Quantum Computing Nov 12, 2026

Quantum computer stores its memory in tiny vibrations

Researchers at ETH Zurich have built a quantum chip whose working memory is made of microscopic mechanical vibrations rather than electromagnetic devices, and shown it can run real quantum computations.

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AI Nov 11, 2026

Anthropic's new Claude models take on the hardest technical problems

Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 improve on coding, science and vision tasks, and have already helped design electronics, solve physics problems and prove a famous theorem.

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Opinion Nov 10, 2026

Future tsunamis: Cosmists and Terrans, revisited

The 2026 midterms delivered a blue tsunami driven mostly by the cost of living - but a quieter signal ran underneath it: fear of AI and of the data centers being built to feed it. Hugo de Garis once predicted the defining fight of this century would pit Cosmists, who want to build godlike machine intellects, against Terrans, who want to stop them. i think the election was an early tremor of that split, and that only discussion, negotiation, and concessions on all sides can keep today's votes from hardening into tomorrow's artilect war.

Giulio Prisco 8 min read

AI Nov 10, 2026

AI film helps a grandson honour the pilot grandfather he never met

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Robotics Nov 10, 2026

At CoRL, NVIDIA and partners show how robots rehearse delicate work in simulation

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AI Nov 10, 2026

AI agents now write and test robot code in virtual worlds

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Will Big Tech +Doomers Succeed at Regulatory Capture of AGI?

How the AI Safety Debate Could Deliver the short-term Future to Big Tech rather than the long-term future to Humanity

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Long-standing conjecture on the limits of quantum speedups is proven

A research system at Physical Superintelligence, running a non-public Anthropic model, found a machine-checked proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a central open problem in quantum computing.

Nov 9, 2026