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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to the light switch for brain cells

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize rewards optogenetics, a method that switches nerve cells on and off with light. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm announced it on Monday, according to its press release. Deisseroth works at Stanford University and […]

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OpenAI’s chip chief tells More Than Moore he doesn’t fully trust AI design

OpenAI’s own AI models changed parts of its Jalapeño chip, and its engineers could not always say why. In one example, they saved more than 13% of die area, Richard Ho told Ian Cutress of More Than Moore. Ho leads OpenAI’s hardware team, and the interview was published on 30 September. “Well, I still don’t […]

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Reclinker raises £10m to turn demolition waste back into cement

Reclinker, a startup that turns demolition waste back into cement, has raised £10m in a Series A round. It will use the money to move from trials to full commercial production in Cardiff. The company said on Monday that its process cuts cement’s emissions in half, at the same cost as conventional cement. Clean Growth […]

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Quantum sensing could become the next foundation of navigation

GPS has become so embedded in modern life that its infrastructure is almost invisible. A driver opens a map, an aircraft follows its navigation system, or an autonomous machine calculates its position, and the underlying infrastructure disappears from view. Nir Sharon, Chief Quantum Technology Scientist at Quantum X Labs and an associate professor of applied […]

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Micron sees the memory shortage tightening into 2028 after a record quarter

Micron says the global memory shortage will get tighter over the next two years. The US chipmaker reported record results on Wednesday. Revenue for the quarter to 3 September rose nearly fivefold from a year earlier, to $54.23bn, the company said. Net income reached $37.7bn, up from $3.2bn a year earlier. Gross margin hit 86.8%, […]

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Yann LeCun calls Anthropic’s Dario Amodei ‘deluded’, Fortune reports

Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune. He also called Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei “deluded” and, later in the interview, “crazy”. LeCun […]

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Japan eyes $140bn AI data centre push with Dell and JERA, FT reports

Japan’s biggest power generator is teaming up with Dell to build AI data centres across the country. The push could cost as much as $140bn, the Financial Times reported. JERA, Dell and UK developer RHAELM signed a non-binding agreement on Thursday, JERA said. Private equity firm Apollo will help fund the work as RHAELM’s financing partner. The first […]

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Google DeepMind’s watermarked AI proteins still work in the lab

Google DeepMind has brought its SynthID watermarking technology to synthetic biology. The new tool, SynthID Bio, hides a signature in the amino acid sequence or predicted 3D structure of a protein. The lab announced it on Wednesday in a blog post and a paper in Nature. Google DeepMind says a test can find the signature […]

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Musk, Luckey and Gingrich get 120 days to map America’s future wars

Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will co-direct Project Meridian. The Pentagon study will identify the technology the US military needs to fight future wars. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commissioned it on Wednesday, the Department of War said. The findings are due by 28 January 2027, 120 days after the announcement, according to […]

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Boeing beats Northrop to build the US Navy’s $20bn F/A-XX fighter

Boeing will build the US Navy’s next carrier-based fighter, the F/A-XX, after beating Northrop Grumman for the contract. The Pentagon announced the award on Tuesday. The development contract is worth 0bn to produce test aircraft, Reuters reported. CNBC and Axios put it at more than 0bn. The programme could grow to hundreds of billions of […]

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