--- title: "Twisted Tethers Make Tidal Energy Cheaper and Cleaner" url: https://daily.dev/posts/twisted-tethers-make-tidal-energy-cheaper-and-cleaner-f2p9altkj source_url: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tidal-energy-underwater-kite-power type: article source: "IEEE Spectrum" published: 2026-06-29T16:06:12.164Z updated: 2026-06-29T16:09:23.405Z tags: ["machine-learning", "hardware", "reinforcement-learning"] reading_time: 19 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Twisted Tethers Make Tidal Energy Cheaper and Cleaner **[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Researchers at Princeton have developed AI-driven methods to automate the design of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), a process traditionally considered a 'dark art' requiring years of expert experience. Using reinforcement learning to determine circuit architecture and topology from scratch, combined with an AI emulator that predicts electromagnetic behavior without running full simulations, the team produced a 5G millimeter-wave power amplifier that outperformed state-of-the-art human designs. They also applied diffusion models to make AI-generated circuit structures more interpretable by engineers. The approach eliminates reliance on human-designed templates, dramatically reduces design time from months to minutes, and has been validated for multiport circuits and sub-terahertz amplifiers. Key remaining challenges include reducing AI hallucinations, improving generalizability, and building open datasets — since most simulation data is locked behind NDAs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Cfet Ibm Plan Bets On Sequential Nanostack Power](https://daily.dev/posts/cfet-ibm-plan-bets-on-sequential-nanostack-power-irglegrit) · IEEE Spectrum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI Model Creates Conlangs Beyond Human Imagining](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-model-creates-conlangs-beyond-human-imagining-5brkf4fop) · IEEE Spectrum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Shadow-Free Augmented Reality Makes Illusions More Realistic](https://daily.dev/posts/shadow-free-augmented-reality-makes-illusions-more-realistic-aheqmh6ja) · IEEE Spectrum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Humanoid Robots in Japan Risk Losing Legacy to China](https://daily.dev/posts/humanoid-robots-in-japan-risk-losing-legacy-to-china-knnvedi6x) · IEEE Spectrum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Large Tabular Models Excel Where LLMs Fail](https://daily.dev/posts/large-tabular-models-excel-where-llms-fail-m4afd4hqb) · IEEE Spectrum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware), [#reinforcement-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/reinforcement-learning) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/twisted-tethers-make-tidal-energy-cheaper-and-cleaner-f2p9altkj)