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The fusion energy race is heating up — and so is the money behind it. A new TechCraft roundup from August two thousand twenty-six maps every fusion startup that has raised over one hundred million dollars, painting a picture of an industry that has quietly attracted serious institutional capital. The question now is whether the science can keep pace with the investment.
Shifting to the lab, a tool called the Problematic Paper Screener is drawing attention in academic circles. Developed by researchers at IRIT in France, it automatically flags scientific papers that show signs of manipulation or fabrication. As AI-generated content floods academic journals, tools like this one represent a quiet but consequential front in the fight for research integrity.
And on the hardware side, Kioxia has unveiled what it calls the world's fastest solid-state drive. The GP-one series uses PCIe six-point-zero and hits ten million input-output operations per second, with an endurance rating of fifty drive writes per day. It's designed for direct GPU access in AI infrastructure — a reminder that the AI boom is also a storage boom, and someone has to build the pipes.
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