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Tesla's 2nm AI5 chip tapes out at Samsung while Apple's rumored M7 Ultra chases 1.5TB memory and Blackwell-class performance. Plus 12 states sue to block Paramount's $110B Warner Bros. merger and SpaceX preps Starship's 13th flight.

Quantum-designed peptides are reshaping drug discovery, while GPT-5.6 delivers 2.2x faster agents at 27% less cost. Plus, Google's Tensor G6 bets on AI over raw cores, and Gemma 4 E4B brings capable LLMs to your local machine.

AI just uncovered a 15-year-old root bug in the Linux kernel, while physicists found solid-like fracture in simple liquids. Plus China's Tianwen-2 reaches Earth's quasi-moon and AMD's RX 9070 GRE drops to $499 for 1440p gaming.

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra proves the decades-old Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, Oratomic's $300M bet slashes quantum to just 20K qubits, SK Hynix lands a record $26.5B US IPO, and China recovers its first reusable rocket.

Humanoid robots perform world-first live surgery on pigs, GPT-5.6 arrives with built-in cybersecurity, AMD's 10-core Zen 6 Medusa Point outscores Ryzen AI Max+ 395, and WordPress 7.0 bakes AI foundations into its core.

Robotics nears its ChatGPT moment, training physical AI on video game footage. Plus Apple's EU App Store defeat cracks open iOS, OpenAI's simultaneous speak-and-listen voice models, and City Labs' first commercial nuclear power in space.

GitHub's AI agent tricked into leaking private repos, Anthropic's Claude Cowork goes mobile, SambaNova raises $1B at an $11B valuation, and FuriosaAI's RNGD chips storm European datacenters. The hard walls facing AI, decoded.

A critical KVM hypervisor escape (CVE-2026-53359) rocks cloud security while Huawei's Ascend 950 SuperPods challenge Nvidia at a quarter the cost, GLM 5.2 threatens AI margins, and IBM extends its z17 mainframe line.

DARPA's SYMPHONEE harvests Strontium-90 for 30-year nuclear drone batteries, the Navy flight-tests 3D-printed F/A-18 parts, and Cloudflare and AWS revive HTTP 402 for stablecoin agent payments at the edge.

3D-printed thorium reactors and microwave power beams race to feed AI's energy hunger, while EV batteries defy degradation and Mistral AI challenges OpenAI. Plus: why confidential computing's trust model may be broken for good.