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Illinois Public Quantum Network Receives Inaugural Award from World Quantum Day
21+ min ago (303+ words) Feb. 12, 2026 " The Public Quantum Network (PQN) was awarded the Continental Quantum City Prize for North & Central America at the Closing Ceremony of the United Nations International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ 2025). Created by World Quantum Day, the inaugural…...
Cadence Introduces Agentic AI System for Chip Design and Verification
2+ hour, 42+ min ago (15+ words) Cadence Introduces Agentic AI System for Chip Design and Verification'HPCwire Off the Wire Press Releases...
Berkeley Lab: Crunching Big Data into 3D Images Accelerates Discovery
5+ hour, 16+ min ago (15+ words) Berkeley Lab: Crunching Big Data into 3D Images Accelerates Discovery'HPCwire Off the Wire Press Releases...
OPAQUE Raises $24M Series B at $300M Valuation to Advance Confidential AI for Enterprise
9+ hour, 17+ min ago (250+ words) From theory to mandate within a year, Confidential AI has been adopted and endorsed by companies like NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Anthropic and all major hyperscalers, including Google, Microsoft Azure and AWS. According to Gartner, Confidential AI techniques are essential for…...
DOE Announces 26 Genesis Mission Science and Technology Challenges
9+ hour, 32+ min ago (184+ words) WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2026 "The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced 26 science and technology challenges of national importance to advance the Genesis Mission and accelerate innovation and discovery through artificial intelligence (AI). The challenges span DOE's discovery science, energy, and national security…...
Euro-Q-Exa Installed at LRZ as 1st EuroHPC Quantum Computer in Germany
10+ hour, 36+ min ago (138+ words) High computing power for large-scale algorithms With this architecture, Euro-Q-Exa will push the boundaries of high-performance computing (HPC). While quantum processors (QPUs) with up to 50 qubits can still be simulated on a supercomputer, this is hardly possible with 54 qubits, or…...
NSF Announces 1st AI-ENGAGE Awards to Modernize Global Agriculture
11+ hour, 27+ min ago (196+ words) By integrating current and emerging technologies, like AI, into agriculture, we are advancing scientific frontiers to provide U.S. farmers and their international counterparts with tools they need to increase crop yields, more effectively manage pests, strengthen agricultural resilience and ensure a…...
Are Your AI Agents Actually Delivering ROI?
12+ hour, 45+ min ago (290+ words) Agentic AI has dominated industry conversations since 2025. Adoption across enterprises is on the rise, and investment plans remain aggressive. Use cases are expanding rapidly, from simple employee assistants to advanced agentic workflows for insurance renewals or support ticket triage, to…...
Berkeley Lab: New AI Sensor ‘Sniffs’ Out Spectral Targets
23+ hour, 35+ min ago (552+ words) Feb. 11, 2026 "Meet the sniffer dog of spectroscopy tools: an AI-enhanced sensor that can "sniff and seek" target objects in real-time. Berkeley Lab scientists developed an intelligent sensor that first "sniffs" out spectral features of interest in example objects " here a…...
First Genesis Mission Supercomputers on Track to Launch by June. ‘Unprecedented’ Speed, DOE’s Darío Gil Says
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (658+ words) The Genesis Mission started just 79 days ago, yet the program is on track to launch the first two supercomputers at DOE labs in just a few months, the Department of Energy's Undersecretary of Science Dar'o Gil told HPCwire this week....