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The program aims to accelerate quantum technologies from the lab into the real world. June 29, 2026 — SRI, a leading nonprofit R&D institution, today announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has expanded its collaboration with SRI to ensure U.S. leadership in quantum manufacturing.

ISC26 in Hamburg delivered its usual mix of benchmark drama, big ideas, and uncomfortable questions, but this year had one story that hit different. The LineShine system scoring the top spot on the TOP500 was the biggest story to break out of this conference, and for good reason. The CPU-only, 2.198 exaflop machine is China’s first system to hit number one since 2017 and marks the end of a years-long absence of Chinese systems from the list.

AALBORG, Denmark, June 29, 2026 — VAST Data has announced that Aalborg University (AAU), one of Denmark’s leading research institutions, has selected the VAST AI Operating System (AI OS) as the data foundation for a new on-premises AI research environment, delivered in collaboration with Advania Denmark.

NEW YORK, June 29, 2026 — SharonAI Holdings Inc. today announced the closing of its previously announced, oversubscribed US$1.6 billion private placement financing.

AutoLabs is a new agentic AI system that translates experimental goals into robot-specific language RICHLAND, Wash., June 29, 2026 — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) use a slew of autonomous robots for designing and implementing experiments. However, setting up an experiment on an autonomous lab robot is surprisingly slow.

Booz Allen and OpenAI Partner to Deploy Mission-Ready AI Accelerating secure AI deployment for U.S. agencies and commercial enterprises MCLEAN, Va., June 29, 2026 —Booz Allen Hamilton today announced a new partnership with OpenAI to promote advanced AI innovation across national security and critical infrastructure missions.

June 29, 2026 — Finland’s new national supercomputer Roihu is now open for researchers’ use. Roihu will replace Finland’s previous supercomputers Mahti and Puhti. Puhti will continue to support research and education at Finnish universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutes. Roihu Supercomputer. Credit: Mikael Kanerva, CSC The acceptance testing phase for Roihu supercomputer has been successfully completed, and the system is now ready for full deployment.

June 29, 2026 — The Advanced General Intelligence for Science Program (AGIS), Transformative Research Innovation Platform of RIKEN platforms (TRIP) Headquarters, and RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) have selected “RIKYU” as the name for their new AI for Science development supercomputer.

FREMONT, Calif., June 29, 2026 — Penguin Solutions, Inc. has announced its latest ClusterWareAI AI Factory Platform Operating System Software. The updated ClusterWareAI software enables AI operators to optimize AI factory performance, improve workload resilience, and simplify operations across an entire AI factory.

MADRID, June 29, 2026 — Openchip, a company specializing in the design and commercialization of high-performance, energy-efficient chips, has secured the backing of the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), under the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function, through a €115 million investment. The operation was authorized today by the Council of Ministers.