IBM announced what it calls the first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, using a 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom, nanostack transistor architecture. IBM said the design can pack nearly 100 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail.
IBM said published technical results project up to 50 percent more performance or 70 percent greater energy efficiency than its 2 nm node chips. The company described the work as a research and scaling milestone, not a shipping processor.
Featured source: Ars Technica , IBM .
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OpenAI and Broadcom Announce LLM Inference Chip
OpenAI and Broadcom announced Jalapeno, OpenAI’s first custom AI accelerator, designed for large-language-model inference. OpenAI said engineering samples are running machine-learning workloads in the lab at production target frequency and power, with initial deployment planned by the end of 2026.
Filed from: Ars Technica , OpenAI .
European Commission Moves AWS and Azure Toward DMA Gatekeeper Status
The European Commission informed Amazon and Microsoft of its preliminary view that AWS and Azure should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. The Commission said AWS and Azure have significant turnover, entrenched user bases, lock-in effects, high switching costs, and large ecosystems.
Filed from: The Register , European Commission .
Amazon Adds $13 Billion for India AI and Cloud Infrastructure
Amazon announced an additional $13 billion investment to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in India through 2030. The company said the money will expand AWS data-center capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad, bringing planned India investment from 2026 to 2030 to $48 billion.
Filed from: The Register , Amazon .
FCC Proposes Stronger Identity Checks for Call-Originating Providers
Ars Technica reported on an FCC proposal that could require originating voice providers to collect and retain customer identity information before granting service access. The FCC notice seeks comment on name, physical address, government-issued identification number, and alternate telephone number requirements for new and renewing customers.
Filed from: Ars Technica , FCC proposal .
Nature Publishes Critique of Microsoft Topological-Qubit Evidence
The Verge reported that a peer-reviewed Nature critique by Henry F. Legg challenges Microsoft Azure Quantum’s earlier evidence for topological superconductivity in its Majorana device work. Microsoft published a rebuttal in Nature and told The Verge it stands by its results and roadmap.
Filed from: The Verge , Nature .
Microsoft Links Amadey and StealC Infrastructure in Disruption Action
Microsoft said it used AI-assisted analysis and legal action to disrupt infrastructure tied to the Amadey botnet and StealC infostealer. The company described StealC as malware-as-a-service and said Amadey has been used to deliver information stealers and other malware.
Filed from: The Register , Microsoft .
Google Play Expands Billing Choice and Lowers Fees
Google said Play developers in covered markets will be able to direct users to alternative payment options and external offers under an expanded billing-choice program. Its developer support page lists reduced service fees for qualifying transactions made outside Google Play billing.
Filed from: Android Developers Blog , Google Play support .
OpenAI Publishes Agent-Work Research
OpenAI published research on workplace agent adoption with a companion PDF on how agents are being used across tasks and organizations. The report covers categories of work where agents are being applied and includes survey-backed observations about deployment patterns.
Micron Reports Record Fiscal Third-Quarter Results
Micron reported record fiscal third-quarter results as memory demand continued to lift revenue. The company posted the investor materials after TechCrunch covered the results as part of the wider memory-chip supply cycle.
Filed from: TechCrunch , Micron investor relations .
Apple Brings Swift Package Index Into Apple
Apple has taken over Swift Package Index, the package discovery and metadata service used by Swift developers. The Swift Package Index team said the service will keep operating, remain open source, and later add work around package signing and identity.
Filed from: The Register , Swift Package Index .
Adobe Acquires Topaz Labs
Adobe acquired Topaz Labs, the maker of AI image and video enhancement tools, according to TechCrunch. Topaz Labs had recently been expanding its image and video enhancement model lineup, including upscaling, denoising, sharpening, and video enhancement products.
Filed from: TechCrunch , Topaz Labs .
MATCH Act Keeps Semiconductor Equipment Controls in Focus
TechCrunch reported that European chip-equipment interests are pushing back as Washington debates tighter semiconductor manufacturing-equipment restrictions on China. The House version of the MATCH Act would restrict exports, reexports, and in-country transfers of specified semiconductor manufacturing equipment and components to China.
Filed from: TechCrunch , House bill PDF .
Cellebrite Said It Cut Off Russia, but Russia Used Its Tools Anyway
TechCrunch reported that Russian authorities continued using Cellebrite forensic tools after the company said in 2021 that it had stopped selling to Russia and Belarus. Cellebrite’s public statement from 2021 said it had stopped selling its digital-intelligence offerings in both countries.
Filed from: TechCrunch , Cellebrite .
Data Shows Chinese EV Makers Still Rely More on Exports Than Overseas Factories
Rest of World reported that Chinese EV and battery makers have built far less overseas production capacity than their announcements suggested. The International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2026 says Chinese electric-car exports doubled in 2025 and that more than half of Chinese electric-car sales overseas were in markets outside Europe and the United States.
Filed from: Rest of World , IEA .
Collabora Releases CODE 26.04
Collabora released CODE 26.04, the development edition of its web-based office suite. The release adds Writer Markdown workflows, multi-page view, improved track changes, Calc per-user sheet views, smarter formula error handling, and AI-assisted workflows that The Register said are off unless enabled through user or server settings.
Filed from: The Register , Collabora .
browser-compat-db Publishes MDN Compatibility Data as SQLite
Simon Willison published browser-compat-db, a project that converts Mozilla’s browser-compat-data repository into a SQLite database. The repository includes a generated build script and a GitHub Actions workflow that publishes the database to a separate branch.
Filed from: Simon Willison , GitHub repo .
Spacelift Survey Reports AI-Linked Infrastructure Incidents
The Register covered Spacelift’s 2026 State of Infrastructure Automation report, based on an April survey of 406 IT decision makers. The report says 93 percent of respondent organizations experienced infrastructure incidents attributed to AI-generated changes, while 19 percent had governance the report classed as ready.
Filed from: The Register .
From the Community
NVIDIA’s 45C Liquid Cooling Design Cuts Data Center Water Use
NVIDIA announced that its Rubin-generation AI infrastructure uses 100 percent liquid cooling, with coolant running at up to 45C in a closed loop. The company said the design removes evaporative water cooling from the facility path and can reduce cooling water use from about 2.6 million gallons per megawatt per year to near zero.
Filed from: NVIDIA Blog , NVIDIA DSX reference design .
Google Integrates Computer Use as a Built-In Tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google made computer use a native tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, allowing developers to build agents that can act across browser, mobile, and desktop environments. The company released optional enterprise safeguards including user confirmation for sensitive actions and automatic task stopping on indirect prompt injection detection.
Filed from: Google Blog , Gemini API documentation .
RubyLLM Provides a Unified Ruby Interface for AI Providers
RubyLLM provides a single Ruby interface for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and local models through Ollama. The project supports chat, vision, audio, document extraction, embeddings, tools, agents, structured output, and streaming.
Filed from: RubyLLM , GitHub .
Nub Adds a Rust-Written Toolkit Around Node.js
Nub augments Node.js with TypeScript support, automatic .env loading, built-in loaders for data formats, and a script runner that dispatches warm scripts faster than pnpm run in the project’s benchmark. It uses Node extension surfaces such as module.registerHooks() and N-API native addons, with oxc embedded for pre-transpilation.
Filed from: GitHub repository .
LuaJIT 3.0 Syntax Proposals Open for Discussion
Mike Pall published an umbrella issue on the LuaJIT repository detailing proposed syntax extensions for LuaJIT 3.0. The issue frames the proposals around developer quality-of-life, compatibility, avoidance of syntactic ambiguity, and backwards compatibility.
Filed from: GitHub issue .
tropius Detects AI Tropes in Prose
tropius is a command-line tool that scans prose for patterns associated with AI-generated text, using a dictionary of trope signals from Tropes.fyi. It implements phrase patterns, structural detectors, repetition detectors, and markdown-aware detection, and exits with code 1 when trope signals are found.
Filed from: Tangled , Tropes.fyi .
