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GM Battery Pilot Line Puts Lower-Cost EV Chemistry on a 2028 Clock
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GM Battery Pilot Line Puts Lower-Cost EV Chemistry on a 2028 Clock

General Motors is using a new Battery Cell Development Center near Detroit to move lower-cost EV battery chemistry from research into production planning. The 500,000-square-foot facility supports GM’s $900 million EV battery push and is tied to a plan to cut EV costs by nearly 10%. The practical question is whether LMR battery cells can scale through the pilot line before GM targets vehicles on the road by 2028.

June 6, 2026Read More
Thinking Machines Releases Inkling Open-Weights Model With 975 Billion Parameters
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Thinking Machines Releases Inkling Open-Weights Model With 975 Billion Parameters

SiliconANGLE reported that Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, its first foundation model, with full open weights and fine-tuning through Tinker. The account cited 975 billion total parameters, about 41 billion active parameters per average prompt and training on about 45 trillion tokens, while leaving customer deployments and independent benchmark validation undisclosed.

July 16, 2026Read More
Quantum Data Centre Push Shifts From Qubit Counts To Hybrid Workloads
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Quantum Data Centre Push Shifts From Qubit Counts To Hybrid Workloads

Data Center Knowledge reported that quantum computing work is shifting toward hybrid systems that connect QPUs with GPU and CPU infrastructure. Hyperion estimated the market at $1.4 billion in 2025 and projected about $3 billion by 2028, while the article did not identify production customers, signed deployment contracts or facility-level power loads.

July 15, 2026Read More