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Daily Edition · Page 6

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

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INTEL AND QUALCOMM REPORTEDLY BID UP TO $10B FOR TENSTORRENT ON AN UNVERIFIED COST CLAIM

Intel and Qualcomm are reportedly bidding up to $10 billion for Tenstorrent, whose roughly $1,000 Blackhole chips run the BlockFloat8 number format natively, where GPUs with native support list near $40,000. Smallest.ai says its text-to-speech model, with over 80% running in 8-bit, costs about a quarter as much to run as on Nvidia's L40S. The figures are vendor-published and unverified, and no deal has closed.

theinference.org · 3 min

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TESLA ROADSTER PAIRS UNDERBODY SUCTION FANS WITH COLD-GAS THRUSTERS FOR GRIP BEYOND WHAT TIRES ALLOW

The Roadster's floor uses fans and perimeter seals to pull air out from under the car, creating up to 2 g of suction, enough to hold it upside down while stationary, and at speed, front and rear passages open for more flow. Cold-gas thrusters add a second system: ten nozzles fed by compressed air, with all-electric actuators for fast micro-adjustments, which Tesla says push with four to five times the force tires can deliver.

caranddriver.com · 3 min

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NASA'S ROMAN TELESCOPE BEATS ITS IMAGE-QUALITY SPEC BY NEARLY 30% AFTER A HAIR-WIDTH MIRROR NUDGE

After moving Roman's secondary mirror by about one-sixteenth the width of a human hair, engineers measured 63 nanometers RMS of optical error in the Wide Field Instrument, nearly 30% better than the 90-nanometer requirement. The camera has 18 detectors, and the same adjustment fixed slight defocus in the Coronagraph Instrument, which still needs testing of its ability to block unwanted light. Roman launched August 30, and both instruments now match or beat predictions.

sciencedaily.com · 3 min

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SPIN WAVES COUPLED TO A SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUIT CREATE A ONE-WAY STREET FOR MICROWAVE SIGNALS

Argonne and UIUC researchers coupled spin waves in a thin yttrium iron garnet film to a superconducting resonator built directly on top, creating a hybrid mode that propagates one way and could keep return noise from leaking back into qubits. The key materials fix was swapping the usual rare-earth-containing substrate, which absorbs microwaves at low temperatures, for one without rare-earth metals. It's still a proof of concept.

nanowerk.com · 3 min

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VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVES COULD FREE UP GRID POWER BY CUTTING MOTOR ENERGY USE 40 TO 60 PERCENT

Variable frequency drives adjust motor speed to match demand, cutting a motor's energy use by about 40 to 60 percent. Toyota saved over $700,000 a year after putting them on 200-plus HVAC motors at its Kentucky plant, in a $1.25 million pilot. Cheaper sensors, machine-learning control, and power chips borrowed from EVs and solar inverters have cut costs. ABB claims drives on every motor could cover up to five years of data center load growth.

spectrum.ieee.org · 5 min

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KORNIA-SLAM: VISUAL-INERTIAL ODOMETRY AND SLAM IN RUST

Kornia-SLAM is an open-source visual-inertial odometry and spatial mapping library implemented entirely in Rust. It supports monocular, stereo, and RGB-D cameras coupled with inertial measurement units, utilizing factor graph optimization to maintain real-time performance and strict memory safety. This framework gives embedded software teams a reliable, crash-resilient foundation for real-time spatial estimation on compute-limited physical devices.

kornia.org · 3 min

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GEMINI 4 ARGON: MULTIMODAL FOUNDATION MODELS FOR EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE

Google DeepMind has released Gemini 4 Argon, a multimodal foundation model engineered specifically for embodied physical systems. Featuring native spatio-temporal reasoning and low-latency action generation, it links high-level semantic understanding directly to robot execution through native bridges for ROS 2 and physics simulators like MuJoCo. The architecture allows creators of intelligent physical machines to translate natural language goals into dexterous, real-world manipulation and navigation.

developers.googleblog.com · 4 min

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