Overview: A Bold New Tri‑Fold Phone Huawei’s second-generation tri-fold phone, the Mate XTs Ultimate Design, shown in a teaser with its sleek white-and-gold finish and octagonal quad-camera module. techadvisor.com 9to5google.com Huawei has pulled back the curtain on the Mate XTs, its latest tri-folding flagship smartphone. Announced via an official Weibo teaser on August 27, 2025, the Mate XTs is Huawei’s second-generation tri-fold device, arriving roughly one year after the original Mate XT shook up the foldable market news.ssbcrack.com. The Mate XTs isn’t a radical redesign of its predecessor – Huawei has deliberately kept the successful formula: an inward-and-outward dual-hinge that
Key Facts IBM & AMD Forge Quantum‑Centric Supercomputing Alliance IBM and AMD announced a landmark partnership to co-develop “quantum-centric” supercomputing architectures that tightly integrate quantum processors with classical high-performance computers newsroom.ibm.com newsroom.ibm.com. Revealed on August 26 and drawing buzz through the week, the collaboration seeks to merge IBM’s cutting-edge quantum computing technology with AMD’s CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators newsroom.ibm.com. The goal is a new class of hybrid systems where quantum co-processors tackle parts of problems (like molecular simulations) that classical systems struggle with, while classical exascale machines handle complementary tasks such as large-scale data analysis newsroom.ibm.com newsroom.ibm.com. IBM CEO
Expert Commentary & In-Depth Analysis Silicon Stakes: Chips, Cloud, and an AI Gold Rush It was a whirlwind 48 hours for the AI hardware and infrastructure arena. Nvidia’s blockbuster earnings call became a rallying cry for continued AI investment, even as some analysts warned of an overheating market. CEO Jensen Huang, the figurative general of the GPU juggernaut, emphatically rejected the notion of an AI slowdown reuters.com. “A new industrial revolution has started. The AI race is on,” Huang declared, projecting $3–4 trillion in AI infrastructure spending by 2030 reuters.com. This bullish forecast, he explained, stems from surging orders for Nvidia’s
What is Google Gemini 1.5 Flash? Gemini 1.5 Flash is a cutting-edge large language model (LLM) and part of Google’s Gemini AI family. Announced in 2024 as an upgrade to Google’s Gemini 1.0, it represents the company’s effort to leap ahead in the AI race. Google CEO Sundar Pichai described Gemini 1.5 as a “next-generation model” that achieved comparable quality to Gemini 1.0 Ultra while using less compute blog.google. In other words, 1.5 Flash is more efficient – it can match the prowess of the previous flagship model but runs faster and cheaper. The “Flash” moniker highlights its focus on
Key Facts: Scientific Breakthroughs and Research Publications One of the week’s most significant research advances came from a team at the University of California, Riverside, which demonstrated a new approach to scaling quantum computers via modular chips. In simulations, the researchers showed that several small quantum processor chips can be linked into a single fault-tolerant system even if the connections between chips are up to 10 times noisier than the chips themselves quantumcomputingreport.com. This finding is a major step toward larger quantum machines, indicating that “we don’t have to wait for perfect hardware to scale quantum computers” because high-fidelity chips
AI Research & Innovation Climate modeling revolution: Scientists at the University of Washington unveiled an AI-driven climate simulator that compresses millennia of weather into hours. Dubbed DL-ESyM, the model couples two neural networks (for atmosphere and ocean) and was trained on historical data washington.edu. The result: it can accurately simulate 1,000 years of Earth’s climate in about 12 hours on a single processor washington.edu. (By contrast, a traditional climate supercomputer needs ~90 days to do the same.) This breakthrough promises cheaper, faster long-range climate forecasts. “We are developing a tool that examines variability in our current climate to ask: Is
Key Takeaways and Quick Facts Circular Ring 2 In-Depth: Features, Specs and Experience Health and Fitness Tracking The Circular Ring 2 is packed with sensors and algorithms aimed at quantifying your health from every angle. At its core, it uses optical sensors (PPG) to continuously monitor heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), blood oxygen saturation (SpO₂), respiratory rate, skin temperature, and more circular.xyz circular.xyz. These biometrics feed into a comprehensive system that analyzes over 140 data points to gauge your daily fitness and wellness. Overall, Circular Ring 2 aims to be a full-spectrum health tracker on your finger. It’s not
Scientists used Google’s superconducting quantum processor to simulate gauge-theory particle interactions, illustrating how particles and the connecting strings behave, fluctuate, and even break, per remarks by Prof. Michael Knap of TUM. ICFO demonstrated a 10-qubit quantum RAM prototype—an array of ten memory cells that can store multiple qubits and retrieve them on demand, building on a prior record of 250 storage slots for photons. In Japan, Shibaura Institute, Waseda University, and Fujitsu presented a method to control a humanoid robot’s posture by encoding each robot link’s orientation as a qubit, achieving a 43% reduction in error on Fujitsu’s 64-qubit simulator
Google unveiled its Pixel 10 lineup in New York, with the base Pixel 10 at $799 and the Pixel 10 Pro at $1,799, adding a telephoto camera to the base model. The U.S. government announced a 9.9% equity stake in Intel worth about $8.9–$10 billion by converting CHIPS Act subsidies into stock. SpaceX launched CRS-33 to the ISS on Aug 24, 2025, from Cape Canaveral at 2:45 AM ET; the Falcon 9 booster landed on a drone ship for its 7th reuse and the Dragon capsule docked on Aug 25, as SpaceX reached 100 launches in 2025 by mid-August. NASA
USC researchers demonstrated that a neglected quasiparticle dubbed ‘neglecton’ added to Ising anyons enables universal topological quantum computing, published in Nature Communications. University of Sydney researchers realized a universal logical gate set for GKP qubits encoded in a single trapped ytterbium ion, effectively encoding two logical qubits. Chalmers University (Sweden) and Aalto University (Finland) unveiled a magnetism-based quantum material that protects qubits from noise using ordinary magnetic interactions, reported in Physical Review Letters. Ben-Gurion University researchers used levitated nanodiamonds in a matter-wave interferometer to place million-atom diamonds in quantum superposition separated by nanometers. A Berlin team led by Jens Eisert
Meta and Google announced a six-year cloud computing deal worth over $10 billion, making Google the backend for Meta’s AI initiatives. Nvidia announced a GeForce NOW upgrade featuring the Blackwell GPU (RTX 5080 class) to roll out in September, delivering 5K at 120fps and up to 360fps at 1080p with sub-30 millisecond latency via DLSS 4. OpenAI will open its first international office in New Delhi later this year as India becomes ChatGPT’s second-largest user base, with a new cheapest plan around $4.60 per month. OpenAI and Retro Biosciences used a GPT-4 variant to design enhanced proteins that produced a
LSEG shares closed at 7,502 pence on Friday, down 84 pence. The company repurchased 256,419 shares on Feb. 5 at an average 7,533.05 pence and plans to cancel them. Investors await LSEG’s full-year results on Feb. 26 amid ongoing volatility tied to AI sector concerns.
Reckitt Benckiser shares closed at 6,400 pence Friday, down 0.2% after hitting a one-year high. The company will pay a 235 pence special dividend on Feb. 20 and recently completed a £1 billion buyback. Its share consolidation took effect Feb. 2. Full-year results are due March 5.
GSK shares closed Friday up 0.83% at a 52-week high after the EU approved Nucala for certain uncontrolled COPD patients. Insider filings showed chairman Jonathan Symonds bought 2,500 shares while executive David Redfern sold 100,000. The FTSE 100 rose 0.6%. Broker ratings on GSK remained mixed.
Aye Finance raised Rs 454.5 crore from 19 anchor investors ahead of its Feb 9 IPO, pricing shares at the top of a Rs 122–129 range. The company’s profit fell 40% to Rs 64.3 crore in the six months to September as bad loans rose to 4.85%. The IPO values Aye at about Rs 3,200 crore, below its last private round. Major investors include Nippon Life India and Goldman Sachs funds.