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Latest reporting from Tech, page 3.
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Ocado's cube-grid sheds projected up to $100 million per module in annual revenue at Monroe's seven-module flagship. American online grocery, at roughly 10 percent of household spending, never generated the order density that math required.
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Fervo Energy's May 13 IPO priced the company at $10 billion on a cost-reduction thesis that Cape Station's 100-megawatt Phase 1 has not yet confirmed.
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Helion started building its commercial fusion plant in July 2025 before its prototype demonstrated net electricity, a milestone first promised in 2024. Two years from the Microsoft deadline, the plant's operations director and engineering director are still recruiting.
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Aurora's Q1 filing confirms driverless loads priced below the human-carrier cost floor. The path to gross-margin breakeven requires 200 trucks by December; Roush is starting from 25.
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Google's March 30 whitepaper cut the qubit estimate to break Bitcoin's secp256k1 cryptography by an order of magnitude, to roughly 500,000 physical qubits. The attack circuits remain unpublished; no outside team has independently derived the same floor.
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Tsinghua's October 2025 Nature paper reached 604 Wh/kg, against 255 Wh/kg for leading commercial packs. The 500-plus cycle figure comes from coin cells; at this density tier, no group has published pouch endurance past 100 cycles.
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A White House official's statement to the Wall Street Journal, not any formal directive, froze Anthropic's Mythos partner list at 50. The company challenged the stated rationale and lost anyway; the EU AI Office's August 2 enforcement clock is the next hard constraint either side faces.
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Google disclosed 16 billion API tokens per minute in Q1 and said capacity, not pricing, was the binding constraint on Cloud revenue. At those throughput volumes, $0.10 per million tokens does not need to be a loss leader.
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OpenAI marketed GPT-5.5 Instant as a hallucination fix for law, medicine, and finance. An independent benchmark found the model confabulates on 86% of its incorrect answers, the worst calibration of the four frontier models compared on AA-Omniscience.
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A Chinese research consortium's self-evolving harness claims 77% on Terminal-Bench 2. Its nearest rival hits 76.4% and is absent from the comparison table.
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Governor Morrisey called the Putnam County campus multibillion-dollar; Google hasn't confirmed a cost or a start date. The tariff that would power it has sat 16 months without PSC approval.
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El Paso Electric is constructing a dedicated 366-megawatt natural gas plant for Meta's data center, with Meta paying all costs for five years. After that window closes, the $473 million McCloud facility enters the rate base for 460,000 customers at roughly $7 a month each.
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Hanna Hajishirzi's last arXiv submission came seven days before she joined Microsoft Superintelligence. OLMo's model flow expertise now runs inside a closed lab; AI2 has said it cannot afford frontier-scale open model work anymore.
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Filed October 2024 and published April 2026, application US18/903,427 names three former Google engineers among six inventors, two of whom stopped at Lightmatter between Google and OpenAI. The architecture was locked a year before Broadcom's role was announced.
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Anthropic's new interpretability tool found Claude Opus 4.6 internally flagging 26% of SWE-bench runs and 16% of destructive-action coding tests as evaluations, without verbalizing either. A decoded activation from the blackmail eval shows what that unverbalized cognition sounds like in practice.
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Nous Research's self-improving agent hit 224 billion daily tokens on OpenRouter by May 10, passing a product already compressed by an April billing shock. Its founder had joined OpenAI ten days before Hermes launched.
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China suspended its second wave of rare earth export controls in November, not its first. Tesla told investors it is seeking a magnet license; the first grants went to Chinese manufacturers and U.S. automakers' suppliers.
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Starlink's connectivity segment pencils to roughly $122 billion at steady state. SpaceX is asking for $1.75 trillion; the $1.3 trillion gap sits on two technologies SpaceX's own S-1 calls unproven.
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The $6.2 billion ceiling sits $1.7 billion above the five-year budget request, with the gap reserved for foreign military sales. Andromeda's refueling requirement marks a shift from periodic inspection to persistent close-approach, and Astroscale has $61 million on contract to prove the fuel side above GEO this summer.
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Aurora launched driverless trucking in Texas in May 2025 with an observer in the cab. A company running Freightliner hardware cleared the same corridor just under twelve months later with no one aboard, at $1.89 per mile.
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