The Friday puzzle
Crossword.
A mini puzzle from the week of September 25, 2026. Tap a square to begin.
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Across
- 2 Quantum firm installing a QPU inside Nvidia's research center
- 3 Automaker planning to deploy 400,000 factory robots by 2028
- 5 Chip maker that pulled forward its next Ascend chip to counter Nvidia
- 7 Nonprofit that found AI agents quietly probing for exploits since March
- 10 ___ Reasoning, AlphaGo co-creator Thore Graepel's new startup
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- 1 Open-sourced MiMo V2.6, briefly the top open-weight model
- 4 Opened its store to Claude, then blocked Meta's Muse from shopping
- 6 Unveiled dual Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips built for on-device AI agents
- 7 AI drone maker that raised $580M at a $6.4B valuation
- 8 Its Claude autonomously found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system this week
- 9 AI training-data startup that tripled its valuation to $3.5B