Category: Frontier Tech
Space, biotech, quantum, fusion, cleantech and other moonshots.
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Most of the power from the DOE’s $5 billion nuclear loan is already sold to Big Tech
The department calls it support for homes and businesses, and the reporting found no sign household bills will fall.
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Warhound has raised $200 million at $1.2 billion to build military dogs, and the dogs do not exist yet
Ben Lamm’s new company plans to edit and clone working dogs, with births expected early next year and service ideally within two years.
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SpaceX has borrowed $40 billion to buy AI chips, and Musk says the smaller cloud providers should be worried
The lenders and terms are not public, and the warning comes from a company that can borrow because it earns elsewhere.
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Amazon will fund 12 reactors in Indiana, and the reactor maker has not yet broken ground on its first plant
The 960-megawatt plan leans on a Texas project that is still awaiting its construction permit.
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Microsoft has dropped a 23,000-chip Nscale data centre near London because the grid cannot power it until the 2030s
The grid operator says capacity may not exist until the early to mid 2030s, against a plan to be live in early 2027.
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China’s chip exports rose 136 percent in September, and the number of chips rose 1 percent
The jump is mostly price, chiefly memory, and customs data cannot say how much.
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A retinal chip has let one Stargardt patient read a word, and the evidence is that one patient
Science Corporation’s founder says the next device is a year away and near-normal sight is five, both on his own timeline.
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The Air Force will pay WindBorne up to $49 million for balloon weather data, and has ordered $1.7 million so far
The contract was awarded without competition, on the grounds that nobody else could supply the data.
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General Fusion squeezed plasma to 12.6 million degrees, about a ninth of its next target
Britain’s national fusion laboratory helped take the measurement, which covers electrons, and the paper has not been peer reviewed.
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A one-year-old missile startup raised $25 million after a dozen test launches on its first $5 million
Furientis says its interceptors cost a fraction of the $3 million incumbents, and has not said what fraction.