Category: Frontier Tech
Space, biotech, quantum, fusion, cleantech and other moonshots.
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Qualcomm is buying US patents from Huawei, the company Washington has spent seven years cutting off
Reports say Qualcomm becomes the net payer for the first time, but neither company has put a figure on it.
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Google has put AI chips in orbit, and its space data centre plan needs Starship to fly 180 times a year
The prototype is the easy part; the economics rest on a rocket that has never flown more than five times in a year.
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A startup putting cameras on 650 ships just raised $140 million, and the war in Iran helped
Quartermaster is selling a view of the sea that ships’ own transponders do not reliably give anyone.
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Crusoe cancelled a $1.25 billion turbine order from Boom, and says it still wants turbines
Boom has lost its launch customer, and Crusoe is keen to say the problem was the supplier, not the plan.
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Claude spent 21 hours searching viral DNA and found an enzyme system nobody had described
Anthropic’s new biology lab has a discovery to show, and not yet any idea what it does.
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Alibaba says its new chip is China’s most powerful, and it will not ship until 2027
The Zhenwu V900 is built to run in clusters of 500,000, but Alibaba has not said who will manufacture it under US export controls.
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A Hisense-controlled chipmaker just raised $727 million on AI’s appetite for faster cables
Ligent Technologies makes the optical transceivers that move data between AI servers, and its Hong Kong debut jumped 19 percent on demand for exactly…
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The US government put a $215 million bounty on the first useful quantum computer
The prize money is real and split into precise tiers, but nobody has to hit any of them until next decade.
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A startup wants to farm uranium from the ocean like seaweed
Fluxnium says the sea holds 50,000 years of nuclear fuel, and a $7 million seed round is enough to start proving the chemistry works…
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Cornelis raised $205 million to make the network do some of the GPU’s job
The pitch is that idle accelerators are a bigger waste than slow ones, and a networking startup wants to sell the fix to everyone…