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IBM Research, Red Hat, and Google Cloud donated llm-d, a Kubernetes-native LLM inference framework, to the CNCF as a sandbox project at KubeCon Europe 2026, backed by NVIDIA, CoreWeave, AMD, and other partners.
Charles H. Bennett of IBM Research and Gilles Brassard of the Université de Montréal have received the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award for founding quantum information science, including the BB84 quantum cryptography protocol and quantum teleportation.
Researchers at CSIRO, the University of Melbourne, and RMIT have built and tested a quantum battery prototype that completed a full charge-store-discharge cycle for the first time, demonstrating a counterintuitive property where charging speed increases with battery size.
Databricks has made Lakebase, its serverless PostgreSQL database built on acquired Neon technology, generally available on Azure with autoscaling compute, high availability, and compliance certifications across 14 regions.
NASA's Ignition initiative pauses the Lunar Gateway to redirect $20 billion over seven years toward building a permanent moon base, while repurposing Gateway hardware into SR-1 Freedom, a nuclear-powered spacecraft that will carry Ingenuity-class helicopters to Mars before the end of 2028.
Samsung Electronics is negotiating three-to-five-year memory supply agreements with Google and Microsoft that could include more than 10 billion dollars in prepayments, as hyperscalers move to secure chip capacity amid a structural AI-driven shortage.
Anthropic has launched a research preview enabling Claude to operate Mac desktops directly, opening files, navigating browsers, and executing tasks across applications with a permission-based safety model, available to Pro and Max subscribers.
Scientists have detected all five canonical nucleobases in pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu, the first confirmation of a complete set of DNA and RNA building blocks in material collected directly from space.
Microsoft has released TypeScript 6.0, the final major version built on the original JavaScript compiler codebase. The release introduces sweeping default changes, deprecates legacy module formats, and adds a migration flag to prepare codebases for TypeScript 7.0, which will be built entirely in Go.
An anonymous trillion-parameter AI model that topped OpenRouter usage charts and triggered widespread speculation about a stealth DeepSeek V4 launch turned out to be Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro, signaling the smartphone and EV maker's escalating ambitions in the AI model race.
Johnson & Johnson's Icotyde (icotrokinra), a once-daily oral peptide that blocks the IL-23 receptor, became the first targeted oral therapy to match biologic-level skin clearance in moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, marking a potential paradigm shift away from injectable treatments.
Oracle releases JDK 26 with ten JEPs spanning HTTP/3 client support, garbage-collector-independent ahead-of-time object caching, G1 throughput gains of up to 15 percent, and the final removal of the Applet API deprecated since JDK 17.