The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered hundreds of “planets” that seem to float in the void of space, not attached to any star. And many of them are not completely alone: ​​they appear in pairs.

The discovery of these Jupiter-mass objects in a new scan of Orion has puzzled astronomers and may require a re-evaluation of existing models of planetary system formation.

Scientists have two possible explanations for the unusual phenomenon. These could either be protoplanets that were unlucky enough to form incompletely, or they formed inside solar systems and were later ejected into interstellar space.

These objects have some characteristic features of planets, such as a hot atmosphere with steam and methane, but scientists say that these objects are not technically planets.

Although the hypothesis of objects being ejected from their solar systems is more popular, the fact that James Webb identified about 40 of these objects in pairs complicates the situation.

EU competition authorities are not conducting a formal investigation into chips used for artificial intelligence, the European Commission announced on Monday, October 2.

“The Commission is not conducting a formal investigation into the matter you refer to,” an EU executive spokesman said in an email to Reuters, which asked for comment on the rumors.

A few days earlier, the French antitrust authority raided Nvidia on suspicion of anti-competitive practices. Nvidia declined to comment on the situation after the French raid.

Last week, Bloomberg reported that the EU’s competition watchdog was informally gathering views on potentially unfair practices in the GPU market.

Samsung’s contract chip manufacturing division has a new customer in the form of a Canadian startup called Tenstorrent, which develops chips with artificial intelligence technologies.

Tenstorrent is among a number of startups trying to compete with Nvidia, which dominates the AI ​​chip market. The company makes chips for data centers, but is also working to supply other markets, including automotive.

As part of the deal, Tenstorrent plans to use one of Samsung’s advanced manufacturing processes (4nm) to produce chips. Some of Tenstorrent’s chips are built using technology known as RISC-V, an open-source semiconductor architecture that competes with Arm and x86. However, the chip that Samsung will produce is called Quasar and is not based on RISC-V technology.

“Tenstorrent’s goal is to develop high-performance computing and deliver those solutions to customers around the world,” Tenstorrent CEO Jim Keller said in a statement.