Technology
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Tech & AI Weekly: OpenAI Breaks Free and Big Tech Commits $725 Billion
OpenAI ended its exclusive cloud arrangement with Microsoft on April 27. The same week, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon committed a combined $725 billion in capital expenditure for 2026 — up 77% from last year. The Pentagon cleared six AI companies to operate inside its most classified networks. And the EU quietly delayed its AI…
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QCi Q1 2026 Revenue Surges to $3.7M on Luminar Semiconductor Acquisition
Quantum Computing Inc. (Nasdaq: QUBT) posted first quarter 2026 revenue of $3.7 million, up from $39 thousand in the same period a year ago. The percentage increase is striking enough to stop a reader. The cause is straightforward: QCi closed its $110 million acquisition of Luminar Semiconductor Inc. in February and picked up NuCrypt LLC…
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SMP Grows Fuel Injection Coverage as Aging US Fleet Drives Repair Demand
The average American vehicle turned 12.8 years old in 2025, a record according to S&P Global. Economic pressure is keeping older cars on the road longer. EV adoption, meanwhile, has slowed considerably from earlier projections. The result is a massive, aging internal combustion fleet generating steady demand for complex, high-wear components like fuel injectors and…
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How NEXCOM Is Solving the Post-Quantum Performance Problem at the Edge
Encryption standards finalized. Federal deadlines set. The hardware to back it up has been quietly lagging. NEXCOM’s new edge server is a direct answer to that gap. Adversaries are already collecting encrypted data. Not to read now. To read later, once quantum computers grow powerful enough to break the encryption protecting it. The attack has…
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Why EgyptAir’s 737 MAX Delivery Is More Than Just a Fleet Milestone
Egypt’s national carrier just took delivery of its first 737 MAX. Fifty years after EgyptAir first ordered the 737 family in 1975, the airline is joining the 450-plus operators globally that have made the MAX the backbone of short- and medium-haul aviation. Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced on May 3, 2026 that EgyptAir has taken delivery…
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Ripe and GuideGeek Are Building the AI Booking Tool That Cuts Out the OTAs
Online travel agencies charge hotels around 30% commission. Booking.com, Expedia, and their peers built their businesses on that model, and destination marketing organizations have spent years watching revenue and customer data flow out of local economies into platforms headquartered far from the places tourists are actually visiting. Ripe and GuideGeek are building infrastructure to route…
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Edmonton Just Hosted the Most Important Energy Meeting You’ve Never Heard Of
Last week, more than 7,500 people flew into Edmonton for three days to talk about a single fuel source. Energy executives, government officials, Indigenous leaders, engineers, investors, and international buyers from across Europe and Asia all converged on the Edmonton Convention Center for the Canadian Hydrogen Convention, North America’s largest gathering dedicated to hydrogen. The…
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Why Hybrid eCall Is the Only Practical Answer to Europe’s NG eCall Requirement
Every new car sold in Europe has had eCall since 2018. When a severe collision is detected, the system automatically contacts the nearest emergency services and transmits location, vehicle data, and time of incident. No driver action required. Starting in 2027, that mandate gets an upgrade. All new-model vehicles sold in Europe will need to…
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The Autonomous Driving Company That Sells Its Brain to Everyone Else Too
Pony.ai has been building autonomous vehicles since 2016. Most of its competitors are still explaining why the technology is hard. Pony.ai (NASDAQ: PONY | HKEX: 2026) is past that stage. On April 25, 2026, the company announced its next-generation autonomous driving domain controller, built on NVIDIA’s DRIVE Hyperion platform and powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AGX…
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OZMOSI and Planview Just Solved Pharma’s Biggest Planning Problem
Pharmaceutical R&D has a data problem that has nothing to do with a shortage of data. Drug developers sit on enormous volumes of information: clinical trial registries, regulatory filings, scientific literature, competitor disclosures, pipeline announcements. The problem is that it lives in disconnected silos, built on inconsistent taxonomies, in formats that resist machine-readable analysis. A…
