Micron broke ground on July 4 on a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.3 billion) expansion of its Hiroshima fab to scale next-generation DRAM and HBM for AI, with Japan's METI pledging up to ¥500 billion in subsidies and equipment installation set to begin in the second half of 2028.
Fraunhofer ISE data put renewables at 61.8 percent of Germany's net public electricity generation in the first half of 2026, with record solar output of 43.2 TWh, while a separate ZSW and BDEW assessment finds renewables covered a record 57.7 percent of electricity consumption.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed about 3,200 role cuts through FY27, roughly 1,600 immediately. Double Fine and Compulsion exit as independent studios with their IP, while Ninja Theory and Undead Labs head to new owners.
Erin Catto, creator of the Box2D physics engine, has released Box3D v0.1.0, an MIT-licensed 3D physics engine for games that blends Box2D code with remnants of Rubikon-Lite, a hobby version of the Half-Life: Alyx physics engine, and already powers Facepunch's s&box.
Mistral AI has unveiled Robostral Navigate, its first robotics model: an 8-billion-parameter navigation system that guides wheeled, legged, and flying robots with one RGB camera and language instructions, scoring 76.6% on the R2R-CE benchmark in unseen environments.
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5, trained alongside Cursor, is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Musk calls it 'an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.'
ESA's Euclid telescope has found 31 quasars from the universe's first billion years. EUCL J172902.75+641018.1, at redshift 7.77, breaks a record that stood since 2021, and the haul more than doubles the known quasars at redshift 7 or above.
Ecma International approved ECMAScript 2026 on June 30. The 17th edition of the JavaScript standard adds Math.sumPrecise, Iterator.concat, Array.fromAsync, Error.isError, Map upsert methods, Uint8Array base64 and hex conversion, and JSON.parse source access.
BeOne Medicines' chemo-free BRUKINSA plus rituximab regimen met its primary endpoint against bendamustine-rituximab in untreated mantle cell lymphoma.
Sysdig says JadePuffer used an LLM agent to exploit Langflow flaw CVE-2025-3248, run 600-plus payloads, and encrypt 1,342 Nacos config items.