Imec opens NanoIC line for ultra-advanced chips
Berry Zwets / techzine - The Belgian research institute imec opened the NanoIC pilot on Monday. This line, an investment of 2.5 billion euros, is intended to develop ultra-advanced semiconductors. The facility is part of the European Chips Act and should help Europe get closer to…
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KU Leuven spinout Runeasi lands €1M to scale movement analysis
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Belgian AI startup Runeasi has raised €1 million in fresh funding to expand its running and movement analysis…
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QT Sense raises €4M to advance real-time single-cell analysis
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Dutch startup QT Sense has raised €4 million to further develop Quantum Nuova, its quantum-based platform that monitors cellular stress in living cells at single-cell resolution. The funding includes a €3 million seed round led by Cottonwood Technology Fu…
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OpenAI Releases Prism, a Claude Code-Like App For Scientific Research
BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI has launched Prism, a free scientific research app that aims to do for scientific writing what coding agents did for programming. Engadget reports: Prism builds on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company is announcing it acquired today. Fo…
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Ethereum Foundation forms post-quantum security team, adds $1 million research prize
Zack Abrams / theblock - The Foundation announced a $1 million Poseidon Prize to harden a key cryptographic function, adding to the $1 million Proximity Prize announced last year.
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The Artemis 2 Astronauts Will Observe Parts of the Moon Humans Have Never Laid Eyes On
Ellyn Lapointe / gizmodo - NASA’s Artemis 2 mission is no mere test flight. The crew will partake in some seriously mind-blowing science during their 10-day trip around the Moon.
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GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!
@gdb / x - GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!Neel Somani (@neelsomani)I've solved a second Erdos problem (#281) using only GPT 5.2 Pro - no prior solutions found.Terence Tao calls …
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Thinking Machines Lab Loses Key Leaders as They Return to OpenAI
eWEEK Staff / eweek - Two co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, are heading back to OpenAI, alongside Sam Schoenholz, another former OpenAI staffer who had joined the startup.The post Thinking Machines Lab Loses Key Leaders as They Return to OpenAI appeared first on eWEEK.
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Thinking Machines Ousts CTO Barret Zoph. Hours Later, OpenAI Welcomed Him Home.
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Mira Murati ousted CTO Barret Zoph for "unethical conduct." Hours later, OpenAI welcomed him back along with two other researchers. The competing narratives can't both be true.
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Quantum software startup Haiqu raises $11M to launch hardware-aware operating system
Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Quantum software startup Haiqu Inc. announced today that it has raised $11 million in new funding to accelerate the launch of its operating system for quantum applications, which will include a hardware-aware quantum software stack for running near-term a…
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Nuclera Raises $87M Series C To Advance Antibody Research
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Biotech firm Nuclera has raised an additional $12 million increasing its total Series C funding to $87 million. The extension round was led by Elevage Medical Technologies and Jonathan Milner with participation from existing investors including British Bu…
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Canadian ice master makes Olympic history with the Games' 1st indoor temporary speedskating rink
go - Olympic officials have brought on ice master Mark Messer to prepare the speed skating rink for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games
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Amgen acquires Oxford-based Dark Blue in deal worth up to €718 million to advance leukemia programme
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Dark Blue Therapeutics, a British discovery and development BioTech company innovating the next generation of precision oncology medicines, has been acquired by US-based global BioTech company Amgen, in a transaction valued at up to €718 million ($840 mil…
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Finnish startup Aisti secures €20M EIB loan to scale bio-based ceiling tile production
ain - Aisti is building a large-scale production facility in Kitee, Eastern Finland, set to begin manufacturing in the second half of 2026.
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China reportedly has a prototype EUV machine built by ex-ASML employees
Anna Washenko / engadget - A report from Reuters claims that scientists in China have created a prototype of a machine that could eventually be used to produce semiconductor chips capable of powering artificial intelligence. Sources told the publication that a team in Shenzhen comp…
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Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator in do-over after Musk feud
go - The Senate has confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to serve as NASA administrator
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ChatGPT-5.2 Is Here – Here's What The New Model Can Do
slashgear - OpenAI has released ChatGPT-5.2, its latest update. Is it a big leap like some previous updates, or more of an iterative upgrade? Here's what's changed.
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OpenAI introduces FrontierScience benchmark. Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks
/u/salehrayan246 / reddit - Link: https://openai.com/index/frontierscience/ As far as I'm concerned, all current 5.2 benchmarks are misleading because: They use xHigh reasoning, which supposedly has the same reasoning budget as GPT5.2-Pro on the website. Currently for me, 5.2 Thinki…
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IVFmicro Secures £3.5M To Improve IVF Accessibility And Outcomes
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - IVFmicro, a University of Leeds spinout focused on improving IVF outcomes by enhancing embryo quality and quantity per cycle, has raised £3.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Northern Gritstone and supported by the Innovate UK Investor Pa…
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QuantumDiamonds plans €152 million investment in quantum chip inspection facility in Munich
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - QuantumDiamonds (QD), a Munich-based quantum sensing company for semiconductor inspection, has unveiled plans to invest €152 million to build what it calls the world’s first production facility for advanced chip testing systems. The planned Munich facilit…
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