Science & Technology — June 28, 2026

Trump administration restricts OpenAI's newest model. OpenAI limited access to GPT-5.6 Sol this week at the White House's request. It was the first time a U.S. administration has directly intervened to restrict an AI model's public release.

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IBM claims sub-1 nanometer chip milestone. IBM's new nanostack transistors could pack roughly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized chip. That could extend Moore's Law by a decade, with major gains in performance or energy efficiency.

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Vesuvius-charred Roman scrolls fully unrolled digitally. A Silicon Valley-backed team this week revealed a complete 2,000-year-old philosophical treatise on ethics and human nature, recovered from scrolls destroyed in the 79 C.E. eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

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First nuclear clocks begin ticking. Two independent teams this week built functional nuclear clocks — which track time using atomic nuclei rather than electrons — potentially giving physicists a new tool to probe dark matter.

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