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OpenAI Model Cracks 80-Year-Old Erdős Math Problem
An OpenAI reasoning model disproved a long-standing conjecture by mathematician Paul Erdős, finding new dot arrangements that beat what humans believed was the best possible.
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Google Launches Co-Scientist, an AI Research Partner for Real Labs
At I/O 2026, Google unveiled Gemini for Science and Co-Scientist — multi-agent AI tools built to help working researchers generate hypotheses, plan experiments, and accelerate breakthroughs.
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NASA's New Space Chip Is 500× Faster Than Today's
The palm-sized HPSC processor could let future spacecraft think for themselves during deep-space missions to the Moon and Mars.
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Shanghai Robot Lifts 5,000 kg, Doubles the Guinness Load Record
Shanghai Chaifu's CR5000-3700 industrial robot hoisted over 5,000 kilograms in Jinshan district, setting a new Guinness World Record and more than doubling the 2016 mark.
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AlphaFold Spin-Off Raises $2.1B to Hunt Drugs With AI
Isomorphic Labs, the DeepMind offshoot built around Nobel Prize–winning AlphaFold, just landed one of the biggest funding rounds in AI biotech to scale its drug pipeline.
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All-Perovskite Solar Cells Crack 30% Efficiency for the First Time
Chinese researchers have built the first all-perovskite tandem solar cell to surpass 30% certified efficiency, a milestone that pushes the cheap, flexible technology past long-time leader silicon.
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Stanford's Fingertip-Sized Chip Boosts Light 100x With Tiny Power Draw
A new Stanford optical amplifier the size of a fingertip can intensify light signals 100-fold on a few hundred milliwatts — small enough to run on a battery and fit inside a smartphone.
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World's First E-Bike With Semi-Solid-State Battery Just Launched
Ride1Up's new Revv1 EVO is the first production e-bike to ship with a semi-solid-state battery, promising higher energy density, better cold-weather performance and improved safety over standard lithium cells.
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CATL Unveils EV Battery That Charges in 6 Minutes for 1,500 km
The world's largest battery maker has revealed a third-generation Shenxing pack that adds 1,500 kilometers of range in roughly the time it takes to fill a gas tank.
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New 25-Nanometer Memory Chip Gets More Efficient as It Shrinks
Researchers at Science Tokyo built a hafnium-oxide memory device that overturns a 50-year-old assumption — one that has constrained chip design for decades.
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New Memory Chip Keeps Working at 700°C — Hotter Than Molten Lava
Engineers built a memory device from beta-gallium-oxide that holds data at 700°C, well past the temperature where ordinary silicon gives up — a leap toward electronics that can run inside engines, on Venus, or in geothermal wells.
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New Brain-Inspired Chip From Cambridge Cuts AI Energy Use by 70%
A new memristor built from a special form of hafnium oxide can store and process information in the same place — slashing the biggest energy cost in modern AI hardware.
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Northwestern Scientists Build a Fuel Cell That Runs on Dirt
Engineers at Northwestern have built a soil-powered fuel cell that uses natural bacteria to generate steady electricity for underground sensors — no batteries, no solar panels, no recharging required.
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Google Unveils 8th-Gen TPUs Built for the Age of AI Agents
Google Cloud Next 2026 introduced TPU 8t and TPU 8i — two custom chips for training and inference that promise up to 2x better performance per watt and support pods of 1,152 chips.
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Solar Panels That Generate Power From Raindrops? It Works.
Spanish researchers built a thin-film coating that lets solar panels harvest energy from raindrops too — a single drop generates over 100 volts.
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GEN-1 Robot AI Hits 99% Reliability Folding, Packing, and Fixing Things
Generalist's new physical AI model can fold laundry, pack phones, and service vacuums at production-level accuracy — and recover from mistakes on its own.
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New Chip-Making Machine Prints 8nm Features in a Single Step
ASML's latest EUV lithography system can pack 2.9x more transistors per chip — a leap driven by surging AI demand.
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Samsung Posts Record $33B Quarterly Profit on AI Chip Boom
A six-fold jump in operating profit makes Q1 2026 Samsung's best quarter ever, driven by insatiable demand for AI memory chips.
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Scientists Shatter the Solar Cell Efficiency Ceiling with a 130% Quantum Yield
A team from Kyushu University and Johannes Gutenberg University achieved what was long thought impossible — extracting more energy carriers from sunlight than photons absorbed.
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Disney's Walking, Talking Olaf Robot Steals the Show at NVIDIA GTC 2026
A real-life Olaf from Frozen walked onstage alongside Jensen Huang at GTC 2026, previewing autonomous Disney theme park characters powered by open-source AI and physics simulation.
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Sodium-Ion Batteries Hit the Road: The Cheaper, Safer Power Source Going Mainstream in 2026
Named one of MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026, sodium-ion batteries are moving from lab curiosity to mass production — with CATL and BYD leading the charge.
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A Lab Mistake at Cambridge Leads to a Breakthrough That Could Revolutionize Drug Development
Cambridge scientists accidentally discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules in minutes instead of months — without toxic chemicals.
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How OpenClaw Became the People's AI: 250,000 Stars and a Movement That's Just Getting Started
The open-source AI assistant has become the fastest-growing project in GitHub history, but the real story isn't the code — it's the solo creators, small businesses, and everyday people building things that used to require entire teams.