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Google's first TPU in orbit and 66,935 substations: the science behind October's space rush

Google's orbital compute prototype launched on a SpaceX rocket on 1 October, the first time the company has sent a Tensor Processing Unit into space, while new peer-reviewed work put the launch maths at roughly 1,800 Starship flights. The same week brought a blood-metabolite explanation for astronaut constipation and a machine-learning pipeline that forecasts grid risk at 66,935 US substations.

Cyfrowe zaświadczenie, koniec płyt, suwerenność: technologie zmieniają instytucje

Od 1 października 2026 roku niemieckie zaświadczenie o niekaralności można zamówić w formie cyfrowego PDF, co potwierdza heise online. To najnowszy przykład szerszego trendu: instytucje i firmy przenoszą swoje usługi do internetu, ale płacą za to utratą kontroli nad fizycznymi nośnikami i danymi.

Google watermarks AI-designed proteins as Anthropic claims first AI enzyme discovery

Google DeepMind published a method on Wednesday to embed watermarks in AI-designed protein sequences, a biosecurity measure that arrives as Anthropic claims its Claude agents produced the first scientific discovery by an AI system.

CATL holds 39.4% of global EV battery market as installations rise 19.7%

Google's TPU reaches orbit as China, Canada and carriers redraw satellite plans

Palantir NHS objections pass 44,000 as AI coding inflates US hospital bills

Hospital robotics: measles units, sensor makers and the slow surgery rollout

ByteDance Holds One-Fifth of China's Data Centre Capacity as AI Buildout Accelerates

AI Water Use Data Goes Missing: EU Complaint, Local Revolts and the Model Race

Blackfuel emerges from stealth with Barcelona GPU deployment

Britain Opens Biggest Solar Auction as Ember Says Africa's Real Boom Is Unreported

Open weights week: Cloudflare Clef, Amazon, Google and DeepSeek move on the open model market

A Chinese survey ship and the race to protect the cables under the sea

Truck Makers Want Europe's CO2 Rules Relaxed. Their Biggest Customers Say No

Blackfuel launches with a Barcelona inference build as cloud revenue growth meets hardware

Chip packaging is the new bottleneck: 17.5 GW of AI datacenter power, and that is the ceiling

Kortext buys StudyStash as AI reshapes the education workforce

Coop's volunteer-trained 145M model, and the small-model push around it

Japan's $140bn JERA-Dell Plan Moves AI Data Centres Behind the Meter

Memory Shortage to Tighten Through 2028 as Micron Posts Record Quarter