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A UK startup says it can cut data centre network power by 81% by replacing every electrical switch with light

For decades, the networks inside data centres have run on electrical switches. They are power-hungry, generate enormous heat, and are increasingly the bottleneck that limits how fast AI systems can process and exchange data. Oriole Networks, a UK startup, says it has a fix: replace every electrical switch in the core network with nanosecond-scale optical […]

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PhysicsX hits $2.4bn valuation as Temasek leads $300m round for the AI startup that cuts simulation times from days to seconds

London-based PhysicsX has raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek, more than doubling its valuation to $2.4 billion, less than a year after its Series B priced the company at just under $1 billion. The round was oversubscribed. Alongside Temasek, which first invested in PhysicsX during its […]

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UK plans to buy AI chips from British firms to stop them leaving for the US

The UK government will offer to buy AI chips directly from British technology companies in a bid to keep them in the country. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall will outline plans for “strategic purchases” of semiconductor equipment from UK-based firms at London Tech Week this week, the Telegraph reported. The initiative includes access to taxpayer-backed funding […]

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Audi’s 1,001 PS Nuvolari is its fastest car ever, and it’s not electric

Audi has revealed the Nuvolari, the fastest and most powerful production vehicle in its history. The hybrid supercar produces 1,001 PS (736 kW) from a 4.0-litre V8 biturbo paired with three axial flux electric motors. Only 499 will be built, starting at €600,000. The V8 alone delivers 800 PS and revs to 10,000 rpm, territory […]

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Swiss startup GR3N raises €15.5M to build the world’s first microwave-powered PET recycling plant

Swiss cleantech startup GR3N has raised €15.5 million in a Series B round to build the world’s first commercial-scale microwave-assisted PET recycling plant. The round was led by 360 Capital, with new investor VP Textile also participating. The proceeds will fund MODUS, a 40,000-ton-per-year facility in Spain. PET is one of the most widely used […]

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EU trade chief wants a new tool to break Europe’s dependence on Chinese chips and rare earths

EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič has called for a new “diversification instrument“ to reduce Europe’s dependence on single suppliers of chips and rare earths. He made the proposal at the European Policy Center’s Brussels Economic Security Forum on Friday. The tool would force companies in sensitive sectors to source from at least three different suppliers. […]

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Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes

One of Anthropic’s engineers hasn’t written a line of code in five months. Not because the work dried up, but because Claude does it now. As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase was authored by Claude, up from low single digits when Claude Code launched in February 2025. […]

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Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology

When the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled his email account. The incident was brief and bureaucratic. It was also, for European policymakers, clarifying. If a single American company could cut off a senior international official’s communications at the stroke of a pen, what else could be […]

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Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach machines how matter behaves

Science can already tell you what a molecule is and what it looks like. What it has never been able to tell you, cheaply and at scale, is how the thing behaves once it meets the messy conditions of the real world. That gap is where drugs quietly fail in trials, where food products miss […]

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Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is so significant that Microsoft has cut its timeline for achieving a scalable quantum computer from 2033 to 2029, halving the original target. The company credits […]

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