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The Register—Ayar Labs, a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder spinout, contends silicon photonics will be key to scaling beyond the rack and taming the heat of increasing AI model demands. Many photonics startups are looking to overcome the limitations of copper interconnects and improve the efficiency of optical I/O, but Ayar is among the first.

The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) announced that seven University of Colorado companies and three researchers are among the awardees of the Proof of Concept and Early-Stage Capital and Retention grants through OEDIT’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Program.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Today—A new workforce roadmap released this week aims to train, prepare and inspire the next generation of quantum workers and the general public in Colorado and the Mountain West.

JILA—Flari Tech Inc., a startup rooted in cutting-edge JILA research, has clinched one of the prestigious 2024 Lab Venture Challenge (LVC) grants from the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ, advancing its pioneering work to build a breathalyzer for diagnostics use targeting life-threatening diseases such as lung cancer.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Today—A small crowd, including representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy, gathered on a wide stretch of lawn on the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder campus to witness a one-of-kind technology demonstration—a laser device that could soon transform the oil and gas industry in the American West and keep potent greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere.

Fourteen teams of University of Colorado faculty, researchers and graduate student innovators competed for a combined $1.25 million in startup funding grants in this year’s Lab Venture Challenge (LVC).

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Physics—This prestigious new professorship, resulting from a $1 million endowment underscores the university’s growing prominence in quantum information science and applied quantum physics. Jun Ye is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in precision measurement, ultracold molecules and ultra-high precision atomic clocks.

Daily Camera—Research funding at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ has more than doubled in the last decade, increasing by about $391 million. There were 35 Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder-affiliated startup companies this last fiscal year compared to 10 the year before.

BizWest—Infleqtion, a quantum information company that began at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder as Coldquanta, recently received a $1.15 million Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop software for quantum computing.

Photonics Online—A new variant of liquid crystal is at the core of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder startup Polaris Electro-Opstics' technology. Designed as a seamless drop-in enhancer of silicon photonic chips, Polaris's modulator technology paves the way for the next generation of optical interconnects critical to the future of data center disaggregation.