Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia’s AI chips
Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans…
Physicists Have Achieved Quantum “Alchemy” by Exciting Electrons to High-Energy States
A promising—and powerful—new engineering breakthrough could soon enable researchers to alter the properties of materials by exciting electrons…
Trump says Mark Zuckerberg showed him a ‘Manhattan-sized’ AI data center
President Donald Trump gave a surprise shoutout to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg after his address at the World…
Dynamic magneto-chiral instability in photoexcited tellurium
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Want to retire from a soul-sucking job? Here are the financial factors to consider.
Published: Jan. 9, 2026 at 2:33 p.m. ET In the Help Me Retire column, Alessandra Malito answers questions from…
Silicon shock is the big ‘26 theme
In the early 2000s, the world of fine spirits broke. Demand for aged whiskey and fine wine exploded…
Countries must move beyond seeing AI as a race, where one side must beat the other
On Dec. 9th, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would allow Nvidia’s H200 processors to be…
The consequences of AI slop and a hopeful look at what will follow it
Published: Jan. 2, 2026 at 12:43 p.m. ET You may already be familiar with the term “AI slop,” with…
Why Singapore is the only Southeast Asian country in Pax Silica, the U.S.’s new AI ‘inner circle’
With its new Pax Silica Declaration, Washington has picked its most trusted partners in the AI sector: An…
Exciton transport driven by spin excitations in an antiferromagnet
Baibich, M. N. et al. Giant magnetoresistance of (001) Fe/(001) Cr magnetic superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2472–2475…
US says China chip policies unfair but will delay tariffs to 2027
US trade officials determined that China should be punished for employing unfair tactics to dominate the semiconductor industry,…
Efforts to choke China will fail, Xi Jinping vows at 2026 economic agenda meeting
China’s achievements amid global uncertainty proved its development was unstoppable, President Xi Jinping said at an annual conference,…