Hybrid diamond chip strengthens interactions between light and quantum bits

Researchers have developed and demonstrated a new hybrid photonic platform that integrates quantum emitters with photonic ...
shattered.io

Beam’s First 13 Days: Reflection’s 501B Bet Tested [2026]

Two weeks after Reflection launched the 501B-parameter Beam model, here is what changed, what is still unverified, and what ...
xenospectrum

Reflection Releases Open-Weight Beam, a 501B-Parameter AI Model Built to Reason With Fewer Tokens

Reflection AI has released the weights of its Beam model. We separate the effects of shorter reasoning, quantization, and ...
quantumzeitgeist

Researchers Preserve Light’s Statistical Properties in Fibers

Previously, converting light to different colours risked distorting its delicate quantum properties, but now that’s changing.
xenospectrum

RimWorld 1.7 Moves From Unity to Its Own Waylith Engine, With Up to 4x Better Performance

RimWorld 1.7 swaps Unity for Ludeon Studios' in-house Waylith Engine. We look at the developer's performance tests, save and ...

Release of Educational Interactive Elasto-Plastic Analysis Simulator for Steel Beams (Demo Version)

Integrating Elasto-Plastic and Buckling Analysis of Steel Beams with Unity and C++—1. Introduction In recent years, there has ...
jen.jiji

EU, green light for Safe Italy funds: 8 billion for defense

The European Commission has "approved Italy's updated Safe plan", which provides for loans of approximately "8 billion" euros for defense, says spokesman Thomas Regnier.