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SpaceX’s market debut jumped 19% on day one, lifting Elon Musk’s fortune past $1 trillion and making him the world’s first trillionaire, according to the Bloomberg index.
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have built ReAAP, a reconfigurable processor that pairs a smart software compiler with adaptable hardware to run deep neural networks up to 5.7x faster than a leading GPU and 3.3x faster than an ARM CPU.
Northwestern University researchers jet-printed flexible artificial neurons that fire like real brain cells – realistic enough to trigger live mouse neurons – pointing toward neuromorphic chips that could one day cut the punishing energy cost of AI.
The US Department of Defense has tapped Argonne spin-out Parallel Works to link its supercomputing centres to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle through one secure platform – speeding up the AI and simulation workloads now reshaping defence research.
OpenAI’s new policy paper proposes a “public wealth fund” that hands every citizen a stake in AI-driven growth – but critics argue it just ties the public’s wellbeing to the tech industry’s boom-and-bust cycles instead of expanding tested safety nets.
Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to build a “Robo-Engineer” that designs and manufactures everything from jet engines to drugs – even as Bezos bets the result will be a labour shortage, not mass unemployment.
JAXA’s eight-ounce SORA-Q sphere unfolded into a wheeled rover, drove itself across the lunar surface and beamed back images – the first real demonstration that cheap robot swarms, not lone giant rovers, could open up the Moon.
Frankfurt Airport has switched on the world’s first “solar fence” – a 2,800-metre run of 37,000 vertically mounted PV modules along Runway 18 West that powers terminals and EVs while letting the soil beneath keep breathing.
Wärtsilä has run the world’s first large-scale engine on 100% pure hydrogen, supplying Spain’s national grid and showing fossil-free, grid-connected generation is viable at scale.
Researchers warn that AI capabilities are increasingly discovered rather than designed, and that the window to understand how these black-box systems reason is closing as their influence grows.
A PwC analysis of over a billion job ads finds employers in AI-exposed fields now expect entry-level candidates to bring traditionally senior skills like leadership, judgment and emotional intelligence.
IBM shares suffered their worst day in 25 years after Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could modernise COBOL – the language still behind 95% of US ATM transactions – in quarters rather than years, stoking fears AI will erode IBM’s mainframe business.