Register for SOSV’s 2026 Deep Tech Summit
Our friends at SOSV are hosting their annual Deep Tech Summit on November 4-6, which will bring together 100+ iconic speakers and 5,000+ attendees to explore what’s next in AI for the Physical World, Human Health, and Climate Resilience. Hear from Nobel Laureate and CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna, Harvard longevity researcher David Sinclair, MIT's Russ Tedrake, DCVC’s Matt Ocko and many more. The event is free and virtual.
“We want to be the industrial company for anything off Earth. When you think of a company like Bayer or DuPont, those are the kinds of companies we want to eventually be compared with.”
“Electrical cables usually excite only audiophiles, but physicists are buzzing about IBM’s announcement today that it has connected two copies of its latest quantum computing chip using aluminum cables nearly 1 meter long. The connections are key to IBM’s ambition to scale up its machines from roughly 100 quantum bits, or qubits, to the thousands needed to make a quantum computer far superior to today’s supercomputers at solving certain problems.
‘It’s a milestone,’ says Andrew Cleland, a physicist at the University of Chicago who was not involved in the work. ‘They’ve shown for the first time I know that they can take two processors and link them with meter-length cables.’”
A winged Chinese spacecraft bearing a strong resemblance to the US military’s X-37B spaceplane was photographed in orbit by a passing US-owned commercial satellite in 2024, and we finally have the image. Image via Vantor
“The Chinese spaceplane has delta wings, payload bay doors, a dark heat shield, and a rear-mounted service module with power-generating solar arrays. In other words, the design of the winged ship is, to a great degree, a copy of the X-37B spaceplane flown by the US Space Force.
The photo was taken by a commercial imaging satellite owned by a company called Vantor, known as Maxar in 2024. Vantor is one of several companies that provide reconnaissance imagery of locations around the world to the US military and US intelligence agencies. The same Earth-imaging satellites can point their telescopes at objects in space.
Lower-resolution views of a Chinese spaceplane showing the vehicle’s general shape were publicly available before the Defense Intelligence Agency assessment. A US Space Force official revealed Maxar’s observation at a 2024 conference in South Korea, but the Pentagon did not release the full-resolution image to the public until Monday, when it appeared in an unclassified DIA assessment of threats to the United States in space.” (via WIRED)
The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes / How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? / You don't need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work / An AI Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research 'Irrelevant' / Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure / US President says he will ban the term 'artificial intelligence' / SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef / 'Forever chemicals' are everywhere. Can new technologies get rid of them for good? / SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo / How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom / AI Agents Are Media's New Favorite Audience / Anthropic Says It Will Revolutionize Biology—Some Day / Pornhub Stars Want to Teach You How to Make Dinner / Why is AI generated language so hard to understand? / "Musk" Documentary Pulled from Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week / Bentley's Kyiv deadlership among the strongest, despite the war / OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing "significant risks" / Scientists Trapped an Antimatter Particle for Months to Study Its Secrets / China increasingly depends on copying American AI
