ARIA 2025, F-47 Specs, NVIDIA AI Factory, HS2 Tunnel, Quantum vs. Classical | 2025-Wk20 Highlights

📅 Highlights in Tech & Systems Engineering (May 12-19, 2025) Week 20 📅
A round-up of 5 major developments - from defence and infrastructure to AI and quantum breakthroughs:

1. 🧠 ARIA Summit 2025, London (May 12-14) 🧠
2. ✈️ USAF 6th Gen F-47 Fighter Specs (May 13) ✈️
3. 🏭 NVIDIA’s “AI Factory” Digital Twins (May 18) 🏭
4. 🚇 HS2 rail tunnel breakthrough in Birmingham (May 9) 🚇
5. ⚛️ Quantum Beats Classical in Optimisation (May 13) ⚛️

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00:00:00 - Headlines
00:00:30 - LinkedIn Post
00:00:50 - ARIA Summit 2025, London
00:01:55 - USAF 6th Gen F-47 Fighter Specs
00:03:24 - NVIDIA’s “AI Factory” Digital Twins
00:04:08 - HS2 rail tunnel breakthrough in Birmingham
00:04:40 - Quantum Beats Classical in Optimisation
00:06:14 - Closing


1. 🧠 ARIA Summit 2025, London
The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) held its first summit. ARIA backs research that’s too speculative, interdisciplinary, or long-term for traditional funding. Programs include Scalable Neural Interfaces and Mathematics for Safe AI.
ARIA CEO Ilan Gur: www.linkedin.com/posts/ilangur_very-special-week-a…
ARIA Chief Product Officer Pippy James: www.linkedin.com/posts/pippy-james-291a3bb2_and-th…

2. ✈️ USAF 6th Gen F-47 Fighter Specs
Gen. Dave Allvin revealed specs for the sixth-gen F-47 stealth fighter: a combat radius of 1,000+ nautical miles (vs. 590 for the F-22) and speeds over Mach 2. Extended range = deeper strike potential in contested airspace.
General David Allvin: x.com/OfficialCSAF/status/1922357672487080412
DefenseNews: defensenews.com/air/2025/05/14/air-force-eyes-long…


3. 🏭 NVIDIA’s “AI Factory” Digital Twins
NVIDIA expanded its Omniverse Blueprint for digital twins of AI data centers - adding Siemens, Delta, and Jacobs. Engineers can now simulate power, cooling, and networking in unified physics-based 3D environments.
NVIDIA: blogs.nvidia.com/blog/omniverse-blueprint-ai-facto…

4. 🚇 HS2 rail tunnel breakthrough
A 3.5-mile tunnel linking Warwickshire and Birmingham is now fully bored by HS2’s TBM “Mary Ann”, a milestone in the UK’s biggest infrastructure project.
UK Gov: www.gov.uk/government/news/first-hs2-rail-tunnel-b…

5. ⚛️ Quantum vs Classical: A Real-World Test
Kipu Quantum showed its optimisation algorithms running on IBM’s 156-qubit devices solved problems in seconds - far faster than classical solvers on the same task.
Paper: arxiv.org/html/2505.08663v1
The Quantum Insider: thequantuminsider.com/2025/05/17/quantum-algorithm…