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Fusion's 2026 Scoreboard: Helion Hits 150MºC, ITER Costs $22B, Thea Banks $100M

Helion's Polaris prototype became the first privately developed fusion machine to run on deuterium-tritium fuel and reached plasma temperatures of 150 million degrees Celsius, the company said on 13 February 2026. A rival stellarator startup raised $100 million, and the $22 billion ITER project entered its third decade with a repaired heat shield.

Europe's energy bill keeps climbing, and factories are moving out

Playmobil has ended figure production at its Dietenhofen plant in Bavaria, cutting around 350 jobs. The Horst Brandstätter Group blames high energy prices. It is the latest European manufacturer to leave as power costs stay high.

TSMC posts record Q4 as CEO calls AI demand 'endless', Micron warns on DRAM

TSMC reported record fourth-quarter net income of NT$505.7 billion (about $16 billion) on 16 January, up 35 percent year over year, and said it will spend up to $56 billion on capital expenditures in 2026.

Publishers Weigh Cutting Google Off as Search Referrals Collapse

Quantum supremacy: what Google, IBM and the qubit race actually promised

OpenAI confirms 53 user images leaked as agent tooling floods the enterprise

AI accelerators: the packaging bottleneck nobody prices in, and the startups betting against HBM

Agent tooling splits in two: OpenAI's image leak and a wave of runtimes

China's Tech Push: From Melbourne Docks to Washington's AI Fight

Thomann Sues Fender Over Stratocaster Cease-and-Desists

AI Accelerators Hit a Materials Wall: T-Glass, HBM Limits and the Design Squeeze

China's tech policy push: cheap EVs, open-source AI and the export fightback

Europe's Night Train Map Redraws Itself as New Timetables Land

AI accelerator supply: SiFive licenses designs as Nittobo's T-glass runs short

X disinformation network: UN survey finds 85% worried as fake war footage spreads

Nittobo's T-glass squeeze shows the AI datacenter bottleneck is upstream

Lovable's third round of 2025 values the vibe coding startup at $6.6 billion

Europe's energy squeeze: heat pumps up 17%, Playmobil exits Germany

Lovable valued at $6.6B as edtech funding collapses to under $3B

PJM power jumps 75% as Playmobil quits Germany and heat pump sales climb 17%