Notre Dame's IT team replaced 955 switches across roughly 170 buildings in about five months, SiliconANGLE reports. Its staff pointed to Wi-Fi upgrades, power limits and years of piecemeal hardware buying, the backlog the column calls the real work of getting AI-ready.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
CASPAR, the Notre Dame-led accelerator nearly a mile under South Dakota, has begun firing protons at a fluorine target that took a year and a half to build. The run has not yet produced published numbers.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
Two July workshops asked midlevel implementers and senior leaders the same questions about AI adoption. The answers diverged over who does the validating, translating and training that no performance review records.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives58
- Confidence48
Farmers in the lower Senegal River valley took more rice and a crop of fish out of the same fields. The pilot's evidence on schistosomiasis is a count of snails, and infection in people has yet to be reported.
Reality
- Evidence66
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives45
- Confidence55
A roughly fivefold gain in RF power density came from heat removal, not new device physics. DARPA still wants an eightfold cut in thermal resistance inside the transistor.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives68
- Confidence45