The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market
The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market

The memory shortage has become a political problem in Washington. Now the chip industry has a message for the Trump administration: leave the market alone, or the squeeze gets worse. The warning came in a letter from SEMI, a semiconductor industry grou…

The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market
The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market

The memory shortage has become a political problem in Washington. Now the chip industry has a message for the Trump administration: leave the market alone, or the squeeze gets worse. The warning came in a letter from SEMI, a semiconductor industry grou…

Weave’s $7,999 Isaac 1 bets home robots don’t need legs or fingers
Weave’s $7,999 Isaac 1 bets home robots don’t need legs or fingers

The robot butler has been five years away for about twenty years. Weave Robotics thinks the trick is to aim lower. Its new home robot, Isaac 1, does not walk, has no fingers, and mostly just wants to do your laundry. It also costs a fraction of its hum…

The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets
The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets

The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain’s biggest consumer electricals retailer, has warned that phones, laptops and TVs will cost more later this year. Chief executive Alex Baldock d…

IQM becomes the first European quantum company to list on a major US exchange
IQM becomes the first European quantum company to list on a major US exchange

Europe just put its first quantum computing company on a major American stock exchange. And it did so without leaving home. IQM, a Finnish maker of quantum machines, started trading on Nasdaq this week. The debut was equal parts landmark and reality ch…

Scientists built a cell from scratch that eats, divides and evolves. They just won’t call it alive
Scientists built a cell from scratch that eats, divides and evolves. They just won’t call it alive

Scientists in Minnesota have built a cell from scratch. It can feed, grow, and divide, and it competes with its own offspring. Its makers do not claim it is alive. But the line between chemistry and biology just got a lot thinner. The team at the Unive…

Quantum Systems raises $1.2bn and doubles its valuation to $8bn as defence money floods in
Quantum Systems raises $1.2bn and doubles its valuation to $8bn as defence money floods in

Europe has a new defence-tech heavyweight. Quantum Systems, a German maker of autonomous drones, has raised $1.2bn and more than doubled its valuation to about $8bn. It is one of the largest rounds ever for a European defence startup. The Bavarian comp…

Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary faces a whistleblower lawsuit over rushed software testing
Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary faces a whistleblower lawsuit over rushed software testing

A former software manager at Wisk Aero, Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary, has filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired after raising internal safety concerns about reduced software testing, the Seattle Times first reported. Briahna O’Neill filed t…

Why the next leap in AI video is teaching avatars to see and listen
Why the next leap in AI video is teaching avatars to see and listen

For the past few years, progress in generative video and AI avatars has been measured almost entirely in fidelity, with each new model making significant progress in delivering sharper detail, better physics, and smoother motion packaged in longer clip…

Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher’s new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure and energy that power them.