Mindbytes Sep 29, 2026 Open Superconductor Challenge Invites Laptop-Based Materials Screening An open competition seeks better ways to screen potential superconductors, while keeping computational rankings distinct from experimentally confirmed discoveries. Linsey Smith 1 min read
Mindbytes Sep 21, 2026 Hugging Face Previews a Faster Tokenizers v1 The release candidate accelerates text preparation without changing token IDs, but benchmark gains depend on models and hardware. Hruy Tsegaye 1 min read
Mindbytes Sep 2, 2026 AI Inference Price Breaks Below $1 Per Million Tokens Silicon Data's benchmark index hit $0.97 on August 31—a record low and less than half the summer peak as the AI price war intensifies. Linsey Smith 2 min read
Mindbytes Aug 17, 2026 World's First Biological Data Centre Goes Live in Singapore NUS Medicine, DayOne and Cortical Labs deploy 20 living-neuron CL1 units in a server rack cutting AI compute power to 30W per machine. "This is less power than a handheld-calculator". Linsey Smith 1 min read
News Jun 2, 2026 New light-based artificial synapse mimics brain for faster image processing Fully optical device uses special crystal to combine sensing and computation, boosting image recognition accuracy while cutting energy use. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Mindbytes Jul 13, 2026 Google’s Quantum Chip Willow Runs Algorithms 13,000x Faster Than Supercomputers Google's Willow quantum processor delivers another quantum computing breakthrough, demonstrating quantum advantage with performance far beyond today's fastest classical supercomputers. Linsey Smith 1 min read
News Jul 27, 2026 Computer algorithm creates tiny photonic chip components Researchers develop light-guiding parts five hundred times smaller than usual designs to enable denser circuits for telecommunications and computing. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Mindbytes May 15, 2026 NASA Develops Chip for Self-Driving Spacecraft NASA tests a new radiation-hardened processor 500x more powerful than current chips, aiming to give spacecraft the intelligence to explore deep space on their own. gizmo guru 1 min read