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ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/07/28/zuriq-raises-255m-to-scale-its-b…

ZuriQ raises $25.5M to scale its breakthrough 2D quantum architecture
Swiss quantum computing startup ZuriQ has raised $25.5 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its trapped-ion quantum processors. The round was led by Quantonation, with participation from Forward.one, Extantia, Firgun Ventures, and existing investors. The investment follows the company's $4.2 million pre-seed round in 2025.Founded as a spin-out from ETH Zürich, ZuriQ is developing a new generation of trapped-ion quantum processors designed to overcome the scalability …

A Buried Volcano on the Moon Hints At An Ancient Lunar Dynamo - Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-buried-volcano-on-the-moon-hints-at-an-ancient-lunar-dynamo

ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/17/gr

Gravis Robotics gets $200M from SoftBank to retrofit excavators with self-driving AI systems - SiliconANGLE
Gravis Robotics gets $200M from SoftBank to retrofit excavators with self-driving AI systems - SiliconANGLE

Recent active rifting on #Venus revealed by wide rift flank uplifts: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-026-02044-8 -> Simulations conducted by researchers at ETH Zurich suggest a strong likelihood that Venus’s rift valleys are still geologically active rather than being mere relics of a bygone era, as had been previously believed: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/07/venus-dead-far-from-it.html - this finding reshapes our understanding of Earth’s sister planet and will influence future missions to Venus.

Des chercheurs suisses ont transféré vers un superordinateur d’immenses quantités de données publiques de la NASA sur le climat et l’environnement, afin de les mettre Š l’abri et d’entraîner des modèles d’intelligence artificielle, dans un contexte de profondes coupes budgétaires aux États-Unis.
https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/face-aux-coupes-budgetaires-americaines-l-eth-zurich-rapatrie-l-equivalent-de-20-millions-de-films-de-donnees-climatiques-de-la-nasa

Researchers at ETH Zurich and Anthropic have published an impressive study demonstrating just how fragile online anonymity has become. They show that large language models can be used for de-anonymisation on a large scale. With unrestricted internet access, their agent was able to re-identify users of Hacker News and participants in Anthropic interviews with a high degree of accuracy, based solely on pseudonymous online profiles and conversations: #Anonymity #LLM

The AGENTS.md file simply uses up tokens – nothing else. This was the conclusion reached by researchers at ETH Zurich: ‘Surprisingly, we find that providing context files does not generally improve task success rates, while increasing inference cost by over 20% on average.’
#LLM #AgenticCoding #Claude #Codex #Qwen