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Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000 times faster than Intel’s best server processors (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum).

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 11, 2026

Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic…

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SMART USA Institute, funded by the U.S. CHIPS Act and focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Commerce Department will terminate its five-year, $285 million contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 21, 2025

Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: The SMART USA Institute, funded by the US CHIPS Act and focused on digital…

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Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors such as shorter deadlines increase bad behavior in agentic AI models during task execution (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 30, 2025

Matthew Hutson / IEEE Spectrum: Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors such as shorter deadlines increase bad behavior…

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The duality of confidentiality startup says that it has developed a private LLM inference frame which uses an entirely homomorphic encryption to allow LLM to respond to encrypted prompts (Rina Diane Caballar / IEEE Spectrum)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 24, 2025

Rina Diane Caballar / Spectrum ieee:: The duality of a confidentiality startup indicates that it has developed a private LLM…

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A look at Australian CL1 Startup Cortical Labs, presented as the first biological computer overwhelming code, with 115 units sending this summer to $ 35,000 each (Spectrum Shannon Cuthrell / Ieee)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 4, 2025

Shannon Cuthrell / Spectrum ieee:: A look at Australian CL1 Startup Cortical Labs, presented as the first biological computer overflowing…

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A look at the state of the AI in 2025 through training and inference costs, carbon footprint, investment activity, invoices offered in the United States, and more (Eliza Strickland / Ieee Spectrum)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 8, 2025

Eliza Strickland / Spectrum ieee:: A look at the state of AI in 2025 through training and inference costs, carbon…

‘Seismic shift’ to Australia’s orbit likely under new Solomon Islands PM – Radio Free Asia

The fall of Victory Day in Kazakhstan – The Diplomat

From discreet cooperation to strategic partnership? – The diplomat

Counter-drone efforts in Southeast Asia – The Diplomat

Pakistan and the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing – The Diplomat

Spirit Airlines planes head into the desert, led by repo pilots

Creator content comes into play, not just for YouTube

Chinese electric vehicles are coming to Canada and dealers are eager to sell them

Family Investors Turn to Old Economy Companies to Avoid AI Disruption

Starbucks to lay off 300 US employees, close some regional offices

Trump doesn’t have enough votes to get his ballroom money

The war in Iran broke Trump

China humiliated Trump and now he’s in a damage control frenzy

HUD Secretary’s BDS is completely closed

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

On the second day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, competitors won $385,750 after exploiting 15 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and more (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest maker of silicon photonics tools and whose shares have risen 340% in the past year, files to list in Hong Kong (Zinnia Lee/Forbes)

Data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment in 18 occupations exposed to AI decreased by 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the US labor market as a whole increased by 0.8% (Matthew Boesler/Bloomberg)

Los Angeles-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-based cross-border banking and payments services in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, has raised a $51 million Series B round (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Electricity prices on the largest U.S. power grid, operated by PJM, jumped 76% year-over-year to an average of $136.53/MWh in the first quarter due to rampant data center demand (John Ainger/Bloomberg)

Browsing: Spectrum

Intel unveiled its Heracles chip at ISSCC in February, saying it accelerates fully homomorphic encryption tasks up to 5,000 times faster than Intel’s best server processors (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum).

SMART USA Institute, funded by the U.S. CHIPS Act and focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Commerce Department will terminate its five-year, $285 million contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)

Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors such as shorter deadlines increase bad behavior in agentic AI models during task execution (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)

The duality of confidentiality startup says that it has developed a private LLM inference frame which uses an entirely homomorphic encryption to allow LLM to respond to encrypted prompts (Rina Diane Caballar / IEEE Spectrum)

A look at Australian CL1 Startup Cortical Labs, presented as the first biological computer overwhelming code, with 115 units sending this summer to $ 35,000 each (Spectrum Shannon Cuthrell / Ieee)

A look at the state of the AI in 2025 through training and inference costs, carbon footprint, investment activity, invoices offered in the United States, and more (Eliza Strickland / Ieee Spectrum)