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3/19/2026
China’s Tesla wannabes split over end-to-end AI framework

China’s Tesla wannabes split over end-to-end AI framework

For years, China’s autonomous driving stack has followed a four-layer model: perception, prediction, planning, and control.

Ni Tao

a day ago

3/17/2026
Turning a 2,400-year-old in situ collapse into a testable reconstruction

Turning a 2,400-year-old in situ collapse into a testable reconstruction

A rare roof collapse sealed a working space in place, but rebuilding it required controlled modeling workflows, not generative AI.

3/13/2026
DARPA veteran Paul Eremenko on AI engineers, aerospace bottlenecks, and building starships

DARPA veteran Paul Eremenko on AI engineers, aerospace bottlenecks, and building starships

Eremenko explains how his startup P-1 AI aims to build AI engineers and reflects on why hydrogen aviation stalled.

3/12/2026
Inside Spain’s Magerit supercomputer and the science it enables

Inside Spain’s Magerit supercomputer and the science it enables

At the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Magerit is helping researchers tackle problems ranging from aircraft fatigue to combustion physics and ecosystem stress.

Maria Bolevich

8 days ago

3/9/2026
NASA resets Artemis, but China could still win the race to the Moon

NASA resets Artemis, but China could still win the race to the Moon

NASA is trading ambition for realism as it tries to stabilize a program long plagued by delays and technical setbacks.

Chris Young

11 days ago

3/6/2026
Gallium nitride microLEDs could unlock ultra-efficient neuromorphic AI

Gallium nitride microLEDs could unlock ultra-efficient neuromorphic AI

The BRIGHT project aims to pair gallium nitride microLED arrays with silicon electronics to create light-driven neural networks capable of running AI with far less power.

3/3/2026
Iran’s missile power and Hormuz disruption raise global energy stakes

Iran’s missile power and Hormuz disruption raise global energy stakes

Iran may be outgunned, but the regime could inflict serious trouble across the region and beyond.

2/28/2026
Inverse design meets 4D printing in mechanical metamaterials

Inverse design meets 4D printing in mechanical metamaterials

Engineers can now define a target mechanical response and generate a printable lattice to match it, turning materials design into a programmable process.

Srishti Gupta

20 days ago

The model that built modern cosmology now faces new tests

The model that built modern cosmology now faces new tests

The Lambda Cold Dark Matter model unified gravity, cosmic expansion, dark matter, and dark energy into a single framework. Fresh data are now probing its limits.

2/27/2026
Can CRISPR gene drives reinvent pest control?

Can CRISPR gene drives reinvent pest control?

New gene drive experiments aim to suppress malaria mosquitoes while navigating resistance and containment risks.

Srishti Gupta

21 days ago

The true cost and future of AI

The true cost and future of AI

Artificial intelligence represents the most consequential technological shift since the internet, yet its true costs extend far beyond the headlines of trillion-dollar valuations and revolutionary capabilities.

Duncan West

22 days ago

2/25/2026
IEEE’s Tom Coughlin  on why storage will decide AI’s future

IEEE’s Tom Coughlin on why storage will decide AI’s future

The digital storage veteran argues that looming memory constraints could reshape data center buildouts and redefine how AI systems scale over the next decade.

Ex-Blue Origin engineer’s startup will send 1,000 trackable memorials to orbit

Ex-Blue Origin engineer’s startup will send 1,000 trackable memorials to orbit

With memorial slots starting at $249, Space Beyond plans to undercut every previous orbital ash mission.

Chris Young

23 days ago

What it takes to electrify a highway

What it takes to electrify a highway

Engineers are testing whether embedded coils and rails can deliver hundreds of kilowatts to vehicles in motion.

Srishti Gupta

23 days ago

2/23/2026
Materials scientist Leonard Siebert on 3D printing for medicine

Materials scientist Leonard Siebert on 3D printing for medicine

Technical project lead at KU Leuven, Siebert explains how LAMP and melt spinning could improve medical manufacturing and make drugs dissolve more effectively.

AI Impact Summit: When ambition outruns authority

AI Impact Summit: When ambition outruns authority

India gathered the world to shape a development-first AI agenda, but the week showed how hard it is to turn declarations into authority.

The AI Insider

25 days ago

2/20/2026
OnePlanet CEO André Pujadas on building solar recycling infrastructure in the US

OnePlanet CEO André Pujadas on building solar recycling infrastructure in the US

Trained engineer and former steel executive, Pujadas explains how his company is building industrial-scale facilities to recover valuable materials from end-of-life solar panels.

2/19/2026
Doosan Robotics on AI, modular automation, and rapid deployment in factories

Doosan Robotics on AI, modular automation, and rapid deployment in factories

The company’s Nvidia-powered AI depalletizing system aims to reduce programming barriers and speed modular cobot adoption.

Bojan Stojkovski

a month ago

2/18/2026
China targets the real bottleneck in AR displays

China targets the real bottleneck in AR displays

Shenzhen-based Appotronics is betting that improving optical efficiency will determine whether AR glasses can become practical, scalable consumer devices.

Ni Tao

a month ago

2/16/2026
Can engineered microbes produce isoprene for synthetic rubber?

Can engineered microbes produce isoprene for synthetic rubber?

A closer look at how metabolic engineering and industrial fermentation could provide a biological route to a key rubber precursor.

Srishti Gupta

a month ago

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