technology
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China’s Neo1 is a 13-foot hydraulic-electric humanoid that NeodraDynamics says weighs 1.2 metric tons and can handle a 500 kg dual-arm payload—about 1,102 pounds.
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Sazmining is opening Block’s Proto immersion hashboards to individual owners, with roughly 200 TH/s per board, about 15 J/TH efficiency and hosted U.S. operation.
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Taiwan plans a $2B-$4B Texas industrial park to help smaller AI and semiconductor suppliers establish U.S. operations around NVIDIA, TSMC and Foxconn.
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A follow-up on Interstellar Lab’s BioPods: NASA validation, Eden in orbit, Bloom on the Moon, Earth customers, funding and the longer road toward Mars.
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Samsung Medical Center has demonstrated humanoid surgical assistants that can pass instruments, operate an endoscope and help retract tissue in a simulated operating room.
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A 7-to-1 countdown of the most powerful consumer pickup trucks available in 2026, ranked by maximum factory horsepower from 580 hp to 1,160 hp.
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Lattice and Arm are pairing Arm AGI CPU server platforms with Lattice FPGAs and AMI firmware to add programmable control, security, and management to AI infrastructure.
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Kling AI has opened Kling 4.0 broadly with 30-second native generation, up to 10 keyframes, multimodal reference control, stereo audio and new creator workflows.
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Adobe is optimizing Photoshop, Premiere, Substance 3D, Frame.io and Brand Concierge for NVIDIA RTX Spark, with claimed gains of up to 2× in selected creative workloads.
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Google Quantum AI says magic state cultivation on Willow cut errors about 40-fold and reached 99.99% logical fidelity, while major scaling challenges remain.
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Charles Schwab now offers direct Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to eligible clients through Schwab.com, Schwab Mobile and thinkorswim.
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Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA are expanding their automated-driving partnership around MB.OS, Hyperion, Alpamayo and Halos, with future Level 4 applications in view.
