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Chile’s China-linked undersea cable proposal turns into a real test of how far Washington will go.
The WIMP hunt is colliding with the neutrino background, and the next major detector just lost federal backing.
A Trump-linked Apple collaboration claim sends Intel higher again, sharpening the race over who designs chips for America.
A new director role centers on “championing, coordinating, and tracking” AI adoption across government departments.
The first customer shipments are real. Here is what a 12-layer, 48GB HBM4E means for AI memory performance and power tradeoffs.
Internal trials show life-altering mistakes are possible, but the government is still pressing ahead with the system.
Europe spends about 2.1% of GDP on R&D, but ASML and other industrial incumbents are still scaling the infrastructure behind AI.
Fortune’s Europe’s Most Innovative Companies ranks 300 firms across 18 countries, with ASML topping the list.
Midjourney Medical’s “The Midjourney Scanner” moves beyond cat images, targeting MRI-like image quality and daily checkups.
A tiny $7 ESP32-S3 board can block computer web ads fast, undercutting the cost excuses that keep Raspberry Pi projects alive.
Shareholders could object, but legal experts say they may have little leverage to stop it.
ECB's president frames AI as a systemic risk and argues the world needs governance modeled on nuclear-era safeguards.