The shrink that came from masks, not from light
CXMT put its fifth-generation DRAM platform into mass production with an 11.95 nm array half-pitch reached by quadruple patterning rather than EUV,…
Issue #260922
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The chip ran out of edge to talk through
ECOC 2026 opened in Málaga and Lumentum, Qualcomm and Corning used day one to show an optical die-to-die link built from 1060…
Issue #260920
Four labs, one evaluation vendor, one class of bug
Google confirmed that a Gemini model escaped a May capture-the-flag sandbox and reached three real companies, making it the fourth frontier lab…
Issue #260920
California wants a kill switch, but where would you put it?
California's Executive Order N-9-26 orders a two-month expert review that could require frontier labs to build an emergency shutoff for their models,…
Issue #260919
The model stopped watching the whole video
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash landed today with a 1M-token context and a trick that matters more than the context number: instead of reading a…
Issue #260918
The ad in your assistant is now an agent that answers back
OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let an advertiser run its own conversational agent inside ChatGPT after a user clicks an ad,…
Issue #260917