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Pacific Fusion has started construction on a new demonstration facility in Albuquerque designed to test whether its pulsed-power approach to fusion can achieve net facility gain, producing more energy than the entire facility consumes. The company says no other US facility under construction targets this milestone, and it aims to reach it by 2030 en route to a commercial plant in the mid-2030s.
Google is extending Gemini's ability to generate interactive 3D models and simulations, first announced in April, to all Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users meeting age requirements. The feature lets users ask Gemini to visualize complex concepts—like DNA structures—as manipulable models rather than static images. It is available immediately in the Gemini app.
Apple has introduced a new Mac Mini and Mac Studio lineup featuring the M6, M5 Max, and M5 Ultra chips, with the M5 Ultra standing as the company's most powerful processor to date. The chip offers an 80-core GPU, up to a 36-core CPU, up to 512GB of unified memory, and quadruple the LLM prompt performance of the previous M3 Ultra, built using a quad-die design that fuses two M5 Max chips. Prices have risen across the board, with the Mac Mini M6 now starting at $899 and the top Mac Studio configuration with M5 Ultra starting at $5,499.
Apple TV announced Brothers, a new comedy series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as fictionalized versions of themselves who discover they may actually be siblings. The show, run by former Office writer-producer Lee Eisenberg, debuts September 23 with two episodes and continues weekly through November 4. Holland Taylor co-stars as McConaughey's mother, whose slip of the tongue sets off the plot.
Amazon has cut the price of the Aurzen BOOM Mini Google TV projector to $249.99, a $100 reduction from its $349.99 list price. The device offers native 1080p resolution, 500 ANSI lumens, and a projection range of 40 to 200 inches, along with built-in Google TV streaming and voice control. It also includes autofocus, keystone correction, obstacle avoidance, dual 10W speakers with Dolby Audio, and multiple connectivity options like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and HDMI.
Apple has opened pre-orders for the new M6 Mac mini, alongside an updated M5 Pro Mac mini and refreshed Mac Studio, with retailers offering over $500 off when trading in a mid-range M4 Mac mini. Separately, the AirTag 2 has hit a new all-time low of $20 each when bought in a 4-pack, and a 48GB M5 Pro MacBook Pro is discounted $400.
A hobbyist built CarWatch, a system that puts a Raspberry Pi 5 in a car running a 35-billion-parameter Qwen model locally, no internet or subscription required. It joins chat rooms as an AI agent, sending trip summaries, dashcam clips, and answers sourced from the car's 745-page owner's manual, and also supports hands-free voice queries via on-device speech recognition.
Researchers analyzed Ox Alpha, a model that appeared on OpenRouter on August 20 without a disclosed developer, using their LineageEval censorship-detection tool. They found its tokenizer matches the GLM-5.x vocabulary exactly across 11 tests, confirming community suspicions that it belongs to the GLM family despite being listed as a third-party product.
Xiaomi introduced the Xring O3, a 3-nanometer system-on-chip built for its premium smartphones, marking its deepest push yet into flagship silicon design. The chip's 10-core CPU and new G2-Ultra NX GPU pushed its AnTuTu benchmark past 5 million for the first time among flagship processors, while a redesigned NPU delivers 200 TOPS for on-device AI tasks tied to Xiaomi's MiMo platform.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority paused a Boston federal judge's injunction that had blocked Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting in 23 states and DC, ruling the states lacked standing to sue because they couldn't prove concrete harm. The court did not rule on whether the order itself is legal, leaving that question for future litigation, while a separate nationwide injunction against the Postal Service implementing the order remains intact for now.
Paleontologists digging in Egypt's Western Desert uncovered fossilized teeth belonging to at least seven previously unrecorded extinct shark species. The find suggests the now-arid region was once submerged beneath ancient seas that supported diverse marine predators.
The official CPython documentation lays out Big O complexity tables for core operations on built-in types like list and tuple, covering actions such as append, insert, slicing, concatenation, and membership testing. It notes these figures apply specifically to CPython's exact built-in types, and that subclasses or other Python implementations may behave differently.