Foxconn is replicating its massive Chinese factory-city model in India, hiring tens of thousands for iPhone production. At the same time, Japanese semiconductor firms Rohm and AOI Electronics are forming key manufacturing partnerships with Indian companies like Tata and Kaynes.
Researchers at the Perimeter Institute have created a new public code called KISS-SIDM. It models the complex evolution of self-interacting dark matter halos, structures that host galaxies like our Milky Way, with greater speed and accuracy than before.
A rumor claimed Asus would start selling its own RAM by the second half of 2026 to combat ongoing shortages. The company has now flatly denied those plans, stating that building a memory chip factory is a multi-year, high-risk endeavor that wouldn’t solve the current supply crisis.
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is back with a new venture, Dazzle AI. The startup just raised funding at a $35 million valuation and plans to launch its first product within months. Mayer shut down her previous company, Sunshine, to focus on this new AI effort.
Venture capital is pouring into the creator economy, but the focus has sharply split. About $1.2 billion went to AI content creation startups like Synthesia, while social shopping platforms like Whatnot pulled in hundreds of millions more. The funding boom highlights two competing visions for the fu
According to a science journalist, we consistently misread science fiction by either fetishizing its dystopian tech or treating it as a literal blueprint. Both mistakes blind us to the genre’s real power: to question the world as it is.
Mill, the food waste startup from Nest’s founders, just locked in a major deal with Whole Foods. Starting in 2027, every store will get a commercial Mill bin. The strategy? Sell to executives at home first.
A major custom PC company is now letting customers mail in their own RAM kits for new builds. This bizarre workaround highlights a severe, multi-year shortage that’s sending memory prices through the roof and scrambling the entire industry.
The CEO of software giant Databricks isn’t mincing words about the current AI investment craze. Ali Ghodsi calls the trend of funding companies with zero revenue “clearly a bubble” and “insane,” predicting the situation will deteriorate over the next 12 months.
Samsung’s chip fabrication business is on a serious hot streak. After landing deals with Apple and Tesla, it’s now reportedly in talks to manufacture Google’s most powerful AI chips. This could be a game-changer for the semiconductor industry’s balance of power.
