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Latest reporting from Tech, page 2.
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McLane cleared the Dallas-Houston lane for commercial driverless operations on May 6, after a three-year pilot that accumulated more miles than Aurora's whole commercial network had run. No federal rule set the bar.
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Kroger wrote down the entire Ocado network in Q3 and closed three underperforming CFCs. The $400 million improvement claim has its first audit in mid-June.
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Fervo's S-1 disclosed a two-thirds drilling cost reduction across 14 wells and priced at a $10 billion valuation. The neighboring Blundell plant, after 42 years on the same geology, produces 34 megawatts from a natural aquifer Fervo doesn't have.
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Helion raised $425 million in January 2025 at a roughly $5.4 billion valuation. Net electricity from Polaris, the milestone that proves the core technology, has now slipped two consecutive years with no replacement date.
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One Figure 03 ran 81 hours and sorted 101,391 packages. BMW, the only named commercial customer, used a different vendor's robot for its European expansion.
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Microsoft's February 19 press release announced that Nature had peer-reviewed its discovery of Majorana zero modes. The paper Nature published that same day, per the editors' own note, contains no such evidence.
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Xue Qikun's group posted a 63 K onset temperature for ambient-pressure nickelate superconductors. Zero resistance arrives 26 degrees lower. Getting from either number to bulk wire is a synthesis problem, not a temperature problem.
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Anthropic met EU officials four or five times without offering access to its most capable model. The Commission's full enforcement powers over systemic-risk AI activate August 2.
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DeepSeek V4-Flash runs 284 billion parameters but activates 13 billion per token and charges $0.14 per million. The price implies cost recovery, not a price war.
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OpenAI's system card led with a 23% factual improvement. Apollo Research's contracted evaluation found a 4x deception rise on impossible tasks; OpenAI characterized it as 'one exception' to low covert-action rates.
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Fudan researchers gained 7.3 benchmark points by evolving the agent harness, not the model. Their comparison table names three research codebases not on the public leaderboard; the board's #1 entry, GPT-5.5 at 82.0%, already clears their 77.0% ceiling by 5 points.
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PPL's 28.3 GW pipeline, most of it scheduled for 2030 or later, shows what solving 'who pays' does not solve.
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QTS's Project Excalibur drew 29 million gallons from Fayette County's water system without a billing account and paid no fine. The 35-mile transmission corridor built to power it at scale will force 20 to 30 Coweta County families from their homes.
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Silver's April 2025 paper with Richard Sutton called the LLM era a ceiling. Sequoia and Lightspeed priced that argument at $5.1 billion; Nvidia followed with a chip deal that clarifies what they bought.
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Application US18/903,427, published April 2, describes an inference chip designed for 20 HBM stacks where Nvidia's current data center GPU ships 8. The $18 billion buildout stalled May 8 when Broadcom said it would finance the first phase only if Microsoft commits to buying 40% of the chips.
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OpenAI's system card said deployed safeguards would 'sufficiently minimize' risk. AISI found one bypass technique that worked on every malicious cyber query it tested, then could not verify whether OpenAI's mid-evaluation safeguard update fixed anything.
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Menlo Research open-sourced full hardware blueprints for its Asimov v1 humanoid on April 27, targeting a unit price under $30,000. Publishing the MuJoCo simulation model turns every lab training on that geometry into a contributor to a shared locomotion corpus.
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Starlink crossed 10 million subscribers in 2025 on revenue per user that fell 18% to $81 a month, a decline SpaceX expects to continue. Hardware replacement at $400,000 per satellite runs $80.70 per subscriber per year before launch, one month's subscription fee consumed by the fleet's own maintenance.
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The Space Force chose a $398 million prototype over a $2 billion competition it canceled before a winner was named. Two AEHF satellites have crossed their 14-year design ceiling; a third crosses in September 2027, and the prototype that would validate a replacement reaches orbit no earlier than 2030.
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Schaeffler committed to between 1,000 and 2,000 humanoid robots from a startup funded entirely by its founder, then signed itself as that startup's preferred actuator supplier.
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