HPC News Bytes - 20260907
OrionX.net, Monday, September 7th, 2026
OrionX's HPC News Bytes podcast covers IBM Nighthawk r2, Diraq at Equinix, agentic AI for science, AI and jobs, and technopolitics.
This episode of the OrionX HPC News Bytes podcast offers a quick review of recent HPC and AI news.
Topics include IBM's Nighthawk r2 quantum processor, quantum company Diraq at Equinix, and the shift from better QPUs to better quantum infrastructure.
It also discusses agentic AI for physical science experiments, the argument to watch AI's effect on hiring and not only layoffs, and technopolitics around restrictions and dependencies. The page provides only topic headlines, so segment details are not available.