Anthropic researchers used Claude to generate quantum circuit designs for eight computational primitives. In seven cases the AI found versions that needed fewer Toffoli gates and fewer qubits than the best previously published algorithms, according to a research post published Thursday, Oct. 16, 2026. A companion paper, “Discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits with large language models,”

AI data centers are consuming far more electricity than earlier facilities, and startup Firma Power wants to supply them with bundled clean power instead of waiting years for gas plants. Digital Trends covered the company on Oct. 16, 2026; details below also draw on a Business Bearings summary of that reporting. A “large” data center

Clicks Technology has released its Power Keyboard accessory and plans to ship the Clicks Communicator smartphone in December. The U.K.-based company, whose team includes former BlackBerry employees, wants to restore tactile typing that many users say disappeared with all-touchscreen phones. “Something was thrown out with the bathwater when we moved to modern smartphones,” Jeff Gadway,

Security researchers have published a working local privilege-escalation exploit that gains root on OpenBSD 7.9. The chain combines a 37-year-old integer overflow in shared-memory handling with a kernel use-after-free and bypasses KARL kernel-address randomization as well as SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif found and reported the issues. The company released its detailed

Samsung Electronics has reported overheating in testing of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 for the Galaxy S27 Ultra and asked Qualcomm to address thermal problems by mid-October before finalizing the processor choice, Seoul Economic Daily reported Oct. 16. Internal tests found the chip repeatedly exceeded temperature thresholds under sustained heavy workloads, with processing

Google’s Pause Point Digital Wellbeing tool, which interrupts autopilot use of apps a user marks as distracting, is spreading beyond the Pixel 11. Android Authority reported Friday, Oct. 16, that the feature—announced in May 2026 ahead of I/O and long treated as a Pixel 11 exclusive—reached additional Pixel phones with Android 17 QPR1 and has

The U.S. budget deficit rose to $1.99 trillion in fiscal 2026, Treasury Department figures reported by Reuters on Friday, Oct. 16, show. The gap widened by $217 billion from $1.78 trillion the prior year. Fiscal 2026 ended Sept. 30. It was the largest shortfall since fiscal 2021’s $2.77 trillion pandemic-relief gap and the third-largest annual

U.S. defense firm Anduril could eventually manufacture its newly unveiled Steelfin interceptor missiles in Europe, a company executive told Reuters this week as governments seek to expand air-defense production after conflicts exposed shortages of such weapons. “I certainly hope that something like Steelfin could become a capability that we engage with both the Polish customer

An internal research model at Anthropic traced the seeds behind several widely used NIST elliptic curves for ECDSA to a mundane 1990s source. In under half an hour, Claude determined that the seeds for the P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 and P-521 curves came from the C library’s lrand48 pseudorandom number generator seeded with a Unix

Beijing-based NeodraDynamics Robotics showed a 13-foot-tall, 1.2-ton humanoid robot called Neo1 at the 2026 China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, which ran Oct. 12–16. The company says the machine can lift 500kg, about 1,102 pounds, with both arms together. NeodraDynamics exhibited the robot with JD Industrial, which will help the company find pilot projects through