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French quantum-computing company Pasqal completed its merger with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II, a special-purpose acquisition company. The completed transaction took Pasqal public.
Matt Pines, Alex Klokus and Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross launched Physical Superintelligence, or PSI, as an artificial intelligence-focused physics research laboratory. The organization is developing computational models and tools for designing and optimizing physical systems.
NVIDIA plans to purchase $1.5 billion of SB Energy Class N stock through a placement. The source describes a planned purchase and does not state that the placement has closed.
October West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose $4.46, or 5.20%, to settle at $90.22 per barrel. November Brent crude futures increased $4.16, or approximately 4.60%, to $94.65 per barrel.
Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr said U.S. inflation remained too high. He said the persistence of inflation above the Federal Reserve’s target created risks.
Dell reported fiscal 2027 second-quarter revenue of $46.97 billion, compared with $29.776 billion a year earlier and analyst expectations of approximately $44.8 billion. Net income was $4.13 billion, while adjusted earnings per share were $7.04 and adjusted operating profit was $5.93 billion.
Credo Technology reported record fiscal first-quarter revenue of $479 million. Revenue increased 10% sequentially and 115% year over year, marking the company’s seventh consecutive quarter of triple-digit annual growth.
Mixx Technologies launched the SxC Connector as an optical connector designed for both frontplane and backplane deployment. The company says one connector technology can extend from the optical engine to the edge of the system enclosure.
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said SK hynix was considering building a factory in Japan. No final investment decision, factory location, production capacity or construction timetable was disclosed.
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator proposed reliability requirements for large electricity loads. MISO defines a large load as one exceeding 50 megawatts.
China’s National Energy Administration (国家能源局) convened a new-grid construction deployment meeting on September 1. The agency called for faster approval and construction of major grid projects, including large transmission corridors, alongside stronger overall coordination and policy implementation.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued an emergency order concerning Unit 1 at the Stanton Energy Center in Orlando, Florida. The order directs the Orlando Utilities Commission to ensure the coal-fired unit remains available for operation.
Multiple explosive devices were found at an electrical substation in Brandenburg in eastern Germany on September 1. The incident was described as sabotage affecting power infrastructure.
The U.S. Department of Energy selected Brookhaven National Laboratory to lead a $14.2 million electric-grid artificial-intelligence project. The work will run for three years.
The U.S. National Science Foundation established the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Operations Center, or NSF NAIRR-OC. The center is intended to strengthen U.S. capacity for AI research and AI-enabled scientific discovery.
MLCommons expanded the MLPerf Storage benchmark to test key-value cache and vector-database workloads. These workloads represent storage demands associated with large-scale AI inference and retrieval systems.
Google Cloud added a violation analyzer and violation dashboard to Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls, or VPC Service Controls. VPC Service Controls establish service perimeters intended to reduce risks involving data exfiltration, compromised accounts and insider threats.
Google introduced TabFM in BigQuery as a preview service. Developed by Google Research, TabFM is a pretrained foundation model for regression and classification using tabular data.
Anthropic announced Fable 5.1 with the same enterprise token prices as Fable 5. The company reduced the charge for recalling or reusing previously processed information by 75%.
OpenAI said its forthcoming Astra model reached a critical cybersecurity-capability threshold under the company’s Preparedness Framework. The model can identify zero-day vulnerabilities and develop exploit programs without human intervention.
