Finland builds the world’s largest sand battery. Site can cheaply store energy for entire month. No "rare earths" or critical materials used. Estimated at $25/KWh

The Quantum Tech World conference showcases this ecosystem, she says. According to conference organizers, more than 1,300 people attended this year, and there were more than one hundred sponsors. Among them were multiple quantum computer makers, including Quantum Computing Inc., a maker of room-temperature photonic computers, which ran a real-time demo of a fraud detection…

I recently tested the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld gaming PC, and came away incredibly impressed with its performance. Put simply, it has no rival in gaming performance, easily eclipsing all other handhelds on the market. Even better, the battery life is also stellar. However, if there’s one thing that it could use, it’s…

South Korea’s memory titans, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, leveraging their High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) technology, collectively command over 80% of the global market share, positioning themselves as the most critical hardware suppliers for AI computing infrastructure. However, in core AI software and system domains such as GPU design and large language models, South Korea…

It began because no one can agree on what to do about Kimi, a free, open source model that Chinese AI company Moonshot launched last week. It appears to rival the intelligence of models from OpenAI and Anthropic, which are very much not free.  Kimi and other Chinese models like it pose a real problem…

around LLMs. You’re working on a previously impossible challenge that is now possible to tackle using LLMs. You deploy the first few agents into your system, and everything seems fine. Customers are happy. The responses aren’t the fastest, LLMs tend to be quite slow, but it’s manageable. As you start deploying more and more agents,…

Roblox announced Thursday a new feature called “Build,” allowing users to design games from their mobile devices using AI.  The Build feature lets anyone turn simple text prompts into a basic game without any programming experience. For example, if a user types, “Let’s make a cozy adventure game set in a dense forest,” the new…