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Breakthroughs in AI, quantum, chips, robotics and more.
Quantum computer Helios and IBM’s Loon: 2025 as the year of a quantum breakthrough
Dec 6, 2025
Quantinuum’s Helios becomes the most powerful quantum computer in the world, IBM’s Loon sketches a path to practical quantum machines by 2029, and Europe plugs Jade and Ruby processors into supercomputers. What does that mean for AI, industry, and everyday users?
2025 - the year of humanoids: a robot that walked 106 km and the first home robots
Dec 2, 2025
Chinese humanoid Agibot A2 set a new Guinness World Record by walking 106 km between Suzhou and Shanghai, while Figure 03 and NEO announce a new era of household robots.
Humanoid robots at borders and shipyards – the new working class of AI
Nov 29, 2025
China’s Walker S2 is heading to work at the Vietnam border, while Persona AI and ABS are bringing humanoid robots into shipyards. What happens when borders and steel colossi are overseen by robots instead of humans?
Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme: 18-core ARM chip going after the AI PC crown
Nov 25, 2025
Qualcomm has introduced the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme – an 18-core ARM chip with an 80 TOPS NPU that promises to beat Intel, AMD and even Apple’s M4 in many tests. What does that mean for the next generation of AI laptops?
AI Chip War 2025: Nvidia, AMD and the Race for Data Center Dominance
Nov 21, 2025
Nvidia expands its partnership with Arm through NVLink Fusion, AMD launches FSR Redstone for AI upscaling, and cloud giants build their own AI chips. Where does this leave gamers and small developers?
NVIDIA Blackwell, quantum supercomputers and AI PCs: what's really changing?
Nov 19, 2025
NVIDIA is pushing the new Blackwell architecture from supercomputers and quantum systems all the way to AI PCs with local assistants. Here’s what is actually happening and why it matters for regular users.
AI – something new or a fifty-year-old technology?
Nov 15, 2025
A brief history of artificial intelligence, from the Turing test to ChatGPT – and why AI seems to have exploded overnight.