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This Week’s ‘House of the Dragon’ Escalates Everyone’s Desperation
Ormund Hightower’s scheme gains ground as the Dance of the Dragons builds to the season three finale.
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The Download: lasers for nuclear fuel, and organ preservation advances
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors  Nuclear power provides about 9% of global electricity today, and that fraction could …
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The path to artificial superintelligence
Imagine a healthcare system made up of multiple AI agents: one that manages symptom assessment, another scheduling, a third insurance, and a fourth pharmacy. Each is an expert in its domain. But they all have their own distinct knowledge and objectives. Today they can exchange da…
MIT Technology Review
How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors
Outside the small town of Paducah, Kentucky, a wealth of uranium is locked away in thousands of storage cylinders filled with waste material from a now-closed nuclear enrichment facility. Lasers could help get it out. A company called Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) is looking to r…
MIT Technology Review
Why SAP says enterprise AI agents need knowledge graphs and governance
Presented by SAP At VB Transform 2026, Max McPhee, senior solution advisor at SAP, spoke with Rob Stretchay, lead analyst at VentureBeat Research, about what it takes for enterprises to move beyond chatbots to autonomous AI agents that can execute real business processes. He ar…
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Google’s AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows
Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.
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International tech
Ambition doesn’t fade in your 40s — a Gallup analysis suggests it quietly redirects, from wanting to be seen as impressive to wanting to be trusted by a small handful of people
The drive to prove yourself doesn't disappear in midlife—it just stops caring who's watching.
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CXMT surge shows why China stock buyers see IPOs as one-way bet
Chipmaker CXMT surged more than fivefold on its Shanghai trading debut to become the largest mainland-listed company by market value as the artificial intelligence boom stokes demand for memory chips. The stock closed at 49 yuan, versus a sale price of 8.66 yuan. That gave the He…
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Moonshot AI to make Kimi K3 available for public download
Moonshot AI is set to release the model weights for Kimi K3 on July 27, allowing developers to download, modify, and host the model independently. Kimi K3 was launched earlier this month with 2.8 trillion parameters, native visual understanding, and a one-million-token context wi…
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China’s CXMT soars 466% on debut as DRAM maker becomes most valuable mainland-listed firm
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s leading maker of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips, saw its shares close up 466 per cent on their Shanghai trading debut, giving the company a market capitalisation of 3.28 trillion yuan (US$484.6 billion) and making it mainlan…
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Ex-Share.Market CEO Ujjwal Jain Launches Wealth Management Startup Atyx.AI
Former Share.Market CEO Ujjwal Jain and ex-Microsoft researcher Debopam Bhattacharjee have teamed up to launch a new fintech venture Atyx.AI. …
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Heguang Quantum Accelerates Photonic Quantum Computing Commercialization With Deterministic Error Correction Breakthrough and Distributed Architecture
Hangzhou-based Heguang Quantum completes seed round, achieves first deterministic photonic quantum error correction code generation, targets HQ10 quantum accelerator sales by 2027 for hybrid classical-quantum computing.
pandaily.com
Rampant Northwestern Wildfires Will Blanket the US With More Smoke Today
Smoke from than 1.5 million acres burning in Oregon and Washington will reach as far Florida.
gizmodo.com
Schneider Electric’s VC Arm: The AI Buildout Is Creating A New Industrial Investment Cycle
Crunchbase News recently spoke with SE Ventures managing partner Amit Chaturvedy about how the company is backing startups building the technologies that underpin the AI economy — everything from data center infrastructure and grid resilience to robotics and industrial AI.
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Snapchat now lets you share what you’re listening to in real time
Starting with Spotify, Snapchat users will be able to link their accounts, choose who can see their listening activity, and see what their friends are listening to in real time.
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There are infinite varieties of cyberdeck you could make, each with their own inspirations. Today, [RadioactiveArtist] shows us a M.A.S.K. lunchbox cyberdeck faithful to the 80s show. To know why …read more
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A Music Box With A Very Modern Heart
A ballerina music box is a charming ornament, but it remains one that is limited by its mechanism to a very short performance. [ShielaDixon] has one, and decided to make …read more
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Scanwheel: A Pocket-Sized POV TV
When you hear the word TV, you probably think of a big LED screen, maybe even the old CRT TVs, but in either case it’s something large and fairly complicated. …read more
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Radios were once big complicated appliances, full of warm valves and paper-wrapped capacitors, all humming and glowing to capture signals from the aether and spit them out of a speaker. …read more
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