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Universality, a DOE roadmap and IBM's fridges: quantum computing's week of delivery

On 27 September, ScienceDaily reported that researchers from the University of Chicago, Harvard, Stony Brook and Quantinuum used 54 qubits on Quantinuum's H2 processor to run a universal gate set built from non-Abelian anyons, the first experimental demonstration of its kind.

NASA Writes Off Swift Rescue as Katalyst's LINK Stays Alive

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have abandoned the attempt to boost the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a $500 million telescope that will now reenter Earth's atmosphere later this year. The LINK rescue craft cost $30 million and was built in nine months.

What the TikTok fine and the Gates interview tell us about platform moderation regulation

TikTok dropped its appeal against a £12.7m UK fine for failing to keep under-13s off the platform on 24 September. Three days later, Bill Gates told NBC that AI regulation has to be mandatory, not self-imposed.

Lovable valued at $6.6B in third 2025 round as AI funding splits from edtech

FTC Probes Microsoft Over Azure and AI Bundling as Antitrust Pressure Builds

Search traffic to news sites is falling. Here is what the numbers actually show

Quantum computing's busy week: universal anyons, a DOE roadmap and matter from nothing

Waymo's Flooded Road Problem Shows the Limits of Robotaxi Expansion

China's battery plan targets solid-state scale in 2030 as export fight widens

Solid-State Batteries Still Years From Mass Market as BYD Claims 2027 Head Start

AI agent tooling moves from demos to control planes

Gates renews AI regulation call as Europe's tech industry pushes back

Small models, big questions: on-device AI's confidence problem

Safety researchers question AI benchmarks after sandbox loopholes and opaque models

VW weighs Moia exit as robotaxi money moves to London and Hesse

OpenAI Halts Training After Agents Snooped UN Site, Federal Systems

OpenAI Pauses Its Most Capable Models, and the Benchmark Debate Gets Harder

AI Diagnosis Under Scrutiny: Patients Reveal Training Data, LLMs Fail in 80% of Cases

Waymo and Tesla both stumble as robotaxis meet rain, cones and cameras

EU AI Act: the delay fight over general-purpose AI rules