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Technology SpaceX Debuts Starfall Re-entry Capsule to Provide Routine Microgravity Access for Research and Manufacturing
SpaceX has launched and recovered a new uncrewed re-entry spacecraft called Starfall, completing a demonstration flight that ended with a…
2 July 2026 -
Technology NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory Finds Flickering Supernova Remnants in Galaxy Messier 83
Over 20 supernova remnants in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy are unexpectedly flickering in X-ray brightness, challenging what astronomers…
2 July 2026 -
Technology Nvidia Cites 0.2% Water Figure as AI Data Centre Cooling Debate Grows
Chip giant points to Manhattan Institute research to counter concerns about AI’s water footprint, but independent data tell a more complex…
1 July 2026 -
Technology OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, OpenAI’s First Custom AI Chip for LLM Inference
OpenAI says Jalapeño is its first AI chip, built with Broadcom for large language model inference across ChatGPT, Codex, the API and future…
1 July 2026 -
Technology SpaceX Fires Single Raptor Engine in Full-Duration Starship Static Fire Test
SpaceX has conducted a full-duration single-engine static fire of its Starship spacecraft at Starbase in Texas, simulating the kind of burn…
30 June 2026 -
Technology AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 Series Claims It Can Run 300-Billion-Parameter AI Models on a Single PC
AMD’s new professional processor family targets developers and creators who want to run very large AI models locally, without cloud…
30 June 2026 -
Technology Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 Cleared for Limited US Critical Infrastructure Access After Security Review
The US government has authorised around 100 vetted American organisations to use Anthropic’s most powerful cybersecurity AI model, weeks…
30 June 2026 -
Technology AMD Acquires Memory Optimisation Startup MEXT to Tackle AI Data Centre Bottlenecks
Chipmaker AMD buys AI-driven memory optimisation startup MEXT to make flash storage behave more like DRAM, aiming to expand usable memory…
30 June 2026 -
Technology Elon Musk Says Grok 4.5 AI Model Is Now in Private Beta at SpaceX and Tesla
xAI’s Grok 4.5, built on a claimed 1.5 trillion-parameter foundation and trained with Cursor coding data, is undergoing internal testing at…
29 June 2026 -
Technology Google DeepMind Publishes AI Control Roadmap to Manage Rogue Advanced AI Agents
Google DeepMind has released a 35-page framework treating its own powerful AI systems as potential insider threats, with supervisory AI…
29 June 2026 -
Technology AMD Launches Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform to Run 200-Billion-Parameter Models Locally
AMD’s compact Ryzen AI Halo system lets developers run large AI models on-device without cloud infrastructure, with pre-orders opening in…
28 June 2026 -
Technology Nvidia Backs Coherent’s Texas Photonics Expansion to Power AI Data Centres
Jensen Huang joins Coherent CEO Jim Anderson in Sherman, Texas, as the photonics maker breaks ground on a 6-inch indium phosphide wafer…
28 June 2026