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The Project Suncatcher prototype satellite, built with Planet, launches on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare from Vandenberg carrying four Trillium TPUs, to measure launch vibration, radiation and thermal swings in low Earth orbit. Proton tests at UC Davis's Crocker Nuclear Laboratory showed the chips tolerate more than a five-year mission's ionizing dose, and a two-satellite laser-link test is planned for 2027. (Google) A research probe, not a data center. It's the first flight hardware behind the orbital-compute claims, and worth knowing about mainly so you can discount the next round of orbital-datacenter press releases correctly.
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The Information's tally since October 2025, with Google and AWS supplying roughly 11GW combined and SpaceX, Microsoft, Lambda and Nscale the rest. Most are take-or-pay, so the minimum holds whether or not capacity gets used. The figure is an upper bound derived from leases and...
Reflection gets access to SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis at $150M/month starting July 1, with immediate Nvidia GB300 access and a 90-day exit after the first three months. (CNBC) Reflection, last valued at $25B and building American open-source frontier models, j...
At least €13 billion ($15.1B) across 2027 and 2028 into at least three new sites plus a Hamina expansion, in Hamina, Kajaani, Muhos and Vaala. Construction is projected to add €3.6 billion annually to Finnish GDP and support 37,000 jobs, dropping to 7,000 ongoing at wages 24%...
Hourly forecasts at up to 5-kilometer resolution against WeatherNext 2's 25-kilometer six-hour grid, roughly five times sharper, with Google claiming up to 50% more accurate precipitation forecasts a day or more out. Google cites Brightband's independent Operational WeatherBen...
Google disclosed that the last two Chrome versions, both shipped in June, patched 1,072 bugs versus 1,036 across the prior 23 releases spanning two years. An internally built Gemini-powered harness searches the codebase for vulnerabilities while suppressing false positives; on...
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