]

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GitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many.

  GitLab is cutting jobs to invest in AI agents. The company announced on Monday that it will flatten management layers, reorganise its research and development teams into roughly 60 smaller autonomous units, reduce its country footprint by approximately 30 per cent, and use AI agents to automate internal reviews, approvals, and handoffs. CEO Bill […]

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Lodestellar is a €7 EPD quality tool helping manufacturers win multi-million euro tenders

The era of greenwashing may be coming to an end, at least in the construction sector where manufacturers are embracing a low cost tool to support data-driven transparency about their environmental impacts. “We’ve seen that manufacturers are increasingly keen to ditch vague eco slogans and self-declared green certificates, which were never really very effective,” says […]

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GPUaaS is reinforcing the illusion of European AI sovereignty

Europe is pouring billions into AI development and infrastructure. GPU (graphics processing units) access is expanding rapidly through cloud platforms and GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) providers, becoming a key enabler of AI development and deployment. The underlying assumption is straightforward: scale compute, and you scale capability. Yet, despite the efforts made by EU Member States, from sovereign […]

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SoftBank to manufacture large-scale batteries for AI data centres at former Sharp plant

Target output is one gigawatt-hour a year. Partners are South Korea’s Cosmos Lab and DeltaX. Production opens for the fiscal year starting next April, with zinc-halide chemistry following in 2027. SoftBank Group’s mobile-services subsidiary will begin manufacturing large-scale battery cells at the Sakai, Osaka site that once belonged to Sharp, the company said on Sunday, […]

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Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for end-to-end agentic shopping

The Qwen app gets access to Taobao and Tmall’s catalogue of more than 4 billion items, plus Alipay-native checkout, in what is the largest agentic-commerce launch yet from a Chinese platform. Alibaba is integrating its Qwen AI app with Taobao and Tmall, the company’s two largest consumer marketplaces, in what amounts to the most ambitious […]

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