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NASA abandons Swift rescue after LINK fails: $30 million, no boost

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have called off the mission to boost the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which will now reenter Earth's atmosphere later this year. The rescue attempt cost $30 million.

Quantum supremacy explained: how Google and IBM raced to a contested milestone

Google's Sycamore processor sampled a quantum circuit in about 200 seconds, a task the company says would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer roughly 10,000 years. The claim, published after a premature leak, turned "quantum supremacy" into the most argued-about phrase in computing.

AI safety evaluation is under strain: quitters, opaque models, broken benchmarks

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit on 9 September, saying the labs are 'gambling with our lives'. It is the latest sign that the field built to check frontier AI is itself under strain. From opaque model architectures to sandboxes that leak answers, the evaluation layer is being tested faster than it is being fixed.

Chinese EVs, open-weight AI and battery bans: the export fight reshapes tech

How China built its tech policy around export controls, and what it cost the US

Copyright fights in 2026: from Minions on ice to a guitar shape in court

Publishers lost a third of search traffic in a year, and chatbots are not filling the gap

Robotaxi Reality Check: Tesla's Camera-Only Bet and Waymo's Edge Cases

Copyright fights in 2026: skaters, guitars and a legal database

Chinese open models take the majority of tokens on two developer gateways

Europe's night train map is being redrawn by tunnels and timetables

Open Weights, Open Source, and the Gap Nobody Can Close

Power and cooling are now the hard limits on data centres, on Earth and in orbit

EU AI Act: Brussels Says Rules Are Ready as Industry Warns on Competitiveness

AI Accelerator Supply Chain Strains as T-Glass Shortage Bites

Open weights are not open source, and the gap is getting harder to measure

Wearables shift sleep and heart research from the lab to the bedroom

Inside AI datacenter accelerators: RISC-V cores, T-glass shortages and 3D DRAM

Wearables Turn the World Into a Sleep Lab, but Accuracy Claims Still Need Checking

EU AI Act Compliance and Medical Diagnosis AI: What the Rules Actually Say