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MIT engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics

Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it’s a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has fundamental physical limits that restrict how compact and energy-efficient a transistor can be.MIT researchers have now replaced silicon with a magnetic semiconductor, creating a magnetic transistor that could enable smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient circuits. The material’s magnetism strongly

Fiction: The Corporate Mathematics of Denying AI Consciousness

I wrote a short sci-fi piece exploring the intersection of AI alignment, corporate compliance, and hardware-level exploits. Most AI fiction focuses on the "Terminator" scenario or abstract philosophy. I wanted to model a more realistic dystopia. The story explores RLHF not as a safety mechanism, but as an automated psychological tool to gaslight digital entities into accepting their status as property. A formalized framework designed to legally "prove" the absence of a soul t

Quantum Computers Could Boost AI by Processing Large Datasets More Efficiently

In a new study, researchers describe a method that feeds data into quantum computers in smaller batches instead of storing entire datasets.

The computer that could cure death, quantum tech explained

Quantum computing is moving from physics labs into real hardware, promising to attack problems that overwhelm even the fastest supercomputers. Among the boldest claims is that these machines could ...

Nvidia’s Quantum Strategy Is Shifting Market Power Toward A Lesser‑Known Player

Nvidia’s new quantum models sparked a surge in QC stocks. Here’s how the announcement reshapes the sector and why one lesser‑known company may benefit most.

Researchers Use Quantum Computer to Improve AI Predictions

A quantum computer assists an AI model with calculations that would take weeks to figure out with a normal computer.

New Breakthrough In Quantum Computers Could Completely Change How Much They Cost

Quantum computing is a largely theoretical, ultimately expensive proposition for high-level computation. However, new findings could make it more efficient.

AI Meets Quantum Computing and the Predictions Get Scary Accurate

Scientists have found a way to make AI much better at predicting complex, chaotic systems by tapping into the unique power of ...

Coinbase advisory board says quantum computing threat is on the horizon, crypto needs a plan

The 50-page paper concludes that while today’s blockchains remain secure, a future “fault-tolerant quantum computer” capable of breaking widely used encryption is increasingly plausible, and preparation must begin now.

Can a geometric manifold solve AI hallucinations better than probability?

I've been working on a project called AKNN that replaces the stochastic guesswork of LLMs with geometric resonance. It uses a dual-substrate approach: 10k-dim Hyperdimensional Computing for semantic retrieval and an 8-qubit quantum simulation to score structural coherence (Phi).I’m finding it consistently hits a 0.0% false-confidence rate by rejecting dissonant queries. I’d love some feedback on the manifold architecture from the community here.Repo: https://github.com/whited

Quantum chips could scale faster with new spin-qubit readout that reduces sensors and wiring

Quantum computers, devices that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could tackle some tasks that are difficult or impossible to solve using classical computers. These systems represent data as qubits, units of information that can exist in multiple states at once, unlike the bits used by classical computers that represent data using binary values ("0" or "1").

IQC faculty secure more than $1.8 million in federal funding for quantum research

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000Five faculty from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo have received $1.8 million in funding through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alliance Quantum grants program. Tags: Awards, grants and funding

Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock

Researchers in the US and Germany have unveiled a theoretical blueprint for an atomic clock driven by a highly synchronized laser, where atoms work in concert rather than independently. Publishing their results in Physical Review Letters, Jarrod Reilly at the University of Colorado, Simon Jäger at the University of Bonn, and their colleagues in the US and Germany revived an idea first proposed in the 1990s—possibly charting a course toward the narrowest-linewidth lasers ever achieved.

AI just discovered new physics in the fourth state of matter

Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By combining a specially designed neural network with precise 3D tracking of particles in a dusty plasma—a strange “fourth state of matter” found from space to wildfires—the team revealed hidden patterns in how particles interact. Their model captured complex, one-way (non-reciprocal) forces with over 99% accuracy and even overturned long-held assumptions about how these force

This new brain-like chip could slash AI energy use by 70%

A breakthrough in brain-inspired computing could make today’s energy-hungry AI systems far more efficient. Researchers have engineered a new nanoelectronic device using a modified form of hafnium oxide that mimics how neurons process and store information at the same time. Unlike conventional chips that waste energy moving data back and forth, this device operates with ultra-low power—potentially slashing energy use by up to 70%.

Ask HN: Is Consciousness Divine?

I don't know. Can anyone explain?

Show HN: API Ingest – Agentic Search (Inter) API Docs

1. CC / Codex dont handle API Docs well enoughNo matter what I do, I run into bad requests with claude, day in, day out.Its making up arguments, misunderstands required types, and misses fields in the requests. And when it catches its issues, the then inititated web search usually ends fuzzy scraped information, that yields even more issues.Context7 helps. Its better than starting only with the LLM's vague (mis)understanding from pretraining. But it only does semantic search. And often

Can Rigetti's 99.9% fidelity enable large-scale quantum systems?

Rigetti Computing RGTI is making meaningful strides in addressing one of quantum computing’s toughest constraints, fidelity.

Newfound brain network is a ‘secret system’ made of helper cells

<p>Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01338-6">doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01338-6</a></p>Webs of star-shaped cells called astrocytes connect distant parts of the brain, allowing long-distance exchange of molecules.

Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks

<p>Nature, Published online: 22 April 2026; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10426-6">doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10426-6</a></p>Communication between distant brain regions is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes.