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Science & Technology — November 7, 2026

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OpenAI reportedly raises $11 billion at $1.25 trillion valuation. The round makes the company one of the world’s most valuable, even with the AI market in turmoil, as rival Anthropic nears its IPO.

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AI helps solve 18-year-old quantum computing problem. A long-standing mathematical conjecture about the limits of quantum computing appears solved in just days, with an unreleased Anthropic AI model assisting researchers.

Interesting Engineering · Read more

NASA’s Swift telescope falls back to Earth. Designed to last just two years, the observatory re-entered the atmosphere over Indonesia after nearly 22 years studying the universe’s most violent explosions.

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