AI Business
- The French AI lab is using a $3B fundraise to sell control over AI infrastructure, not just model power — a shift in direction that could matter to U.S. firms in Europe too.
- The competitive landscape, particularly the geopolitical clash between the U.S. and China, complicates the AI safety dilemma.
- Interest in automated generative AI coding has exploded along with the vendor’s growth.
- The tech giant simultaneously revealed a nuclear power contract with Finnish operator Fortum, its first outside of the U.S.
- The companies will develop compute modules using Qualcomm Dragonwing processors, as Neura looks to scale physical AI in Europe.
Science Daily
- Scientists have created an ultra-small nanolaser that could eventually allow microchips to transmit information with light instead of electricity, potentially making computers faster while cutting energy use roughly in half. Thousands of the lasers could fit on a single chip, opening possibilities for more efficient data centers, smartphones, and advanced medical sensors.
- Researchers have found a way to perform certain quantum operations more than 1,000 times faster, cutting thousands of repeated control cycles down to just one. The advance could reduce errors and bring reliable, fault-tolerant quantum computers closer to reality.
- Physicists have demonstrated a new way to entangle distant quantum bits without the constant measurements and active control normally required. The team created a “quantum bath,” a shared environment filled with correlated microwave photons that automatically pushes separated qubits into an entangled state and helps keep them there. The experiment confirms a theoretical prediction made […]
- IBM and University of Chicago researchers have completed a quantum computation that leading classical methods could not practically reproduce. The system used 70 error-corrected logical qubits and finished the task in roughly 15 minutes while also providing statistical evidence that the result was reliable.
- NASA has successfully tested a system that allows satellites to navigate without GPS by using other spacecraft and debris as landmarks in orbit. In just three days, FALCON also improved the known orbits of more than 200 space objects completely autonomously.