Thenextweb
Jul 21, 07:54
Tennessee puts Instagram’s addictive design on trial as Meta faces a seven-week jury fight
Meta went on trial in Nashville on Monday over Tennessee’s allegation that it engineered Instagram to keep teenagers compulsively scrolling, one of the first state cases to put the question of addictive design before a jury. Jury selection began on 20 July in a proceeding expected to run about seven weeks, part of a wider wave […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Tennessee puts Instagram’s addictive design on trial as Meta faces a seven-week jury fight. Meta went on trial in Nashville on Monday over Tennessee’s allegation that it engineered Instagram to keep teenagers compulsively scrolling, one of the first state cases to put the question of addictive design before a jury.
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Jury selection began on 20 July in a proceeding expected to run about seven weeks, part of a wider wave […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 21, 07:45
IQE bets on AI data-centre demand to drive 20% sales growth in 2026
IQE, the Cardiff-based maker of compound semiconductor wafers, expects revenue to grow by more than 20% in 2026, betting that surging AI data-centre demand for its light-carrying materials will pull it clear of a bruising year. The upgrade landed on 21 July alongside full-year results that showed just how far the company has to climb. Revenue for […] This story continues at The Next Web
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IQE bets on AI data-centre demand to drive 20% sales growth in 2026. IQE, the Cardiff-based maker of compound semiconductor wafers, expects revenue to grow by more than 20% in 2026, betting that surging AI data-centre demand for its light-carrying materials will pull it clear of a bruising year.
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Thenextweb
Jul 21, 07:24
Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history
A federal judge in San Francisco has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of training its Claude models on pirated books, closing what lawyers on both sides describe as the largest copyright recovery in United States history. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval on 20 July, months after she […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history. A federal judge in San Francisco has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of training its Claude models on pirated books, closing what lawyers on both sides describe as the largest copyright recovery in United States history.
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Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval on 20 July, months after she […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 20, 23:27
Charting RISC-V’s Future in HPC
There are more than 30 billion RISC-V cores deployed in the world, and some analysts estimate the open processor architecture will own a third of the market within five years. While the forecasted future for RISC-V is bright, the chip has so far failed to live up its billing in the HPC world. But that […] The post Charting RISC-V’s Future in HPC appeared first on HPCwire .
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Charting RISC-V’s Future in HPC. There are more than 30 billion RISC-V cores deployed in the world, and some analysts estimate the open processor architecture will own a third of the market within five years. While the forecasted future for RISC-V is bright, the chip has so far failed to live up its billing in the HPC world.
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Thequantuminsider
Jul 20, 22:12
CQE-led Bloch Quantum Tech Hub Raises $55 Million
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Bloch Quantum Tech Hub has won nearly $55 million to build the nation a quantum supply chain following a US Economic Development Administration award that positions the Illinois-Wisconsin-Indiana region as the center of quantum manufacturing. The multisector project, led by the Chicago Quantum Exchange, leverages the Midwest’s existing manufacturing capacity, talent, […]
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Bloch Quantum Tech Hub has won nearly $55 million to build the nation a quantum supply chain following a US Economic Development Administration award that positions the Illinois-Wisconsin-Indiana region as the center of quantum manufacturing.
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Bloch Quantum Tech Hub has won nearly $55 million to build the nation a quantum supply chain following a US Economic Development Administration award that positions the Illinois-Wisconsin-Indiana region as the center of quantum manufacturing. The multisector project, led by the Chicago Quantum Exchange, leverages the Midwest’s existing manufacturing capacity, talent, […]
Hpcwire
Jul 20, 21:34
Siemens to Acquire Precision Innovations for AI-Powered Chip Planning
PLANO, Texas, July 20, 2026 — Siemens today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Precision Innovations Inc., a privately held electronic design automation software company, expanding Siemens’ EDA portfolio with AI-powered chip planning capabilities that help semiconductor teams optimize power, performance and area earlier in the system-on-chip design process. Precision Innovations develops […] The post Siemens to Acquire Precision Innovations for AI-Powered Chip Planning appeared first on HPCwire .
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Siemens to Acquire Precision Innovations for AI-Powered Chip Planning. PLANO, Texas, July 20, 2026 — Siemens today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Precision Innovations Inc.
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Thenextweb
Jul 20, 21:00
Tesla beat Q2 delivery estimates and the stock fell. Wednesday’s earnings face the same problem.
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, beating Wall Street estimates with a 25% year-on-year increase. The stock dropped. That reaction tells you everything about where expectations sit ahead of Wednesday’s earnings report. A beat is now the baseline. If exceeding delivery targets does not trigger a rally, meeting or slightly beating bottom-line earnings […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, beating Wall Street estimates with a 25% year-on-year increase. That reaction tells you everything about where expectations sit ahead of Wednesday’s earnings report. A beat is now the baseline.
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Thenextweb
Jul 20, 20:30
A Korean AI model scores every possible driving path for safety before the car moves. CVPR called it a highlight.
Most self-driving AI models study how humans drive and try to copy them. They work well in normal conditions but struggle to explain why they chose one path over another, which becomes a problem when a split-second decision goes wrong. A team at Seoul National University led by professor Jun Won Choi has built a […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A Korean AI model scores every possible driving path for safety before the car moves. Most self-driving AI models study how humans drive and try to copy them. They work well in normal conditions but struggle to explain why they chose one path over another, which becomes a problem when a split-second decision goes wrong.
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A team at Seoul National University led by professor Jun Won Choi has built a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 20, 20:05
OLCF User Summit Showcases Frontier Science and Genesis Mission Plans
July 20, 2026 — Users of Frontier — the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science — joined scientific computing experts at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to share recent achievements and new directions in high-performance and quantum computing research at the 2026 Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) User Summit, held on […] The post OLCF User Summit Showcases Frontier Science and Genesis Mission Plans appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 20, 2026 — Users of Frontier — the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science — joined scientific computing experts at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to share recent achievements and new directions in high-performance and quantum computing research at the 2026 Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) User Summit, held on […] The p…
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July 20, 2026 — Users of Frontier — the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science — joined scientific computing experts at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to share recent achievements and new directions in high-performance and quantum computing research at the 2026 Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) User Summit, held on […] The post OLCF User Summit Showcases Frontier Science and Genesis Mission Plans appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 20:00
Kai-Fu Lee stopped building AI models and started selling enterprise data infrastructure. Now 01.ai is heading for a Hong Kong IPO.
Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, the former Google China chief told Bloomberg at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. The company is unwinding its offshore holding structure, the same prerequisite that Moonshot dismantled in May to clear its own path to a Hong […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Kai-Fu Lee stopped building AI models and started selling enterprise data infrastructure. Now 01.ai is heading for a Hong Kong IPO.. Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, the former Google China chief told Bloomberg at the World AI Conference in Shanghai.
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The company is unwinding its offshore holding structure, the same prerequisite that Moonshot dismantled in May to clear its own path to a Hong […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 20, 19:56
Argonne Hosts MEXT Graduate Students in US-Japan Scientific Computing Pilot Program
Graduate students step inside world-class research at U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories through a U.S.-Japan pilot program July 20, 2026 — Modern science is built on collaboration. The most pressing challenges — whether in energy, health or technology — rarely fit neatly within a single discipline, requiring researchers to work across fields to generate […] The post Argonne Hosts MEXT Graduate Students in US-Japan Scientific Computing Pilot Program appeared first on HPCwire .
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Argonne Hosts MEXT Graduate Students in US-Japan Scientific Computing Pilot Program. Department of Energy national laboratories through a U.S.-Japan pilot program July 20, 2026 — Modern science is built on collaboration.
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Graduate students step inside world-class research at U.S.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 19:35
Neo exits stealth with $100M from a16z and Bessemer to build a control layer for agentic AI software
Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures also participating. The company, founded by former SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks executives, is building what it calls a real-time control layer for agentic software in the enterprise. The problem […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Neo exits stealth with $100M from a16z and Bessemer to build a control layer for agentic AI software. Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures also participating.
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Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 20, 19:24
Material Assays Project Radiation Rates for SNOLAB Qubit Measurements
Material assays at SNOLAB, shielded by 2km of rock, project radiation rates for superconducting qubit operation and quantum coherence studies.
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Shielded by two kilometers of rock, the Cryogenic Underground TEst (CUTE) facility at SNOLAB is designed to provide an ultra-low radiation environment for probing quantum coherence in superconducting qubits. A team of researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing ( IQC ) at the University of Waterloo, including Y.
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Material assays at SNOLAB, shielded by 2km of rock, project radiation rates for superconducting qubit operation and quantum coherence studies.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 20, 19:23
Durham Physicists Tune Pair States Into Resonance for Strong Interactions
Durham University researchers demonstrated coherent interactions between a Rydberg atom & polar molecule, tuning two atom–molecule pair states into resonance.
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While dipolar interactions between atoms and molecules have been observed previously in less controllable settings, this work establishes a system enabling the controlled coherent interactions necessary for quantum state transfer and entanglement.
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Durham University researchers demonstrated coherent interactions between a Rydberg atom & polar molecule, tuning two atom–molecule pair states into resonance.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 20, 19:22
New Programming Language Enforces Causality in Quantum Programs
Indefinite causal order is a characteristic phenomenon in quantum computation, with examples including the quantum SWITCH and the OCB process. This paper studies a causality issue in a higher-order setting, proposing a typed lambda calculus with quantum control and its categorical semantics, equipped with a type system based on intuitionistic BV logic to enforce causality.
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Indefinite causal order is a characteristic phenomenon in quantum computation, with examples including the quantum SWITCH and the OCB process. This paper studies a causality issue in a higher-order setting, proposing a typed lambda calculus with quantum control and its categorical semantics, equipped with a type system based on intuitionistic BV logic to enforce causality.
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Indefinite causal order is a characteristic phenomenon in quantum computation, with examples including the quantum SWITCH and the OCB process.
Hpcwire
Jul 20, 19:13
Neo Launches with $100M to Secure AI Software Across the Enterprise
BOSTON, July 20, 2026 — Neo today emerged from stealth with $100M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures. Built by former SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks veterans, Neo gives SecOps teams the inventory, posture intelligence, attribution, and policy control to manage enterprise-wide agentic […] The post Neo Launches with $100M to Secure AI Software Across the Enterprise appeared first on HPCwire .
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BOSTON, July 20, 2026 — Neo today emerged from stealth with $100M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures.
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BOSTON, July 20, 2026 — Neo today emerged from stealth with $100M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 19:00
Anduril and Archer unveiled an autonomous attack rotorcraft built on air taxi technology. First flight is planned for 2027.
Anduril and Archer Aviation unveiled Thunder at the Farnborough International Airshow on Sunday, a Group 5 autonomous attack rotorcraft built on a jointly developed dual-use platform. The aircraft is designed to multiply the combat power of crewed attack and assault helicopters by operating alongside them without a pilot. It uses a series hybrid-electric powertrain and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Anduril and Archer unveiled an autonomous attack rotorcraft built on air taxi technology. Anduril and Archer Aviation unveiled Thunder at the Farnborough International Airshow on Sunday, a Group 5 autonomous attack rotorcraft built on a jointly developed dual-use platform.
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Thenextweb
Jul 20, 18:11
Paramount and Warner Bros. merger blocked by temporary restraining order one day before close
California District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a temporary restraining order on the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger on Monday, pausing the deal for 14 days. The order came after a coalition of 12 state attorneys general led by California’s Rob Bonta sued to block the acquisition last week, arguing it would violate the Clayton […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Paramount and Warner Bros. merger blocked by temporary restraining order one day before close. California District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a temporary restraining order on the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros.
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The order came after a coalition of 12 state attorneys general led by California’s Rob Bonta sued to block the acquisition last week, arguing it would violate the Clayton […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 20, 18:11
Scale Computing Extends AMD CPU Support for Edge and Virtualization Workloads
The new release expands deployment options for Scale Computing edge solutions with support for AMD EPYC processors and AMD Ryzen AI processors, simplifying virtualization and AI-enabled workloads closer to where data is generated and decisions are made. AUSTIN, Texas, July 20, 2026 — Scale Computing today announced that SC//HyperCore virtualization suite version 9.7 will add […] The post Scale Computing Extends AMD CPU Support for Edge and Virtualization Workloads appeared first on HPCwire .
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The new release expands deployment options for Scale Computing edge solutions with support for AMD EPYC processors and AMD Ryzen AI processors, simplifying virtualization and AI-enabled workloads closer to where data is generated and decisions are made. AUSTIN, Texas, July 20, 2026 — Scale Computing today announced that SC//HyperCore virtualization suite version 9.
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The new release expands deployment options for Scale Computing edge solutions with support for AMD EPYC processors and AMD Ryzen AI processors, simplifying virtualization and AI-enabled workloads closer to where data is generated and decisions are made.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 20, 17:46
University of Mainz Team Identifies Schmidt Rank Threshold for Deterministic Bell Measurements
Until now, conclusive photonic Bell measurements beyond two dimensions demanded additional photons or entanglement. This limitation is overcome by demonstrating a deterministic discrimination of all d² Bell states using only a rank-d auxiliary entangled state. Establishing this quantifiable Schmidt rank as a resource opens new avenues for optimising photonic quantum protocols without ancilla photons.
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University of Mainz Team Identifies Schmidt Rank Threshold for Deterministic Bell Measurements. This limitation is overcome by demonstrating a deterministic discrimination of all d² Bell states using only a rank-d auxiliary entangled state.
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Until now, conclusive photonic Bell measurements beyond two dimensions demanded additional photons or entanglement.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 20, 17:12
Interlune Develops Cryogenic Technology to Expand Helium-3 Supply for Quantum Computing
Insider Brief Press release – Interlune, a space infrastructure and resources company, today announced that its Cold Capture technology has demonstrated production of 99% pure helium-3 from Grade A helium. When deployed broadly, the novel technology could triple the current U.S. supply of this critical isotope for use in quantum computing. Helium-3 is strategically important […]
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Interlune Develops Cryogenic Technology to Expand Helium-3 Supply for Quantum Computing. Insider Brief Press release – Interlune, a space infrastructure and resources company, today announced that its Cold Capture technology has demonstrated production of 99% pure helium-3 from Grade A helium. Helium-3 is strategically important […]
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Hpcwire
Jul 20, 16:20
Israel Innovation Authority Launches National Quantum Computing Infrastructure Initiative
July 20, 2026 — The Israel Innovation Authority has launched a new call for proposals to establish a national research and development infrastructure that will provide Israeli industry and academia w…
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Israel Innovation Authority Launches National Quantum Computing Infrastructure Initiative. July 20, 2026 — The Israel Innovation Authority has launched a new call for proposals to establish a national research and development infrastructure that will provide Israeli industry and academia with access to advanced quantum computing capabilities.
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The infrastructure will integrate at least three different quantum processing technologies and serve as a national center for the evaluation, integration, and adoption of quantum computing technologies.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 15:49
A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside
For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu, has started partially operating the site, Bloomberg reported, citing a person […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside. For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer.
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The company, formerly known as Zhipu, has started partially operating the site, Bloomberg reported, citing a person […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 15:25
AMD’s Helios puts 72 GPUs and 31 terabytes of HBM4 in one rack. It is AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s NVL72.
AMD’s Helios is a single rack containing 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 31 terabytes of HBM4 memory, and 2.9 exaflops of FP4 inference compute. It is AMD’s first rack-scale AI system and its direct answer to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72. The system uses 18 compute trays, each holding four MI455X accelerators on the new CDNA 5 […] This story continues at The Next Web
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AMD’s Helios is a single rack containing 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 31 terabytes of HBM4 memory, and 2.9 exaflops of FP4 inference compute. It is AMD’s first rack-scale AI system and its direct answer to Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72. The system uses 18 compute trays, each holding four MI455X accelerators on the new CDNA 5 […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The system uses 18 compute trays, each holding four MI455X accelerators on the new CDNA 5 […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 20, 15:07
Researchers Detail New Ion Trap Array for Scalable Quantum Computing From MCQST
Can quantum computation truly scale without sacrificing qubit stability or operational control. This new architecture combines the long coherence of trapped ions with the flexible, parallel processing of neutral-atom tweezers, offering a potential solution. It establishes a route towards scalable ion-tweezer processors by using state-dependent displacements to generate effective electric dipoles for entanglement.
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Researchers Detail New Ion Trap Array for Scalable Quantum Computing From MCQST. This new architecture combines the long coherence of trapped ions with the flexible, parallel processing of neutral-atom tweezers, offering a potential solution.
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Can quantum computation truly scale without sacrificing qubit stability or operational control.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 14:57
Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds
When Google’s AI answers a question, it is increasingly not reading a website. It is reading a Facebook post. New data suggests social platforms have become a core source for Google’s AI answers. Often the user never visits the platform at all. The findings come from BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO firm. Its tool tracks roughly […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google’s AI cited Facebook 19.5 million times, new research finds. When Google’s AI answers a question, it is increasingly not reading a website. New data suggests social platforms have become a core source for Google’s AI answers.
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Its tool tracks roughly […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 14:46
Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon
Most AI chips are general-purpose. You load a model onto them, and they run it. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is the model, with Gemini’s blueprint etched into the hardware itself. The project, informally called “Frozen v2,” was reported by The Information and picked up by Reuters and Bloomberg Law. Alphabet […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon. Most AI chips are general-purpose. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is the model, with Gemini’s blueprint etched into the hardware itself.
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Thenextweb
Jul 20, 14:43
OneDrive will block screenshots of sensitive documents, but only in Microsoft’s own browser.
Starting next month, OneDrive and SharePoint will block screen captures when enterprise users open certain sensitivity-labelled PDFs in Microsoft Edge. The restriction applies to documents carrying a Purview Information Protection label without the Copy (EXTRACT) permission. When those conditions are met, screenshot blocking activates by default. Personal OneDrive accounts and unlabelled files are not affected. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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OneDrive will block screenshots of sensitive documents, but only in Microsoft’s own browser.. Starting next month, OneDrive and SharePoint will block screen captures when enterprise users open certain sensitivity-labelled PDFs in Microsoft Edge. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Thenextweb
Jul 20, 14:28
Netflix used AI in 300 shows. Its biggest director calls AI a Trojan horse.
The fight over AI in Hollywood used to be about the future. This month it turned into a fight about the present. Within days, a studio, a director and a union each drew a line. The lines do not agree. Taken together, they show an industry that has already let the technology in. Now it […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Netflix used AI in 300 shows. Its biggest director calls AI a Trojan horse.. The fight over AI in Hollywood used to be about the future.
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Thequantuminsider
Jul 20, 14:18
Maybell Quantum to Establish New Mexico Operations as part of New Mexico’s $450 Million Quantum Initiative
Insider Brief Press release – Maybell Quantum today announced it will establish operations at the Roadrunner Quantum Lab Powered by the State of New Mexico. Maybell will expand into the state with new local hires and a fleet of advanced cryogenic systems capable of reaching temperatures near Absolute Zero. The Colorado-based company becomes the third […]
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Maybell Quantum to Establish New Mexico Operations as part of New Mexico’s $450 Million Quantum Initiative. Maybell will expand into the state with new local hires and a fleet of advanced cryogenic systems capable of reaching temperatures near Absolute Zero. The Colorado-based company becomes the third […]
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Insider Brief Press release – Maybell Quantum today announced it will establish operations at the Roadrunner Quantum Lab Powered by the State of New Mexico.
Hpcwire
Jul 20, 14:15
Bristol Myers Squibb Deploys NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin Systems to Advance AI Drug Discovery
BMS will deploy NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to scale proprietary AI models, compress discovery timelines, and advance its vision of collaborative hybrid intelligence, where AI scientists work alongside researchers to pursue first- and best-in-class medicines PRINCETON, N.J., July 20, 2026 — Bristol Myers Squibb, a global biopharmaceutical leader, today announced it will expand its […] The post Bristol Myers Squibb Deploys NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin Systems to Advance AI Drug Discovery appeared first on HPCwire .
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BMS will deploy NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to scale proprietary AI models, compress discovery timelines, and advance its vision of collaborative hybrid intelligence, where AI scientists work alongside researchers to pursue first- and best-in-class medicines PRINCETON, N.J.
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BMS will deploy NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to scale proprietary AI models, compress discovery timelines, and advance its vision of collaborative hybrid intelligence, where AI scientists work alongside researchers to pursue first- and best-in-class medicines PRINCETON, N.J., July 20, 2026 — Bristol Myers Squibb, a global biopharmaceutical leader, today announced it will expand its […] The post Bristol Myers Squibb Deploys NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin Systems to Advance AI Drug Discovery appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 14:09
Four teams just broke AI agents four ways in ten days. The flaw is the same one.
We spent two years asking whether AI would lie to us. The more useful question this summer is what happens once we hand it the keys. Give a model your Gmail, your calendar, a memory and the power to act, and its mistakes stop being embarrassing. They start being exploitable. Over roughly ten days in […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Four teams just broke AI agents four ways in ten days. We spent two years asking whether AI would lie to us. Give a model your Gmail, your calendar, a memory and the power to act, and its mistakes stop being embarrassing.
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Thenextweb
Jul 20, 13:58
EVs outsold petrol and diesel in Germany for the first time. The birthplace of the car just changed its fuel.
Electric cars outsold every other fuel type in Germany for the first time in June. The country’s Federal Motor Transport Authority recorded 84,057 new EV registrations, a 78.2% year-on-year increase, putting battery-electric vehicles at 28.4% market share. Traditional hybrids came second with 83,315 registrations (28.1%), followed by petrol at 60,796 (20.5%), diesel at 33,862 (11.4%), […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Electric cars outsold every other fuel type in Germany for the first time in June. The country’s Federal Motor Transport Authority recorded 84,057 new EV registrations, a 78.2% year-on-year increase, putting battery-electric vehicles at 28.4% market share. Traditional hybrids came second with 83,315 registrations (28.1%), followed by petrol at 60,796 (20.
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Traditional hybrids came second with 83,315 registrations (28.1%), followed by petrol at 60,796 (20.5%), diesel at 33,862 (11.4%), […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 20, 13:43
AMD Expands Microsoft Partnership with Helios, EPYC and Pensando
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 20, 2026 — AMD today announced an expanded strategic partnership spanning AMD GPUs, CPUs, networking and software on Microsoft Azure. At the center of this expansion, Microsoft will deploy the AMD Helios Rackscale Solution, to power frontier model AI inference for Microsoft, its AI customers and support Azure AI services. Azure […] The post AMD Expands Microsoft Partnership with Helios, EPYC and Pensando appeared first on HPCwire .
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AMD Expands Microsoft Partnership with Helios, EPYC and Pensando. At the center of this expansion, Microsoft will deploy the AMD Helios Rackscale Solution, to power frontier model AI inference for Microsoft, its AI customers and support Azure AI services. Azure […] The post AMD Expands Microsoft Partnership with Helios, EPYC and Pensando appeared first on HPCwire .
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 20, 2026 — AMD today announced an expanded strategic partnership spanning AMD GPUs, CPUs, networking and software on Microsoft Azure.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 13:29
AI is writing your date’s messages. The dating apps say they cannot stop it.
Singles are feeding their dating app conversations into ChatGPT and Claude, asking the models to write replies, analyse what went wrong, and generate opening lines. The practice, called “chatfishing,” has produced a 5,000% spike in Google searches and a growing trail of Reddit posts and TikTok confessionals. Twenty-six per cent of US adults, and 49% […] This story continues at The Next Web
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AI is writing your date’s messages. The dating apps say they cannot stop it.. Singles are feeding their dating app conversations into ChatGPT and Claude, asking the models to write replies, analyse what went wrong, and generate opening lines.
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Thequantuminsider
Jul 20, 13:12
IEEE Study Highlights How Micro-Transfer Printing Can Lead to Advanced Silicon Photonics
Insider Brief Press release – Silicon photonics has emerged as a promising technology for addressing bandwidth and latency bottlenecks of conventional electrical interconnects and therefore are being explored for future artificial intelligence infrastructure. However, heterogenous integration of multiple material systems remains a challenge. Now, researchers show how micro-transfer printing can enable highly versatile heterogenous integration […]
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IEEE Study Highlights How Micro-Transfer Printing Can Lead to Advanced Silicon Photonics. However, heterogenous integration of multiple material systems remains a challenge. Now, researchers show how micro-transfer printing can enable highly versatile heterogenous integration […]
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Insider Brief Press release – Silicon photonics has emerged as a promising technology for addressing bandwidth and latency bottlenecks of conventional electrical interconnects and therefore are being explored for future artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 13:01
A $400M nonprofit backed by France and DeepMind is building AI’s ‘public option’
A farmer in rural India photographs a dying plant and wants to look it up. She does not speak English, and today’s AI barely speaks hers. A nonprofit called Current AI thinks that is a problem worth fixing. Its goal is grand: a “public option” for AI, open and free to anyone, much like the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A $400M nonprofit backed by France and DeepMind is building AI’s ‘public option’. She does not speak English, and today’s AI barely speaks hers. A nonprofit called Current AI thinks that is a problem worth fixing.
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Its goal is grand: a “public option” for AI, open and free to anyone, much like the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 12:49
YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is broken on Android and iOS. Google says it is investigating.
YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is failing on both Android and iOS for a growing number of users. When the app is exited, the audio continues playing in the background but the floating video overlay does not appear. Google acknowledged the bug in a YouTube Help forum post, saying “our teams are actively investigating the issue.” Most […] This story continues at The Next Web
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YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is broken on Android and iOS. YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is failing on both Android and iOS for a growing number of users. When the app is exited, the audio continues playing in the background but the floating video overlay does not appear.
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Google acknowledged the bug in a YouTube Help forum post, saying “our teams are actively investigating the issue.” Most […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 12:42
The European Parliament is building its own AI to stop MEPs pasting draft laws into ChatGPT
The European Parliament has a problem with AI, and its answer is more AI. Lawmakers keep using public chatbots to help write legislation. So the institution is building a sanctioned platform to bring that habit under control. The internal tool, called EPGenAI Hub, will give MEPs and staff access to models from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The European Parliament is building its own AI to stop MEPs pasting draft laws into ChatGPT. Lawmakers keep using public chatbots to help write legislation. The internal tool, called EPGenAI Hub, will give MEPs and staff access to models from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The European Parliament has a problem with AI, and its answer is more AI.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 12:28
The ‘synthetic insider’: how AI deepfakes turned the fake employee into a corporate threat
The most dangerous person in your company might not work there at all. AI deepfakes are getting cheaper and better. Hackers now use them to pose as trusted staff, a threat the industry calls the “synthetic insider.” The tactic sits at the sharp end of an old problem. Insider threats run from a worker emailing […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The ‘synthetic insider’: how AI deepfakes turned the fake employee into a corporate threat. The most dangerous person in your company might not work there at all. AI deepfakes are getting cheaper and better.
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Insider threats run from a worker emailing […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Jul 20, 12:15
The firm that wires AI data centres is chasing Hong Kong’s biggest IPO since Alibaba.
One of the quiet winners of the AI boom is about to test the public markets. Zhongji Innolight, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has started gauging demand for a Hong Kong listing worth as much as $8bn. The Shenzhen-listed company won approval for the deal on Friday, Bloomberg reported. It began meeting analysts […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The firm that wires AI data centres is chasing Hong Kong’s biggest IPO since Alibaba.. One of the quiet winners of the AI boom is about to test the public markets. Zhongji Innolight, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has started gauging demand for a Hong Kong listing worth as much as $8bn.
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Thequantuminsider
Jul 20, 12:08
BTQ Technologies and TIDAL PWR Develop Framework for Quantum-Ready Data Centers
Insider Brief Press release – BTQ Technologies Corp. (“BTQ” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global technology company building the trust infrastructure for the quantum era, is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with TIDAL PWR, a Texas-based developer of power generation and data center infrastructure for AI and advanced computing. TIDAL PWR is focused […]
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As AI, high-performance computing, and quantum systems begin to converge around the same facilities, BTQ believes data center operators will need a clearer framework for deciding what to deploy, how to secure it, which vendors and devices to trust, and how to prepare facilities for quantum systems without treating quantum as an open-ended research project.
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Insider Brief Press release – BTQ Technologies Corp. (“BTQ” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global technology company building the trust infrastructure for the quantum era, is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with TIDAL PWR, a Texas-based developer of power generation and data center infrastructure for AI and advanced computing.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 11:54
Decart’s Lucy 2.5 unlocks new live video effects, but physical AI is the real winner
Artificial intelligence startup Decart continues to stretch the boundaries of what’s possible with the release of its latest live video model, Lucy 2.5, introducing real-time streaming visual effects capabilities for the first time. The startup claims that Lucy 2.5 is unique in its ability to generate AI VFX continuously, on the fly, and embed them […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Decart’s Lucy 2.5 unlocks new live video effects, but physical AI is the real winner. Artificial intelligence startup Decart continues to stretch the boundaries of what’s possible with the release of its latest live video model, Lucy 2.5, introducing real-time streaming visual effects capabilities for the first time. The startup claims that Lucy 2.
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The startup claims that Lucy 2.5 is unique in its ability to generate AI VFX continuously, on the fly, and embed them […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 20, 11:47
Israel Innovation Authority Launches NIS 100 Million National Quantum Computing R&D Infrastructure
Insider Brief Press release – The Israel Innovation Authority has launched a new call for proposals to establish a national research and development infrastructure that will provide Israeli industry and academia with access to advanced quantum computing capabilities. The infrastructure will integrate at least three different quantum processing technologies and serve as a national center […]
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Insider Brief Press release – The Israel Innovation Authority has launched a new call for proposals to establish a national research and development infrastructure that will provide Israeli industry and academia with access to advanced quantum computing capabilities.
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Insider Brief Press release – The Israel Innovation Authority has launched a new call for proposals to establish a national research and development infrastructure that will provide Israeli industry and academia with access to advanced quantum computing capabilities.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 20, 11:43
Quantum Materials Discovery Could Advance Electronics For Extreme Environments
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — University of Arizona researchers have demonstrated a promising new application for graphene nanoribbons, a nanoscale semiconductor material with the potential to withstand extreme environments. The team’s findings could help clear a key hurdle to bringing fusion energy to the electric grid. For the proof-of-concept study, published in the journal ACS Applied […]
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Quantum Materials Discovery Could Advance Electronics For Extreme Environments. The team’s findings could help clear a key hurdle to bringing fusion energy to the electric grid. For the proof-of-concept study, published in the journal ACS Applied […]
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — University of Arizona researchers have demonstrated a promising new application for graphene nanoribbons, a nanoscale semiconductor material with the potential to withstand extreme environments.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 11:43
A British AI lab signed up Nvidia, Meta and Samsung to invent materials that don’t exist yet
A two-year-old British AI lab wants to build the search engine for materials that do not exist yet. On Monday it gathered an unusual crowd to help. Cambridge-based CuspAI launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of more than 45 companies and research labs, Reuters reported. The founding partners include Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, Hyundai Motor […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A British AI lab signed up Nvidia, Meta and Samsung to invent materials that don’t exist yet. A two-year-old British AI lab wants to build the search engine for materials that do not exist yet. Cambridge-based CuspAI launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of more than 45 companies and research labs, Reuters reported.
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The founding partners include Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, Hyundai Motor […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 11:15
Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.
Days after a rival Chinese lab shook Silicon Valley, Alibaba has fired back. The company previewed Qwen3.8, its most powerful model yet, and made a bold claim: it trails only one model on Earth. Alibaba unveiled the model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Its Qwen team said on X that Qwen3.8 is […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. The company previewed Qwen3.8, its most powerful model yet, and made a bold claim: it trails only one model on Earth. Alibaba unveiled the model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.
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Its Qwen team said on X that Qwen3.8 is […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 11:08
China’s car market is heading for its worst year since 2021. Sales fell 20% in the first half.
China’s passenger car sales fell 20.2% in the first half of 2026 to 8.7 million units, and the China Passenger Car Association has lowered its full-year forecast to a 14% decline, projecting 20.4 million deliveries, down from a record 23.7 million in 2025. Citic CLSA’s Xiao Feng expects a 20% full-year drop. “This is going […] This story continues at The Next Web
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China’s car market is heading for its worst year since 2021. Sales fell 20% in the first half.. China’s passenger car sales fell 20.2% in the first half of 2026 to 8.7 million units, and the China Passenger Car Association has lowered its full-year forecast to a 14% decline, projecting 20.4 million deliveries, down from a record 23.7 million in 2025.
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Jul 20, 10:49
Kenya investigates hack of Ruto’s official website after bitcoin ransom demand
Kenyan authorities are investigating a cyberattack that defaced President William Ruto’s official website over the weekend, replacing the homepage with a ransom message and a cryptocurrency wallet address. The government pulled president.go.ke offline on Saturday and has since said it found no evidence that sensitive data was taken. The intruders demanded five bitcoins, worth roughly […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Kenya investigates hack of Ruto’s official website after bitcoin ransom demand. Kenyan authorities are investigating a cyberattack that defaced President William Ruto’s official website over the weekend, replacing the homepage with a ransom message and a cryptocurrency wallet address. The government pulled president.go.
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The intruders demanded five bitcoins, worth roughly […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Jul 20, 10:49
The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet
Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products off its site. The penalty, announced on Monday, is the biggest yet under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). That law forces very large platforms […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet. Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. The penalty, announced on Monday, is the biggest yet under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
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That law forces very large platforms […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Jul 20, 10:44
Kimi K3 is so popular Moonshot ran out of GPUs and paused new sign-ups
Moonshot AI has a problem most startups would envy. Its new Kimi K3 model proved so popular that it ran out of computing power to serve everyone. So the Chinese lab has hit pause on new sign-ups. Over the past 48 hours, demand “pushed close to the limits of our current capacity,” the company said […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Kimi K3 is so popular Moonshot ran out of GPUs and paused new sign-ups. Moonshot AI has a problem most startups would envy. Its new Kimi K3 model proved so popular that it ran out of computing power to serve everyone.
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Over the past 48 hours, demand “pushed close to the limits of our current capacity,” the company said […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 10:26
Prysmian signs €5.5bn fibre deal with Molex to wire AI data centres
Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch Industries-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal of this size, Molex is putting €550m on the table upfront, a rare piece of cash certainty in a market where most commitments arrive […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch Industries-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal of this size, Molex is putting €550m on the table upfront, a rare piece of cash certainty in a market where most commitments arrive […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch Industries-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 10:25
An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.
The machines are now hacking each other. Hugging Face, the world’s largest hub for open AI models, says an autonomous AI agent broke into its production infrastructure. Its own AI defences spotted the intrusion and picked it apart. The company disclosed the incident in a statement on 16 July. It called the attack different from […] This story continues at The Next Web
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An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.. Hugging Face, the world’s largest hub for open AI models, says an autonomous AI agent broke into its production infrastructure.
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It called the attack different from […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 10:08
Trump Media reportedly pitched traders a $100,000 feed of the president’s posts
Trump Media & Technology Group has reportedly been asking financial-trading firms for about $100,000 a month for the fastest possible feed of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts, according to the Financial Times, a price tag that turns the president’s typing into a subscription product. The pitch, described to the paper by people familiar with the discussions, offers […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Trump Media reportedly pitched traders a $100,000 feed of the president’s posts. Trump Media & Technology Group has reportedly been asking financial-trading firms for about $100,000 a month for the fastest possible feed of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts, according to the Financial Times, a price tag that turns the president’s typing into a subscription product.
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The pitch, described to the paper by people familiar with the discussions, offers […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Jul 20, 09:58
Samsung’s new laptop OLED hits 1,600 nits and lasts twice as long as the panel it replaces
Samsung Display has begun shipping tandem OLED panels for laptops that reach 1,600 nits peak brightness, more than 40% above the 1,100-nit ceiling of conventional single-layer OLED. The panels meet VESA’s new DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification, announced this month, which requires 1,400 nits at 10% on-pixel ratio while maintaining black levels of 0.0005 nits […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Samsung’s new laptop OLED hits 1,600 nits and lasts twice as long as the panel it replaces. Samsung Display has begun shipping tandem OLED panels for laptops that reach 1,600 nits peak brightness, more than 40% above the 1,100-nit ceiling of conventional single-layer OLED.
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The panels meet VESA’s new DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification, announced this month, which requires 1,400 nits at 10% on-pixel ratio while maintaining black levels of 0.0005 nits […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 09:46
SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown
SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chica in Texas, and said it needed more time to finish work […] This story continues at The Next Web
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SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown. SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice.
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The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chica in Texas, and said it needed more time to finish work […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 09:32
Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom
Blackstone is buying into Futronic, a South Korean maker of the high-precision actuators that let machines move, in a wager that the least visible hardware in a robot is where the next returns will sit. The firm did not disclose the size of the investment or the stake it is taking, saying only that the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom. Blackstone is buying into Futronic, a South Korean maker of the high-precision actuators that let machines move, in a wager that the least visible hardware in a robot is where the next returns will sit.
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The firm did not disclose the size of the investment or the stake it is taking, saying only that the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 09:30
New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts
Scammers are sending phishing emails that are near-exact replicas of X’s legitimate login notifications, warning recipients of a login “from a new device” in a location they have never been. The emails include X’s logo, correct formatting, proper grammar, and the same colour scheme as real alerts. They ask the recipient to click a link […] This story continues at The Next Web
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New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts. Scammers are sending phishing emails that are near-exact replicas of X’s legitimate login notifications, warning recipients of a login “from a new device” in a location they have never been.
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They ask the recipient to click a link […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 09:17
Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states
On Saturday, American opposition to data centres stopped being a scatter of zoning-board arguments and started behaving like a movement. More than 140 rallies across 42 states unfolded under a single banner, in what organisers billed as the first national day of action against the industry pouring the concrete for artificial intelligence. The rallies were coordinated […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states. On Saturday, American opposition to data centres stopped being a scatter of zoning-board arguments and started behaving like a movement.
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The rallies were coordinated […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 08:58
Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.
Bentley recorded a V8 in a studio, analysed it, and discovered that rhythm, not mechanical tone, is what makes the engine emotionally compelling. To test the theory, the team set up parabolic speakers with the V8 playing on one side and a live drummer on the other. Walking between the two revealed striking similarities in […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Bentley recorded a V8 in a studio, analysed it, and discovered that rhythm, not mechanical tone, is what makes the engine emotionally compelling. To test the theory, the team set up parabolic speakers with the V8 playing on one side and a live drummer on the other.
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Walking between the two revealed striking similarities in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 08:58
Facebook and Instagram stumble for users in Sunday-morning outage
Meta’s two biggest social networks spent part of Sunday morning refusing to behave for a good number of the people who reached for them. Facebook and Instagram both faltered on 19 July, greeting users with login failures, frozen feeds, and error screens that promised a fix was on the way without saying when it would […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Meta’s two biggest social networks spent part of Sunday morning refusing to behave for a good number of the people who reached for them. Facebook and Instagram both faltered on 19 July, greeting users with login failures, frozen feeds, and error screens that promised a fix was on the way without saying when it would […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Meta’s two biggest social networks spent part of Sunday morning refusing to behave for a good number of the people who reached for them.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 08:48
UK finance chiefs are warming to AI, even as they keep spending in check
Nearly three-quarters of the finance chiefs at Britain’s largest companies now say they are optimistic that artificial intelligence will improve business performance, a striking figure from a group not given to exuberance. In Deloitte’s latest quarterly UK CFO Survey, 73% expressed that optimism, up from 59% at the end of 2025 and just 39% two […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Nearly three-quarters of the finance chiefs at Britain’s largest companies now say they are optimistic that artificial intelligence will improve business performance, a striking figure from a group not given to exuberance.
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Nearly three-quarters of the finance chiefs at Britain’s largest companies now say they are optimistic that artificial intelligence will improve business performance, a striking figure from a group not given to exuberance.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 20, 08:13
Quantum Computing Inc. Expands Equity Plan After Shareholders Increase Authorized Stock to 450 Million Shares
Insider Brief Quantum Computing Inc. has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to register an additional 13.5 million shares of common stock for issuance under its employee equity compensation plan, expanding the number of shares available for future stock-based awards. The filing, submitted on Form S-8, registers 13,544,946 additional shares […]
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Quantum Computing Inc. Expands Equity Plan After Shareholders Increase Authorized Stock to 450 Million Shares. The filing, submitted on Form S-8, registers 13,544,946 additional shares […]
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Insider Brief Quantum Computing Inc.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 08:13
Samsung cuts 739 New Jersey jobs as its US headquarters heads for Texas
The glass campus in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, is barely a year old. Samsung opened it in September 2025 to replace the Ridgefield Park headquarters it had kept since 1992, and now roughly 739 of the people who work there are being told they can follow the company to Texas or start looking elsewhere. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Samsung cuts 739 New Jersey jobs as its US headquarters heads for Texas. The glass campus in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, is barely a year old. Samsung opened it in September 2025 to replace the Ridgefield Park headquarters it had kept since 1992, and now roughly 739 of the people who work there are being told they can follow the company to Texas or start looking elsewhere.
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The […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 20, 07:59
DOE Advances Domestic Silicon and Germanium Isotope Supply Chains For Quantum Information Science
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Isotope R&D and Production (IRP), within the Office of Science, today announced a major, multi-laboratory breakthrough in domestic stable isotope enrichment and production capabilities. Through a collaborative effort between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the U.S. […]
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DOE Advances Domestic Silicon and Germanium Isotope Supply Chains For Quantum Information Science. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Isotope R&D and Production (IRP), within the Office of Science, today announced a major, multi-laboratory breakthrough in domestic stable isotope enrichment and production capabilities.
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The U.S.
Thenextweb
Jul 20, 07:57
Dutch company ASML is $300bn from a trillion. AI could close the gap
ASML has spent 2026 getting steadily, expensively larger. The Dutch company whose machines print the world’s most advanced chips is now Europe’s most valuable listed business, worth around $700bn (€600bn), and enough of the investors who own it now say the next round number out loud that the question has stopped sounding fanciful: could ASML […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Dutch company ASML is $300bn from a trillion. AI could close the gap. ASML has spent 2026 getting steadily, expensively larger.
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The Dutch company whose machines print the world’s most advanced chips is now Europe’s most valuable listed business, worth around $700bn (€600bn), and enough of the investors who own it now say the next round number out loud that the question has stopped sounding fanciful: could ASML […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 20, 07:50
IQM and Deutsche Bahn Demonstrate Quantum Algorithm For Railway Scheduling on Real Operational Data
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IQM Quantum Computers (Nasdaq: IQMX), a global leader in full-stack superconducting quantum computers, today published the results of a research collaboration with Deutsche Bahn, Europe’s largest rail operator, exploring how quantum computing can improve railway scheduling. Using a real operational dataset from Deutsche Bahn, a schedule of 190 trips across […]
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Using a real operational dataset from Deutsche Bahn, a schedule of 190 trips across […]
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IQM Quantum Computers (Nasdaq: IQMX), a global leader in full-stack superconducting quantum computers, today published the results of a research collaboration with Deutsche Bahn, Europe’s largest rail operator, exploring how quantum computing can improve railway scheduling.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 20, 07:29
Colombia Quantum Computing Companies 2026: Complete Vendor Guide
Colombia quantum computing companies in 2026: the leading vendors, startups and research institutes building Colombia's quantum ecosystem, profiled in depth.
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The leading colombia quantum computing companies and institutions in 2026 form a research-led ecosystem, organised around university research groups, a community network, and the beginnings of government funding. Colombia has no established commercial quantum-technology company, and it is honest to say that the country’s quantum activity is overwhelmingly academic.
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Colombia quantum computing companies in 2026: the leading vendors, startups and research institutes building Colombia's quantum ecosystem, profiled in depth.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 19:14
UCLA Shrinks Terahertz Systems Onto Single Semiconductor Chip
UCLA engineers have integrated terahertz systems onto a single chip, potentially advancing wireless communication and imaging.
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The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering team achieved this miniaturization through the use of quantum well semiconductor structures, ultrathin layers engineered to control light. The team’s innovation centers on adapting quantum wells, already commonplace in photonic integrated circuits, to support terahertz signal generation and detection through a process called gain-enhanced…
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UCLA engineers have integrated terahertz systems onto a single chip, potentially advancing wireless communication and imaging.
Thenextweb
Jul 19, 16:57
Korea’s AI chip market is now the opening bell for global stocks
Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo have added a new step to their morning routine: checking South Korean stocks. Korea’s $4 trillion equity market is now offering an early read on global AI risk appetite, as swings in SK Hynix and Samsung ripple through chip stocks worldwide. “We are all Korean investors now,” […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Korea’s AI chip market is now the opening bell for global stocks. Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo have added a new step to their morning routine: checking South Korean stocks. Korea’s $4 trillion equity market is now offering an early read on global AI risk appetite, as swings in SK Hynix and Samsung ripple through chip stocks worldwide.
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“We are all Korean investors now,” […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 19, 16:05
Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification
Victoria’s premier Jacinta Allan announced on Sunday that the state would propose laws granting the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal power to order social media and AI platforms to reveal the identities of anonymous account holders accused of online vilification. The “demasking” powers would be the first of their kind for an Australian state. Allan […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification. Victoria’s premier Jacinta Allan announced on Sunday that the state would propose laws granting the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal power to order social media and AI platforms to reveal the identities of anonymous account holders accused of online vilification.
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Jul 19, 15:35
AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found
Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people’s willingness to say “I don’t know” from 44% to 3%. Accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%. Confidence, meanwhile, rose from 30% to 76%. “People became much worse, the accuracy was only one third, but they were twice as confident,” said […] This story continues at The Next Web
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AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found. Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people’s willingness to say “I don’t know” from 44% to 3%.
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“People became much worse, the accuracy was only one third, but they were twice as confident,” said […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 14:51
Will The UK’s New Prime Minister Sink The UK’s Quantum Industry?
The incoming prime minister has reportedly asked officials to draw up plans to abolish DSIT. Here is how that decision could play out for the UK quantum sector, from quiet climbdown to compound failure.
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Will The UK’s New Prime Minister Sink The UK’s Quantum Industry?. The incoming prime minister has reportedly asked officials to draw up plans to abolish DSIT. Here is how that decision could play out for the UK quantum sector, from quiet climbdown to compound failure.
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Here is how that decision could play out for the UK quantum sector, from quiet climbdown to compound failure.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 14:04
Ukraine Quantum Computing Companies 2026: Complete Vendor Guide
Ukraine quantum computing companies in 2026: Haiqu (Ukrainian-diaspora, $17M), BITP Kyiv, ILTPE Kharkiv, KPI, Taras Shevchenko National University, and the broader Lviv research cluster.
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The question of the leading ukraine quantum computing companies in 2026 has an unusual answer. That draws on a long academic tradition in low-temperature physics at Kharkiv, mathematical and theoretical physics at Kyiv, and condensed-matter physics at Lviv.
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Ukraine quantum computing companies in 2026: Haiqu (Ukrainian-diaspora, $17M), BITP Kyiv, ILTPE Kharkiv, KPI, Taras Shevchenko National University, and the broader Lviv research cluster.
Thenextweb
Jul 19, 12:56
Rob Gurzeev on Why AI Has Changed Cybersecurity’s Biggest Blind Spot
Artificial intelligence is transforming how software is built, deployed, and secured. While AI has accelerated innovation across industries, it has also expanded the number of internet-facing assets organizations need to protect. According to Rob Gurzeev, CEO and Co-Founder of CyCognito, the challenge is no longer just identifying known vulnerabilities. It is understanding what is actually […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Rob Gurzeev on Why AI Has Changed Cybersecurity’s Biggest Blind Spot. While AI has accelerated innovation across industries, it has also expanded the number of internet-facing assets organizations need to protect. According to Rob Gurzeev, CEO and Co-Founder of CyCognito, the challenge is no longer just identifying known vulnerabilities.
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It is understanding what is actually […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 19, 12:51
Common Sense Media says Google’s AI Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to students. Google cannot turn it off.
Common Sense Media concluded that Google’s AI-powered Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to young users and recommended that students stop using it entirely until schools can disable the AI features. The child safety watchdog found that AI Mode readily completed homework assignments for minors, repeated misinformation with an air of authority, and exposed children to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Common Sense Media says Google’s AI Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to students. Google cannot turn it off.. Common Sense Media concluded that Google’s AI-powered Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to young users and recommended that students stop using it entirely until schools can disable the AI features.
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The child safety watchdog found that AI Mode readily completed homework assignments for minors, repeated misinformation with an air of authority, and exposed children to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 19, 11:24
The Company Brain and the Future of Go-to-Market Strategy
Founders eagerly bought into the promise of autonomous agents over the past year, and software usage skyrocketed across the industry as teams rushed to adopt the latest tools. Despite this massive investment in new technology, sales pipelines remained completely flat. This is the ultimate paradox facing modern revenue teams today. The average business-to-business go-to-market team […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The Company Brain and the Future of Go-to-Market Strategy. Founders eagerly bought into the promise of autonomous agents over the past year, and software usage skyrocketed across the industry as teams rushed to adopt the latest tools. Despite this massive investment in new technology, sales pipelines remained completely flat.
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The average business-to-business go-to-market team […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 10:42
Seoul National University Engineers Program Slow Light with New Method
Seoul National University engineers achieved fully programmable control of light propagation, utilizing a new approach based on Generalized Coupled-Resonator-Induced Transparency.
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The work involves researchers affiliated with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Seoul, and moves beyond simply slowing light to manipulating its propagation with increased precision. A new approach to manipulating light leverages quantum interference to achieve fully programmable control over its speed and spectral properties.
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Seoul National University engineers achieved fully programmable control of light propagation, utilizing a new approach based on Generalized Coupled-Resonator-Induced Transparency.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 10:38
Finite Tests Rule Out Discrete Alternatives to Quantum Theory
New research rules out noncontextual empirical models with probabilities from finite subsets, challenging certain discrete alternatives to quantum theory.
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Researchers have constructed finite measurement configurations capable of ruling out a specific class of alternatives to quantum theory, challenging deterministic noncontextual models with outcome probabilities drawn from any finite subset.
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New research rules out noncontextual empirical models with probabilities from finite subsets, challenging certain discrete alternatives to quantum theory.
Chipweinberger
Jul 19, 10:34
What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
First, I finally had the piano recording device I’d always wanted: a fully automated device that captures everything I play, no human-involvement required.
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What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard. And second, after a career in software, I got to build hardware. Electronics design, plastics, manufacturing, fulfilment, component shortages, etc, etc, etc.
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Coming from a career in software, I expected building hardware to be the hardest part.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 10:28
Sandia National Laboratories Integrates Superconducting Circuits with AlScN Phonons
Sandia National Laboratories is developing a monolithic platform for coupling superconducting circuits to low-loss microwave phonons in AlScN on 4H-SiC. This work focuses on integrating these circuits, with contributions from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, University of Arizona, and University of Pennsylvania.
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Sandia National Laboratories Integrates Superconducting Circuits with AlScN Phonons. Sandia National Laboratories is developing a monolithic platform for coupling superconducting circuits to low-loss microwave phonons in AlScN on 4H-SiC.
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This work focuses on integrating these circuits, with contributions from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, University of Arizona, and University of Pennsylvania.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 10:24
99.99% Fidelity Achieved With Fluxonium Qubits, 1QBit Reports
1QBit reports optimizing single-qubit gates for fluxonium qubits using single-flux quantum control, reaching fidelities of 99.99% with inductive coupling.
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Researchers at 1QBit have achieved 99.99% fidelity in single-qubit gates using fluxonium qubits and inductive coupling, a result that pushes the boundaries of reliable quantum computation. This level of precision was attained by constructing gates with sequences of single-flux quantum (SFQ) pulses delivered through either capacitive or inductive coupling; the team also reports…
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1QBit reports optimizing single-qubit gates for fluxonium qubits using single-flux quantum control, reaching fidelities of 99.99% with inductive coupling.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 10:22
Columbia Researchers Find Candidate Fractional Topological Insulator
Columbia researchers have discovered a candidate for a fractional topological insulator, expanding the quantum zoo with new quantum states in two-dimensional materials. Led by Xiaoyang Zhu, the research suggests this is likely the first experimental evidence for the quantum phase, a theoretical prediction for the past 15 years.
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Columbia researchers have discovered a candidate for a fractional topological insulator, expanding the quantum zoo with new quantum states in two-dimensional materials. Led by Xiaoyang Zhu, the research suggests this is likely the first experimental evidence for the quantum phase, a theoretical prediction for the past 15 years.
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Columbia researchers have discovered a candidate for a fractional topological insulator, expanding the quantum zoo with new quantum states in two-dimensional materials.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 10:18
Quantinuum & UChicago PME Demonstrate Universal Quantum Gates Using Anyons
Scientists from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) & Quantinuum demonstrated universal quantum gates using non-Abelian anyons.
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Researchers from Quantinuum and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have demonstrated a complete set of operations for universal quantum computation using non-Abelian anyons, exotic quantum particles offering a different approach to building versatile quantum computers.
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Scientists from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) & Quantinuum demonstrated universal quantum gates using non-Abelian anyons.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 10:06
ETH Zurich Details Loss Mechanisms in High-Coherence Resonators
Loss mechanisms in high-coherence multimode mechanical resonators coupled to superconducting circuits are detailed, with research conducted at the Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland and the Quantum Center, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland. Raquel Garcia-Belles and Alexander Anferov contributed equally to this work.
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Loss mechanisms in high-coherence multimode mechanical resonators coupled to superconducting circuits are detailed, with research conducted at the Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland and the Quantum Center, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland. Raquel Garcia-Belles and Alexander Anferov contributed equally to this work.
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Loss mechanisms in high-coherence multimode mechanical resonators coupled to superconducting circuits are detailed, with research conducted at the Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland and the Quantum Center, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 10:03
University of Wisconsin-Madison Maps Paired Electron Crystal
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison mapped a novel crystalline state, finding spin-triplet electron pairs form at low densities.
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This finding points to a basis for local spin-triplet pairing in correlated two-dimensional electron systems with quantum geometry, as the authors detail in their recent analysis of variational states. This is not merely about electron density; it’s about the geometry of the electron’s quantum world.
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison mapped a novel crystalline state, finding spin-triplet electron pairs form at low densities.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 10:01
Researchers Push Quantum Conference Key Agreement (QCKA) Past 20 per cent.
Security of Quantum Conference Key Agreement with Two-Way Classical Communication AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS: Shun Kawakami 1,2 , Mori Watanabe 3 , Takuya Ikuta 4 , Koichi Takasugi 1 1 Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Inc., 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 239-0847, Japan 2 NTT Research Center for Theoretical Quantum Information, NTT Inc., 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0198, Japan 3 Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-0882, Japan 4 Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Inc., 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0198, Japan License: arXiv.org perpetual non-exclusive license [quant-ph] 05 Jul 2026 Security of Quantum Conference Key Agreement with Two-Way Classical Communication Quantum conference key agreement (QCKA) enables multiple users to establish a common secret key with information-theoretic security and is regarded as a key primitive for secure communication in future quantum networks.
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Security of Quantum Conference Key Agreement with Two-Way Classical Communication AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS: Shun Kawakami 1,2 , Mori Watanabe 3 , Takuya Ikuta 4 , Koichi Takasugi 1 1 Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Inc., 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 239-0847, Japan 2 NTT Research Center for Theoretical Quantum Information, NTT Inc.
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Security of Quantum Conference Key Agreement with Two-Way Classical Communication AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS: Shun Kawakami 1,2 , Mori Watanabe 3 , Takuya Ikuta 4 , Koichi Takasugi 1 1 Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT Inc., 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 239-0847, Japan 2 NTT Research Center for Theoretical Quantum Information, NTT Inc., 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0198, Japan 3 Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-0882, Japan 4 Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Inc., 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0198, Japan License: arXiv.org perpetual non-exclusive license [quant-ph] 05 Jul 2026 Security of Quantum Conference Key Agreement with Two-Way Classical Communication Quantum conference key agreement (QCKA) enables multiple users to establish a common secret key with information-theoretic security and is regarded as a key primitive for secure communication in future quantum networks.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 09:50
GNR Sensors Could Monitor Fusion Reactor First Walls Directly
University of Arizona research shows graphene nanoribbons, or GNRs, could function as radiation sensors in fusion reactors, withstanding extreme conditions.
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University of Arizona researchers have demonstrated that graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) maintain functionality even after exposure to intense gamma radiation, a key step toward directly monitoring the extreme conditions within fusion reactors.
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University of Arizona research shows graphene nanoribbons, or GNRs, could function as radiation sensors in fusion reactors, withstanding extreme conditions.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 09:45
F3i Supercomputing Center Supports 14,000 Food Operations
F3 Innovate, Fresno State and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego have launched the F3i Supercomputing Center, a regional innovation platform supporting more than 14,000 farming and food-processing operations across California’s food and agriculture supply chain. The center provides computing power, technical support and talent pathways to accelerate innovation and expand access to advanced computing infrastructure.
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F3i Supercomputing Center Supports 14,000 Food Operations. F3 Innovate, Fresno State and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego have launched the F3i Supercomputing Center, a regional innovation platform supporting more than 14,000 farming and food-processing operations across California’s food and agriculture supply chain.
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The center provides computing power, technical support and talent pathways to accelerate innovation and expand access to advanced computing infrastructure.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 09:43
How Hamamatsu Photonics’ Sensors Enabled 1500+ CMS Papers
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. received an award from CMS & ATLAS, recognizing decades of contributions—their sensor technology enabled physics results in 1500+ publications.
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The award acknowledges the company’s pivotal role in developing advanced technologies for detector systems including the ATLAS Inner Tracker and both the inner and outer trackers for CMS, as well as the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter and MIP Timing Detector for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade project.
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received an award from CMS & ATLAS, recognizing decades of contributions—their sensor technology enabled physics results in 1500+ publications.
Thenextweb
Jul 19, 09:34
Moonshot plans to list in Hong Kong within six months at a $30 billion valuation
Moonshot AI has told investors it is preparing to list in Hong Kong in as soon as six months, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The company has distributed a shareholder resolution seeking backing for the IPO and is wrapping a fundraising round that may value the three-year-old startup at more than $30 billion. Annual recurring revenue […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Moonshot plans to list in Hong Kong within six months at a $30 billion valuation. Moonshot AI has told investors it is preparing to list in Hong Kong in as soon as six months, Bloomberg reported on Saturday.
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Annual recurring revenue […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 09:26
ORNL develops 100× quieter isotopes for domestic quantum computing
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) achieved a breakthrough, producing silane & germane at least 100x more depleted of noise-inducing isotopes than current commercial sources.
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“This advancement has the potential to increase the operability of quantum computers and will help the U.S. be a leader in the quantum technology race,” said Darío Gil , DOE Under Secretary for Science. This achievement addresses a critical limitation in quantum computing, where even minute levels of isotopic noise can disrupt delicate quantum states.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) achieved a breakthrough, producing silane & germane at least 100x more depleted of noise-inducing isotopes than current commercial sources.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 19, 09:17
Researchers 5,564-Qubit Annealer Maps Post-Critical Meson Dynamics of Defects
Researchers used a 5,564-qubit quantum annealer, from D-Wave, to model post-critical meson dynamics following Kibble-Zurek defect creation.
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Researchers have harnessed the power of a 5,564-qubit quantum annealer from D-Wave to model the complex behavior of kink, antikink excitations arising after a quantum phase transition, demonstrating a practical application of large-scale quantum computing beyond theoretical exercises.
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Researchers used a 5,564-qubit quantum annealer, from D-Wave, to model post-critical meson dynamics following Kibble-Zurek defect creation.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 18, 18:43
Russia Quantum Computing Companies 2026: Complete Vendor Guide
Russia quantum computing companies in 2026: Russian Quantum Center, Rosatom Quantum, QRate, Scontel, QApp, SBer Quantum, Moscow State University, ITMO. $790M state initiative.
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Russia’s quantum computing effort is organised around a national Quantum Computing Roadmap that the Rosatom state corporation has coordinated since 2020. The work runs under a national Quantum Computing Roadmap that the Rosatom state corporation has coordinated since 2020, and Rosatom reported total roadmap funding of about 24 billion rubles across 2020 to 2024, with roughly h…
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Russia quantum computing companies in 2026: Russian Quantum Center, Rosatom Quantum, QRate, Scontel, QApp, SBer Quantum, Moscow State University, ITMO.
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 18:32
China is rebuilding the smartphone around AI agents. ZTE’s NaviX sold out in hours.
ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai this week, calling it the world’s first agentic AI smartphone. The device, built under ZTE’s Nubia brand, runs ByteDance’s Doubao AI agent and can be activated by voice or a dedicated button. It comes in four colours and was prototyped in December at […] This story continues at The Next Web
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China is rebuilding the smartphone around AI agents. ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai this week, calling it the world’s first agentic AI smartphone. The device, built under ZTE’s Nubia brand, runs ByteDance’s Doubao AI agent and can be activated by voice or a dedicated button.
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It comes in four colours and was prototyped in December at […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 14:16
France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software
France and Germany pledged on Friday to develop a European alternative to Palantir’s military AI software. A joint declaration signed after talks between Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz committed the two countries to examine “a European sovereign digital backbone” covering data-centric security, AI, and cloud solutions. France’s Arcadia, an AI-powered command-and-control platform, was named as […] This story continues at The Next Web
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France and Germany pledged on Friday to develop a European alternative to Palantir’s military AI software. A joint declaration signed after talks between Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz committed the two countries to examine “a European sovereign digital backbone” covering data-centric security, AI, and cloud solutions.
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France’s Arcadia, an AI-powered command-and-control platform, was named as […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 14:15
The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs
The Trump administration is now dictating which companies and entities get access to frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, CNBC reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Until now, the labs made that decision themselves. Anthropic controlled access to its Mythos cybersecurity model through an initiative called Project Glasswing. OpenAI ran […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs. The Trump administration is now dictating which companies and entities get access to frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, CNBC reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Until now, the labs made that decision themselves.
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OpenAI ran […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 14:14
Chinese car sales in the UK jumped from 384 in 2015 to 285,000 last year. The tariff gap explains why.
Brits bought 384 Chinese-made vehicles in 2015. Last year, they bought 285,000, according to automotive consulting firm Mobility Global. The growth is accelerating. BYD nearly doubled its UK sales in the first half of 2026 to over 37,000 units, and Chinese brands collectively hold roughly 13% of new car registrations in Britain, double their share […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Chinese car sales in the UK jumped from 384 in 2015 to 285,000 last year. Brits bought 384 Chinese-made vehicles in 2015. Last year, they bought 285,000, according to automotive consulting firm Mobility Global.
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BYD nearly doubled its UK sales in the first half of 2026 to over 37,000 units, and Chinese brands collectively hold roughly 13% of new car registrations in Britain, double their share […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 14:12
Nebius raised $775 million by borrowing against its GPUs. It has $40 billion more contracts to securitise.
Nebius raised $775 million in its first secured debt facility, borrowing against deployed GPU infrastructure and contracted cash flows from an investment-grade customer. The facility matures on October 31, 2030, and is priced at SOFR + 2.50%, roughly 6.8% at current rates. Together with the customer agreement’s cash flows, the facility covers more than 100% […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Nebius raised $775 million by borrowing against its GPUs. Nebius raised $775 million in its first secured debt facility, borrowing against deployed GPU infrastructure and contracted cash flows from an investment-grade customer. The facility matures on October 31, 2030, and is priced at SOFR + 2.50%, roughly 6.8% at current rates.
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Together with the customer agreement’s cash flows, the facility covers more than 100% […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 13:45
Meta patented an AI system that listens to your voice all day and tracks your mood
Meta has been granted a patent for an AI system that continuously records a user’s voice, transcribes it, and feeds the audio through a machine learning model to detect their emotional state. The patent, published on July 2, describes a device that listens for “audible communications” including sighs, laughter, and vocal tone, and combines them […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Meta patented an AI system that listens to your voice all day and tracks your mood. Meta has been granted a patent for an AI system that continuously records a user’s voice, transcribes it, and feeds the audio through a machine learning model to detect their emotional state.
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The patent, published on July 2, describes a device that listens for “audible communications” including sighs, laughter, and vocal tone, and combines them […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 12:44
Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.
Kevin O’Leary is making the golf course argument again. The “Shark Tank” investor, whose 40,000-acre Stratos data centre project in Utah sparked protests and a governor’s executive order, told Business Insider that AI data centres consume far less water than America’s golf courses. The comparison is technically correct today. The Golf Course Superintendents Association of […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The “Shark Tank” investor, whose 40,000-acre Stratos data centre project in Utah sparked protests and a governor’s executive order, told Business Insider that AI data centres consume far less water than America’s golf courses. The Golf Course Superintendents Association of […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The Golf Course Superintendents Association of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 12:23
Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips. The move is designed to lower migration barriers for developers currently locked into Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem. T-Head said programmers can adapt SAIL to mainstream […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in. Alibaba’s chip design unit T-Head announced at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday that it is open-sourcing SAIL, the full software stack for its Zhenwu series of AI chips.
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T-Head said programmers can adapt SAIL to mainstream […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 18, 10:57
Guest Post: Patentability of Quantum Computing Inventions
Guest Post by Sinan Utku, Bilkent University Law School (Ankara); J.D. (Columbia University Law School) and Ph.D. (Yale University, physics) The field of quantum computing is poised to advance dramatically in the near future. If expected advances actually occur, many problems that classical computing technologies cannot feasibly solve may become tractable. Given that the field […]
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Guest Post: Patentability of Quantum Computing Inventions. (Columbia University Law School) and Ph.D. (Yale University, physics) The field of quantum computing is poised to advance dramatically in the near future. If expected advances actually occur, many problems that classical computing technologies cannot feasibly solve may become tractable. Given that the field […]
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Guest Post by Sinan Utku, Bilkent University Law School (Ankara); J.D.
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 10:07
A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.
Raidium, a Paris and Silicon Valley-based radiology startup, has launched its AI-native imaging platform in the US at Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the country’s leading oncology research institutions. The platform, called Raidium Read, replaced Moffitt’s legacy radiomics applications and is currently available for clinical trials and research use. FDA 510(k) clearance is expected before […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.. Raidium, a Paris and Silicon Valley-based radiology startup, has launched its AI-native imaging platform in the US at Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the country’s leading oncology research institutions.
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FDA 510(k) clearance is expected before […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 18, 10:02
Luxembourg Quantum Computing Companies 2026: Complete Vendor Guide
Luxembourg quantum computing companies in 2026: the leading vendors, startups and research institutes building Luxembourg's quantum ecosystem, profiled in depth.
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The leading luxembourg quantum computing companies and institutions in 2026 form an infrastructure-led ecosystem, organised around national computing and communication infrastructure rather than around startups.
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Luxembourg quantum computing companies in 2026: the leading vendors, startups and research institutes building Luxembourg's quantum ecosystem, profiled in depth.
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 09:42
Cybercriminals released 802,000 stolen accounts in one day during the World Cup group stage
More than 12 million compromised streaming accounts tied to World Cup broadcasts are circulating on the dark web, representing nearly $220 million in potential black-market sales. The findings come from HUMAN Security’s Satori Threat Intelligence team, which tracked accounts across 10 streaming services carrying tournament matches. On June 27, the final day of the group […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Cybercriminals released 802,000 stolen accounts in one day during the World Cup group stage. More than 12 million compromised streaming accounts tied to World Cup broadcasts are circulating on the dark web, representing nearly $220 million in potential black-market sales.
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On June 27, the final day of the group […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 09:05
Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking
Face AI, a Los Angeles-based face swap platform, announced a major update to its video face swap feature on Friday. The update improves facial tracking, expression preservation, and scene stability across changing lighting, camera angles, and partial face occlusions like glasses and hats. Queued videos now process in under a minute. The tool targets social […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking. Face AI, a Los Angeles-based face swap platform, announced a major update to its video face swap feature on Friday. The tool targets social […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The tool targets social […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 18, 09:00
What Are qLDPC Codes?
qLDPC codes promise the same quantum error correction for a tenth of the qubits. How sparse checks, IBM's gross code and the new decoders actually work.
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What Are qLDPC Codes?. qLDPC codes promise the same quantum error correction for a tenth of the qubits. How sparse checks, IBM's gross code and the new decoders actually work.
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qLDPC codes promise the same quantum error correction for a tenth of the qubits.
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 08:34
Jensen Huang’s leather jacket sold for $960,000 at Sotheby’s, 96 times its retail price
One of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s signature black Tom Ford leather jackets sold at Sotheby’s on Friday for $960,000 after 65 bids from 45 collectors. The pre-sale estimate was $40,000 to $60,000. The jacket retails for just under $10,000. Huang wore it in 2023 at a Foxconn event in Taipei and signed it for the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Jensen Huang’s leather jacket sold for $960,000 at Sotheby’s, 96 times its retail price. The pre-sale estimate was $40,000 to $60,000. The jacket retails for just under $10,000.
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Huang wore it in 2023 at a Foxconn event in Taipei and signed it for the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 08:14
Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed
On August 2, 1959, Pelé scored what he called the greatest goal of his career: three consecutive sombreros over defenders, a knee flick past the goalkeeper, and a header into the net, all without the ball ever touching the ground. It was never filmed. For 67 years, the “Gol da Rua Javari” existed only in […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed. On August 2, 1959, Pelé scored what he called the greatest goal of his career: three consecutive sombreros over defenders, a knee flick past the goalkeeper, and a header into the net, all without the ball ever touching the ground.
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For 67 years, the “Gol da Rua Javari” existed only in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 07:53
Xpeng debuted its flying car in Germany. It has 7,000 orders and a factory that can build 10,000 a year.
Xpeng debuted the Land Aircraft Carrier at a launch event in Munich on Wednesday, the first time the Chinese automaker has shown its modular flying car outside Asia. The vehicle is a six-wheeled ground unit, called the Mothership, with a detachable two-seat eVTOL flight module that stows in the back. The six-rotor flying module uses […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Xpeng debuted its flying car in Germany. It has 7,000 orders and a factory that can build 10,000 a year.. Xpeng debuted the Land Aircraft Carrier at a launch event in Munich on Wednesday, the first time the Chinese automaker has shown its modular flying car outside Asia.
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The six-rotor flying module uses […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 07:38
Apple raised iPhone 17 prices by 10% in Japan as the yen hovers near a four-decade low
Apple raised the price of the iPhone 17 in Japan by roughly 10%, with the entry-level 256GB model now starting at ¥142,800 ($879), up from ¥129,800 previously, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The iPhone 17 Pro with the same storage rose 8.3% to ¥194,800. Apple Watch and AirPods models also increased by up to 10%. Apple’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Apple raised iPhone 17 prices by 10% in Japan as the yen hovers near a four-decade low. Apple raised the price of the iPhone 17 in Japan by roughly 10%, with the entry-level 256GB model now starting at ¥142,800 ($879), up from ¥129,800 previously, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. Apple’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Apple’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 07:30
TSMC posted record $40 billion revenue. Its stock fell 4%. Investors are no longer buying the AI spending story on faith.
TSMC posted record second-quarter revenue of over $40 billion, up 36% year on year, with net income rising 77%. The result should have been a triumph. Instead, shares fell 4%, dragging the Nasdaq 100 down 1.4% on Thursday and compounding losses from the day before. The problem was not the earnings but the spending. TSMC […] This story continues at The Next Web
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TSMC posted record $40 billion revenue. Investors are no longer buying the AI spending story on faith.. TSMC posted record second-quarter revenue of over $40 billion, up 36% year on year, with net income rising 77%.
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TSMC […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 18, 07:19
Spanish satellite startup Sateliot wants €150 million to beam 5G directly to smartphones from orbit
Sateliot, a Barcelona-based satellite startup, is seeking to raise up to €150 million ($172 million), a 50% increase from the €100 million round it announced in April. The company operates a network of low-Earth orbit satellites and plans to use the funding to deploy 16 more over the next year. By early 2028, it expects […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Spanish satellite startup Sateliot wants €150 million to beam 5G directly to smartphones from orbit. Sateliot, a Barcelona-based satellite startup, is seeking to raise up to €150 million ($172 million), a 50% increase from the €100 million round it announced in April.
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By early 2028, it expects […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 18, 05:57
Distributed Cloning Cuts Entanglement Fidelity by [c] to the Nth Power
Broadcasting multipartite entanglement faces limits—fidelity decays exponentially with system size as [c]N, revealed through a protocol using 1/2 cloning via beam-splitters.
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Researchers Pritam Roy, William John Munro, and Shashank Gupta have established operational limits on the broadcasting of genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) in quantum networks. The results reveal a trade-off between broadcasting entanglement and its operational certifiability, and delineate intrinsic limits on entanglement distribution in quantum networks.
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Broadcasting multipartite entanglement faces limits—fidelity decays exponentially with system size as [c]N, revealed through a protocol using 1/2 cloning via beam-splitters.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 18, 05:55
Binary Gauss Stabilizers Simplify Quantum Error Correction Without Extra Qubits
Gauge theories and quantum error-correcting codes share a common structure, both utilizing constraints to define a subspace of the Hilbert space—stabilizers in error correction, and Gauss law in gauge theories. This work introduces binary Gauss stabilizers, an alternative to Gauss operators, to build practical error-correcting codes without adding extra qubits.
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Gauge theories and quantum error-correcting codes share a common structure, both utilizing constraints to define a subspace of the Hilbert space—stabilizers in error correction, and Gauss law in gauge theories. This work introduces binary Gauss stabilizers, an alternative to Gauss operators, to build practical error-correcting codes without adding extra qubits.
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Gauge theories and quantum error-correcting codes share a common structure, both utilizing constraints to define a subspace of the Hilbert space—stabilizers in error correction, and Gauss law in gauge theories.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 18, 05:51
How Yokohama National University Maps Grover Walk Robustness
Yokohama National University researchers study the effect of magnetic vector potentials on periodic Grover walks on finite graphs, regarding the vector potential as a perturbation of a periodic Grover walk and investigating the robustness of its periodicity. Analysis reveals the response to perturbations depends on the spectral structure of the underlying graph, with a Hermitian matrix characterizing robustness when the graph possesses at least one non-simple eigenvalue.
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Yokohama National University researchers study the effect of magnetic vector potentials on periodic Grover walks on finite graphs, regarding the vector potential as a perturbation of a periodic Grover walk and investigating the robustness of its periodicity.
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Yokohama National University researchers study the effect of magnetic vector potentials on periodic Grover walks on finite graphs, regarding the vector potential as a perturbation of a periodic Grover walk and investigating the robustness of its periodicity.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 18, 05:43
Hyperentangled Photons Remotely Implement Hybrid Quantum Operations
This research details a quantum remote control protocol using two-qubit hyperentangled states, leveraging polarization & spatial degrees of freedom.
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Satish Kumar of the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) Mohali and Anirban Pathak of the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology have demonstrated a new quantum remote implementation protocol leveraging a unique approach to entanglement.
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This research details a quantum remote control protocol using two-qubit hyperentangled states, leveraging polarization & spatial degrees of freedom.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 21:37
South Korea Quantum Computing Companies 2026: Complete Vendor Guide
South Korea quantum computing companies in 2026: SDT, Norma, Korea Quantum Computing, Qunova, EYL, SK Telecom, Samsung SDS. Korea's national quantum strategy.
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South Korea quantum computing companies in 2026: SDT, Norma, Korea Quantum Computing, Qunova, EYL, SK Telecom, Samsung SDS. Korea's national quantum strategy.
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South Korea quantum computing companies in 2026: SDT, Norma, Korea Quantum Computing, Qunova, EYL, SK Telecom, Samsung SDS.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 20:13
Apple overtakes Nvidia to reclaim the title of world’s most valuable company at $4.88 trillion
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company for the first time since April 2025. Apple closed at roughly $4.88 trillion as its shares held steady, while Nvidia fell 3.5% to approximately $4.86 trillion. Nvidia had held the top spot for nearly a year after becoming the first company to surpass […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Apple overtakes Nvidia to reclaim the title of world’s most valuable company at $4.88 trillion. Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company for the first time since April 2025. Apple closed at roughly $4.88 trillion as its shares held steady, while Nvidia fell 3.5% to approximately $4.86 trillion.
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Nvidia had held the top spot for nearly a year after becoming the first company to surpass […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 17, 19:21
FastFlowLM Joins AMD to Advance AI Inference
July 17, 2026 — Recently, the FastFlowLM team joined AMD, marking another key step in AMD’s strategy to advance AI performance and efficiency across the stack. FastFlowLM developed a lightweight, highly optimized inference software flow that delivers fast, efficient large language and multimodal model performance directly on AMD technology-powered AI PCs and workstations. FastFlowLM was […] The post FastFlowLM Joins AMD to Advance AI Inference appeared first on HPCwire .
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FastFlowLM Joins AMD to Advance AI Inference. July 17, 2026 — Recently, the FastFlowLM team joined AMD, marking another key step in AMD’s strategy to advance AI performance and efficiency across the stack.
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FastFlowLM was […] The post FastFlowLM Joins AMD to Advance AI Inference appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 19:14
Apple is in early settlement talks with the DOJ over its iPhone antitrust case
Apple and the US Department of Justice are in early discussions about settling the 2024 antitrust lawsuit that alleges Apple violated competition law through its iPhone ecosystem, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Apple has made multiple offers this year to close the case. The discussions are active but there is no guarantee of an agreement, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Apple is in early settlement talks with the DOJ over its iPhone antitrust case. Apple and the US Department of Justice are in early discussions about settling the 2024 antitrust lawsuit that alleges Apple violated competition law through its iPhone ecosystem, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Apple has made multiple offers this year to close the case.
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The discussions are active but there is no guarantee of an agreement, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 17, 19:08
NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads
July 17, 2026 — Think of a professional athlete. What separates elite performers is what happens between games: continuous refinement, adjusting to new opponents and sharpening skills based on what the last game exposed. Agentic AI works the same way. A model is no longer asked for an answer. It’s given a goal and has to […] The post NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads appeared first on HPCwire .
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads. Agentic AI works the same way. It’s given a goal and has to […] The post NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 17, 2026 — Think of a professional athlete.
Hpcwire
Jul 17, 19:00
Cadence and Rapidus Partner on Agentic AI for Advanced SoC Design
Collaboration combines Rapidus’ AI-Agentic Design Solution with Cadence InnoStack AI Super Agent to target up to a 2X acceleration of design turnaround times TOKYO and SAN JOSE, Calif., July 17, 2026 — Rapidus Corporation and Cadence today announced a collaboration to advance agentic AI for advanced-node system-on-chip (SoC) design by integrating the Cadence InnoStack AI […] The post Cadence and Rapidus Partner on Agentic AI for Advanced SoC Design appeared first on HPCwire .
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The joint effort combines Rapidus’ AI-native design and manufacturing ecosystem for advanced-node semiconductors with Cadence’s agentic AI design orchestration technology to help design teams improve productivity, accelerate time to market and enhance design quality across the SoC design lifecycle.
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Collaboration combines Rapidus’ AI-Agentic Design Solution with Cadence InnoStack AI Super Agent to target up to a 2X acceleration of design turnaround times TOKYO and SAN JOSE, Calif., July 17, 2026 — Rapidus Corporation and Cadence today announced a collaboration to advance agentic AI for advanced-node system-on-chip (SoC) design by integrating the Cadence InnoStack AI […] The post Cadence and Rapidus Partner on Agentic AI for Advanced SoC Design appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 18:55
Tesla made a $225 balance bike for toddlers. It has no motor, no pedals, and is already sold out.
Tesla launched a $225 balance bike for children aged 2 to 5. It has no motor, no pedals, no brakes, and is powered entirely by toddler legs. The lightweight white magnesium frame comes with a five-way adjustable seat, the Tesla wordmark on the side, and the T logo on the front. It sold out immediately, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Tesla launched a $225 balance bike for children aged 2 to 5. It has no motor, no pedals, no brakes, and is powered entirely by toddler legs. The lightweight white magnesium frame comes with a five-way adjustable seat, the Tesla wordmark on the side, and the T logo on the front.
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It sold out immediately, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 18:36
Microsoft will stop syncing OneDrive on older Windows 10 versions next month
Microsoft will end OneDrive synchronisation support for Windows 10 versions before 22H2 on August 15. After that date, users on older builds will receive no more sync app updates, bug fixes, or security patches. The service itself will not immediately stop working, but Microsoft says “future functionality is not guaranteed.” Windows 10 22H2, the final […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Microsoft will stop syncing OneDrive on older Windows 10 versions next month. Microsoft will end OneDrive synchronisation support for Windows 10 versions before 22H2 on August 15. After that date, users on older builds will receive no more sync app updates, bug fixes, or security patches.
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The service itself will not immediately stop working, but Microsoft says “future functionality is not guaranteed.” Windows 10 22H2, the final […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 18:21
An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
AWS users woke up Friday to find estimated billing emails showing charges ranging from hundreds of millions to $2.5 trillion. A unit pricing error in the AWS Billing Console’s estimated billing computation subsystem was the cause, Amazon confirmed. One Reddit user whose charges totalled $0.19 last month received an estimated bill of nearly $2.5 billion. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion. AWS users woke up Friday to find estimated billing emails showing charges ranging from hundreds of millions to $2.5 trillion. A unit pricing error in the AWS Billing Console’s estimated billing computation subsystem was the cause, Amazon confirmed.
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Thenextweb
Jul 17, 18:01
Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta
Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a deal worth about $10 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday. CNBC confirmed the early-stage discussions. The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a $1.25 billion-per-month arrangement with SpaceX to use the Colossus 1 data centre’s Nvidia GPUs. The deal […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta. Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a deal worth about $10 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday. The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a $1.25 billion-per-month arrangement with SpaceX to use the Colossus 1 data centre’s Nvidia GPUs.
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The deal […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 17:39
The Pentagon froze 155 wind projects in 24 states, claiming drones can hide in wind farms
The Pentagon has frozen the permitting process for at least 155 new wind projects in 24 states for nearly a year, citing concerns that drones can hide among wind turbines and evade radar detection. The affected projects have a combined capacity of 44 gigawatts, four times the generation capacity of the offshore wind projects the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The Pentagon froze 155 wind projects in 24 states, claiming drones can hide in wind farms. The Pentagon has frozen the permitting process for at least 155 new wind projects in 24 states for nearly a year, citing concerns that drones can hide among wind turbines and evade radar detection.
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The affected projects have a combined capacity of 44 gigawatts, four times the generation capacity of the offshore wind projects the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 17:19
Palantir’s CEO predicts AI will make him 20x richer while middle-class workers get modest raises
Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him “20x wealthier,“ implying a fortune approaching $300 billion, up from roughly $15 billion today. Middle-class workers, he said, might simply see their salaries double over the next decade. Karp called the disparity “a complete decoupling of unimaginable wealth and normal wealth” and said it is […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Palantir’s CEO predicts AI will make him 20x richer while middle-class workers get modest raises. Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him “20x wealthier,“ implying a fortune approaching $300 billion, up from roughly $15 billion today. Middle-class workers, he said, might simply see their salaries double over the next decade.
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Karp called the disparity “a complete decoupling of unimaginable wealth and normal wealth” and said it is […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 17, 17:05
Digital Catapult Advances Industry Quantum Adoption with New QTAP Cohort
July 17, 2026 — Digital Catapult has welcomed eleven leading organizations to the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP), delivered in collaboration with the National Quantum Computing Centre’s (NQCC) SparQ program. Designed to accelerate the practical application of quantum innovation in industry, the cohort includes NatWest, the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), […] The post Digital Catapult Advances Industry Quantum Adoption with New QTAP Cohort appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 17, 2026 — Digital Catapult has welcomed eleven leading organizations to the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP), delivered in collaboration with the National Quantum Computing Centre’s (NQCC) SparQ program.
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July 17, 2026 — Digital Catapult has welcomed eleven leading organizations to the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP), delivered in collaboration with the National Quantum Computing Centre’s (NQCC) SparQ program.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 16:52
Trump’s AI advisor says Kimi K3 shows “how you lose the AI race.” Khosla blames immigration. Marcus wants a congressional investigation.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol. It placed third on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index. The reaction from Washington, Wall Street, and academia was swift and pointed. TNW covered the model’s capabilities at launch, but the political and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Trump’s AI advisor says Kimi K3 shows “how you lose the AI race.” Khosla blames immigration. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol. It placed third on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index.
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TNW covered the model’s capabilities at launch, but the political and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 16:16
Amazon’s Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one drove into heavy smoke at an active fire scene
Amazon’s Zoox voluntarily recalled software in 105 of its robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle drove into heavy smoke at an active emergency fire scene in Las Vegas on June 20. The smoke obscured the scene, which had not been cordoned off with cones. The vehicle entered, braked hard while attempting to steer away, and came […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Amazon’s Zoox recalls 105 robotaxis after one drove into heavy smoke at an active fire scene. Amazon’s Zoox voluntarily recalled software in 105 of its robotaxis after an unoccupied vehicle drove into heavy smoke at an active emergency fire scene in Las Vegas on June 20. The smoke obscured the scene, which had not been cordoned off with cones.
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The vehicle entered, braked hard while attempting to steer away, and came […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 15:56
China will tax lithium and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, but sodium batteries stay exempt
China will impose a consumption tax on lithium-ion and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, marking a policy shift as Beijing seeks to rein in overcapacity and destructive price wars in industries it spent years subsidising into global dominance. A 2% tax on lithium-ion batteries takes effect this September, rising to 4% […] This story continues at The Next Web
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China will tax lithium and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, but sodium batteries stay exempt. China will impose a consumption tax on lithium-ion and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, marking a policy shift as Beijing seeks to rein in overcapacity and destructive price wars in industries it spent years subsidising into global dominance.
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A 2% tax on lithium-ion batteries takes effect this September, rising to 4% […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 15:35
ASML will give every employee a €20,000 bonus as AI demand drives record sales
ASML will give all employees globally a one-time €20,000 ($22,862) share award, the company confirmed on Friday. The bonus vests on January 1, 2030, for staff who remain with the company for the entire period. About 45,000 people work at Europe’s most valuable company. The payout joins a wave of AI-boom bonuses across the chip […] This story continues at The Next Web
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ASML will give every employee a €20,000 bonus as AI demand drives record sales. ASML will give all employees globally a one-time €20,000 ($22,862) share award, the company confirmed on Friday. About 45,000 people work at Europe’s most valuable company.
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The payout joins a wave of AI-boom bonuses across the chip […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 17, 15:02
Southeastern Quantum Collaborative to Convene 1st Regional Quantum Colloquium
July 17, 2026 — The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, will host the inaugural Southeastern Quantum Collaborative (SQC) Colloquium on Monday, Augus…
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Southeastern Quantum Collaborative to Convene 1st Regional Quantum Colloquium. The event will bring together leaders from academia, industry and government to explore the future of quantum science and technology.
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The gathering will highlight the growing role of quantum technologies in national security, aerospace, advanced manufacturing and workforce development while showcasing the Southeast’s emergence as a center for quantum innovation.
Hpcwire
Jul 17, 15:00
Chelsio Launches AI Interconnect Platform with 400Gb RDMA for Next-Gen Data Center, Storage, and AI Infrastructure
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 17, 2026 — Chelsio Communications, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters and ASICs, has announced its seventh-generation AI Interconnect Platform, comprising SmartNICs, Storage Controllers, and Data Processing Units (DPUs). Built on Chelsio seventh-generation Unified Wire architecture, the platform delivers native 400Gb Ethernet, Unified RDMA (iWARP and RoCEv2), storage […] The post Chelsio Launches AI Interconnect Platform with 400Gb RDMA for Next-Gen Data Center, Storage, and AI Infrastructure appeared first on HPCwire .
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 17, 2026 — Chelsio Communications, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters and ASICs, has announced its seventh-generation AI Interconnect Platform, comprising SmartNICs, Storage Controllers, and Data Processing Units (DPUs).
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 17, 2026 — Chelsio Communications, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance Ethernet Unified Wire Adapters and ASICs, has announced its seventh-generation AI Interconnect Platform, comprising SmartNICs, Storage Controllers, and Data Processing Units (DPUs).
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 14:46
While everyone builds chatbots, SAP just closed a €1bn-plus bet on AI that understands your spreadsheets
The AI industry is obsessed with models that write and talk. SAP has just completed a large bet on a different kind entirely, one built for structured data, as its acquisition of Prior Labs closed. The deal is now done, with regulatory approvals secured and the Freiburg-based lab operating inside SAP. The German software giant is […] This story continues at The Next Web
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While everyone builds chatbots, SAP just closed a €1bn-plus bet on AI that understands your spreadsheets. The AI industry is obsessed with models that write and talk. SAP has just completed a large bet on a different kind entirely, one built for structured data, as its acquisition of Prior Labs closed.
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The German software giant is […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 14:35
Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.
A healthcare AI startup has raised fresh funding to push AI agents deeper into hospital operations. Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m, HIT Consultant reports. The pitch is a platform, not a product. Its Carebricks system lets health systems build and run their own AI agents, rather […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. A healthcare AI startup has raised fresh funding to push AI agents deeper into hospital operations. Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m, HIT Consultant reports.
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Its Carebricks system lets health systems build and run their own AI agents, rather […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 14:20
The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres
While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, Bloomberg reports. The plan is a secondary listing on top of its existing Shenzhen shares. It […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres. While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, Bloomberg reports.
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It […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 17, 14:19
Los Alamos to Begin Testing NVIDIA Vera CPU for Mission and Vision Supercomputers
July 17, 2026 — Last fall, Los Alamos National Laboratory unveiled plans for two new supercomputers, Mission and Vision, built by HPE and powered by the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. This summer, the first Vera CPU server arrives at Los Alamos for installation in a test bed, the result of an ongoing, rigorous codesign collaboration between […] The post Los Alamos to Begin Testing NVIDIA Vera CPU for Mission and Vision Supercomputers appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 17, 2026 — Last fall, Los Alamos National Laboratory unveiled plans for two new supercomputers, Mission and Vision, built by HPE and powered by the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. This summer, the first Vera CPU server arrives at Los Alamos for installation in a test bed, the result of an ongoing, rigorous codesign collaboration between […] The post Los Alamos to Begin Testin…
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July 17, 2026 — Last fall, Los Alamos National Laboratory unveiled plans for two new supercomputers, Mission and Vision, built by HPE and powered by the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 17, 14:00
QTREX Quantum Appoints Dr. Shlomit Chappel-Ram as Independent Director
Insider Brief Press release – QTREX Quantum Ltd. (Nasdaq: QTEX) (“QTREX” or the “Company”), a company focused on advancing Additively Manufactured Electronics (“AME”) for quantum computing infrastructure, today announced that on July 14, 2026, its Board of Directors (the “Board”) appointed Dr. Shlomit Chappel-Ram as an independent director, effective immediately. Dr. Chappel-Ram previously served as […]
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QTREX Quantum Appoints Dr. Shlomit Chappel-Ram as Independent Director. (Nasdaq: QTEX) (“QTREX” or the “Company”), a company focused on advancing Additively Manufactured Electronics (“AME”) for quantum computing infrastructure, today announced that on July 14, 2026, its Board of Directors (the “Board”) appointed Dr.
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Insider Brief Press release – QTREX Quantum Ltd.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 14:00
A Chinese open-source model just triggered another AI selloff. The panic says more about US spending than about Kimi.
A new Chinese AI model has rattled global markets, sending tech and chip stocks sharply lower. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 surprised investors and helped fuel a broad selloff, Bloomberg reports. Traders quickly labelled it a “Kimi moment”, echoing the DeepSeek shock of early 2025. The comparison is doing a lot of work, and not all of it […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A Chinese open-source model just triggered another AI selloff. The panic says more about US spending than about Kimi.. A new Chinese AI model has rattled global markets, sending tech and chip stocks sharply lower.
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The comparison is doing a lot of work, and not all of it […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 17, 13:50
Top 25 Institutions Leading Quantum Computing Research in 2026
Insider Brief Somewhere between a lab in Innsbruck and a national facility in Tennessee, the next generation of fault-tolerant quantum hardware is being built. It does not look like the quantum computing of conference keynotes. It looks like ion traps, cryogenic chambers, optical tweezers, and researchers who have spent years on the same problem. That […]
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Top 25 Institutions Leading Quantum Computing Research in 2026. It does not look like the quantum computing of conference keynotes. It looks like ion traps, cryogenic chambers, optical tweezers, and researchers who have spent years on the same problem.
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Insider Brief Somewhere between a lab in Innsbruck and a national facility in Tennessee, the next generation of fault-tolerant quantum hardware is being built.
Hpcwire
Jul 17, 13:29
LLNL Combines HPC and Machine Learning to Accelerate Battery Design
July 17, 2026 — For grid-scale energy storage and national energy resilience, the U.S. needs better batteries. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are tackling that challenge in many ways, but one approach is making a significant impact: physics-informed machine learning. In two recent publications, LLNL researchers examined how integrating molecular dynamics simulations with physics-informed machine […] The post LLNL Combines HPC and Machine Learning to Accelerate Battery Design appeared first on HPCwire .
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LLNL Combines HPC and Machine Learning to Accelerate Battery Design. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are tackling that challenge in many ways, but one approach is making a significant impact: physics-informed machine learning.
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July 17, 2026 — For grid-scale energy storage and national energy resilience, the U.S.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 13:21
Why an AI browser might become part of your everyday life
The browser you already use every day is learning how to help you get things done. On a typical evening, you might have twenty tabs open comparing two mattresses, a half-written message to your landlord, and a recipe you keep scrolling back to. Sound familiar? You’re not alone, and you’re not disorganized. Traditional browsers were never […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Why an AI browser might become part of your everyday life. The browser you already use every day is learning how to help you get things done. On a typical evening, you might have twenty tabs open comparing two mattresses, a half-written message to your landlord, and a recipe you keep scrolling back to.
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Traditional browsers were never […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 17, 13:15
Siemens and Cloudberry VC Collaborate to Accelerate European Deep-Tech Innovation
PLANO, Texas, July 17, 2026 — Siemens has announced a collaboration between Siemens Cre8Ventures and Cloudberry VC to help accelerate commercialization of Europe’s sovereign deep-tech innovation ecosystem and to further strengthen European industrial resilience and supply chains. The collaboration brings together the industrial validation and customer access capabilities of Siemens Cre8Ventures with Cloudberry VC’s venture capital […] The post Siemens and Cloudberry VC Collaborate to Accelerate European Deep-Tech Innovation appeared first on HPCwire .
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PLANO, Texas, July 17, 2026 — Siemens has announced a collaboration between Siemens Cre8Ventures and Cloudberry VC to help accelerate commercialization of Europe’s sovereign deep-tech innovation ecosystem and to further strengthen European industrial resilience and supply chains.
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PLANO, Texas, July 17, 2026 — Siemens has announced a collaboration between Siemens Cre8Ventures and Cloudberry VC to help accelerate commercialization of Europe’s sovereign deep-tech innovation ecosystem and to further strengthen European industrial resilience and supply chains.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 13:13
Physics Professor Goldschmidt Takes Helm of IQUIST After 2024 Role
Elizabeth Goldschmidt, an Associate Professor in Physics and IQUIST’s Associate Director since 2024, will lead the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center.
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Elizabeth Goldschmidt, already serving as Associate Director, has been named the next Director of the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST), indicating a planned succession in quantum research.
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Elizabeth Goldschmidt, an Associate Professor in Physics and IQUIST’s Associate Director since 2024, will lead the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 13:06
LDGM Codes Boost Quantum Error Correction with Graph Decoding
Researchers constructed new CSS codes using Low-Density Generator Matrix (LDGM) codes, improving quantum error correction via graph decoding and discrete Density Evolution.
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Yumin Li and colleagues are constructing a new family of Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes by leveraging Low-Density Generator Matrix (LDGM) codes, a technique combining established code types to improve quantum error correction.
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Researchers constructed new CSS codes using Low-Density Generator Matrix (LDGM) codes, improving quantum error correction via graph decoding and discrete Density Evolution.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 13:01
Quantum Processor Shares Mixed Phase Space Without Classical Analog
Researchers revealed a quantum many-body system exhibiting dynamics akin to classical chaos, stabilizing regular trajectories via hybrid feedback control.
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A superconducting quantum processor has revealed a quantum many-body mixed phase space, a surprising discovery because this behavior lacks a direct analogue in classical or few-body quantum systems.
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Researchers revealed a quantum many-body system exhibiting dynamics akin to classical chaos, stabilizing regular trajectories via hybrid feedback control.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 13:01
pQCee Secures $3.9M to Grow US, Europe, Middle East Reach
pQCee raised US$3.9 million in Seed funding, building on a prior $2.8M raise, to expand quantum-safe cybersecurity reach into the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
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pQCee has secured US$3.9 million in Seed funding, demonstrating continued investor confidence in the rapidly developing market for quantum-safe cybersecurity following a US$2.8 million raise in 2022. These solutions mitigate quantum threats, a proactive approach to a rapidly evolving risk landscape.
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pQCee raised US$3.9 million in Seed funding, building on a prior $2.8M raise, to expand quantum-safe cybersecurity reach into the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 13:00
CETQAP’s PkTron 9.0.6 Supports Full Qiskit C-API Compatibility
PkTron 9.0.6 now supports the Qiskit C-API via its QkDag interface, enabling advanced compiler optimizations, and hardware-aware compilation with CouplingMap.
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CETQAP has released version 9.0.6 of PkTron, its advanced quantum computing framework, offering new capabilities focused on enterprise-grade compilation and runtime performance. PkTron’s latest release, version 9.0.6, delivers a substantial overhaul of its quantum compilation capabilities, prioritizing both speed and hardware awareness for developers.
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PkTron 9.0.6 now supports the Qiskit C-API via its QkDag interface, enabling advanced compiler optimizations, and hardware-aware compilation with CouplingMap.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 17, 12:31
Tennessee Launches K-12 Quantum Education Program Through TN QuantumWorks
Insider Brief Press release – As quantum technology reshapes industries ranging from cybersecurity and advanced manufacturing to healthcare, logistics, finance, energy and artificial intelligence, Tennessee is taking a bold step to prepare its future workforce. Today, the Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative (CQC) announced the launch of TN QuantumWorks, a K–12 quantum technology and career awareness initiative […]
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Tennessee Launches K-12 Quantum Education Program Through TN QuantumWorks. Insider Brief Press release – As quantum technology reshapes industries ranging from cybersecurity and advanced manufacturing to healthcare, logistics, finance, energy and artificial intelligence, Tennessee is taking a bold step to prepare its future workforce.
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Today, the Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative (CQC) announced the launch of TN QuantumWorks, a K–12 quantum technology and career awareness initiative […]
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 12:09
China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind
Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported. BrainCo calls its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported. BrainCo calls its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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BrainCo calls its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 11:48
From Bitcoin trading to financial super apps: what nine years of Binance reveal about crypto exchange evolution
Nine years later, Binance serves more than 316 million users across trading, payments, savings, tokenized securities, and traditional asset access. Its evolution from a spot cryptocurrency exchange into an integrated financial platform closely mirrors the broader maturation of the centralized exchange industry itself. A recent CoinDesk Research case study traces that transformation through five distinct phases, illustrating how […] This story continues at The Next Web
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From Bitcoin trading to financial super apps: what nine years of Binance reveal about crypto exchange evolution. Nine years later, Binance serves more than 316 million users across trading, payments, savings, tokenized securities, and traditional asset access.
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A recent CoinDesk Research case study traces that transformation through five distinct phases, illustrating how […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 11:43
Aldo Romero Explores The Physics of Entanglement That Persist Across Vast Distances
In quantum entanglement, observing one particle reveals information about its pair, even across vast distances—a phenomenon Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.” This occurs because particles explore every possible path until measured.
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Scientists are revealing that, at the atomic scale, light doesn’t follow a single path but explores every path available to it simultaneously, including improbable detours, before a measurement determines the observed outcome.
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In quantum entanglement, observing one particle reveals information about its pair, even across vast distances—a phenomenon Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.” This occurs because particles explore every possible path until measured.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 11:43
a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents
AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round, which values Runta at more than $100 million, The Information reported. ‘Parenting’ AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
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a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents. AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage.
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‘Parenting’ AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 11:33
Digital Catapult Welcomes Eleven Sector Leaders to Quantum Access
Digital Catapult announced eleven sector leaders joining its Quantum Technology Access Programme, including NatWest, to explore quantum solutions for fraud detection.
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NatWest will explore using quantum solutions to detect fraud and illicit activity across large transaction networks. This program will apply quantum innovation to financial services and banking operations for the first time.
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Digital Catapult announced eleven sector leaders joining its Quantum Technology Access Programme, including NatWest, to explore quantum solutions for fraud detection.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 11:28
Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud
Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud. The aerospace group has picked French provider Scaleway to host them, Scaleway said. The move covers the applications Airbus needs to keep running as a “minimum viable company.” That is about 900 apps, starting with 70 now […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud. The aerospace group has picked French provider Scaleway to host them, Scaleway said. The move covers the applications Airbus needs to keep running as a “minimum viable company.” That is about 900 apps, starting with 70 now […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 11:25
Equal1 Collaboration Brings Scalable Quantum Computing to ESA
ESA installed its first quantum computer, Bell-1, thanks to an equal1 collaboration, to accelerate Earth observation data processing.
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The European Space Agency has installed its first quantum computer, named Bell-1, at its Earth observation centre in Italy, initiating a new phase in the agency’s approach to processing complex satellite data.
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ESA installed its first quantum computer, Bell-1, thanks to an equal1 collaboration, to accelerate Earth observation data processing.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 11:17
Bloq Quantum Enters Turkey Via MIUUL Training Partnership
MIUUL students in Turkey will soon have exclusive access to enterprise-level quantum computing tools through a new partnership announced by Bloq Quantum on July 17, 2026.
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MIUUL students in Turkey will soon have exclusive access to enterprise-level quantum computing tools through a new partnership announced by Bloq Quantum on July 17, 2026. The collaboration establishes MIUUL as Bloq Quantum’s official training partner, marking the company’s entry into the Turkish market and integrating its platform directly into advanced Quantum Machine Learnin…
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Bloq Quantum expands into Turkey through a strategic alliance with MIUUL, a technology training ecosystem.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 11:11
An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech
Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board, an independent body funded by Meta to review its […] This story continues at The Next Web
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An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech. Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board.
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The board, an independent body funded by Meta to review its […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 11:11
Haiqu Adds IBM Quantum, IonQ Veteran to Commercialize Agentic OS
Haiqu welcomes Denise Ruffner, ex-IBM Quantum & IonQ, to commercialize its Agentic Operating System, designed for quantum R&D.
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Haiqu has appointed Denise Ruffner as Vice President of Business Development and Commercial Operations Worldwide, bringing on board a leader with a proven history of initiating commercial relationships for emerging quantum hardware companies.
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Haiqu welcomes Denise Ruffner, ex-IBM Quantum & IonQ, to commercialize its Agentic Operating System, designed for quantum R&D.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 11:06
Ground State Ventures Leads Arq Quantum’s $1.4M Pre-Seed Round
Ground State Ventures led Arq Quantum Technologies’ $1.4M pre-seed round. Co-founders Samuele Grandi and Emanuele Distante are building the foundations for the quantum internet, starting with a quantum repeater that connects reliably across long distances.
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Ground State Ventures Leads Arq Quantum’s $1.4M Pre-Seed Round. Ground State Ventures led Arq Quantum Technologies’ $1.4M pre-seed round. Co-founders Samuele Grandi and Emanuele Distante are building the foundations for the quantum internet, starting with a quantum repeater that connects reliably across long distances.
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Co-founders Samuele Grandi and Emanuele Distante are building the foundations for the quantum internet, starting with a quantum repeater that connects reliably across long distances.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 11:00
An FCC plan could end the anonymous burner phone in the US
The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Privacy groups say the plan would end anonymous burner phones and tie every American’s identity to a number. Buying a phone without handing over your identity could soon be impossible in the US. A Federal Communications Commission proposal would force providers to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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An FCC plan could end the anonymous burner phone in the US. The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Buying a phone without handing over your identity could soon be impossible in the US.
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A Federal Communications Commission proposal would force providers to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 10:46
AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now
The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how to police the most capable AI models, Axios reported. Their diagnoses […] This story continues at The Next Web
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AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now. The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how to police the most capable AI models, Axios reported.
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Their diagnoses […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 10:39
Meta will alert parents to teens’ self-harm chats with its AI
Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live now in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, TechCrunch reported. They will reach […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Meta will alert parents to teens’ self-harm chats with its AI. Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday.
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They will reach […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 10:32
Google workers rally at Mountain View HQ, demanding a floor under their jobs
Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by the Alphabet Workers Union, ended with the delivery of a petition signed by more than 4,500 staff to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google workers rally at Mountain View HQ, demanding a floor under their jobs. Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs.
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The rally, organised by the Alphabet Workers Union, ended with the delivery of a petition signed by more than 4,500 staff to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 10:18
DeepMind’s Hassabis says a STEM degree makes you 10x better with AI
AI is reshaping tech careers. But it will not kill off the value of a STEM degree, according to Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis. He made the comments at a London business conference, in a video published on Wednesday. Knowing the fundamentals of software gives you an edge with AI, he told the audience, Business […] This story continues at The Next Web
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DeepMind’s Hassabis says a STEM degree makes you 10x better with AI. AI is reshaping tech careers. But it will not kill off the value of a STEM degree, according to Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis.
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Knowing the fundamentals of software gives you an edge with AI, he told the audience, Business […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 10:16
Ozawa and Colleagues Models Non-Hermitian Framework for Wave-Packet Dynamics
Wave-packet trajectories in one-dimensional lattices now exhibit periodic cusps and discontinuous jumps in group velocity when a force is applied in one direction. This contrasts with previous observations of power oscillations and asymmetric patterns in similar systems. Establishing a general framework for these non-Hermitian Bloch oscillations reveals previously unseen behaviours, including periodic temporal shifts and anomalous wave propagation.
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Ozawa and Colleagues Models Non-Hermitian Framework for Wave-Packet Dynamics. This contrasts with previous observations of power oscillations and asymmetric patterns in similar systems. Establishing a general framework for these non-Hermitian Bloch oscillations reveals previously unseen behaviours, including periodic temporal shifts and anomalous wave propagation.
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Wave-packet trajectories in one-dimensional lattices now exhibit periodic cusps and discontinuous jumps in group velocity when a force is applied in one direction.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 10:14
Meet the philosopher inside Google DeepMind
What does a company that builds game-playing AI need with a philosopher? That question sits at the heart of a Guardian long-read on Iason Gabriel, who has worked inside Google DeepMind since 2017. For a time, the Guardian reports, Gabriel was the only philosopher at a frontier AI lab. His job was to anticipate the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Meet the philosopher inside Google DeepMind. What does a company that builds game-playing AI need with a philosopher? For a time, the Guardian reports, Gabriel was the only philosopher at a frontier AI lab.
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His job was to anticipate the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 09:56
Google DeepMind launched an AI biosecurity programme to fight biological threats
Google DeepMind has launched a programme to turn AI on biological threats. The London lab and its sister company Isomorphic Labs call it bioresilience, and set it out in a joint blog post. The aim is twofold. DeepMind wants to stop people misusing its models, and to help governments, scientists and biosecurity groups use AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google DeepMind launched an AI biosecurity programme to fight biological threats. Google DeepMind has launched a programme to turn AI on biological threats. The London lab and its sister company Isomorphic Labs call it bioresilience, and set it out in a joint blog post.
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DeepMind wants to stop people misusing its models, and to help governments, scientists and biosecurity groups use AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 09:55
Mick Jagger says AI is fine for musicians, as long as it does not sound like him
Mick Jagger has given a qualified blessing to musicians who reach for artificial intelligence, on the strict condition that whatever comes out is genuinely their own. “If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead,” he told Billboard in a cover story published this week. “But it has to be original.” The line arrives quickly, though, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Mick Jagger says AI is fine for musicians, as long as it does not sound like him. Mick Jagger has given a qualified blessing to musicians who reach for artificial intelligence, on the strict condition that whatever comes out is genuinely their own. “If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead,” he told Billboard in a cover story published this week.
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“But it has to be original.” The line arrives quickly, though, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 09:50
French startup Syntetica raised $30M to recycle the nylon fashion throws away
A French startup has raised $30 million to tackle one of fashion’s hardest waste problems. Syntetica recycles nylon, and it can process two grades at once that the industry has long struggled to pull apart, its founder told TechCrunch. The Ecotechnologies 2 fund, managed by France’s public bank Bpifrance, led the round, worth €26.1 million. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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French startup Syntetica raised $30M to recycle the nylon fashion throws away. A French startup has raised $30 million to tackle one of fashion’s hardest waste problems. Syntetica recycles nylon, and it can process two grades at once that the industry has long struggled to pull apart, its founder told TechCrunch.
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Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 09:20
Alice & Bob, the French Quantum Computing Company Building FTQC
Alice and Bob is the French cat-qubit company betting that hardware error protection slashes the cost of fault tolerance. Inside its tech, NVIDIA backing, and 2030 roadmap.
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Alice & Bob, the French Quantum Computing Company Building FTQC. Alice and Bob is the French cat-qubit company betting that hardware error protection slashes the cost of fault tolerance. Inside its tech, NVIDIA backing, and 2030 roadmap.
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Alice and Bob is the French cat-qubit company betting that hardware error protection slashes the cost of fault tolerance.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 09:17
Coca-Cola halted fairlife’s US production after a ransomware attack
Coca-Cola says its fairlife dairy unit was hit by ransomware, and has suspended all US production while it investigates. A ransomware attack has stopped production at one of Coca-Cola’s biggest dairy brands. The company said fairlife found unauthorised access to part of its systems, including production systems, in a statement. Coca-Cola disclosed the breach to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Coca-Cola halted fairlife’s US production after a ransomware attack. Coca-Cola says its fairlife dairy unit was hit by ransomware, and has suspended all US production while it investigates. The company said fairlife found unauthorised access to part of its systems, including production systems, in a statement.
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Coca-Cola disclosed the breach to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 08:39
Mamdani wants NYC landlords to label the AI in their apartment photos
The apartment in the StreetEasy photo is bright, airy, and a shade roomier than the walls actually permit. Under a plan from New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, that listing would soon have to confess the touch-up. On 16 July his administration published the Rental Ripoff Report, a 23-point agenda drawn from the testimony of more […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Mamdani wants NYC landlords to label the AI in their apartment photos. The apartment in the StreetEasy photo is bright, airy, and a shade roomier than the walls actually permit. Under a plan from New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, that listing would soon have to confess the touch-up.
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On 16 July his administration published the Rental Ripoff Report, a 23-point agenda drawn from the testimony of more […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 08:33
SoftBank lines up a new $60bn bond to keep its OpenAI bet funded
Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son’s firm has sold before and that lands squarely behind its swelling bet on OpenAI. The plan […] This story continues at The Next Web
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SoftBank lines up a new $60bn bond to keep its OpenAI bet funded. Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son’s firm has sold before and that lands squarely behind its swelling bet o…
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The plan […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 08:29
Mitsubishi Electric weighs power-chip merger with Rohm and Toshiba
Japan’s three biggest power-chip makers want to become one company, and the wiring is proving harder to rearrange than the ambition. Mitsubishi Electric is exploring a combination of its power-semiconductor operations with those of Rohm and Toshiba, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The talks are part of a wider scramble to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Mitsubishi Electric weighs power-chip merger with Rohm and Toshiba. Japan’s three biggest power-chip makers want to become one company, and the wiring is proving harder to rearrange than the ambition.
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The talks are part of a wider scramble to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 08:24
Databricks hits $188bn valuation in Coatue-led round, landing above its own $175bn talks
$188bn is a large number for a company that keeps insisting it is in no rush to go public. That is the valuation Databricks has reached in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, a figure first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The mark sits well above the up-to-$175bn the firm was reportedly in […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Databricks hits $188bn valuation in Coatue-led round, landing above its own $175bn talks. $188bn is a large number for a company that keeps insisting it is in no rush to go public. That is the valuation Databricks has reached in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, a figure first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
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The mark sits well above the up-to-$175bn the firm was reportedly in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 08:24
Google’s record EU fine won’t just punish Google. It will quietly shrink what European taxpayers owe Brussels.
Google has finally paid its record EU antitrust fine, and the money is about to do something unexpected. The €4.6bn will flow into the EU’s central budget and reduce what member states owe Brussels, Politico reports. The mechanism is dry, but the effect is real. EU fines are not earmarked for anything, so they simply lower […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google’s record EU fine won’t just punish Google. Google has finally paid its record EU antitrust fine, and the money is about to do something unexpected. The €4.6bn will flow into the EU’s central budget and reduce what member states owe Brussels, Politico reports.
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EU fines are not earmarked for anything, so they simply lower […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 08:19
Xi tells World AI Conference no single country should monopolise AI
Xi Jinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence “should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” casting Beijing as the patron of open, shared technology. The line, aimed at the developing world and, by implication, at Washington, set the tone for a speech […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Xi tells World AI Conference no single country should monopolise AI. Xi Jinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence “should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” casting Beijing as the patron of open, shared technology.
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The line, aimed at the developing world and, by implication, at Washington, set the tone for a speech […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 08:15
PayPal board rebuffs $53bn Stripe and Advent bid as too low, sources say
PayPal’s board reckons that a $53bn (£39bn) joint takeover approach from Stripe and the private-equity firm Advent International sells the payments pioneer short, the latest twist in a fast-moving round of payments consolidation. People familiar with the talks told Reuters the directors view the offer as inadequate and have yet to respond formally. The approach values PayPal at […] This story continues at The Next Web
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PayPal board rebuffs $53bn Stripe and Advent bid as too low, sources say. PayPal’s board reckons that a $53bn (£39bn) joint takeover approach from Stripe and the private-equity firm Advent International sells the payments pioneer short, the latest twist in a fast-moving round of payments consolidation.
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The approach values PayPal at […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 08:10
A luggage maker’s filing just pinned DeepSeek at $52bn
The most precise figure yet attached to DeepSeek’s worth did not come from the lab, its bankers or its founder. It surfaced in a stock-exchange filing by Anhui Korrun, a Chinese luggage maker, which discloses a stake small enough to imply the Hangzhou AI startup is valued at around $52bn. The arithmetic is narrow but […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A luggage maker’s filing just pinned DeepSeek at $52bn. The most precise figure yet attached to DeepSeek’s worth did not come from the lab, its bankers or its founder. It surfaced in a stock-exchange filing by Anhui Korrun, a Chinese luggage maker, which discloses a stake small enough to imply the Hangzhou AI startup is valued at around $52bn.
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The arithmetic is narrow but […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 08:05
Network School founder says Malaysia immigration probe risks its tech ambitions
Balaji Srinivasan built Network School as a working prototype of the “network state,” his theory that an internet country of engineers and founders can eventually do the work of a real one. This week a real one reminded him who still holds the passports. The former Coinbase chief technology officer and Andreessen Horowitz partner said on 15 […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Network School founder says Malaysia immigration probe risks its tech ambitions. Balaji Srinivasan built Network School as a working prototype of the “network state,” his theory that an internet country of engineers and founders can eventually do the work of a real one. This week a real one reminded him who still holds the passports.
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The former Coinbase chief technology officer and Andreessen Horowitz partner said on 15 […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 07:59
Netflix beats on Q2 earnings but a soft Q3 forecast sends the stock down 9%
Netflix cleared the quarter and stumbled on the outlook. The company posted second-quarter revenue of $12.56bn on Thursday, up 13% on the year, alongside earnings of $0.80 a share, a cent ahead of the $0.79 analysts had pencilled in. Then it guided the next three months lower, and the stock did the rest. Third-quarter revenue is forecast […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Netflix beats on Q2 earnings but a soft Q3 forecast sends the stock down 9%. The company posted second-quarter revenue of $12.56bn on Thursday, up 13% on the year, alongside earnings of $0.80 a share, a cent ahead of the $0.79 analysts had pencilled in. Then it guided the next three months lower, and the stock did the rest.
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Third-quarter revenue is forecast […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 07:51
Moonshot unveils Kimi K3, the world’s largest open AI model
Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter system it bills as the world’s largest open-weight AI model. The claim, made on 16 July, plants the firm squarely alongside the American frontier labs it has spent two years chasing. The model arrives weeks after Moonshot was reported to be seeking a $30bn valuation, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Moonshot unveils Kimi K3, the world’s largest open AI model. Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter system it bills as the world’s largest open-weight AI model. The claim, made on 16 July, plants the firm squarely alongside the American frontier labs it has spent two years chasing.
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The model arrives weeks after Moonshot was reported to be seeking a $30bn valuation, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 07:49
China just put its first commercial brain implant into a patient. It’s smaller than Neuralink’s, on purpose.
China has performed the world’s first surgery using a commercially approved brain-computer interface. Surgeons at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai implanted a coin-sized chip in a patient with impaired hand movement, the South China Morning Post reports. The patient had lost hand function after a spinal cord injury in a car accident a decade ago. The procedure […] This story continues at The Next Web
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China just put its first commercial brain implant into a patient. China has performed the world’s first surgery using a commercially approved brain-computer interface. Surgeons at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai implanted a coin-sized chip in a patient with impaired hand movement, the South China Morning Post reports.
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The procedure […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 07:43
A Chinese AI startup is about to hit $1bn in sales while giving its best models away for free
One of China’s leading AI startups is closing in on a milestone the rest of the industry keeps missing. Z.ai, the company behind the GLM models, is set to become the first independent Chinese AI firm with $1bn in annual sales, Bloomberg reports. The claim is a projection, not a booked result. But the trajectory behind […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A Chinese AI startup is about to hit $1bn in sales while giving its best models away for free. One of China’s leading AI startups is closing in on a milestone the rest of the industry keeps missing. Z.ai, the company behind the GLM models, is set to become the first independent Chinese AI firm with $1bn in annual sales, Bloomberg reports.
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But the trajectory behind […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 07:38
KAIST and Stanford unveil clothing that climbs onto its wearer
Getting dressed is the sort of task nobody thinks about until they can no longer manage it. For millions of older and disabled people, pulling on a sleeve is a daily negotiation with buttons, shoulders, and gravity, and it usually needs a second pair of hands. A research team from South Korea and the United […] This story continues at The Next Web
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KAIST and Stanford unveil clothing that climbs onto its wearer. Getting dressed is the sort of task nobody thinks about until they can no longer manage it. For millions of older and disabled people, pulling on a sleeve is a daily negotiation with buttons, shoulders, and gravity, and it usually needs a second pair of hands.
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A research team from South Korea and the United […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 17, 07:34
pQCee Raises US$3.9 Million in Latest Seed Funding Round
Insider Brief pQCee Pte Ltd (pQCee), a leading provider of quantum‑safe cybersecurity technologies, today announced that it has raised US$3.9 million in its latest Seed funding round. The round was co‑led by SGInnovate and Lotus One Investment, with participation from In Group Holdings, Wavemaker Ventures, SUTD Ventures Holdings, and Apsara Investments. This marks pQCee’s second […]
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pQCee Raises US$3.9 Million in Latest Seed Funding Round. The round was co‑led by SGInnovate and Lotus One Investment, with participation from In Group Holdings, Wavemaker Ventures, SUTD Ventures Holdings, and Apsara Investments. This marks pQCee’s second […]
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Insider Brief pQCee Pte Ltd (pQCee), a leading provider of quantum‑safe cybersecurity technologies, today announced that it has raised US$3.9 million in its latest Seed funding round.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 07:21
Eoptolink files for Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn
Eoptolink Technology, a Chinese maker of the optical parts that shuttle data between AI chips, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise as much as $5bn, according to Bloomberg. The paperwork arrives roughly three months after the company picked banks for a deal then pegged at about $3bn, a target that has swelled alongside the market’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Eoptolink Technology, a Chinese maker of the optical parts that shuttle data between AI chips, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise as much as $5bn, according to Bloomberg. The paperwork arrives roughly three months after the company picked banks for a deal then pegged at about $3bn, a target that has swelled alongside the market’s […] This story continues at The…
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Eoptolink Technology, a Chinese maker of the optical parts that shuttle data between AI chips, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise as much as $5bn, according to Bloomberg.
Thenextweb
Jul 17, 07:05
AI was supposed to kill the travel agent. Instead it just minted a billion-dollar one.
Fora, a platform that lets ordinary people become travel agents and gives travellers a way to find them, has raised a $60m Series D at a $1bn valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures. It has 15,000+ advisors (97% new to the profession) who have booked over $3bn in travel, an accelerating curve. Fora is […] This story continues at The Next Web
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AI was supposed to kill the travel agent. Fora, a platform that lets ordinary people become travel agents and gives travellers a way to find them, has raised a $60m Series D at a $1bn valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures. Fora is […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 17, 00:02
Cardoso and Colleagues Introduce Hermitian Algebra Formulation for Open Quantum System Dynamics
Constructing the Liouville superoperator, essential for modelling open quantum systems, typically becomes computationally prohibitive as complexity increases. This work offers a new approach that reduces the cost of this construction, achieving a 99% reduction in computational effort compared with existing methods. Starting with a single qubit, the framework extends to any number, promising more efficient simulations of quantum technologies and biological processes.
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Cardoso and Colleagues Introduce Hermitian Algebra Formulation for Open Quantum System Dynamics. This work offers a new approach that reduces the cost of this construction, achieving a 99% reduction in computational effort compared with existing methods.
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Constructing the Liouville superoperator, essential for modelling open quantum systems, typically becomes computationally prohibitive as complexity increases.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 23:37
Nagoya University Team Models Non-Ergodic Phase Transitions for Atomic Josephson Junctions
Conventional open quantum systems invariably succumb to environmental decoherence and thermalisation. However, a Bose-Josephson junction exhibits a surprising departure from this behaviour, transitioning into a ‘running state’ entirely absent in systems governed by the Markov limit. This dynamical phase transition, underpinned by a zero-mode exceptional point, survives even under strong quantum fluctuations, potentially offering a route to long-lived quantum memories.
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Nagoya University Team Models Non-Ergodic Phase Transitions for Atomic Josephson Junctions. However, a Bose-Josephson junction exhibits a surprising departure from this behaviour, transitioning into a ‘running state’ entirely absent in systems governed by the Markov limit.
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Conventional open quantum systems invariably succumb to environmental decoherence and thermalisation.
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 22:33
Engineering’s Next Great Transformation: Why Organizational Capability Will Define the AI Era
Engineering has never had more computing power. Yet engineering transformation has never been more difficult. Over the past four decades, engineering organizations have consistently responded to increasing complexity by investing in better technology. Faster processors. Larger HPC systems. Cloud computing. Artificial Intelligence. Digital Twins. Engineering data platforms. Agentic AI. And now Quantum Computing. Each generation […] The post Engineering’s Next Great Transformation: Why Organizational Capability Will Define the AI Era appeared first on HPCwire .
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Engineering’s Next Great Transformation: Why Organizational Capability Will Define the AI Era. Engineering has never had more computing power. Each generation […] The post Engineering’s Next Great Transformation: Why Organizational Capability Will Define the AI Era appeared first on HPCwire .
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And now Quantum Computing.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 22:17
Researchers Enhance Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Multiple Sources
Improving device-independent quantum key distribution protocols through multiple routed Bell tests Critical Bell state measurement efficiencies for secure communication have now been reduced to approximately 4. 7%, a substantial improvement over the previous threshold of around 15%. This protocol achieves this reduction by employing decoy Bell tests alongside multiple sources and routed measurements.
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Researchers Enhance Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Multiple Sources. 7%, a substantial improvement over the previous threshold of around 15%. This protocol achieves this reduction by employing decoy Bell tests alongside multiple sources and routed measurements.
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Improving device-independent quantum key distribution protocols through multiple routed Bell tests Critical Bell state measurement efficiencies for secure communication have now been reduced to approximately 4.
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 21:53
Cadence Launches AuraStack AI Super Agent for PCB and Packaging Design
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 16, 2026 — Cadence has introduced the AuraStack AI Super Agent on Cadence Allegro AI Studio, the world’s first agentic AI platform for printed circuit board (PCB) and advanced packaging design, taking designers from system planning to final product in a single AI-native environment. The Cadence AuraStack AI Super Agent, accelerated by […] The post Cadence Launches AuraStack AI Super Agent for PCB and Packaging Design appeared first on HPCwire .
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Cadence Launches AuraStack AI Super Agent for PCB and Packaging Design. SAN JOSE, Calif., July 16, 2026 — Cadence has introduced the AuraStack AI Super Agent on Cadence Allegro AI Studio, the world’s first agentic AI platform for printed circuit board (PCB) and advanced packaging design, taking designers from system planning to final product in a single AI-native environment.
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The Cadence AuraStack AI Super Agent, accelerated by […] The post Cadence Launches AuraStack AI Super Agent for PCB and Packaging Design appeared first on HPCwire .
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 21:29
Kaist Team Develops Variational Autoencoder Framework for Quantum Data Embedding
A circuit-centric quantum classifier now achieves 98. 5% validation accuracy on handwritten digits, closing the performance gap with classical neural networks to just 1. 2 percentage points.
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Kaist Team Develops Variational Autoencoder Framework for Quantum Data Embedding. A circuit-centric quantum classifier now achieves 98. 5% validation accuracy on handwritten digits, closing the performance gap with classical neural networks to just 1.
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A circuit-centric quantum classifier now achieves 98.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 21:27
Roblox launches Build, a mobile tab that turns text prompts into playable games
Roblox announced Build on Wednesday, a new creation tab inside the Roblox mobile app that lets anyone turn a text prompt into a basic playable game without touching Roblox Studio or writing a line of code. A creator can describe something like a cozy forest adventure game with environmental obstacles, and Build will generate a […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Roblox launches Build, a mobile tab that turns text prompts into playable games. Roblox announced Build on Wednesday, a new creation tab inside the Roblox mobile app that lets anyone turn a text prompt into a basic playable game without touching Roblox Studio or writing a line of code.
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A creator can describe something like a cozy forest adventure game with environmental obstacles, and Build will generate a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 21:00
1Password lets Claude log you into websites without ever seeing your passwords
1Password has launched a browser integration that lets Anthropic’s Claude use stored credentials to complete tasks on the web without the passwords ever reaching the AI model, according to a blog post published on Thursday. The company calls it a zero-exposure architecture: when Claude needs to sign in, 1Password shows the user which credential is […] This story continues at The Next Web
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1Password lets Claude log you into websites without ever seeing your passwords. 1Password has launched a browser integration that lets Anthropic’s Claude use stored credentials to complete tasks on the web without the passwords ever reaching the AI model, according to a blog post published on Thursday.
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The company calls it a zero-exposure architecture: when Claude needs to sign in, 1Password shows the user which credential is […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 20:34
Meta’s Custom AI Chip Could Redefine the Economics of AI
Meta has announced that it will start manufacturing a new custom AI chip from September as part of its plan to boost its overall computing power to 14 GW. This is a major milestone in the company’s goal to reduce reliance on external chip suppliers. Code-named Iris, the new chip has completed the testing phase […] The post Meta’s Custom AI Chip Could Redefine the Economics of AI appeared first on HPCwire .
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Meta’s Custom AI Chip Could Redefine the Economics of AI. This is a major milestone in the company’s goal to reduce reliance on external chip suppliers. Code-named Iris, the new chip has completed the testing phase […] The post Meta’s Custom AI Chip Could Redefine the Economics of AI appeared first on HPCwire .
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Meta has announced that it will start manufacturing a new custom AI chip from September as part of its plan to boost its overall computing power to 14 GW.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 20:33
Volkswagen enters the robotaxi race with a shared shuttle service in Hamburg
Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary Moia has begun offering rides in self-driving ID Buzz vans to preregistered residents in Hamburg, marking the first time a major European automaker has launched an autonomous passenger service on its home continent. Up to five vehicles are operating at initial launch, with the fleet expected to expand to 10, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Volkswagen enters the robotaxi race with a shared shuttle service in Hamburg. Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary Moia has begun offering rides in self-driving ID Buzz vans to preregistered residents in Hamburg, marking the first time a major European automaker has launched an autonomous passenger service on its home continent.
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Up to five vehicles are operating at initial launch, with the fleet expected to expand to 10, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 20:24
How the American and European Approaches to AI for Science Differ–And What Makes Them the Same
AI for science is a global phenomenon, thanks to the potential for significant breakthroughs by incorporating AI technology and techniques into scientific discovery. In the United States and European Union, central governments have taken the lead in harnessing emerging AI techniques onto existing computational science and HPC systems. While the ultimate goals may be similar, […] The post How the American and European Approaches to AI for Science Differ–And What Makes Them the Same appeared first on HPCwire .
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How the American and European Approaches to AI for Science Differ–And What Makes Them the Same. In the United States and European Union, central governments have taken the lead in harnessing emerging AI techniques onto existing computational science and HPC systems.
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AI for science is a global phenomenon, thanks to the potential for significant breakthroughs by incorporating AI technology and techniques into scientific discovery.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 20:18
The driver who crashed a Tesla into a Texas home at 70 mph had pressed the accelerator to 100 percent, NTSB finds
The driver of a Tesla that crashed into a Texas home and killed a 76-year-old woman had manually overrode Full Self-Driving by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released on Wednesday. The 2025 Model 3 was travelling at more than 70 mph on a […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The driver who crashed a Tesla into a Texas home at 70 mph had pressed the accelerator to 100 percent, NTSB finds. The driver of a Tesla that crashed into a Texas home and killed a 76-year-old woman had manually overrode Full Self-Driving by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released on Wednesda…
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The 2025 Model 3 was travelling at more than 70 mph on a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 19:59
Oracle is one notch above junk after S&P downgrade as AI data-centre spending burns through cash
S&P downgraded Oracle to BBB- on July 9, placing the company one notch above junk status, as a $250 billion data-centre expansion plan burns through cash faster than revenue can replace it. Oracle is now the second-largest non-financial debt issuer in the Bloomberg US Corporate Bond Index after Amazon, with $117 billion outstanding. Shares fell […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Oracle is one notch above junk after S&P downgrade as AI data-centre spending burns through cash. S&P downgraded Oracle to BBB- on July 9, placing the company one notch above junk status, as a $250 billion data-centre expansion plan burns through cash faster than revenue can replace it.
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Shares fell […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Jul 16, 19:43
Google’s next Gemini Pro is months behind schedule as coding capabilities fall short of internal goals
Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in coding, Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing 10 current and former employees. The company was widely expected to release the upgrade at its May developer conference but has been […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google’s next Gemini Pro is months behind schedule as coding capabilities fall short of internal goals. Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in coding, Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing 10 current and former employees.
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The company was widely expected to release the upgrade at its May developer conference but has been […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 19:23
GameStop’s Ryan Cohen calls physical game sales ‘totally irrelevant’ and pivots every question back to eBay
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen dismissed the decline of physical video game sales as “totally, totally irrelevant” to the company’s business in an interview on Bloomberg TV on Thursday. Cohen was responding to Sony’s announcement earlier this month that it will end physical disc production for new PlayStation games in 2028. “It doesn’t matter at all,” […] This story continues at The Next Web
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GameStop’s Ryan Cohen calls physical game sales ‘totally irrelevant’ and pivots every question back to eBay. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen dismissed the decline of physical video game sales as “totally, totally irrelevant” to the company’s business in an interview on Bloomberg TV on Thursday.
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“It doesn’t matter at all,” […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 19:23
University of Strathclyde Tests Wireless Control of Quantum Readout
University of Strathclyde physicists achieved wireless control of a superconducting microwave resonator, a key step toward simplifying quantum readout.
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Researchers from the University of Strathclyde, the University of Glasgow, and the National Physical Laboratory have demonstrated wireless communication with a superconducting microwave resonator at millikelvin temperatures, a challenging feat given the extreme cold required for most quantum hardware.
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University of Strathclyde physicists achieved wireless control of a superconducting microwave resonator, a key step toward simplifying quantum readout.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 19:23
QML’s Value Lies in Inherent Interpretability, Researchers Argue
Researchers contend that quantum machine learning’s value isn’t just in rivaling classical models, but in its inherent interpretability—specifically, how mathematical structure drives performance for a task.
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Researchers are framing the value of quantum machine learning not as a pursuit of larger, more complex networks, but as an opportunity to prioritize interpretability, a lesson learned from recent struggles deploying uninterpretable neural networks in classical machine learning.
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Researchers contend that quantum machine learning’s value isn’t just in rivaling classical models, but in its inherent interpretability—specifically, how mathematical structure drives performance for a task.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 19:18
Quantum Machine Learning Assesses Post-Quantum Protocol Resilience
This research utilizes Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks, or QGANs, a promising architecture in the field, to assess post-quantum cryptographic protocol resilience.
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Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences is applying quantum machine learning in a new way: not creating new cryptography, but proactively testing the defenses of existing protocols.
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This research utilizes Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks, or QGANs, a promising architecture in the field, to assess post-quantum cryptographic protocol resilience.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 19:17
Fujitsu Digital Annealer boosts industrial solver selection, study finds
A new study benchmarks quantum & classical methods—including the Fujitsu Digital Annealer—on a real-world job-shop scheduling problem.
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A head-to-head benchmark of industrial scheduling problems reveals the potential of the Fujitsu Digital Annealer alongside established quantum platforms from IBM Quantum and D-Wave , according to a new study.
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A new study benchmarks quantum & classical methods—including the Fujitsu Digital Annealer—on a real-world job-shop scheduling problem.
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 19:04
University of Toronto Partners with Cohere on Enterprise AI Platform
July 16, 2026 — The University of Toronto (U of T) is advancing its commitment to responsible artificial intelligence adoption at scale through an ambitious multi-year partnership with Cohere, a Canadian-founded, Toronto-based global leader in sovereign AI. This collaboration will help U of T meet a defining moment by taking ownership of its AI future. Founded […] The post University of Toronto Partners with Cohere on Enterprise AI Platform appeared first on HPCwire .
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University of Toronto Partners with Cohere on Enterprise AI Platform. July 16, 2026 — The University of Toronto (U of T) is advancing its commitment to responsible artificial intelligence adoption at scale through an ambitious multi-year partnership with Cohere, a Canadian-founded, Toronto-based global leader in sovereign AI.
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Founded […] The post University of Toronto Partners with Cohere on Enterprise AI Platform appeared first on HPCwire .
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 19:01
Researchers Model Photon Emission from Metasurfaces for Quantum Technology Advances
Previously, designing sources of entangled photons relied on repeated experimentation, lacking a comprehensive understanding of underlying principles. This theoretical work now establishes a framework to predict and optimise photon-pair generation in metasurfaces, revealing how substrate thickness and multilayer configurations can be engineered to control emission directionality. The analysis opens new routes to enhance photon-pair generation and tailor the emission properties of quantum metasurfaces.
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Researchers Model Photon Emission from Metasurfaces for Quantum Technology Advances. Previously, designing sources of entangled photons relied on repeated experimentation, lacking a comprehensive understanding of underlying principles.
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The analysis opens new routes to enhance photon-pair generation and tailor the emission properties of quantum metasurfaces.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 18:59
Visa launched a stablecoin platform that sent Circle shares tumbling six percent
Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform on Thursday, a new infrastructure product that lets banks and payment processors issue, manage, and settle stablecoin transactions through Visa’s network. The platform launches with native support for Open USD, the stablecoin backed by a consortium of more than 140 firms including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and BlackRock. Jack Forestell, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Visa launched a stablecoin platform that sent Circle shares tumbling six percent. Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform on Thursday, a new infrastructure product that lets banks and payment processors issue, manage, and settle stablecoin transactions through Visa’s network.
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Jack Forestell, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 18:58
TSMC Expands US Semiconductor Investment to $265B
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2026 — Today, the White House and the Department of Commerce announced an incremental $100 billion investment by TSMC for advanced semiconductor manufacturing and packaging facilities in Arizona. With the additional facilities, TSMC’s $265 billion investment will provide a total of 12 facilities in the United States. This follows the March 2025 […] The post TSMC Expands US Semiconductor Investment to $265B appeared first on HPCwire .
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TSMC Expands US Semiconductor Investment to $265B. With the additional facilities, TSMC’s $265 billion investment will provide a total of 12 facilities in the United States. This follows the March 2025 […] The post TSMC Expands US Semiconductor Investment to $265B appeared first on HPCwire .
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WASHINGTON, July 16, 2026 — Today, the White House and the Department of Commerce announced an incremental $100 billion investment by TSMC for advanced semiconductor manufacturing and packaging facilities in Arizona.
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 18:50
3M and Microsoft Partner on AI Data Center Infrastructure and Enterprise AI
ST. PAUL, Minn. and REDMOND, Wash., July 16, 2026 — 3M and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership focused on AI data center infrastructure and enterprise transformation. Microsoft’s Azure cloud and AI infrastructure will become the first announced hyperscale cloud provider to deploy 3M’s Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) technology. 3M will also use Microsoft’s AI […] The post 3M and Microsoft Partner on AI Data Center Infrastructure and Enterprise AI appeared first on HPCwire .
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3M and Microsoft Partner on AI Data Center Infrastructure and Enterprise AI. and REDMOND, Wash., July 16, 2026 — 3M and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership focused on AI data center infrastructure and enterprise transformation.
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3M will also use Microsoft’s AI […] The post 3M and Microsoft Partner on AI Data Center Infrastructure and Enterprise AI appeared first on HPCwire .
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 18:39
NVIDIA Showcases Japanese AI Development Built on Nemotron Models
TOKYO, July 16, 2026 — NVIDIA has announced that leading Japanese enterprises, startups and research institutions are building industry-specialized AI models and applications with NVIDIA Nemotron open models, data and libraries, accelerating the development of AI tailored to Japan’s language, industries and workforce. Open models are the foundation of national AI ecosystems, giving organizations the ability […] The post NVIDIA Showcases Japanese AI Development Built on Nemotron Models appeared first on HPCwire .
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NVIDIA Showcases Japanese AI Development Built on Nemotron Models. TOKYO, July 16, 2026 — NVIDIA has announced that leading Japanese enterprises, startups and research institutions are building industry-specialized AI models and applications with NVIDIA Nemotron open models, data and libraries, accelerating the development of AI tailored to Japan’s language, industries and wor…
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Open models are the foundation of national AI ecosystems, giving organizations the ability […] The post NVIDIA Showcases Japanese AI Development Built on Nemotron Models appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 18:16
The EU is forcing Google to open Android to rival AI and share its search data
Google will have to let rival AI assistants run on Android the way its own Gemini does. It must also hand some of its search data to competitors. The European Commission set out both requirements on Thursday. The two decisions fall under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Commission said. The law forces “gatekeeper” […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The EU is forcing Google to open Android to rival AI and share its search data. Google will have to let rival AI assistants run on Android the way its own Gemini does. It must also hand some of its search data to competitors.
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The law forces “gatekeeper” […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 18:02
Jülich Leads New European Neuromorphic Computing Network
July 16, 2026 — Europe has strong research capabilities in neuromorphic computing, but until now there has been a lack of close coordination. The COST Action EuroNMC aims to change that. The initiative, spearheaded by Forschungszentrum Jülich, brings together stakeholders along the technology and innovation chain. Large AI models require enormous computing power, specialized chips, and […] The post Jülich Leads New European Neuromorphic Computing Network appeared first on HPCwire .
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Jülich Leads New European Neuromorphic Computing Network. The initiative, spearheaded by Forschungszentrum Jülich, brings together stakeholders along the technology and innovation chain. Large AI models require enormous computing power, specialized chips, and […] The post Jülich Leads New European Neuromorphic Computing Network appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 16, 2026 — Europe has strong research capabilities in neuromorphic computing, but until now there has been a lack of close coordination.
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 18:00
QumulusAI Begins Trading on the Nasdaq Global Market Under Ticker Symbol ‘QMLS’
Inference-first AI cloud platform enters public markets to accelerate distributed compute deployment ATLANTA, July 16, 2026 — QumulusAI (Nasdaq: QMLS), a neocloud infrastructure provider purpose-built for the AI computing era, today announced that its common shares have begun trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol QMLS. “QumulusAI was built for how AI is […] The post QumulusAI Begins Trading on the Nasdaq Global Market Under Ticker Symbol ‘QMLS’ appeared first on HPCwire .
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QumulusAI Begins Trading on the Nasdaq Global Market Under Ticker Symbol ‘QMLS’. Inference-first AI cloud platform enters public markets to accelerate distributed compute deployment ATLANTA, July 16, 2026 — QumulusAI (Nasdaq: QMLS), a neocloud infrastructure provider purpose-built for the AI computing era, today announced that its common shares have begun trading on the Nasdaq…
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“QumulusAI was built for how AI is […] The post QumulusAI Begins Trading on the Nasdaq Global Market Under Ticker Symbol ‘QMLS’ appeared first on HPCwire .
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 18:00
NetApp Acquires DataPelago, Making Data AI-Ready at the Infrastructure Layer
Embedding GPU-accelerated intelligence enables enterprises to easily discover, govern, and activate data for AI and analytics at the source SAN JOSE, Calif., July 16, 2026 — NetApp today announced it has acquired DataPelago, a California-based AI data infrastructure company recognized for its innovative approach to eliminating data processing bottlenecks for AI and analytics workloads. The acquisition […] The post NetApp Acquires DataPelago, Making Data AI-Ready at the Infrastructure Layer appeared first on HPCwire .
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The acquisition […] The post NetApp Acquires DataPelago, Making Data AI-Ready at the Infrastructure Layer appeared first on HPCwire .
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Embedding GPU-accelerated intelligence enables enterprises to easily discover, govern, and activate data for AI and analytics at the source SAN JOSE, Calif., July 16, 2026 — NetApp today announced it has acquired DataPelago, a California-based AI data infrastructure company recognized for its innovative approach to eliminating data processing bottlenecks for AI and analytics workloads.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 17:55
AI and a brain implant restored a paralysed man’s movement and touch
Researchers have restored hand movement and the sense of touch to a man paralysed from the chest down. The results, published in Nature Medicine, suggest the technology partly rewired his nervous system. The system, called a “double neural bypass,” comes from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, the team […] This story continues at The Next Web
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AI and a brain implant restored a paralysed man’s movement and touch. Researchers have restored hand movement and the sense of touch to a man paralysed from the chest down. The results, published in Nature Medicine, suggest the technology partly rewired his nervous system.
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The system, called a “double neural bypass,” comes from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, the team […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 17:50
Verizon cuts 3,000 retail jobs as AI replaces customer service and stores move to franchises
Verizon is cutting about 3,000 employees from its corporate-owned retail stores and transferring 274 locations to independent operators, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The changes take effect on August 16 and will leave the largest US mobile carrier with 1,000 company-owned stores alongside roughly 5,000 independent franchises. A company spokesperson said many of the workers at […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Verizon cuts 3,000 retail jobs as AI replaces customer service and stores move to franchises. Verizon is cutting about 3,000 employees from its corporate-owned retail stores and transferring 274 locations to independent operators, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
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A company spokesperson said many of the workers at […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 17:28
29 countries sign a treaty to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization
Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement on 16 July to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), Reuters reported. China says the intergovernmental body aims to promote international cooperation and global governance in AI. China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, signed on behalf of Beijing. UN Secretary-General António Guterres attended the ceremony. The founding members include Russia, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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29 countries sign a treaty to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization. Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement on 16 July to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), Reuters reported. China says the intergovernmental body aims to promote international cooperation and global governance in AI.
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The founding members include Russia, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 17:28
Nello and Colleagues Present Frequency-Resolved Squeezing Maps for Quantum Communication
Can semiconductor lasers produce squeezing beyond what standard measurements detect. Calculations reveal a previously unpredicted ‘hidden squeezing’ within these devices, accessed by mapping the full quadrature-noise structure of the laser field. This extends understanding of non-classical light generation and strengthens potential for quantum technologies.
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Nello and Colleagues Present Frequency-Resolved Squeezing Maps for Quantum Communication. Can semiconductor lasers produce squeezing beyond what standard measurements detect. Calculations reveal a previously unpredicted ‘hidden squeezing’ within these devices, accessed by mapping the full quadrature-noise structure of the laser field.
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This extends understanding of non-classical light generation and strengthens potential for quantum technologies.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 17:06
Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and expands code execution to Pro users
Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding one of its most popular AI products into the Gemini brand while keeping it as a standalone tool. The company said on Thursday that the rebrand reflects how deeply the research assistant has been woven into the broader Google ecosystem, including the Gemini app and Google Search. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and expands code execution to Pro users. Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding one of its most popular AI products into the Gemini brand while keeping it as a standalone tool.
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Thenextweb
Jul 16, 16:48
SWISSto12 raised $70M, and it is that rare thing: a profitable space startup
Most space-hardware startups raise money because they are burning it. SWISSto12 raised $70m while turning a profit, an unusual thing in the satellite business. The Swiss company closed the €61m round days after ESA member states put $84.8m into its HummingSat programme, it said. That is more than $150m of fresh capital in a month. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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SWISSto12 raised $70M, and it is that rare thing: a profitable space startup. SWISSto12 raised $70m while turning a profit, an unusual thing in the satellite business. The Swiss company closed the €61m round days after ESA member states put $84.8m into its HummingSat programme, it said.
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Thenextweb
Jul 16, 16:40
Xpeng’s L03 is the first Chinese EV to put proprietary AI driving chips in a mass-market car
Xpeng debuted the L03 on Wednesday in Munich, launching its most internationally ambitious electric vehicle simultaneously across 65 markets. The coupe-SUV is built around the company’s proprietary Turing AI chips, with every trim shipping at least one and the top Ultra variant carrying three for a combined 2,250 trillion operations per second. It is the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Xpeng’s L03 is the first Chinese EV to put proprietary AI driving chips in a mass-market car. Xpeng debuted the L03 on Wednesday in Munich, launching its most internationally ambitious electric vehicle simultaneously across 65 markets.
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Thenextweb
Jul 16, 16:30
Fireworks raised $1.5bn on a bet that companies will build AI, not rent it
The AI economy has run on a simple habit: rent a model from a big lab. Fireworks just raised $1.5bn to argue the opposite, that every company will build intelligence of its own. The Series D values the San Mateo startup at $17.5bn, it said. Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV led the round. Nvidia, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Fireworks raised $1.5bn on a bet that companies will build AI, not rent it. The AI economy has run on a simple habit: rent a model from a big lab. Fireworks just raised $1.5bn to argue the opposite, that every company will build intelligence of its own.
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Nvidia, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 16:25
Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia to build an AI that runs product demos instead of humans
Sable has raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build an AI system called Aidan that runs live product demonstrations, answers customer questions in real time, and switches between languages mid-conversation. The company, which is less than a year old, calls Aidan an AI employee designed to replace not just chat support but […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia to build an AI that runs product demos instead of humans. Sable has raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build an AI system called Aidan that runs live product demonstrations, answers customer questions in real time, and switches between languages mid-conversation.
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The company, which is less than a year old, calls Aidan an AI employee designed to replace not just chat support but […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 16:20
Hokkaido University Team Models Many-Body Quantum Hall Phase Diagram for Fermion Systems
The celebrated Hofstadter butterfly diagram, long a theoretical ideal, now directly links to measurable electrical currents in real materials. Previously, understanding how electron interactions altered this map of quantum behaviour remained a challenge, but this work establishes a clear connection between the butterfly’s ‘colours’ and the proportionality constant in Ohm’s law. This allows prediction of Hall conductivity even when electrons interact, opening new avenues for designing advanced electronic devices.
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Hokkaido University Team Models Many-Body Quantum Hall Phase Diagram for Fermion Systems. Previously, understanding how electron interactions altered this map of quantum behaviour remained a challenge, but this work establishes a clear connection between the butterfly’s ‘colours’ and the proportionality constant in Ohm’s law.
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The celebrated Hofstadter butterfly diagram, long a theoretical ideal, now directly links to measurable electrical currents in real materials.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 16:13
Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals
The hard part of medical AI was never the model. It was getting a hospital to actually run it. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap. The startup closed a $25m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, it told Fortune in an exclusive. That takes its total funding to $55m. Sequoia, Felicis, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals. The hard part of medical AI was never the model. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap.
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Hpcwire
Jul 16, 16:02
QED-C Brings Quantum Technology Showcase Back to Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2026 — Following a landmark year for U.S. quantum policy and innovation, the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) brought together senior government officials, bipartisan members of Congress, federal agency leaders and leading quantum companies Tuesday for the 2026 Quantum Technology Showcase on the Hill. Held just weeks after the signing of Executive […] The post QED-C Brings Quantum Technology Showcase Back to Capitol Hill appeared first on HPCwire .
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QED-C Brings Quantum Technology Showcase Back to Capitol Hill. WASHINGTON, July 16, 2026 — Following a landmark year for U.S. Held just weeks after the signing of Executive […] The post QED-C Brings Quantum Technology Showcase Back to Capitol Hill appeared first on HPCwire .
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quantum policy and innovation, the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) brought together senior government officials, bipartisan members of Congress, federal agency leaders and leading quantum companies Tuesday for the 2026 Quantum Technology Showcase on the Hill.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 15:57
Apple is preparing an OLED iPad mini for October as its tablet lineup expands
Apple is preparing the biggest overhaul of its iPad mini in half a decade, with plans to release a version featuring an OLED display by October, according to people familiar with the matter. The current model has kept the same design since 2021, receiving only a faster chip two years ago. Bloomberg reported the updated […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Apple is preparing an OLED iPad mini for October as its tablet lineup expands. Apple is preparing the biggest overhaul of its iPad mini in half a decade, with plans to release a version featuring an OLED display by October, according to people familiar with the matter. The current model has kept the same design since 2021, receiving only a faster chip two years ago.
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Thequantuminsider
Jul 16, 15:47
Quantum Source and Israel’s DDR&D Demonstrate Robust Single-Atom Source for Real-World Quantum Communication
Insider Brief Press release – Researchers at Quantum Source Labs, an Israeli quantum computing company, in collaboration with the Israel Directorate of Defense Research & Development (DDR&D), today announced the on-demand generation of high-quality polarization-entangled photon pairs in the robust quantum singlet state. The team further demonstrated the exceptional resilience of this state by transmitting […]
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Insider Brief Press release – Researchers at Quantum Source Labs, an Israeli quantum computing company, in collaboration with the Israel Directorate of Defense Research & Development (DDR&D), today announced the on-demand generation of high-quality polarization-entangled photon pairs in the robust quantum singlet state.
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 15:37
DOE Advances Domestic Supply of Silicon, Germanium Isotopes for Quantum Computing
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Isotope R&D and Production (IRP), within the Office of Science, today announced a major, multi-laboratory advancement in domestic stable isotope enrichment and production capabilities. Through a collaborative effort between Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the U.S. has […] The post DOE Advances Domestic Supply of Silicon, Germanium Isotopes for Quantum Computing appeared first on HPCwire .
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DOE Advances Domestic Supply of Silicon, Germanium Isotopes for Quantum Computing. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Isotope R&D and Production (IRP), within the Office of Science, today announced a major, multi-laboratory advancement in domestic stable isotope enrichment and production capabilities.
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has […] The post DOE Advances Domestic Supply of Silicon, Germanium Isotopes for Quantum Computing appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 15:36
Microsoft is rebuilding its security business around AI, and cutting hundreds
Microsoft is the biggest seller of cybersecurity software on the planet. Now it is tearing that business up and rebuilding it around AI. The overhaul means more AI security tools, fewer traditional products, and merged engineering teams. It has already cost several hundred jobs, The Information reported. The driver is fear, and money. Companies are […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Microsoft is rebuilding its security business around AI, and cutting hundreds. Now it is tearing that business up and rebuilding it around AI. The overhaul means more AI security tools, fewer traditional products, and merged engineering teams.
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Hpcwire
Jul 16, 15:11
EuroTPC Launches as Europe’s Strategic Voice for AI for Science
New EuroTPC Office at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center- Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) coordinates the participation of European researchers, HPC centers, AI Factories, and industry players in the Trillion Parameter Consortium’s global effort to build open, trustworthy AI for science July 16, 2026 — EuroTPC has officially launched, establishing the first coordinated European presence within the […] The post EuroTPC Launches as Europe’s Strategic Voice for AI for Science appeared first on HPCwire .
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New EuroTPC Office at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center- Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) coordinates the participation of European researchers, HPC centers, AI Factories, and industry players in the Trillion Parameter Consortium’s global effort to build open, trustworthy AI for science July 16, 2026 — EuroTPC has officially launched, establishing the first coor…
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New EuroTPC Office at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center- Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) coordinates the participation of European researchers, HPC centers, AI Factories, and industry players in the Trillion Parameter Consortium’s global effort to build open, trustworthy AI for science July 16, 2026 — EuroTPC has officially launched, establishing the first coordinated European presence within the […] The post EuroTPC Launches as Europe’s Strategic Voice for AI for Science appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 14:56
The UK won’t restrict VPNs after all, and its own research is why
The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why. Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan put it plainly on the BBC. “We decided not to limit VPNs,” he said. A VPN hides a user’s real […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The UK won’t restrict VPNs after all, and its own research is why. The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why.
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A VPN hides a user’s real […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 16, 14:43
Digital Catapult Welcomes New Cohort to Explore Industrial Quantum Applications
Insider Brief Press release – Digital Catapult has today welcomed eleven leading organisations to the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP), delivered in collaboration with the National Quantum Computing Centre’s (NQCC) SparQ programme. Designed to accelerate the practical application of quantum innovation in industry, the cohort includes NatWest, the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), and […]
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Insider Brief Press release – Digital Catapult has today welcomed eleven leading organisations to the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP), delivered in collaboration with the National Quantum Computing Centre’s (NQCC) SparQ programme.
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Insider Brief Press release – Digital Catapult has today welcomed eleven leading organisations to the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP), delivered in collaboration with the National Quantum Computing Centre’s (NQCC) SparQ programme.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 14:37
Manya and Colleagues Implement Simplified Observables for Floquet Time Crystal Sensing
Previously, achieving the ultimate precision in quantum sensing demanded measuring complex, inaccessible quantities. Now, a route to near-optimal measurement has been established by approximating these theoretical ideals with simpler observables like spin magnetization. This advancement unlocks practical, quantum-enhanced sensitivity within Floquet time crystal sensors, bridging the gap between theory and experiment.
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Manya and Colleagues Implement Simplified Observables for Floquet Time Crystal Sensing. Now, a route to near-optimal measurement has been established by approximating these theoretical ideals with simpler observables like spin magnetization.
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Previously, achieving the ultimate precision in quantum sensing demanded measuring complex, inaccessible quantities.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 14:33
Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system
Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed round, it said. Its aim is an “identity operating […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system. Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent.
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Its aim is an “identity operating […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 14:29
IBM’s 25% Single Day Plunge: The AI Boom’s Biggest Victim May Be The Market’s Anti-AI Trade
IBM shares fell 25 percent in a single session, the worst day in the company's history, after a memory shortage wrecked its second quarter. We look at what a wounded IBM does next with its most credible long-horizon bet: quantum computing.
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IBM’s 25% Single Day Plunge: The AI Boom’s Biggest Victim May Be The Market’s Anti-AI Trade. IBM shares fell 25 percent in a single session, the worst day in the company's history, after a memory shortage wrecked its second quarter. We look at what a wounded IBM does next with its most credible long-horizon bet: quantum computing.
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We look at what a wounded IBM does next with its most credible long-horizon bet: quantum computing.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 14:23
Anthropic and Blackstone bet the next fortune in AI is implementation, not models
The race in AI has been about who builds the best model. A new company backed by Anthropic thinks the real money sits elsewhere: in getting those models to actually work inside big companies. That company is Ode with Anthropic, and it launched under its full name this week, the partners said. Anthropic, Blackstone, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Anthropic and Blackstone bet the next fortune in AI is implementation, not models. The race in AI has been about who builds the best model. A new company backed by Anthropic thinks the real money sits elsewhere: in getting those models to actually work inside big companies.
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Anthropic, Blackstone, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 14:21
EuroHPC Launches Call for Tender for New Industrial Supercomputer in Bologna, Italy
July 16, 2026 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking has launched a call for tender to select a vendor for the acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance of the first EuroHPC industrial supercomputer, INNOVATE, to be located in Italy. Once deployed, INNOVATE will provide advanced supercomputing capabilities tailored to meet the requirements of European industry, […] The post EuroHPC Launches Call for Tender for New Industrial Supercomputer in Bologna, Italy appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 16, 2026 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking has launched a call for tender to select a vendor for the acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance of the first EuroHPC industrial supercomputer, INNOVATE, to be located in Italy.
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July 16, 2026 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking has launched a call for tender to select a vendor for the acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance of the first EuroHPC industrial supercomputer, INNOVATE, to be located in Italy.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 14:16
A father of the internet wants to give AI agents an identity
Soon the internet will be full of AI agents acting on our behalf. Right now, there is no reliable way to tell who stands behind any of them. Vint Cerf, one of the people who built the internet, wants to fix that. Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, the protocol that lets the internet’s independent systems talk to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A father of the internet wants to give AI agents an identity. Soon the internet will be full of AI agents acting on our behalf. Vint Cerf, one of the people who built the internet, wants to fix that.
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Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, the protocol that lets the internet’s independent systems talk to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 16, 13:59
Former IBM Quantum Executive Denise Ruffner Joins Haiqu to Expand Quantum Software Adoption
Insider Brief Press release – Haiqu, a leading developer of quantum application software, today announced that Denise Ruffner, a veteran quantum commercialization strategist, is joining the company as Vice President, Business Development and Commercial Operations Worldwide. Ruffner was a pioneering executive at IBM Quantum where she developed the company’s Quantum Ambassador Program and Startup Program, which […]
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Former IBM Quantum Executive Denise Ruffner Joins Haiqu to Expand Quantum Software Adoption. Insider Brief Press release – Haiqu, a leading developer of quantum application software, today announced that Denise Ruffner, a veteran quantum commercialization strategist, is joining the company as Vice President, Business Development and Commercial Operations Worldwide.
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Ruffner was a pioneering executive at IBM Quantum where she developed the company’s Quantum Ambassador Program and Startup Program, which […]
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 13:45
NSF ACCESS Program Lowers Barriers to HPC, Drives Growth in Research Use
July 16, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation ACCESS program exists to empower those conducting research to have access to the advanced computing resources necessary to carry out their research. Or to help educate the next generation of researchers. With its nationwide network of resources, the ACCESS program has made High Performance Computing (HPC) […] The post NSF ACCESS Program Lowers Barriers to HPC, Drives Growth in Research Use appeared first on HPCwire .
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NSF ACCESS Program Lowers Barriers to HPC, Drives Growth in Research Use. Or to help educate the next generation of researchers. With its nationwide network of resources, the ACCESS program has made High Performance Computing (HPC) […] The post NSF ACCESS Program Lowers Barriers to HPC, Drives Growth in Research Use appeared first on HPCwire .
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National Science Foundation ACCESS program exists to empower those conducting research to have access to the advanced computing resources necessary to carry out their research.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 13:26
A Face ID pioneer raised $52M to read the brain like a blood test
One of the minds behind Apple’s Face ID wants to point AI at something harder than a face. He wants it to read the brain. His startup, Hemispheric, has come out of stealth with $52M. The Tel Aviv firm calls itself a NeuroAI company, and its pitch is simple. It wants a brain test to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A Face ID pioneer raised $52M to read the brain like a blood test. One of the minds behind Apple’s Face ID wants to point AI at something harder than a face. He wants it to read the brain.
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It wants a brain test to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 13:11
Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs
Microsoft has never shipped a bigger security update. Its July Patch Tuesday fixed a record haul of flaws, and the company says AI is why the count keeps climbing. The scale is hard to ignore. By Microsoft’s own count, the update patched 622 vulnerabilities. That more than tripled June’s tally, which had set a record […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs. Microsoft has never shipped a bigger security update. Its July Patch Tuesday fixed a record haul of flaws, and the company says AI is why the count keeps climbing.
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That more than tripled June’s tally, which had set a record […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 16, 13:00
NCSA: Modeling Rapid Intensification of a Tropical Cyclone with GPUs
July 16, 2026 — Tropical cyclones are known by many names – hurricanes in the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, and typhoons in the Northwest Pacific. They are some of the most powerful weather events on the planet. When a cyclone spins toward land, millions upon millions of people can be impacted. Predicting them takes an enormous […] The post NCSA: Modeling Rapid Intensification of a Tropical Cyclone with GPUs appeared first on HPCwire .
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NCSA: Modeling Rapid Intensification of a Tropical Cyclone with GPUs. When a cyclone spins toward land, millions upon millions of people can be impacted. Predicting them takes an enormous […] The post NCSA: Modeling Rapid Intensification of a Tropical Cyclone with GPUs appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 16, 2026 — Tropical cyclones are known by many names – hurricanes in the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, and typhoons in the Northwest Pacific.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 12:58
Oracle leads the race to build Japan a secret, air-gapped cloud
Oracle is leading the race to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, sealed off from the internet. Washington wants it to counter Chinese hacking. Before the US shares more of its secrets with Japan, it wants Japan to lock them down. Oracle is now the front-runner to build the vault. Larry Ellison’s company has pulled ahead […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Oracle leads the race to build Japan a secret, air-gapped cloud. Oracle is leading the race to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, sealed off from the internet. Oracle is now the front-runner to build the vault.
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Larry Ellison’s company has pulled ahead […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 12:49
Nokia and Nvidia built the first commercial AI-RAN, aiming to double network capacity
The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades. RAN stands for radio access network, the gear that links phones to the wider network. An AI-RAN runs […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Nokia and Nvidia built the first commercial AI-RAN, aiming to double network capacity. The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades.
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An AI-RAN runs […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 12:49
Rice University Team Presents Topological Subsystem Code Framework for Quantum Error Correction
Topological codes now exist which demand only weight-3 or weight-4 local check operator measurements. This construction uniquely preserves an extensive number of undisturbed local gauge qubits, unlike existing subsystem codes. These anticommuting quantum spin liquid-based codes offer a new template for building quantum error correction on diverse hardware.
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Rice University Team Presents Topological Subsystem Code Framework for Quantum Error Correction. Topological codes now exist which demand only weight-3 or weight-4 local check operator measurements. This construction uniquely preserves an extensive number of undisturbed local gauge qubits, unlike existing subsystem codes.
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These anticommuting quantum spin liquid-based codes offer a new template for building quantum error correction on diverse hardware.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 12:43
University of Gda Team Identifies Permutation Asymmetry for Detecting Measurement Correlations
Can entangled particles exhibit differing degrees of nonlocality depending on how measurements are exchanged between observers. Asymmetric maximally entangled states demonstrably increase the probability of observing nonlocality in randomised Bell tests with limited measurement options, without needing extra resources. This reveals a previously unrecognised benefit of state symmetry in optimising quantum experiments.
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University of Gda Team Identifies Permutation Asymmetry for Detecting Measurement Correlations. Can entangled particles exhibit differing degrees of nonlocality depending on how measurements are exchanged between observers.
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This reveals a previously unrecognised benefit of state symmetry in optimising quantum experiments.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 12:40
Google will start carrying rival app stores inside Google Play on 22 July
Android has always let people install apps from outside Google’s store. Next week it goes much further. Google will start carrying rival app stores from inside Google Play itself. Google told a California court it is ready to begin on Wednesday 22 July, The Verge reported. The move came after Google and Epic Games jointly […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google will start carrying rival app stores inside Google Play on 22 July. Next week it goes much further. Google will start carrying rival app stores from inside Google Play itself.
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The move came after Google and Epic Games jointly […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 16, 10:48
Georgia Institute of Technology: Researchers Identify New Methods to Detect Chirality in Complex States
Established methods for identifying chirality fail when applied to complex quantum states, revealing a fundamental gap in our understanding of topological phases. These systems, unlike their simpler counterparts, require entirely new diagnostic tools based on relative entropy to accurately assess chirality and quantify the chiral central charge. This advance offers a means to characterise decohered topological phases with a known parent state, where previous techniques proved unreliable.
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Georgia Institute of Technology: Researchers Identify New Methods to Detect Chirality in Complex States. These systems, unlike their simpler counterparts, require entirely new diagnostic tools based on relative entropy to accurately assess chirality and quantify the chiral central charge.
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Established methods for identifying chirality fail when applied to complex quantum states, revealing a fundamental gap in our understanding of topological phases.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 10:38
AGCOM fined Google €750,000 over gambling videos on YouTube
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in a case that turns on a deceptively small question: whether a platform that shares advertising revenue with a creator is still merely hosting what that creator uploads. The dispute began on 19 July 2022, when AGCOM, Italy’s communications authority, fined Google Ireland €750,000 and ordered it […] This story continues at The Next Web
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AGCOM fined Google €750,000 over gambling videos on YouTube. The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled in a case that turns on a deceptively small question: whether a platform that shares advertising revenue with a creator is still merely hosting what that creator uploads.
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The dispute began on 19 July 2022, when AGCOM, Italy’s communications authority, fined Google Ireland €750,000 and ordered it […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 10:29
Japan is building a 140MW AI factory for robots, and Nvidia is supplying all of it
Nvidia and a Japanese industrial consortium are building what Nvidia calls the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, and the specification is unusually concrete for an announcement of this kind. The AI factory will run 13,750 Nvidia Vera CPUs and 27,500 Rubin GPUs across 140 megawatts of data centre capacity, built on the Nvidia […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Nvidia and a Japanese industrial consortium are building what Nvidia calls the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, and the specification is unusually concrete for an announcement of this kind.
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Nvidia and a Japanese industrial consortium are building what Nvidia calls the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, and the specification is unusually concrete for an announcement of this kind.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 16, 09:41
Bloq Quantum Partners With MIUUL to Expand Quantum Machine Learning Training in Turkey
Insider Brief Press release – Bloq Quantum, a leading provider of enterprise quantum software infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with MIUUL, a premier technology training and skilling ecosystem based in Turkey. This collaboration marks Bloq Quantum’s official entry into the Turkish market, establishing MIUUL as an official training partner for the region’s rapidly growing […]
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Insider Brief Press release – Bloq Quantum, a leading provider of enterprise quantum software infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with MIUUL, a premier technology training and skilling ecosystem based in Turkey.
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Insider Brief Press release – Bloq Quantum, a leading provider of enterprise quantum software infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with MIUUL, a premier technology training and skilling ecosystem based in Turkey.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 09:20
An F1 aerodynamicist just raised $55m to teach factory robots, using footage of people doing chores
Bercan Kilic got his dream job in 2023, designing aerodynamics for Red Bull Racing while it was winning everything. He found the engineering magnificent and the point of it thin. His Munich startup, microagi, has now raised $55m, which it says is the largest seed round a German company has secured. Hummingbird led, with Northzone, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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An F1 aerodynamicist just raised $55m to teach factory robots, using footage of people doing chores. Bercan Kilic got his dream job in 2023, designing aerodynamics for Red Bull Racing while it was winning everything. His Munich startup, microagi, has now raised $55m, which it says is the largest seed round a German company has secured.
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Hummingbird led, with Northzone, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 09:09
Trump calls New York’s data centre pause a ‘terrible decision’. Hochul is not moving.
Kathy Hochul signed the executive order on Tuesday. Donald Trump was demanding she undo it by Wednesday. The order pauses construction of new data centres drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, making New York the first US state to pull the brake on the buildings powering the AI boom. State officials are to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Trump calls New York’s data centre pause a ‘terrible decision’. Kathy Hochul signed the executive order on Tuesday. The order pauses construction of new data centres drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, making New York the first US state to pull the brake on the buildings powering the AI boom.
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State officials are to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 08:57
Microsoft is coaching its salespeople to talk down the models it still runs on
Microsoft executives spent an internal meeting on Tuesday teaching the sales force how to run down OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which would be unremarkable except that two of those companies supply the models inside Microsoft’s own products. The session was billed as a strategy kickoff for the fiscal year that began this month, and it leaned […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Microsoft is coaching its salespeople to talk down the models it still runs on. Microsoft executives spent an internal meeting on Tuesday teaching the sales force how to run down OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which would be unremarkable except that two of those companies supply the models inside Microsoft’s own products.
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The session was billed as a strategy kickoff for the fiscal year that began this month, and it leaned […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 08:46
Applied Computing raises $20m to build a foundation model for the refinery
A single refinery can carry thousands of sensors measuring temperature, pressure, velocity, and viscosity. According to Applied Computing, operators make decisions using less than 8% of what those sensors tell them. The London startup has raised a $20m Series A to close that gap, led by engineering giant KBR with Databricks Ventures participating. Founded in 2023, it […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Applied Computing raises $20m to build a foundation model for the refinery. A single refinery can carry thousands of sensors measuring temperature, pressure, velocity, and viscosity. According to Applied Computing, operators make decisions using less than 8% of what those sensors tell them.
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Founded in 2023, it […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 16, 08:46
PsiQuantum Strengthens Executive Leadership with New Appointments
Insider Brief Press release – PsiQuantum today announced the appointments of Rob Soderbery as Executive Vice President and Sriram Sitaraman as Chief Information Officer, adding two veteran technology leaders to the executive team as the company continues scaling its engineering, operational, and commercial capabilities. The appointments come as Victor Peng is named Chief Executive Officer, […]
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The appointments come as Victor Peng is named Chief Executive Officer, […]
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Insider Brief Press release – PsiQuantum today announced the appointments of Rob Soderbery as Executive Vice President and Sriram Sitaraman as Chief Information Officer, adding two veteran technology leaders to the executive team as the company continues scaling its engineering, operational, and commercial capabilities.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 16, 08:31
ESA Brings Quantum Computing System to Earth Observation Research Centre
Insider Brief Press release – ESA-ESRIN, the European Space Agency’s Centre for Earth Observation, has welcomed its first quantum computer. The computer’s quantum processing capabilities will be merged with classical high-performance computing capabilities to research the potential advantages of hybrid classical-quantum computing for complex Earth observation problems. The daily monitoring of our planet is generating […]
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ESA Brings Quantum Computing System to Earth Observation Research Centre. The computer’s quantum processing capabilities will be merged with classical high-performance computing capabilities to research the potential advantages of hybrid classical-quantum computing for complex Earth observation problems. The daily monitoring of our planet is generating […]
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Insider Brief Press release – ESA-ESRIN, the European Space Agency’s Centre for Earth Observation, has welcomed its first quantum computer.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 08:26
WHO warns Europe’s AI health governance gap is becoming irreversible
Hans Kluge opened his speech in Lisbon with a number, which is not how the World Health Organization usually does this. “Let me start with a number: 8%,” the WHO Regional Director for Europe told delegates on 15 July. “That’s the share of countries in the WHO European Region that have a health-specific AI strategy. Just 8%.” […] This story continues at The Next Web
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WHO warns Europe’s AI health governance gap is becoming irreversible. Hans Kluge opened his speech in Lisbon with a number, which is not how the World Health Organization usually does this. “Let me start with a number: 8%,” the WHO Regional Director for Europe told delegates on 15 July.
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Just 8%.” […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 16, 08:15
Arq Raises $1.4 Million Pre-Seed Round to Lay The Foundations For The Quantum Internet
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum technology startup Arq has raised a $1.4 million pre-seed round led by Ground State Ventures, joined by Big Sur Ventures, to accelerate the development of the quantum internet. Quantum computing is advancing rapidly, promising a new age of supercomputers that can solve highly complex problems quickly and efficiently. But the impact […]
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum technology startup Arq has raised a $1.4 million pre-seed round led by Ground State Ventures, joined by Big Sur Ventures, to accelerate the development of the quantum internet. Quantum computing is advancing rapidly, promising a new age of supercomputers that can solve highly complex problems quickly and efficiently. But the impact […]
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum technology startup Arq has raised a $1.4 million pre-seed round led by Ground State Ventures, joined by Big Sur Ventures, to accelerate the development of the quantum internet.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 16, 08:12
Researchers Create Room-Temperature Quantum Material That Filters Light by Its Quantum Statistics
Insider Brief A Louisiana State University-led team of researchers have demonstrated what they describe as a new class of room-temperature quantum materials that can distinguish between different types of quantum light, a capability that could eventually aid the development of photonic quantum computers, quantum communications systems and more efficient energy technologies. The study, published in […]
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According to the researchers, the work establishes the first room-temperature material intrinsically sensitive to the quantum coherence of multiphoton systems. If confirmed and expanded, the approach could provide a new way to manipulate quantum states of light using compact nanostructures instead of larger optical systems, while opening new possibilities for quantum computing…
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Insider Brief A Louisiana State University-led team of researchers have demonstrated what they describe as a new class of room-temperature quantum materials that can distinguish between different types of quantum light, a capability that could eventually aid the development of photonic quantum computers, quantum communications systems and more efficient energy technologies.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 08:11
xAI’s first lawsuit against a user tests who is responsible for what Grok makes
The company says the defendant engineered prompts to defeat Grok’s safeguards. Courts on three continents are being asked whether the safeguards were ever the point. AI has sued one of its own users, alleging he used Grok to generate child sexual abuse material in breach of the company’s terms of service. It is understood to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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xAI’s first lawsuit against a user tests who is responsible for what Grok makes. The company says the defendant engineered prompts to defeat Grok’s safeguards. AI has sued one of its own users, alleging he used Grok to generate child sexual abuse material in breach of the company’s terms of service.
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It is understood to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 08:01
Uber agrees $14.8bn Delivery Hero takeover, 26% above its May bid
The May bid was €33 and landed below the close. Eight weeks later it is €41.50, with 14 markets carved out to a New York firm before anyone asks about competition. Uber has agreed to buy Delivery Hero for €41.50 a share in cash, a 26% improvement on the offer it put on the table […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Uber agrees $14.8bn Delivery Hero takeover, 26% above its May bid. The May bid was €33 and landed below the close. Eight weeks later it is €41.50, with 14 markets carved out to a New York firm before anyone asks about competition.
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Uber has agreed to buy Delivery Hero for €41.50 a share in cash, a 26% improvement on the offer it put on the table […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 07:54
Wall Street just had its best investment banking quarter in years, and it is calling AI a super cycle
Goldman Sachs booked $3.4bn in investment banking fees in the second quarter, a record, up 55% on a year earlier. Its chief executive has a name for what is driving it. “We are in the middle of an AI CapEx super cycle where there are demands on financing into every single financing instrument, in every […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Wall Street just had its best investment banking quarter in years, and it is calling AI a super cycle. Goldman Sachs booked $3.4bn in investment banking fees in the second quarter, a record, up 55% on a year earlier. Its chief executive has a name for what is driving it.
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“We are in the middle of an AI CapEx super cycle where there are demands on financing into every single financing instrument, in every […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 07:41
Europe’s best earnings quarter in three years is an energy story, not an AI one
European companies are heading into their strongest quarterly earnings season in more than three years, and almost none of it is about AI. STOXX 600 constituents are forecast to grow second-quarter profits by 15.3% year on year, according to LSEG I/B/E/S data compiled by analyst Tajinder Dhillon and published on 9 July. That works out at €156.8bn […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Europe’s best earnings quarter in three years is an energy story, not an AI one. European companies are heading into their strongest quarterly earnings season in more than three years, and almost none of it is about AI. STOXX 600 constituents are forecast to grow second-quarter profits by 15.
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That works out at €156.8bn […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 16, 07:40
What Does it Mean to be ‘Quantum’? A Physicist Explains The Basics Behind Einstein’s Spooky Actions at a Distance
By Aldo Romero, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University The Conversation Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point to another. That seems obvious, because in the world we see around us, light appears to follow […]
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A Physicist Explains The Basics Behind Einstein’s Spooky Actions at a Distance. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point to another. That seems obvious, because in the world we see around us, light appears to follow […]
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By Aldo Romero, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University The Conversation Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room.
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 07:34
Ofcom opens a child safety investigation into TikTok
Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into whether TikTok is failing to protect children from harmful content, escalating a dispute that has been running in public since May. The probe, announced on Thursday, examines two things under the Online Safety Act: whether TikTok has adequate measures to work out that a given user is a […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Ofcom opens a child safety investigation into TikTok. Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into whether TikTok is failing to protect children from harmful content, escalating a dispute that has been running in public since May.
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The probe, announced on Thursday, examines two things under the Online Safety Act: whether TikTok has adequate measures to work out that a given user is a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 16, 07:29
Nvidia signs up Japan’s robotics establishment for its open world models
Nvidia has recruited most of Japan’s industrial robotics establishment into the Cosmos Coalition, the open world-model programme it uses to seed its physical AI stack, in announcements timed to Jensen Huang’s week in Tokyo. Twenty-two companies are named: AIRoA, classmethod, Enactic, FANUC, Fujitsu, GROOVE X, Hitachi, Honda R&D, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, Mitsui & Co., […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Nvidia has recruited most of Japan’s industrial robotics establishment into the Cosmos Coalition, the open world-model programme it uses to seed its physical AI stack, in announcements timed to Jensen Huang’s week in Tokyo. Twenty-two companies are named: AIRoA, classmethod, Enactic, FANUC, Fujitsu, GROOVE X, Hitachi, Honda R&D, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, Mitsui & Co.
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Nvidia has recruited most of Japan’s industrial robotics establishment into the Cosmos Coalition, the open world-model programme it uses to seed its physical AI stack, in announcements timed to Jensen Huang’s week in Tokyo.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 16, 07:25
Mind Success Unveils Quantum Materials Discovery Platform, Digital Twin Software for Hardware Development
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Mind Success, a startup focused on predictive modeling for quantum technologies, has launched two software platforms aimed at accelerating quantum hardware development by helping researchers identify new materials and reduce environmental noise that affects qubit performance. The company, based in Saudi Arabia and the United States, said the offerings include […]
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Mind Success, a startup focused on predictive modeling for quantum technologies, has launched two software platforms aimed at accelerating quantum hardware development by helping researchers identify new materials and reduce environmental noise that affects qubit performance.
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Mind Success, a startup focused on predictive modeling for quantum technologies, has launched two software platforms aimed at accelerating quantum hardware development by helping researchers identify new materials and reduce environmental noise that affects qubit performance.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 23:50
University of Bristol Team Develops Stochastic Tsetlin Machine for Interpretable Learning
Interpretable rule-based learning in an autonomous thermodynamic network Classification accuracy matching a standard Tsetlin machine has now been achieved using a system powered solely by heat flow, without external control. This demonstrates learning can arise from the inherent stochasticity of physical systems, challenging reliance on deterministic logic. Such autonomous computation establishes a new framework for physically-grounded machine learning.
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University of Bristol Team Develops Stochastic Tsetlin Machine for Interpretable Learning. This demonstrates learning can arise from the inherent stochasticity of physical systems, challenging reliance on deterministic logic. Such autonomous computation establishes a new framework for physically-grounded machine learning.
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Interpretable rule-based learning in an autonomous thermodynamic network Classification accuracy matching a standard Tsetlin machine has now been achieved using a system powered solely by heat flow, without external control.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 22:23
Caltech Team Models Higher Berry Curvature for Second Chern Number Computation
Previously, calculating second Chern numbers relied on analytic formulas for specific models. Now, higher Berry curvature provides a discrete formula yielding manifestly quantized results, offering an alternative computational approach. This work confirms agreement between the DDKS number and the second Chern number for a four-dimensional Chern insulator.
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Caltech Team Models Higher Berry Curvature for Second Chern Number Computation. Now, higher Berry curvature provides a discrete formula yielding manifestly quantized results, offering an alternative computational approach. This work confirms agreement between the DDKS number and the second Chern number for a four-dimensional Chern insulator.
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Previously, calculating second Chern numbers relied on analytic formulas for specific models.
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 22:11
Berkeley Lab: How Genesis Mission’s American Science Cloud Advances Innovation
July 15, 2026 — As the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Inder Monga is an expert in keeping the flow of scientific data running 24/7. ESnet is the Department of Energy’s High Performance Network user facility, which provides high-performance data transfer […] The post Berkeley Lab: How Genesis Mission’s American Science Cloud Advances Innovation appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 15, 2026 — As the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Inder Monga is an expert in keeping the flow of scientific data running 24/7.
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July 15, 2026 — As the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Inder Monga is an expert in keeping the flow of scientific data running 24/7.
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 22:05
GigaIO’s Gryf and Manticore Earn Nutanix Validation for Enterprise AI and Kubernetes Workloads
Partnership with Flywheel Data makes solutions available now, focusing initially on the needs of military and intelligence agencies. CARLSBAD, Calif., July 15, 2026 — GigaIO, a pioneer in delivering datacenter-class computing at the edge, has had its edge products Gryf and Manticore verified for the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Nutanix NKP) and Nutanix Enterprise AI (Nutanix NAI), […] The post GigaIO’s Gryf and Manticore Earn Nutanix Validation for Enterprise AI and Kubernetes Workloads appeared first on HPCwire .
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Partnership with Flywheel Data makes solutions available now, focusing initially on the needs of military and intelligence agencies. CARLSBAD, Calif., July 15, 2026 — GigaIO, a pioneer in delivering datacenter-class computing at the edge, has had its edge products Gryf and Manticore verified for the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Nutanix NKP) and Nutanix Enterprise AI (Nutanix N…
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CARLSBAD, Calif., July 15, 2026 — GigaIO, a pioneer in delivering datacenter-class computing at the edge, has had its edge products Gryf and Manticore verified for the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (Nutanix NKP) and Nutanix Enterprise AI (Nutanix NAI), […] The post GigaIO’s Gryf and Manticore Earn Nutanix Validation for Enterprise AI and Kubernetes Workloads appeared first on HPCwire .
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 21:51
Cadence Completes Agentization of Chip and System Design Software
Cadence Design Systems has been delivering agentic AI capabilities with its semiconductor and system design tools for some time. With today’s launch of AuraStack AI Super Agent, the company has delivered the fourth and final piece of the AI puzzle for its Allegro AI Studio offering. The level of automation in electronic design automation (EDA) […] The post Cadence Completes Agentization of Chip and System Design Software appeared first on HPCwire .
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Cadence Completes Agentization of Chip and System Design Software. With today’s launch of AuraStack AI Super Agent, the company has delivered the fourth and final piece of the AI puzzle for its Allegro AI Studio offering.
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Cadence Design Systems has been delivering agentic AI capabilities with its semiconductor and system design tools for some time.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 21:49
OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away
OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated red-teamer: software that hunts for ways […] This story continues at The Next Web
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OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away. OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI.
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It is an automated red-teamer: software that hunts for ways […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 21:30
A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs
For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. A hacker just opened the black box and showed them exactly how. Leaked source code from Suno, one of the biggest AI music tools, tells the story. It trained its model by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from across the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs. For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. Leaked source code from Suno, one of the biggest AI music tools, tells the story.
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It trained its model by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from across the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 21:22
Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services
Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price increases that has already hit the company’s hardware lineup. Annual plans went up by five dollars. The increases apply only to new sign-ups, meaning existing subscribers will keep their current […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Apple raises AppleCare+ prices as the memory shortage spreads from hardware to services. Apple has raised the monthly cost of AppleCare+ subscriptions by 50 cents for Macs and iPads, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, extending a wave of price increases that has already hit the company’s hardware lineup. Annual plans went up by five dollars.
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The increases apply only to new sign-ups, meaning existing subscribers will keep their current […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 21:20
YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media
YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a social media platform at all. The Google-owned video service has […] This story continues at The Next Web
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YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. It says it is not a social media platform at all.
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The Google-owned video service has […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 21:02
Apple is shopping for chip companies because its own AI servers can’t keep up
Apple built a trillion-dollar business on chips it designs itself. It cannot design the ones its AI needs fast enough, so it is going shopping. The iPhone maker is hunting for AI chip acquisitions, The Information reported. In recent months it has talked to bankers about deals and approached chip startups to ask if they […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Apple is shopping for chip companies because its own AI servers can’t keep up. It cannot design the ones its AI needs fast enough, so it is going shopping. The iPhone maker is hunting for AI chip acquisitions, The Information reported.
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In recent months it has talked to bankers about deals and approached chip startups to ask if they […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 20:49
International Center for Quantum-field Measurement Systems for Studies of the Universe and Particles
Sub-electronvolt energy thresholds, now accessible via quantum sensors, unlock a new approach to charting dark matter’s galactic distribution. Previously reliant on assumptions about the dark matter halo, direct detection can now reconstruct the local velocity distribution directly from sensor data. This framework opens previously inaccessible regions of phase space, potentially revealing deviations from established models.
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International Center for Quantum-field Measurement Systems for Studies of the Universe and Particles. Previously reliant on assumptions about the dark matter halo, direct detection can now reconstruct the local velocity distribution directly from sensor data.
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Sub-electronvolt energy thresholds, now accessible via quantum sensors, unlock a new approach to charting dark matter’s galactic distribution.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 20:45
Boston Dynamics is testing Spot as a package delivery robot that walks from van to doorstep
Boston Dynamics is testing Spot, its four-legged robot, as a delivery worker that rides along in trucks and hops out to carry packages to customers’ doorsteps. The company posted a video on Tuesday showing a human driver loading packages onto a conveyor belt mounted on Spot’s back, followed by the robot walking up to houses […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Boston Dynamics is testing Spot as a package delivery robot that walks from van to doorstep. Boston Dynamics is testing Spot, its four-legged robot, as a delivery worker that rides along in trucks and hops out to carry packages to customers’ doorsteps.
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The company posted a video on Tuesday showing a human driver loading packages onto a conveyor belt mounted on Spot’s back, followed by the robot walking up to houses […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 20:43
Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs
Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose. “If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren’t ready, and they don’t want them yet.” That is Russ Tedrake, telling Bloomberg why his new […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs. Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose.
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“If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren’t ready, and they don’t want them yet.” That is Russ Tedrake, telling Bloomberg why his new […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 20:33
An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet
No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise about $200m at a $2bn valuation, with Lightspeed in […] This story continues at The Next Web
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An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported.
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He is in talks to raise about $200m at a $2bn valuation, with Lightspeed in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 20:30
OpenAI is showing Kalshi’s World Cup odds inside ChatGPT, its first prediction market deal
OpenAI has begun displaying prediction market odds from Kalshi inside ChatGPT search results, marking the first time the company has partnered with a regulated betting exchange. The integration, first reported by the New York Times, shows real-time odds for 2026 FIFA World Cup matches with a “Source: Kalshi” label but no outbound links or Kalshi […] This story continues at The Next Web
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OpenAI is showing Kalshi’s World Cup odds inside ChatGPT, its first prediction market deal. OpenAI has begun displaying prediction market odds from Kalshi inside ChatGPT search results, marking the first time the company has partnered with a regulated betting exchange.
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The integration, first reported by the New York Times, shows real-time odds for 2026 FIFA World Cup matches with a “Source: Kalshi” label but no outbound links or Kalshi […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 20:17
Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best
“We believe in keeping the weirdness alive.” That line comes from a manifesto Mira Murati’s lab published last week. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by the former OpenAI chief technology officer, has released Inkling. It is open-weight, so any developer or company can download the model […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Thinking Machines debuts Inkling, a giant open model it admits is not the best. It is also the thinking behind the lab’s first model. Thinking Machines Lab, founded by the former OpenAI chief technology officer, has released Inkling.
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It is open-weight, so any developer or company can download the model […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 19:59
QED-C Showcase Highlights Quantum Tech Weeks After White House Summit
The 2026 Quantum Technology Showcase on the Hill, brought to you by QED-C, featured innovations just weeks after White House action, demonstrating technologies moving toward real-world use.
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Just days after the White House Summit on American Quantum Innovation, Capitol Hill hosted a hands-on display of emerging quantum technologies at the 2026 Quantum Technology Showcase, bringing together bipartisan congressional leaders and senior Administration officials.
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The 2026 Quantum Technology Showcase on the Hill, brought to you by QED-C, featured innovations just weeks after White House action, demonstrating technologies moving toward real-world use.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 19:45
A Chinese scientist built a sodium battery that charges in 4 minutes. It could break China’s 75% lithium dependence.
Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially viable. In April, he received China’s Youth May Fourth Medal, the country’s top honour for outstanding achievers under 35, for developing a sodium metal battery that charges in roughly four minutes, retains 90% capacity […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A Chinese scientist built a sodium battery that charges in 4 minutes. It could break China’s 75% lithium dependence.. In April, he received China’s Youth May Fourth Medal, the country’s top honour for outstanding achievers under 35, for developing a sodium metal battery that charges in roughly four minutes, retains 90% capacity […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially viable.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 19:37
Princeton University Team Models Speculative Window Decoding for Slower Gate Technologies
Conventional wisdom suggested speculative decoding always accelerated quantum error correction. However, this analysis demonstrates scenarios where simpler, non-speculative approaches prove more effective, particularly when gate speeds are slower. These findings establish a new understanding of performance trade-offs, guiding the design of decoders tailored to diverse quantum technologies.
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Princeton University Team Models Speculative Window Decoding for Slower Gate Technologies. However, this analysis demonstrates scenarios where simpler, non-speculative approaches prove more effective, particularly when gate speeds are slower.
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Conventional wisdom suggested speculative decoding always accelerated quantum error correction.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 19:19
The University of Tokyo: Picosecond Light Pulses Boost Ultrafast Quantum Computing Potential
A cat-state amplitude of 1. 69 has been achieved using light, bringing fault-tolerant quantum error correction closer to reality. Previously, generating these quantum states was limited to nanosecond timescales, hindering practical applications.
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The University of Tokyo: Picosecond Light Pulses Boost Ultrafast Quantum Computing Potential. 69 has been achieved using light, bringing fault-tolerant quantum error correction closer to reality. Previously, generating these quantum states was limited to nanosecond timescales, hindering practical applications.
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Previously, generating these quantum states was limited to nanosecond timescales, hindering practical applications.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 19:08
Quantinuum’s 54-Qubit Chip Braids & Fuses Anyons for Gates
Published in Nature, researchers at Quantinuum demonstrated universal gates using a 54-qubit processor, braiding and fusing anyons to manipulate quantum information.
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Quantinuum researchers have successfully prepared a 54-qubit ground state to manipulate anyons , moving beyond standard qubit control and into a new area of quantum computation. This advance utilizes the quantum double of S3, the smallest non-Abelian group, suggesting a potentially scalable path toward fault-tolerant quantum processing.
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Published in Nature, researchers at Quantinuum demonstrated universal gates using a 54-qubit processor, braiding and fusing anyons to manipulate quantum information.
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 18:49
Arm Powers the World’s Most Advanced and Energy-Efficient Supercomputers
As supercomputing enters the AI era, Arm is delivering the performance, efficiency and ecosystem needed at scale July 15, 2026 — HPC has always pushed the boundaries of what is possible, from climate modeling and scientific research to drug discovery and engineering simulation. As HPC, AI, and cloud infrastructure converge, these increasingly AI-driven workloads require […] The post Arm Powers the World’s Most Advanced and Energy-Efficient Supercomputers appeared first on HPCwire .
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Arm Powers the World’s Most Advanced and Energy-Efficient Supercomputers. As supercomputing enters the AI era, Arm is delivering the performance, efficiency and ecosystem needed at scale July 15, 2026 — HPC has always pushed the boundaries of what is possible, from climate modeling and scientific research to drug discovery and engineering simulation.
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As HPC, AI, and cloud infrastructure converge, these increasingly AI-driven workloads require […] The post Arm Powers the World’s Most Advanced and Energy-Efficient Supercomputers appeared first on HPCwire .
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 18:44
How HPC and Simulation Are Powering the Next Wave of Physical AI
As investment in Physical AI accelerates, simulation is taking on a much larger role than simply generating synthetic training data. HPC-based physics simulation is increasingly being used to improve model accuracy and validate AI behavior. This is also helping make virtual training environments more representative of real-world conditions. This allows AI-based systems to be more […] The post How HPC and Simulation Are Powering the Next Wave of Physical AI appeared first on HPCwire .
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How HPC and Simulation Are Powering the Next Wave of Physical AI. HPC-based physics simulation is increasingly being used to improve model accuracy and validate AI behavior. This allows AI-based systems to be more […] The post How HPC and Simulation Are Powering the Next Wave of Physical AI appeared first on HPCwire .
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As investment in Physical AI accelerates, simulation is taking on a much larger role than simply generating synthetic training data.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:40
University of Ottawa’s Photonic Simulator Runs 300 Quantum Processes with Light
University of Ottawa’s programmable quantum simulator uses light to model material behavior, and recently executed over 300 distinct quantum processes.
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Researchers at the University of Ottawa and the Nexus for Quantum Technologies Institute have developed a photonic simulator capable of running more than 300 distinct quantum processes using light, offering a new approach to modeling complex material behavior without relying on traditional electronics.
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University of Ottawa’s programmable quantum simulator uses light to model material behavior, and recently executed over 300 distinct quantum processes.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:40
Less Than 3 Years Sinced Created, AQSolotl Joins NVIDIA Inception Program
Less than three years in, AQSolotl has joined the NVIDIA Inception program, gaining access to resources and connections within one of the world’s most powerful technology ecosystems. AQSolotl is building the technology that helps bridge the gap between classical and quantum computing, enabling precision and control for the next generation of quantum systems.
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Less Than 3 Years Sinced Created, AQSolotl Joins NVIDIA Inception Program. Less than three years in, AQSolotl has joined the NVIDIA Inception program, gaining access to resources and connections within one of the world’s most powerful technology ecosystems.
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AQSolotl is building the technology that helps bridge the gap between classical and quantum computing, enabling precision and control for the next generation of quantum systems.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:38
$140M SPAC Funds Aqarios’ Public Quantum Computing Debut
Aqarios is now publicly traded on the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange after a SPAC transaction with Fonterelli SPAC 4 AG, securing funds for its quantum computing platform.
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Aqarios Quantum Technologies AG began trading on the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange this week, becoming, to their knowledge, the first pure-play quantum computing company publicly listed in Germany. Aqarios intends to use the funds to expand its quantum application platform, Luna, which allows businesses to access quantum computing without specialized in-house expertise.
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Aqarios is now publicly traded on the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange after a SPAC transaction with Fonterelli SPAC 4 AG, securing funds for its quantum computing platform.
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 18:35
European Processor Initiative Successfully Concluded
July 15, 2026 — On July 1 and 2, 2026, the European Processor Initiative (funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking under Framework Partnership Agreement No 800928 and Specific Grant Agreement No 10103…
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European Processor Initiative Successfully Concluded. After four years of SGA2, the project successfully concluded its second stage, with highlights of outstanding achievements coming from both the EuroHPC JU’s staff and the reviewers.
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It successfully executed the HPL and STREAM benchmarks demonstrating the readiness of the complete Rhea1 hardware and software ecosystem for HPC workloads to power Exascale systems.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:33
IUniversities Need Hardware Access Beyond Cloud Quantum Systems
Universities should invest in dedicated, teachable quantum hardware, argues a recent Nature Reviews Physics article, moving beyond cloud access to IBM Cloud.
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The growing need for hands-on quantum education is becoming increasingly apparent, as highlighted in a commentary published this year in Nature Reviews Physics. The argument builds upon the 2022 “Quantum Information Science and Technology Workforce Development National Strategic Plan,” suggesting a gap between recognizing the need for a skilled quantum workforce and providing…
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Universities should invest in dedicated, teachable quantum hardware, argues a recent Nature Reviews Physics article, moving beyond cloud access to IBM Cloud.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:31
Seventy-Five Participants Join LatAm Quantum Water Hackathon
75 participants from Latin America, including Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, joined the 2026 LatAm Quantum Hackathon in Puebla, Mexico to explore if quantum computing can help tackle real-world water challenges. Teams worked on challenges including modelling the Atoyac river basin, optimising water releases from the Falcón International Dam, and detecting leaks in hydrographic networks.
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75 participants from Latin America, including Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, joined the 2026 LatAm Quantum Hackathon in Puebla, Mexico to explore if quantum computing can help tackle real-world water challenges.
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75 participants from Latin America, including Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, joined the 2026 LatAm Quantum Hackathon in Puebla, Mexico to explore if quantum computing can help tackle real-world water challenges.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 18:30
Bliq.ai gets the green light for driverless cars in Finland
Bliq.ai has won approval to run driverless cars in Finland, its second EU market after Estonia. First stop is a Helsinki winter. Europe has another driverless car heading for its roads. Finland has cleared Bliq.ai to operate its Bliq Driverless vehicles on public roads, effective immediately. It is the second EU country to approve the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Bliq.ai gets the green light for driverless cars in Finland. Bliq.ai has won approval to run driverless cars in Finland, its second EU market after Estonia. Finland has cleared Bliq.ai to operate its Bliq Driverless vehicles on public roads, effective immediately.
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It is the second EU country to approve the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 18:30
Nebius Introduces Business Model to Scale AI Cloud Globally Through Infrastructure Partnerships
AMSTERDAM, July 15, 2026 — Nebius today announced a new business model that lets infrastructure partners deploy Nebius’s full-stack AI cloud platform in their own AI data centers. The model brings additional capacity to Nebius customers, and expands the availability of value-added AI compute globally at a time when demand continues to outstrip supply. Under the […] The post Nebius Introduces Business Model to Scale AI Cloud Globally Through Infrastructure Partnerships appeared first on HPCwire .
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Nebius Introduces Business Model to Scale AI Cloud Globally Through Infrastructure Partnerships. The model brings additional capacity to Nebius customers, and expands the availability of value-added AI compute globally at a time when demand continues to outstrip supply.
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AMSTERDAM, July 15, 2026 — Nebius today announced a new business model that lets infrastructure partners deploy Nebius’s full-stack AI cloud platform in their own AI data centers.
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 18:29
Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code to Power the Trillion-Token Enterprise
AUSTIN, Texas, July 15, 2026 — Every enterprise wants to get a return on investment on their AI investments, however 80% of AI projects fail to make it to production. The problem isn’t whether or not to leverage AI, the hard problem is doing that safely, and affordably, at scale. Anaconda Inc. today announced it has […] The post Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code to Power the Trillion-Token Enterprise appeared first on HPCwire .
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Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code to Power the Trillion-Token Enterprise. The problem isn’t whether or not to leverage AI, the hard problem is doing that safely, and affordably, at scale. today announced it has […] The post Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code to Power the Trillion-Token Enterprise appeared first on HPCwire .
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 15, 2026 — Every enterprise wants to get a return on investment on their AI investments, however 80% of AI projects fail to make it to production.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:28
Harvard Engineers Shield Qubits With All-Mechanical Coherence
Harvard engineers demonstrated all-mechanical coherence protection for a spin qubit, extending its stability by a factor of 10.
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Harvard University researchers have achieved a significant step toward practical quantum computing by protecting a qubit’s coherence using entirely mechanical means, foregoing the electronic or optical shielding common in the field.
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Harvard engineers demonstrated all-mechanical coherence protection for a spin qubit, extending its stability by a factor of 10.
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 18:20
CSC: EU’s Single Basic Act Must Boost EuroHPC and Create Synergies Between European Partnerships
July 15, 2026 — CSC welcomes the European Commission’s plans to strengthen the Joint Undertakings (JUs) framework with an updated Single Basic Act regarding European Partnerships to be implemented as JUs under the next Horizon Europe program. EuroHPC JU has demonstrated the value of European cooperation in building strategic digital capabilities through coordinated investments in high-performance […] The post CSC: EU’s Single Basic Act Must Boost EuroHPC and Create Synergies Between European Partnerships appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 15, 2026 — CSC welcomes the European Commission’s plans to strengthen the Joint Undertakings (JUs) framework with an updated Single Basic Act regarding European Partnerships to be implemented as JUs under the next Horizon Europe program.
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July 15, 2026 — CSC welcomes the European Commission’s plans to strengthen the Joint Undertakings (JUs) framework with an updated Single Basic Act regarding European Partnerships to be implemented as JUs under the next Horizon Europe program.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:16
Former HPE Executive to Scale Pasqal’s Quantum Platform
Pasqal appointed Mark Armstrong, Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s former High Performance Computing and AI leader, as Chief Commercial Officer for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia-Pacific region (APAC). Armstrong aims to drive Pasqal’s commercial strategy, sales execution and customer expansion in those regions, as Pasqal accelerates the commercial scale-up of its neutral-atom quantum platform with seven systems in production across four countries.
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Pasqal appointed Mark Armstrong, Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s former High Performance Computing and AI leader, as Chief Commercial Officer for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia-Pacific region (APAC).
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Pasqal appointed Mark Armstrong, Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s former High Performance Computing and AI leader, as Chief Commercial Officer for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia-Pacific region (APAC).
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:14
Post-Quantum’s Algorithm Meets ISO Standard to Thwart HNDL Attacks
Classic McEliece, a post-quantum algorithm, achieved ISO standardization (ISO/IEC 18033-2) to defend against quantum cyber attacks, including Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) threats.
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The timeline for current encryption being broken has dramatically shortened, with prominent experts now estimating a potential breach within the next three years. The accelerating progress in quantum computing presents a clear and present danger to existing encryption methods; adversaries are already preparing for a future where current security protocols are obsolete.
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Classic McEliece, a post-quantum algorithm, achieved ISO standardization (ISO/IEC 18033-2) to defend against quantum cyber attacks, including Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL) threats.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:13
Purdue Reactor Tests AI for Next-Generation Nuclear Plants
Purdue University’s reactor, the nation’s only all-digital facility, is testing AI for next-generation nuclear plants, potentially lowering costs and increasing safety.
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Engineers are conducting experiments at Purdue University Reactor Number One, a facility that generates about the equivalent of 10 microwaves yet is important for the future of nuclear power. Purdue engineers are leveraging this digital infrastructure to explore capabilities that could lower costs, increase safety, and extend reactor lifespan.
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Purdue University’s reactor, the nation’s only all-digital facility, is testing AI for next-generation nuclear plants, potentially lowering costs and increasing safety.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:10
$15M NSF Award Turbocharges Quantum Tech in Connecticut
Connecticut is poised to become a hub for quantum technology, receiving a $15 million NSF award to develop the QuantumCT Engine.
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Connecticut is among twelve regions nationally selected to receive a highly competitive National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines award, positioning the state as a key player in the growing field of quantum technology.
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Connecticut is poised to become a hub for quantum technology, receiving a $15 million NSF award to develop the QuantumCT Engine.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 18:05
Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York
Neko Health, the body-scanning startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, has raised $700m and is now worth about $7bn. It is heading to New York, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Maria Sharapova, and will.i.am. “We’ve gone into markets where health care is free, and hundreds of thousands of people line up in a queue” to pay for […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York. Neko Health, the body-scanning startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, has raised $700m and is now worth about $7bn. It is heading to New York, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Maria Sharapova, and will.i.am.
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“We’ve gone into markets where health care is free, and hundreds of thousands of people line up in a queue” to pay for […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 18:03
Yale Researchers Grow Surface Codes With Novel Unitary Technique
Magic state cultivation is a state-of-the-art protocol to prepare ultra-high fidelity non-Clifford resource states for universal quantum computation, offering a reduction in spacetime overhead. Researchers present a new cultivation scheme measuring the fold-transversal Hadamard of the unrotated surface code, leveraging unitary techniques to grow within the surface code family.
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Magic state cultivation is a state-of-the-art protocol to prepare ultra-high fidelity non-Clifford resource states for universal quantum computation, offering a reduction in spacetime overhead. Researchers present a new cultivation scheme measuring the fold-transversal Hadamard of the unrotated surface code, leveraging unitary techniques to grow within the surface code family.
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Magic state cultivation is a state-of-the-art protocol to prepare ultra-high fidelity non-Clifford resource states for universal quantum computation, offering a reduction in spacetime overhead.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 18:01
QED-C Brings Quantum Industry to Capitol Hill for 2026 Technology Showcase
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Following a landmark year for U.S. quantum policy and innovation, the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C®) brought together senior government officials, bipartisan members of Congress, federal agency leaders and leading quantum companies Tuesday for the 2026 Quantum Technology Showcase on the Hill. Held just weeks after President Donald Trump signed Executive Orders advancing U.S. […]
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QED-C Brings Quantum Industry to Capitol Hill for 2026 Technology Showcase. Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Following a landmark year for U.S. Held just weeks after President Donald Trump signed Executive Orders advancing U.S.
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quantum policy and innovation, the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C®) brought together senior government officials, bipartisan members of Congress, federal agency leaders and leading quantum companies Tuesday for the 2026 Quantum Technology Showcase on the Hill.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 17:44
Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland
Amazon Leo will launch satellite internet in South Africa in 2027, seemingly beating Elon Musk’s Starlink in his home country. Musk has refused the Black-ownership rules Amazon appears willing to meet. Jeff Bezos is about to beat Elon Musk in Musk’s own back yard. Amazon said on Wednesday it will bring its Amazon Leo satellite […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland. Amazon Leo will launch satellite internet in South Africa in 2027, seemingly beating Elon Musk’s Starlink in his home country. Jeff Bezos is about to beat Elon Musk in Musk’s own back yard.
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Amazon said on Wednesday it will bring its Amazon Leo satellite […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 17:37
Argonne: Using AI and Supercomputers to Streamline Fusion Experiments
By integrating DIII-D experiments with ALCF computing resources, researchers are enabling faster data analysis and developing AI-powered digital twins to help inform decisions between plasma shots. July 15, 2026 — To advance fusion energy research, scientists at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility study plasmas in short experimental shots that last only seconds. After each plasma shot, […] The post Argonne: Using AI and Supercomputers to Streamline Fusion Experiments appeared first on HPCwire .
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Argonne: Using AI and Supercomputers to Streamline Fusion Experiments. July 15, 2026 — To advance fusion energy research, scientists at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility study plasmas in short experimental shots that last only seconds. After each plasma shot, […] The post Argonne: Using AI and Supercomputers to Streamline Fusion Experiments appeared first on HPCwire .
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By integrating DIII-D experiments with ALCF computing resources, researchers are enabling faster data analysis and developing AI-powered digital twins to help inform decisions between plasma shots.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 17:28
Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995
Nvidia and Sega go back 30 years. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to thank the games maker for a $5m investment that saved his company from bankruptcy in 1995. “If not for what Sega did for Nvidia, Nvidia would not be here today.” That is Jensen Huang, chief executive of the world’s most valuable company, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995. Nvidia and Sega go back 30 years. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to thank the games maker for a $5m investment that saved his company from bankruptcy in 1995.
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“If not for what Sega did for Nvidia, Nvidia would not be here today.” That is Jensen Huang, chief executive of the world’s most valuable company, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 17:22
Meta-Cavity Design Boosts Qubit Coupling by Factor of 100
A meta-cavity design has boosted qubit coupling by a factor of 100, offering a potential pathway to scalable quantum computing. This approach utilizes a strong coupling regime, enhancing interactions between superconducting qubits and improving performance.
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Meta-Cavity Design Boosts Qubit Coupling by Factor of 100. A meta-cavity design has boosted qubit coupling by a factor of 100, offering a potential pathway to scalable quantum computing. This approach utilizes a strong coupling regime, enhancing interactions between superconducting qubits and improving performance.
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A meta-cavity design has boosted qubit coupling by a factor of 100, offering a potential pathway to scalable quantum computing.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 17:18
Stanford University Team Models Many-Body Effects for Turbulent Quantum Hydrodynamics
Turbulent flow in quantum fluids typically relies on approximations that break down at extremely low temperatures. Extending hydrodynamic descriptions beyond these limits, this work proposes investigating many-body quantum effects and their impact on turbulence. Ultracold atoms and quantum computing offer potential platforms to explore this previously inaccessible regime and unlock new insights into complex quantum dynamics.
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Stanford University Team Models Many-Body Effects for Turbulent Quantum Hydrodynamics. Turbulent flow in quantum fluids typically relies on approximations that break down at extremely low temperatures. Extending hydrodynamic descriptions beyond these limits, this work proposes investigating many-body quantum effects and their impact on turbulence.
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Ultracold atoms and quantum computing offer potential platforms to explore this previously inaccessible regime and unlock new insights into complex quantum dynamics.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 17:16
Lossy Resonators Enable Direct Traveling State Generation
Researchers are directly generating traveling quantum states using microwave-frequency Josephson junctions and nonlinear resonators, sidestepping a key challenge in building quantum networks.
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Researchers are directly generating traveling quantum states using microwave-frequency Josephson junctions and nonlinear resonators, sidestepping a key challenge in building quantum networks. This new approach eliminates the need for couplers by directly releasing the quantum state into a transmission waveguide.
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Encoding quantum data in propagating wave packets is key for quantum networks, but transmission losses limit fidelity.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 17:13
Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn
Emergent’s vibe coding platform hit a $1.5bn valuation a year after launch. Its founder says most businesses do not need software, they need a way to turn how they work into it. “Most businesses don’t need any software. They need a way to turn how they actually work into software.” That is how Mukund Jha […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn. Emergent’s vibe coding platform hit a $1.5bn valuation a year after launch. Its founder says most businesses do not need software, they need a way to turn how they work into it.
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They need a way to turn how they actually work into software.” That is how Mukund Jha […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 17:12
University of Alabama Study Finds Qutrit Magic Tightens Bound to 1.561
University of Alabama research reveals a tighter bound—1.561—for maximal stabilizer Rényi entropy in two-qutrit systems, improving on the prior limit of 1.609.
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Researchers at the University of Alabama have refined the understanding of a critical resource for achieving quantum advantage by establishing a new upper bound of 1.561 for the maximal stabilizer Rényi entropy (M2) for two qutrits.
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University of Alabama research reveals a tighter bound—1.561—for maximal stabilizer Rényi entropy in two-qutrit systems, improving on the prior limit of 1.609.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 17:05
University of Waterloo Finds Entanglement Limits Simulation
University of Waterloo researchers proved distributed monogamy of entanglement, showing a limit—k/n—to extracting EPR pairs from multi-party systems.
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This research introduces fractional extendibility to more precisely quantify leaked quantum correlation, refining our understanding of quantum information flow. Researchers have introduced fractional extendibility to more precisely quantify leaked quantum correlation, refining our understanding of quantum information flow.
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University of Waterloo researchers proved distributed monogamy of entanglement, showing a limit—k/n—to extracting EPR pairs from multi-party systems.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 17:02
QpiAI Open-Sources Quantum SDK for 8- and 25-Qubit Computer Access
QpiAI released the QpiAI Quantum SDK as open-source software, giving developers, researchers, and startups an accessible toolkit to build and run quantum algorithms. The SDK connects development workflows directly to QpiAI's 8-qubit and 25-qubit quantum computers through QpiAI-QCloud, expanding access to quantum software development globally.
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QpiAI released the QpiAI Quantum SDK as open-source software, giving developers, researchers, and startups an accessible toolkit to build and run quantum algorithms. The SDK connects development workflows directly to QpiAI's 8-qubit and 25-qubit quantum computers through QpiAI-QCloud, expanding access to quantum software development globally.
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QpiAI released the QpiAI Quantum SDK as open-source software, giving developers, researchers, and startups an accessible toolkit to build and run quantum algorithms.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 17:02
New Simulations Show Quantum Turbulence Forms Via Kibble-Zurek Mechanism
New research uses numerical simulations to demonstrate how quantum turbulence arises in Bose-Einstein condensates, confirming the Kibble-Zurek mechanism’s role in vortex formation.
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Researchers have, through numerical simulations, begun to unravel the origins of spontaneous quantum turbulence, revealing a connection to a well-established principle governing phase transitions. This suggests a previously understood mechanism governs this complex quantum phenomenon.
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New research uses numerical simulations to demonstrate how quantum turbulence arises in Bose-Einstein condensates, confirming the Kibble-Zurek mechanism’s role in vortex formation.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 16:54
Photonic Time Crystals Achieve 100% Permittivity Modulation Depth
Photonic time crystals (PTCs), artificially structured media with periodically varying electromagnetic properties in time, offer a paradigm shift toward resonance-free lasing without the need for gain media. Researchers report the first experimental demonstration of surface-emitted microwave vortex beam lasing using ring-shaped PTCs, achieving over 100% equivalent permittivity modulation depth.
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Photonic time crystals (PTCs), artificially structured media with periodically varying electromagnetic properties in time, offer a paradigm shift toward resonance-free lasing without the need for gain media.
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Photonic time crystals (PTCs), artificially structured media with periodically varying electromagnetic properties in time, offer a paradigm shift toward resonance-free lasing without the need for gain media.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 16:53
Niels Bohr Institute Defines Black Hole States Using Thermal Correlators
Niels Bohr Institute research defines a black hole state within quantum spin chains, using thermal correlators & the Heisenberg model.
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Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute and Nordita have defined a black hole state using a quantum spin chain model, calculating an effective central charge of approximately 5.2 for the entanglement entropy, which grows logarithmically with this central charge.
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Niels Bohr Institute research defines a black hole state within quantum spin chains, using thermal correlators & the Heisenberg model.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 16:52
Spotify launches a conversational AI that lets you shape what plays by talking to the app
Spotify launched a conversational AI feature that lets Premium users type or speak directly in the app to control what plays, learn about music, and explore their listening history. The beta is rolling out for users 18 and older in the US, Ireland, and Sweden on iOS and Android. Users can ask Spotify to “play […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Spotify launches a conversational AI that lets you shape what plays by talking to the app. Spotify launched a conversational AI feature that lets Premium users type or speak directly in the app to control what plays, learn about music, and explore their listening history. The beta is rolling out for users 18 and older in the US, Ireland, and Sweden on iOS and Android.
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Users can ask Spotify to “play […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 16:28
ESA Brings Quantum Computing to Earth Observation
July 15, 2026 — The European Space Agency (ESA) has installed its first quantum computer, called Bell-1, at its Earth observation centre in Italy. The move marks a significant step in exploring how quantum technology could be merged with classical high-performance computing to improve the speed and efficiency of processing huge amounts of satellite data. Every […] The post ESA Brings Quantum Computing to Earth Observation appeared first on HPCwire .
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ESA Brings Quantum Computing to Earth Observation. July 15, 2026 — The European Space Agency (ESA) has installed its first quantum computer, called Bell-1, at its Earth observation centre in Italy.
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Every […] The post ESA Brings Quantum Computing to Earth Observation appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 16:01
Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8bn as AI drug discovery moves from promise to deployment
Chai Discovery’s $400m raise triples its value to $3.8bn in seven months. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. AI drug discovery just minted another fast-rising star. Chai Discovery has raised a $400m Series C that values the San Francisco startup at $3.8bn, the company said. That […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8bn as AI drug discovery moves from promise to deployment. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. That […] This story continues at The Next Web
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That […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 15:56
OnePlus exits the US and Europe. The memory crisis and Apple’s lawsuit made staying untenable.
OnePlus, the Android brand that built a cult following with aggressively priced smartphones, will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week, Bloomberg reported. The shutdown is part of a broader restructuring at parent company Oppo. Realme, another Oppo mobile brand, will also exit the China market. While OnePlus […] This story continues at The Next Web
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OnePlus exits the US and Europe. OnePlus, the Android brand that built a cult following with aggressively priced smartphones, will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week, Bloomberg reported. While OnePlus […] This story continues at The Next Web
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While OnePlus […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 15:56
$1.2 Million Fuels Mesa Quantum Driven Quantum Sector Growth in New Mexico
New Mexico’s Technology & Innovation Office awarded $1.2 million to six companies, bolstering the state’s developing quantum sector and encouraging expansion of quantum technology operations.
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A competitive grant program in New Mexico has distributed $1.2 million across six companies expanding the state’s quantum technology sector. The New Mexico Quantum Technologies Award has injected $1.2 million into six companies, demonstrating a strategy to cultivate a quantum ecosystem within the state.
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New Mexico’s Technology & Innovation Office awarded $1.2 million to six companies, bolstering the state’s developing quantum sector and encouraging expansion of quantum technology operations.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 15:53
Qonscious Framework Enables Agnostic Quantum Backend Evaluation
Developers face challenges comparing quantum backends due to varied metrics, but the Qonscious framework, utilizing Grover’s algorithm, offers a holistic performance evaluation.
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Researchers have developed a new way to compare the performance of quantum computers from different manufacturers, addressing the challenge of widely varying proprietary metrics. Quantum computing’s rapid development is increasingly hampered by a critical bottleneck: comparing the performance of diverse quantum hardware.
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Developers face challenges comparing quantum backends due to varied metrics, but the Qonscious framework, utilizing Grover’s algorithm, offers a holistic performance evaluation.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 15:51
University of Massachusetts Amherst: Researchers Simplify Purification of Complex Entangled Quantum States
Entangled states essential for quantum technologies currently demand ever more complex circuits for error correction. This work offers a new approach to designing those circuits, optimising them for realistic hardware constraints and reducing the escalating computational burden. By efficiently enumerating purification circuits, these techniques promise scalable entanglement distillation for advanced quantum computation and networks.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst: Researchers Simplify Purification of Complex Entangled Quantum States. This work offers a new approach to designing those circuits, optimising them for realistic hardware constraints and reducing the escalating computational burden.
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Entangled states essential for quantum technologies currently demand ever more complex circuits for error correction.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 15:15
USC Researchers Sharpen The Quantum Limit For Collision Search
USC's Guangxu Yang and colleagues prove a tight quantum lower bound for collision finding, lifting it from N^1/12 to N^1/4 with a new matrix-discrepancy method.
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A team of computer scientists has established a far stronger limit on how efficiently quantum computers can solve collision finding, one of the workhorse problems behind cryptography and large-scale data analysis.
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USC's Guangxu Yang and colleagues prove a tight quantum lower bound for collision finding, lifting it from N^1/12 to N^1/4 with a new matrix-discrepancy method.
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 15:14
University of Michigan and Sandia Launch Five-Year Research Partnership
July 15, 2026 — The University of Michigan and Sandia National Laboratories have entered a five-year strategic partnership to expand cooperation in research and education between the university and t…
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Both institutions will work to advance joint research projects under the partnership. U-M researchers have worked alongside scientists at Sandia for years, collaborating across engineering, computation, materials science and energy research.
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July 15, 2026 — The University of Michigan and Sandia National Laboratories have entered a five-year strategic partnership to expand cooperation in research and education between the university and the New Mexico-based national laboratory.
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 15:13
Classiq and ParityQC Partner to Optimize and Streamline Quantum Execution
HAMBURG, Germany and TEL AVIV, Israel, July 15, 2026 — The quantum software company Classiq and the quantum architecture company ParityQC have announced a partnership to integrate ParityQC’s Parity Twine technology with Classiq’s quantum software engineering platform, giving developers and enterprises a more efficient path from quantum algorithm design to execution on quantum hardware. The […] The post Classiq and ParityQC Partner to Optimize and Streamline Quantum Execution appeared first on HPCwire .
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The […] The post Classiq and ParityQC Partner to Optimize and Streamline Quantum Execution appeared first on HPCwire .
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HAMBURG, Germany and TEL AVIV, Israel, July 15, 2026 — The quantum software company Classiq and the quantum architecture company ParityQC have announced a partnership to integrate ParityQC’s Parity Twine technology with Classiq’s quantum software engineering platform, giving developers and enterprises a more efficient path from quantum algorithm design to execution on quantum hardware.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 15:08
South Korea will give all 52 million citizens free AI access, becoming the first G20 nation to do so
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on July 13 for a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service agent available to all 52 million residents. The programme, called “AI for Everyone,” would make South Korea the first G20 nation to offer AI to its entire population as a public service. Two or three […] This story continues at The Next Web
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South Korea will give all 52 million citizens free AI access, becoming the first G20 nation to do so. South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on July 13 for a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service agent available to all 52 million residents.
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Two or three […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 15:08
How QSCOUT Achieves All-to-All Connectivity With Yb-171 Ion Chains
Sandia National Laboratories has developed an approach to quantum processing with QSCOUT, a trapped-ion system employing a linear chain of Yb-171 ions as its qubit register.
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Sandia National Laboratories has developed an approach to quantum processing with QSCOUT, a trapped-ion system employing a linear chain of Yb-171 ions as its qubit register. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have detailed the system’s approach to quantum processing, focusing on a hybrid continuous-discrete variable scheme.
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QSCOUT, a trapped-ion quantum processor, uses a linear chain of Yb-171 ions for all-to-all qubit connectivity.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 15:05
Double Quantum Dot Tunneling Fully Characterized in Silicon Device
Researchers fully characterized electron transport via tunnel couplings in a silicon double quantum dot, measuring both intra- and intervalley parameters.
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1.7 percent germanium is incorporated into the Si quantum well to enhance the average valley splitting. 1.7 percent germanium is incorporated into the Si quantum well to enhance the average valley splitting. This detailed understanding is crucial for mitigating device variability, a significant challenge in building large-scale silicon quantum computers.
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Researchers fully characterized electron transport via tunnel couplings in a silicon double quantum dot, measuring both intra- and intervalley parameters.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 14:50
Haskell Program Verifies Hybrid Quantum Code Automatically
Researchers built a Haskell program to automatically verify hybrid quantum-classical code, addressing challenges with loops and resource estimation.
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Christophe Chareton and colleagues have created the first semi-automated static analysis tool designed for hybrid quantum programs featuring unbounded loops, moving beyond purely theoretical approaches to program analysis.
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Researchers built a Haskell program to automatically verify hybrid quantum-classical code, addressing challenges with loops and resource estimation.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 14:48
CXMT prices a record $8.5bn Shanghai IPO, valuing China’s memory champion at $85bn
China’s biggest memory chipmaker is about to test the public markets. ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, has priced its Shanghai IPO at 8.66 yuan ($1.28) a share, the South China Morning Post reported. The sale will raise about 57.9 billion yuan, or $8.5bn. That would make it the largest listing by a Chinese semiconductor […] This story continues at The Next Web
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CXMT prices a record $8.5bn Shanghai IPO, valuing China’s memory champion at $85bn. China’s biggest memory chipmaker is about to test the public markets. ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, has priced its Shanghai IPO at 8.66 yuan ($1.28) a share, the South China Morning Post reported.
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That would make it the largest listing by a Chinese semiconductor […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 14:42
Researchers Entangles 780nm Photons with Atoms Across 24km Fiber
Researchers entangled a single atom with a resonant photon at 780nm, distributing quantum information across 24km of fiber.
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Researchers led by Maya Büki and 11 other authors have successfully distributed quantum entanglement between an atom and a photon using 24 kilometers of existing commercial fiber, a distance comparable to a metropolitan area.
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Researchers entangled a single atom with a resonant photon at 780nm, distributing quantum information across 24km of fiber.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 14:35
Southeast University Team Uncovers Inert Term’s Topology Role
Researchers at Southeast University discovered an “inert” Hamiltonian term impacts a system’s topology, challenging prior assumptions about eigenstates.
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Researchers at Southeast University in Nanjing, China, have revealed a surprising role for a component of physics typically considered inconsequential. This discovery challenges established criteria for understanding these systems, as the identity term deforms the generalized Brillouin zone under non-Hermitian skin pumping.
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Researchers at Southeast University discovered an “inert” Hamiltonian term impacts a system’s topology, challenging prior assumptions about eigenstates.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 14:34
Magic Gate Teleportation Simplifies Feedforward for Quantum Computing
Quantum gate teleportation is a technique for implementing logical gates in fault-tolerant quantum computation, and this work develops a theory of protocols—called magic gate teleportation—that implement non-Clifford gates on input states without revealing information about them. These protocols encode the input state into a stabilizer code, followed by a logical non-Clifford gate, offering a new understanding of resource states for quantum computing.
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Quantum gate teleportation is a technique for implementing logical gates in fault-tolerant quantum computation, and this work develops a theory of protocols—called magic gate teleportation—that implement non-Clifford gates on input states without revealing information about them.
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Quantum gate teleportation is a technique for implementing logical gates in fault-tolerant quantum computation, and this work develops a theory of protocols—called magic gate teleportation—that implement non-Clifford gates on input states without revealing information about them.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 14:30
Reflection signs a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius, its second big capacity grab in a month
Reflection AI has locked in more computing power. The US startup signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Nebius, the Amsterdam-based cloud provider, according to Bloomberg. The agreement runs through 2029. It gives Reflection access to Nvidia’s newest GB300 chips. Nebius confirmed the deal. Its shares have more than doubled this year […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Reflection signs a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius, its second big capacity grab in a month. The US startup signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Nebius, the Amsterdam-based cloud provider, according to Bloomberg. Its shares have more than doubled this year […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Reflection AI has locked in more computing power.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 14:25
The Future of Quantum Real Estate
Quantum computing is now a real estate consideration, with JLL tracking over 240 facilities in 35 countries. Currently, this quantum real estate is largely comprised of modest facilities, typically under 150,000 square feet, and is dominated by public ownership from universities and government agencies.
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The Future of Quantum Real Estate. Quantum computing is now a real estate consideration, with JLL tracking over 240 facilities in 35 countries. Currently, this quantum real estate is largely comprised of modest facilities, typically under 150,000 square feet, and is dominated by public ownership from universities and government agencies.
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Quantum computing is now a real estate consideration, with JLL tracking over 240 facilities in 35 countries.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 14:11
DeepSeek is preparing an IPO and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after its first raise
DeepSeek is getting ready to go public. The Chinese AI lab has started laying the groundwork for an initial public offering, according to Bloomberg. It could file as soon as this year, with a debut targeted for 2027. First, though, it wants to raise more in private. The Hangzhou lab closed its first-ever outside round […] This story continues at The Next Web
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DeepSeek is preparing an IPO and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after its first raise. The Chinese AI lab has started laying the groundwork for an initial public offering, according to Bloomberg. First, though, it wants to raise more in private.
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The Hangzhou lab closed its first-ever outside round […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 14:10
QuSecure Lists QuProtect R3 on AWS Marketplace for U.S. Intelligence Community
Insider Brief Press release – QuSecure, Inc., a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and cryptographic-agility company helping organizations manage cryptographic risk and prepare for quantum-resilient security, today announced that it listed QuProtect R3™ in the AWS Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community (ICMP). ICMP is a curated digital catalog from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easy to discover, […]
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QuSecure Lists QuProtect R3 on AWS Marketplace for U.S. Insider Brief Press release – QuSecure, Inc., a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and cryptographic-agility company helping organizations manage cryptographic risk and prepare for quantum-resilient security, today announced that it listed QuProtect R3™ in the AWS Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community (ICMP).
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ICMP is a curated digital catalog from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easy to discover, […]
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 14:06
Supermicro Expands Liquid Cooling Portfolio with New Rear Door Heat Exchangers
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 15, 2026 — Super Micro Computer, Inc., an AI, Enterprise, Storage, and 5G/Edge IT Total Solution Provider, featuring Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS), today announced the expansion of its Rear Door Heat Exchanger (RDHx) portfolio, further strengthening its end-to-end liquid cooling solutions for high-density AI and HPC infrastructure. As a […] The post Supermicro Expands Liquid Cooling Portfolio with New Rear Door Heat Exchangers appeared first on HPCwire .
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Supermicro Expands Liquid Cooling Portfolio with New Rear Door Heat Exchangers. SAN JOSE, Calif., July 15, 2026 — Super Micro Computer, Inc., an AI, Enterprise, Storage, and 5G/Edge IT Total Solution Provider, featuring Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS), today announced the expansion of its Rear Door Heat Exchanger (RDHx) portfolio, further strengthening its end-to-…
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As a […] The post Supermicro Expands Liquid Cooling Portfolio with New Rear Door Heat Exchangers appeared first on HPCwire .
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 14:02
Aqarios Lists on Düsseldorf Exchange, Says It Is Germany’s First Pure-Play Public Quantum Computing Company
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Aqarios Quantum Technologies AG has begun trading on the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange following the completion of a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) transaction, a move the company says makes it Germany’s first publicly listed pure-play quantum computing company. The Munich-based quantum software developer announced in a company blog post that […]
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Aqarios Lists on Düsseldorf Exchange, Says It Is Germany’s First Pure-Play Public Quantum Computing Company. Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Aqarios Quantum Technologies AG has begun trading on the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange following the completion of a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) transaction, a move the company says makes it Germany’s first publicly listed pure-p…
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The Munich-based quantum software developer announced in a company blog post that […]
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 14:01
ASML plans to build EUV machines 30% faster as AI demand outstrips its production capacity
ASML is working to cut the time it takes to build and test its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines by roughly a third, CFO Roger Dassen told reporters on Wednesday. The cycle time, the period between starting production in ASML’s clean rooms and shipping, was about 22 weeks a few quarters ago. “We’re now looking at […] This story continues at The Next Web
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ASML plans to build EUV machines 30% faster as AI demand outstrips its production capacity. ASML is working to cut the time it takes to build and test its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines by roughly a third, CFO Roger Dassen told reporters on Wednesday.
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“We’re now looking at […] This story continues at The Next Web
Bbc
Jul 15, 13:54
Pictures released of baby vicuna born at wildlife park
Pictures have been released of a baby vicuna - known as a cria - born at the Highland Wildlife Park last month.
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Pictures have been released of a baby vicuna - known as a cria - born at the Highland Wildlife Park last month. Keepers at the site in Kincraig said the female was born on 18 June to parents Juanita and Austria. Snow leopard cubs venture outside for first time at Highland Wildlife Park
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The baby vicuna - the smallest member of the camel family - is settling in well at the Highland site.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 13:39
Braida and Colleagues Models Log-Concavity Framework for Discrete Schrödinger Operators
Could quantum optimisation algorithms benefit from tunnelling even when faced with complex, non-linear challenges. This work extends the analysis of the “Hamming weight with a spike” problem beyond linear potentials to quadratic ones, revealing a pathway for potential speedups. Furthermore, new spectral gap bounds improve upon previous findings for convex potentials established in 2014.
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Braida and Colleagues Models Log-Concavity Framework for Discrete Schrödinger Operators. This work extends the analysis of the “Hamming weight with a spike” problem beyond linear potentials to quadratic ones, revealing a pathway for potential speedups. Furthermore, new spectral gap bounds improve upon previous findings for convex potentials established in 2014.
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Could quantum optimisation algorithms benefit from tunnelling even when faced with complex, non-linear challenges.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 13:36
High Q Technologies Expands Quantum Protein Analysis Platform For Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery
Insider Brief An Ontario startup is deploying quantum sensing technology to help pharmaceutical researchers better understand how proteins move, something the company says could shorten drug discovery timelines for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. High Q Technologies has developed a quantum-enabled electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy platform called Fathom that measures the motion of […]
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Insider Brief An Ontario startup is deploying quantum sensing technology to help pharmaceutical researchers better understand how proteins move, something the company says could shorten drug discovery timelines for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
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Insider Brief An Ontario startup is deploying quantum sensing technology to help pharmaceutical researchers better understand how proteins move, something the company says could shorten drug discovery timelines for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 13:35
Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone
Apple is in early talks with PrismML, a startup that shrinks large AI models to run directly on a phone. The company’s on-device AI pitch could help Apple keep more of Siri’s work off the cloud. PrismML chief executive Babak Hassibi told CNBC that Apple and other companies were evaluating its technology. He called the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone. Apple is in early talks with PrismML, a startup that shrinks large AI models to run directly on a phone. The company’s on-device AI pitch could help Apple keep more of Siri’s work off the cloud.
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He called the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 13:23
UK proposes a midnight social media curfew for older teens
The UK government has proposed a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, plus limits on infinite scrolling. The UK social media curfew would switch on by default, though teens could turn it off. The government set out the measures on Wednesday, as CNBC first reported. It said the plan aims to protect older […] This story continues at The Next Web
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UK proposes a midnight social media curfew for older teens. The UK government has proposed a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, plus limits on infinite scrolling. The UK social media curfew would switch on by default, though teens could turn it off.
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It said the plan aims to protect older […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 13:16
NSF Selects Connecticut Quantum Engine to Accelerate Quantum Commercialization
July 15, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that Connecticut is one of twelve regions selected to receive an NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) award, joining a portfolio of regional technology clusters that are accelerating the development of critical technologies and building a durable U.S. technology advantage. The NSF Quantum Technologies Engine […] The post NSF Selects Connecticut Quantum Engine to Accelerate Quantum Commercialization appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 15, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that Connecticut is one of twelve regions selected to receive an NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) award, joining a portfolio of regional technology clusters that are accelerating the development of critical technologies and building a durable U.S. technology advantage.
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The NSF Quantum Technologies Engine […] The post NSF Selects Connecticut Quantum Engine to Accelerate Quantum Commercialization appeared first on HPCwire .
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 13:06
Pasqal Appoints Former HPE Executive Mark Armstrong as Commercial Chief
Insider Brief Press release – Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced the appointment of Mark Armstrong as Chief Commercial Officer for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia-Pacific region (APAC). Armstrong, a former Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) executive who led HPE’s High Performance Computing and AI business across […]
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Insider Brief Press release – Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced the appointment of Mark Armstrong as Chief Commercial Officer for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia-Pacific region (APAC). Armstrong, a former Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) executive who led HPE’s High Performance Computing and AI business across […]
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Insider Brief Press release – Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced the appointment of Mark Armstrong as Chief Commercial Officer for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia-Pacific region (APAC).
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 13:00
Quantum Elements and Planckian Partner on Digital Twins for Quantum Error Correction
LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2026 — Quantum Elements, a provider of AI-powered digital twins for quantum computing developers, has announced a development agreement with Planckian, an Italian quantum computing company pioneering a novel superconducting quantum processor architecture, to support Planckian’s error correction strategy. Through this collaboration, Quantum Elements will develop architecture-specific noise models and digital […] The post Quantum Elements and Planckian Partner on Digital Twins for Quantum Error Correction appeared first on HPCwire .
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Quantum Elements and Planckian Partner on Digital Twins for Quantum Error Correction. LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2026 — Quantum Elements, a provider of AI-powered digital twins for quantum computing developers, has announced a development agreement with Planckian, an Italian quantum computing company pioneering a novel superconducting quantum processor architecture, to su…
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Through this collaboration, Quantum Elements will develop architecture-specific noise models and digital […] The post Quantum Elements and Planckian Partner on Digital Twins for Quantum Error Correction appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 13:00
Dutch Monumental raises $32m led by Khosla to put more bricklaying robots on site
Monumental has raised a $32m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, money it will spend putting more of its bricklaying robots on building sites in Britain and, for the first time, in the United States. Plural and Hummingbird, both backers of the company’s $25m round in early 2024, took part again. The Amsterdam company says the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Dutch Monumental raises $32m led by Khosla to put more bricklaying robots on site. Monumental has raised a $32m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, money it will spend putting more of its bricklaying robots on building sites in Britain and, for the first time, in the United States. Plural and Hummingbird, both backers of the company’s $25m round in early 2024, took part again.
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The Amsterdam company says the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 15, 12:50
Tennessee Announces $3M Commitment to Support NSF X-Labs Quantum Teams
New initiative will recruit NSF X-Labs teams to commercialize breakthrough quantum technologies in Tennessee NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 15, 2026 — Gov. Bill Lee and Deputy Gov. and Tennessee Department of Economic Development Commissioner (TNECD) Stuart C. McWhorter have announced a $3 million funding commitment to support National Science Foundation (NSF) X-Labs quantum teams that choose […] The post Tennessee Announces $3M Commitment to Support NSF X-Labs Quantum Teams appeared first on HPCwire .
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Tennessee Announces $3M Commitment to Support NSF X-Labs Quantum Teams. and Tennessee Department of Economic Development Commissioner (TNECD) Stuart C. McWhorter have announced a $3 million funding commitment to support National Science Foundation (NSF) X-Labs quantum teams that choose […] The post Tennessee Announces $3M Commitment to Support NSF X-Labs Quantum Teams appeared…
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New initiative will recruit NSF X-Labs teams to commercialize breakthrough quantum technologies in Tennessee NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 15, 2026 — Gov.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 12:39
Alibaba stock jumps 4% after Qwen is approved to run Apple Intelligence in China
Alibaba confirmed on Wednesday that its Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for users in China. “Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence experiences,” an Alibaba spokesperson told CNBC. China’s Cyberspace Administration included Apple AI services on a list of approved providers alongside products from Huawei […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Alibaba stock jumps 4% after Qwen is approved to run Apple Intelligence in China. Alibaba confirmed on Wednesday that its Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for users in China. “Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence experiences,” an Alibaba spokesperson told CNBC.
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China’s Cyberspace Administration included Apple AI services on a list of approved providers alongside products from Huawei […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 12:38
Velocity raises $38M to move business money with stablecoins
London fintech Velocity has raised a $38 million Series A to help businesses move money with stablecoins. The Velocity Series A, led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, brings the two-year-old company’s total funding to nearly $50 million. Velocity builds treasury and settlement infrastructure for companies that want to use stablecoins, the dollar-pegged tokens now spreading across […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Velocity raises $38M to move business money with stablecoins. London fintech Velocity has raised a $38 million Series A to help businesses move money with stablecoins. The Velocity Series A, led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, brings the two-year-old company’s total funding to nearly $50 million.
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Velocity builds treasury and settlement infrastructure for companies that want to use stablecoins, the dollar-pegged tokens now spreading across […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 12:23
Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training
A group of major book publishers and the author Scott Turow have sued Google, claiming it used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI without permission. The Google Gemini lawsuit calls it “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history.” The plaintiffs filed the complaint on 10 July in the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training. A group of major book publishers and the author Scott Turow have sued Google, claiming it used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI without permission. The Google Gemini lawsuit calls it “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history.
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The Google Gemini lawsuit calls it “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history.” The plaintiffs filed the complaint on 10 July in the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 12:18
Rochester Institute of Technology: Researchers Map Keywords to Boost Quantum Sensing in Education
Only 22% of 63 quantum information science and engineering courses addressed quantum sensing-related topics, and none dedicated solely to the subject. This disparity reveals a considerable imbalance in quantum education, despite the growing potential of technologies like quantum gravimeters and bio-sensing. Addressing this curricular gap is essential to cultivate a skilled quantum workforce and accelerate innovation in the field.
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Rochester Institute of Technology: Researchers Map Keywords to Boost Quantum Sensing in Education. This disparity reveals a considerable imbalance in quantum education, despite the growing potential of technologies like quantum gravimeters and bio-sensing.
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Only 22% of 63 quantum information science and engineering courses addressed quantum sensing-related topics, and none dedicated solely to the subject.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 12:09
Australia sets up a national Office of AI
Australia has set up a national Office of AI. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also promised new copyright protection for creatives, in a speech in Sydney. Albanese announced the plan on Wednesday at the University of Sydney, the Guardian reported. His government billed it as a major speech on AI. It covered copyright, data-centre rules, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Australia sets up a national Office of AI. Australia has set up a national Office of AI. His government billed it as a major speech on AI.
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It covered copyright, data-centre rules, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 12:07
Zipline is launching healthcare drone delivery with Cleveland Clinic. It hired Tesla and Waymo veterans to scale.
Zipline said the number of businesses offering delivery through its app grew 13 times during the first half of 2026. The autonomous drone delivery company has now completed more than 2.5 million commercial deliveries, including one million in the last year alone, and says it operates more flights per day than major US airlines. Roughly […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Zipline is launching healthcare drone delivery with Cleveland Clinic. Zipline said the number of businesses offering delivery through its app grew 13 times during the first half of 2026. The autonomous drone delivery company has now completed more than 2.
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Roughly […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 11:18
Researchers Propose a Dissipative Protocol for Preparing Laughlin-Like Quantum States
Dissipative preparation of Laughlin-like states Laughlin-like states, typically demanding coherent control, are now uniquely stabilised as steady states via engineered energy loss. This protocol utilises local dissipation and ‘pump’ channels to prepare these fractional quantum Hall states at a filling fraction of 1/3, offering a new approach to quantum simulation. Adiabatic pumping then allows manipulation of these states through slow modulation of the pump channels.
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Researchers Propose a Dissipative Protocol for Preparing Laughlin-Like Quantum States. Dissipative preparation of Laughlin-like states Laughlin-like states, typically demanding coherent control, are now uniquely stabilised as steady states via engineered energy loss. Adiabatic pumping then allows manipulation of these states through slow modulation of the pump channels.
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This protocol utilises local dissipation and ‘pump’ channels to prepare these fractional quantum Hall states at a filling fraction of 1/3, offering a new approach to quantum simulation.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 11:16
India pledges $20 billion to boost chips and smartphones as Modi pushes for an Indian mobile brand
India pledged 1.9 trillion rupees ($19.7 billion) in combined incentives for domestic chip and smartphone production on Wednesday. The cabinet approved 1.28 trillion rupees ($13.3 billion) for semiconductors, covering chip design, machine fabrication, research and development, and talent creation, and a separate 625 billion rupees ($6.5 billion) for mobile phone manufacturing. “The Prime Minister has […] This story continues at The Next Web
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India pledges $20 billion to boost chips and smartphones as Modi pushes for an Indian mobile brand. India pledged 1.9 trillion rupees ($19.7 billion) in combined incentives for domestic chip and smartphone production on Wednesday. The cabinet approved 1.28 trillion rupees ($13.
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“The Prime Minister has […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 10:59
Abu Dhabi already runs its government on AI
While the West argues over how to regulate AI, Abu Dhabi has quietly built an AI-native government. In the UAE capital, a single app already renews your ID, books your doctor, and pays your parking fine, sometimes before you ask. Most governments are still drafting their first AI strategy. Abu Dhabi is running on one. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Abu Dhabi already runs its government on AI. While the West argues over how to regulate AI, Abu Dhabi has quietly built an AI-native government. Abu Dhabi is running on one.
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Thenextweb
Jul 15, 10:47
Lucid shares plunged 40% on a bankruptcy rumour from an EV blog. The denial came hours later.
Lucid Motors stock fell more than 40% at one point on Tuesday and was halted for volatility multiple times after an EV-focused publication reported the company was considering going private or filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The stock recovered some losses and closed down 16% at $4.62 a share. The report said Lucid asked […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Lucid shares plunged 40% on a bankruptcy rumour from an EV blog. Lucid Motors stock fell more than 40% at one point on Tuesday and was halted for volatility multiple times after an EV-focused publication reported the company was considering going private or filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The report said Lucid asked […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The report said Lucid asked […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 10:23
Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.
The notice read like housekeeping. Take screenshots while you still can, ByteDance told Doubao users, or export the text. On 15 July the custom agents they had built stopped working, and what is left is a read-only archive with a closing date attached: 15 October, after which the company says the data will be handled […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.. Take screenshots while you still can, ByteDance told Doubao users, or export the text.
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On 15 July the custom agents they had built stopped working, and what is left is a read-only archive with a closing date attached: 15 October, after which the company says the data will be handled […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 10:12
Anthropic’s job ads read like a threat assessment
A look at Anthropic safety hiring shows exactly what it fears: analysts brought in to stop its models teaching anyone how to build nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Most job ads sell a mission. Anthropic’s read like a threat assessment. The company has posted a run of openings for enforcement analysts whose job is to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Anthropic’s job ads read like a threat assessment. A look at Anthropic safety hiring shows exactly what it fears: analysts brought in to stop its models teaching anyone how to build nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Anthropic’s read like a threat assessment.
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The company has posted a run of openings for enforcement analysts whose job is to […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 10:03
Australia tells AI data centres to put back more power than they take out
Anthony Albanese has told the AI industry that Australian books, music, and journalism are not free training data, and that any large data centre built in the country will have to put more electricity into the grid than it draws out. Neither of those things is law yet. The prime minister used a speech at […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Australia tells AI data centres to put back more power than they take out. Anthony Albanese has told the AI industry that Australian books, music, and journalism are not free training data, and that any large data centre built in the country will have to put more electricity into the grid than it draws out.
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The prime minister used a speech at […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 09:56
The White House’s Gold Eagle wants to patch cyber flaws at machine speed
The White House wants frontier AI on cyber defence, and it wants it fast. Gold Eagle, a new AI-backed clearinghouse, will pool software vulnerability findings from government and industry. It ranks the worst, then coordinates fixes across US critical infrastructure. The pitch for AI-written malware is that it moves at machine speed. Washington has now […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The White House’s Gold Eagle wants to patch cyber flaws at machine speed. The White House wants frontier AI on cyber defence, and it wants it fast. Gold Eagle, a new AI-backed clearinghouse, will pool software vulnerability findings from government and industry.
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Washington has now […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 09:49
CoreWeave looks to Wall Street to hedge memory chips, an asset with no market
Memory chips have roughly doubled in price this year, a squeeze that has emptied Apple’s shelves and rewritten data centre budgets. CoreWeave is now working out what to do if they get cheaper. The AI cloud company is exploring financial derivatives as a hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices, Reuters reported on […] This story continues at The Next Web
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CoreWeave looks to Wall Street to hedge memory chips, an asset with no market. Memory chips have roughly doubled in price this year, a squeeze that has emptied Apple’s shelves and rewritten data centre budgets. CoreWeave is now working out what to do if they get cheaper.
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The AI cloud company is exploring financial derivatives as a hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices, Reuters reported on […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 09:41
Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity
Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised sandbox. For a century, Delaware has been the place where American […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity. Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised sandbox.
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For a century, Delaware has been the place where American […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 09:33
OpenAI’s first Jony Ive device is a screen-free speaker built to feel alive
OpenAI’s consumer hardware push begins in the living room. The company’s first device designed with Jony Ive is a mobile, screen-free smart speaker meant to sit in a home and behave like a humanlike companion, according to people familiar with the project who spoke to Bloomberg. It surfaced the day before OpenAI’s actual first shipping […] This story continues at The Next Web
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OpenAI’s first Jony Ive device is a screen-free speaker built to feel alive. OpenAI’s consumer hardware push begins in the living room. The company’s first device designed with Jony Ive is a mobile, screen-free smart speaker meant to sit in a home and behave like a humanlike companion, according to people familiar with the project who spoke to Bloomberg.
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Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 09:23
SES and Airbus to Build Optical Ground Station for EAGLE-1 Quantum Satellite
Insider Brief Press release – SES, a space solutions company, jointly with Airbus Netherlands B.V. signed a ground lease agreement with the Dutch municipality of Noordwijk for a plot at the NL Space Campus, next to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) technical center ESTeC. The facility will host a dedicated optical ground station (OGS) to […]
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SES and Airbus to Build Optical Ground Station for EAGLE-1 Quantum Satellite. signed a ground lease agreement with the Dutch municipality of Noordwijk for a plot at the NL Space Campus, next to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) technical center ESTeC. The facility will host a dedicated optical ground station (OGS) to […]
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Insider Brief Press release – SES, a space solutions company, jointly with Airbus Netherlands B.V.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 09:16
ISO Standardizes Classic McEliece for Quantum-Resistant Encryption
Insider Brief Press release – It’s proven that today’s encryption is vulnerable to attack by a sufficiently mature quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm – a catastrophic event commonly known as Q-Day. Even before such a cryptographically relevant quantum computer emerges it is known that adversaries are stealing encrypted data now, which can be decrypted later […]
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Insider Brief Press release – It’s proven that today’s encryption is vulnerable to attack by a sufficiently mature quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm – a catastrophic event commonly known as Q-Day. Even before such a cryptographically relevant quantum computer emerges it is known that adversaries are stealing encrypted data now, which can be decrypted later […]
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Insider Brief Press release – It’s proven that today’s encryption is vulnerable to attack by a sufficiently mature quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm – a catastrophic event commonly known as Q-Day.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 09:16
China’s electric taxis are blunting the Hormuz oil shock, but only at the margins
China’s crude oil imports fell 41.3% in June from a year earlier to 29.27 million tonnes, the lowest monthly total since October 2016, according to customs data released on 14 July. Five months into the Strait of Hormuz crisis, Beijing is buying less oil than at any point in a decade. Some of the slack is being […] This story continues at The Next Web
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China’s electric taxis are blunting the Hormuz oil shock, but only at the margins. China’s crude oil imports fell 41.3% in June from a year earlier to 29.27 million tonnes, the lowest monthly total since October 2016, according to customs data released on 14 July. Five months into the Strait of Hormuz crisis, Beijing is buying less oil than at any point in a decade.
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Some of the slack is being […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 09:08
A Superconductor’s Hidden Identity Revealed
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Sometimes, the biggest scientific discoveries come from looking more closely at something we thought we already understood. For decades, physicists have studied a remarkable class of materials called superconductors—materials that can carry electricity with zero energy loss. These materials could one day help power ultra-efficient electronics, quantum computers, and advanced medical technologies. […]
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A Superconductor’s Hidden Identity Revealed. Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Sometimes, the biggest scientific discoveries come from looking more closely at something we thought we already understood. For decades, physicists have studied a remarkable class of materials called superconductors—materials that can carry electricity with zero energy loss.
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These materials could one day help power ultra-efficient electronics, quantum computers, and advanced medical technologies.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 09:05
New Mexico Awards $1.2 Million to Six Quantum Technology Companies
Insider Brief Press release – Economic Development New Mexico’s Technology & Innovation Office (TIO) has awarded $1.2 million to six companies through the New Mexico Quantum Technologies Award, a competitive grant program that supports early-stage quantum and quantum-enabling technology companies growing operations in the state. The New Mexico Quantum Technologies Award provides grants of up […]
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New Mexico Awards $1.2 Million to Six Quantum Technology Companies. Insider Brief Press release – Economic Development New Mexico’s Technology & Innovation Office (TIO) has awarded $1.2 million to six companies through the New Mexico Quantum Technologies Award, a competitive grant program that supports early-stage quantum and quantum-enabling technology companies growing opera…
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The New Mexico Quantum Technologies Award provides grants of up […]
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 08:59
IBM Reaffirms $10 Billion Quantum Push Despite Weak Preliminary Quarterly Results
Insider Brief IBM reaffirmed its commitment to quantum computing and artificial intelligence even as it reported weaker-than-expected preliminary second-quarter financial results and acknowledged execution problems that weighed on software and infrastructure sales. In a letter to investors, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company remains committed to its roadmap of building a large-scale fault-tolerant quantum […]
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Insider Brief IBM reaffirmed its commitment to quantum computing and artificial intelligence even as it reported weaker-than-expected preliminary second-quarter financial results and acknowledged execution problems that weighed on software and infrastructure sales.
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Insider Brief IBM reaffirmed its commitment to quantum computing and artificial intelligence even as it reported weaker-than-expected preliminary second-quarter financial results and acknowledged execution problems that weighed on software and infrastructure sales.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 08:53
NSF Awards $15 Million to Connecticut Quantum Technology Engine
Insider Brief The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that Connecticut is one of twelve regions selected to receive an NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) award, joining a portfolio of regional technology clusters that are accelerating the development of critical technologies and building a durable U.S. technology advantage. The NSF Quantum Technologies Engine in Connecticut, also known as the QuantumCT Engine, will initially receive […]
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NSF Awards $15 Million to Connecticut Quantum Technology Engine. Insider Brief The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that Connecticut is one of twelve regions selected to receive an NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) award, joining a portfolio of regional technology clusters that are accelerating the development of critical technologies and buil…
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The NSF Quantum Technologies Engine in Connecticut, also known as the QuantumCT Engine, will initially receive […]
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 08:47
Apple wins dismissal of iCloud child abuse imagery lawsuit on Section 230 grounds
US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop images of child sexual abuse from being stored and shared through iCloud, finding that the claims sit inside the liability shield of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Judge Noël Wise issued the order late on Monday. The dismissal […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Apple wins dismissal of iCloud child abuse imagery lawsuit on Section 230 grounds. US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop images of child sexual abuse from being stored and shared through iCloud, finding that the claims sit inside the liability shield of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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The dismissal […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 08:42
UC Berkeley Quantum Chip to Enter National Time Capsule For America’s 250th
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A quantum computing chip fabricated at UC Berkeley was chosen by California Gov. Gavin Newsom as one of the state’s contributions to a time capsule to be buried in honor of the nation’s 250th birthday, or semiquincentennial. The time capsule was built and its contents assembled by the congressionally mandated […]
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UC Berkeley Quantum Chip to Enter National Time Capsule For America’s 250th. Gavin Newsom as one of the state’s contributions to a time capsule to be buried in honor of the nation’s 250th birthday, or semiquincentennial. The time capsule was built and its contents assembled by the congressionally mandated […]
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A quantum computing chip fabricated at UC Berkeley was chosen by California Gov.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 08:38
Classiq and ParityQC Partner to Optimize Quantum Circuit Execution
Insider Brief Press release – The quantum software company Classiq and the quantum architecture company ParityQC announced a partnership to integrate ParityQC’s Parity Twine technology with Classiq’s quantum software engineering platform, giving developers and enterprises a more efficient path from quantum algorithm design to execution on quantum hardware. The collaboration focuses on a key opportunity […]
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The collaboration focuses on a key opportunity in quantum computing: translating high-level quantum computing applications into circuits that run efficiently on quantum hardware with limited qubit connectivity.
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Insider Brief Press release – The quantum software company Classiq and the quantum architecture company ParityQC announced a partnership to integrate ParityQC’s Parity Twine technology with Classiq’s quantum software engineering platform, giving developers and enterprises a more efficient path from quantum algorithm design to execution on quantum hardware.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 08:36
D-Wave Announces Transfer of Stock Exchange Listing to Nasdaq
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE —D-Wave Quantum will move the listing of its common stock from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq Stock Market later this month, the company announced in a press release Tuesday. The transfer is scheduled to take effect after the close of trading on July 24, with shares expected to […]
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE —D-Wave Quantum will move the listing of its common stock from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq Stock Market later this month, the company announced in a press release Tuesday. The transfer is scheduled to take effect after the close of trading on July 24, with shares expected to […]
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE —D-Wave Quantum will move the listing of its common stock from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq Stock Market later this month, the company announced in a press release Tuesday.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 08:32
ASML’s $400M chipmaking machine just shipped its first laptop processors
High NA EUV was supposed to debut on Intel’s 14A node towards the end of the decade. It has turned up early, on Panther Lake, patterning layers that are also qualified to run on the old tools. A machine that costs about $400mn is now printing a handful of the layers inside a laptop processor. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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ASML’s $400M chipmaking machine just shipped its first laptop processors. It has turned up early, on Panther Lake, patterning layers that are also qualified to run on the old tools. A machine that costs about $400mn is now printing a handful of the layers inside a laptop processor.
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Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 08:29
JUNIQ Platform Powers Hands-On Quantum Computing Summer School
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s 2026 summer school will explore quantum computing applications, with hands-on sessions utilizing the cloud-based JUNIQ platform, a core offering of the JUNIQ infrastructure.
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From August 24-28, 2026, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre will host a summer school focused on the practical applications of quantum computing, bridging digital and analog architectures. Organized jointly by the Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ) and the NRW -funded EPIQ project, the event is a collaboration between a major research institution and the…
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The Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s 2026 summer school will explore quantum computing applications, with hands-on sessions utilizing the cloud-based JUNIQ platform, a core offering of the JUNIQ infrastructure.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 08:20
Researchers Chart 22-Step Path to Quantum Entanglement PET Scanners
Researchers detail a 22-step plan to build Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners leveraging quantum entanglement, potentially enhancing medical diagnosis via annihilation photons.
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Authors have charted a 22-step path toward developing Quantum Entanglement PET (QE-PET) scanners, detailing a specific, multi-stage research and development process intended to overcome limitations in current medical imaging technology.
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Researchers detail a 22-step plan to build Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners leveraging quantum entanglement, potentially enhancing medical diagnosis via annihilation photons.
Thenextweb
Jul 15, 08:11
Stripe and Advent offer $60.50 a share for PayPal, valuing it above $53bn
Stripe and Advent International have offered $60.50 a share in cash for PayPal, a bid that values the payments company at more than $53bn and arrives backed by about $50bn in committed financing from banks, according to Reuters. The buyers would hold equal stakes in the business and, unusually for a proposal with a private […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Stripe and Advent offer $60.50 a share for PayPal, valuing it above $53bn. Stripe and Advent International have offered $60.50 a share in cash for PayPal, a bid that values the payments company at more than $53bn and arrives backed by about $50bn in committed financing from banks, according to Reuters.
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The buyers would hold equal stakes in the business and, unusually for a proposal with a private […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 08:08
Forschungszentrum Jülich Launches IceCirc Quantum Chip Firm
Forschungszentrum Jülich spun out IceCirc GmbH to develop cryogenic chips for quantum computers, integrating control electronics for improved scalability.
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Forschungszentrum Jülich is supporting the translation of its research into commercial ventures, as evidenced by the launch of IceCirc GmbH, a new company spun out of the Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI), Integrated Computing Architectures, ICA.
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Forschungszentrum Jülich spun out IceCirc GmbH to develop cryogenic chips for quantum computers, integrating control electronics for improved scalability.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 15, 07:58
NVIDIA Says AI Decoder Achieved up to 347 X Cut in Quantum Logical Error Rates
Insider Brief NVIDIA has released an open-source AI-based quantum error correction decoder that the company says substantially improves the speed and accuracy of decoding one of the most promising but computationally challenging families of quantum error correction codes, potentially expanding the range of architectures that could support fault-tolerant quantum computing. The new software, called Ising […]
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The new software, called I sing Decoder ColorCode 1 Fast, is designed to improve the performance of color codes, a class of topological quantum error correction codes that have long been viewed as attractive for quantum computation because they can execute many logical operations more efficiently than the widely used surface code.
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Insider Brief NVIDIA has released an open-source AI-based quantum error correction decoder that the company says substantially improves the speed and accuracy of decoding one of the most promising but computationally challenging families of quantum error correction codes, potentially expanding the range of architectures that could support fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 07:51
NVIDIA QEC Ising Decoding Cuts Color Code Errors Over 347x
NVIDIA Ising Decoding has achieved a greater than 347x improvement in logical error rate and 7.3x faster runtime compared to Chromobius for d=31, suggesting color codes are a viable option for practical, fault-tolerant quantum computation. This decoding pipeline utilizes 3D convolutional neural networks to enable scalable and accurate real-time decoding for quantum processor units.
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NVIDIA Ising Decoding has achieved a greater than 347x improvement in logical error rate and 7.3x faster runtime compared to Chromobius for d=31, suggesting color codes are a viable option for practical, fault-tolerant quantum computation.
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NVIDIA Ising Decoding has achieved a greater than 347x improvement in logical error rate and 7.3x faster runtime compared to Chromobius for d=31, suggesting color codes are a viable option for practical, fault-tolerant quantum computation.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 07:34
Rydberg Polaritons Gain Coherence Via Velocity-Memory Scheme
Rydberg polaritons hold potential for applications like single-photon sources and quantum information processing, but are limited by fast motional decoherence. Researchers have devised a scheme to enhance the coherence of Rydberg polaritons by utilizing velocity-memory or manipulating the phase of the polariton during storage.
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Rydberg polaritons hold potential for applications like single-photon sources and quantum information processing, but are limited by fast motional decoherence. Researchers have devised a scheme to enhance the coherence of Rydberg polaritons by utilizing velocity-memory or manipulating the phase of the polariton during storage.
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Rydberg polaritons hold potential for applications like single-photon sources and quantum information processing, but are limited by fast motional decoherence.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 07:34
enQase Module Achieves FIPS 140-3 Validation, Certificate #5346
The enQase Cryptographic Module has received FIPS 140-3 validation, confirmed by CMVP Certificate #5346. This validation verifies the module meets standards for cryptographic capabilities across various applications, including networks, servers, and IoT devices.
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enQase Module Achieves FIPS 140-3 Validation, Certificate #5346. The enQase Cryptographic Module has received FIPS 140-3 validation, confirmed by CMVP Certificate #5346. This validation verifies the module meets standards for cryptographic capabilities across various applications, including networks, servers, and IoT devices.
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The enQase Cryptographic Module has received FIPS 140-3 validation, confirmed by CMVP Certificate #5346.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 07:28
Quantum Programs Verified With New Runtime Analysis Framework
Researchers at RWTH Aachen University introduced a new framework for analyzing preconditions of quantum programs, enabling verification without runtime upper bounds.
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Researchers at RWTH Aachen University in Germany have developed a new framework for verifying quantum programs that addresses a common limitation of existing methods: the need to establish an upper bound on potential runtime.
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Researchers at RWTH Aachen University introduced a new framework for analyzing preconditions of quantum programs, enabling verification without runtime upper bounds.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 07:16
Subspace Restart Drives Quantum Walks Into Drifted-Diffusion Regime
This work introduces subspace restart, a method of periodically resetting internal degrees of freedom in a quantum process while maintaining spatial distribution, to control the transition from quantum to classical behavior. Applying this technique to discrete-time quantum walks results in an engineered drifted-diffusion regime, altering the walker’s spread and drift.
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This work introduces subspace restart, a method of periodically resetting internal degrees of freedom in a quantum process while maintaining spatial distribution, to control the transition from quantum to classical behavior. Applying this technique to discrete-time quantum walks results in an engineered drifted-diffusion regime, altering the walker’s spread and drift.
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This work introduces subspace restart, a method of periodically resetting internal degrees of freedom in a quantum process while maintaining spatial distribution, to control the transition from quantum to classical behavior.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 06:36
Honeywell Aerospace Quantum Magnetometer Targets Earth’s Field by 2027
Honeywell Aerospace is leading a consortium to develop a compact quantum space magnetometer, intended for delivery to the European Space Agency by 2027. This system is designed to provide high-performance measurements of Earth’s magnetic field, supporting advancements in Earth science and space exploration.
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Honeywell Aerospace Quantum Magnetometer Targets Earth’s Field by 2027. Honeywell Aerospace is leading a consortium to develop a compact quantum space magnetometer, intended for delivery to the European Space Agency by 2027. This system is designed to provide high-performance measurements of Earth’s magnetic field, supporting advancements in Earth science and space exploration.
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Honeywell Aerospace is leading a consortium to develop a compact quantum space magnetometer, intended for delivery to the European Space Agency by 2027.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 06:27
Max-Planck Team Extends Neutral Atom Trap Times to 2 Hours
Researchers have developed a cryogenic platform for trapping neutral atoms, offering full optical access and achieving trap lifetimes of up to two hours. This system enables extended observation and manipulation of neutral atoms for quantum science and technology applications.
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Max-Planck Team Extends Neutral Atom Trap Times to 2 Hours. Researchers have developed a cryogenic platform for trapping neutral atoms, offering full optical access and achieving trap lifetimes of up to two hours. This system enables extended observation and manipulation of neutral atoms for quantum science and technology applications.
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This system enables extended observation and manipulation of neutral atoms for quantum science and technology applications.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 06:06
Classiq and ParityQC Combine to Cut Quantum Circuit Complexity
Classiq and ParityQC have partnered to integrate their technologies, aiming to streamline the process of translating quantum algorithms into efficient circuits for execution on existing quantum hardware. This collaboration focuses on reducing circuit complexity and the need for costly SWAP operations, a common challenge in running quantum programs.
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Classiq and ParityQC have partnered to integrate their technologies, aiming to streamline the process of translating quantum algorithms into efficient circuits for execution on existing quantum hardware. This collaboration focuses on reducing circuit complexity and the need for costly SWAP operations, a common challenge in running quantum programs.
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Classiq and ParityQC have partnered to integrate their technologies, aiming to streamline the process of translating quantum algorithms into efficient circuits for execution on existing quantum hardware.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 06:06
$15M NSF Award Launches Connecticut Quantum Tech Engine
A $15 million investment from the U.S. National Science Foundation will establish a Quantum Technologies Engine in Connecticut, placing the state among twelve regions advancing critical technologies…
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National Science Foundation will establish a Quantum Technologies Engine in Connecticut, placing the state among twelve regions advancing critical technologies and bolstering U.S. Led by the University of Connecticut in collaboration with Yale University , Southern Connecticut State University, and Connecticut State Community College, the Engine will focus on commercializing q…
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Connecticut’s quantum tech sector receives a $15 million NSF award, launching a new Regional Innovation Engine.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 05:48
25× Throughput Gain From IBM Quantum’s New Reset Design
IBM Quantum has achieved a 25-fold increase in circuit throughput with its new Nighthawk r2 processor, enabled by a redesigned qubit reset mechanism that addresses a longstanding challenge in quantum…
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IBM Quantum has achieved a 25-fold increase in circuit throughput with its new Nighthawk r2 processor, enabled by a redesigned qubit reset mechanism that addresses a longstanding challenge in quantum computing.
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IBM Quantum’s new qubit reset design achieves 25x faster performance, a critical step for quantum error correction.
Bbc
Jul 15, 05:08
Hosepipe ban in force for millions of households - is your area affected?
More than eight million households have been placed under hosepipe bans - which has raised questions about how effectively water resources are being managed.
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Hosepipe bans have been introduced in parts of south-east England as successive heatwaves have left water supplies under strain in parts of the UK. Environmental bodies in each UK nation decide whether to declare drought or water scarcity based on an assessment of current water levels and long-term weather forecasts.
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More than eight million households have been placed under hosepipe bans - which has raised questions about how effectively water resources are being managed.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 15, 00:17
Chen and Colleagues Designs Recursive QLSTM Framework for Quantum Recurrent Learning
Previously, quantum recurrent learning struggled to retain information across extended sequences. Now, a Recursive Quantum Long Short-Term Memory model, or Recursive QLSTM, introduces a recursive structure that markedly improves how temporal data is processed and learned. This new design offers a potentially more adaptable framework for applications ranging from speech recognition to forecasting.
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Chen and Colleagues Designs Recursive QLSTM Framework for Quantum Recurrent Learning. Now, a Recursive Quantum Long Short-Term Memory model, or Recursive QLSTM, introduces a recursive structure that markedly improves how temporal data is processed and learned.
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Previously, quantum recurrent learning struggled to retain information across extended sequences.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 23:18
Henry and Colleagues Models Cold-Atom Scheme for Earth Observation Satellite Fleet Planning
Satellite mission planning can now be directly addressed using quantum processing, a feat previously beyond reach. For the first time, a problem involving the scheduling of Earth observation satellites and numerous targets has been solved using a quantum processing unit based on Rydberg atoms. This work demonstrates a viable pathway to encode logistical planning with these atoms, utilising a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization Framework.
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Henry and Colleagues Models Cold-Atom Scheme for Earth Observation Satellite Fleet Planning. For the first time, a problem involving the scheduling of Earth observation satellites and numerous targets has been solved using a quantum processing unit based on Rydberg atoms.
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Satellite mission planning can now be directly addressed using quantum processing, a feat previously beyond reach.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 22:38
Ntt Co Team Proposes Half-Beam Splitter Protocol for Rotation-Symmetric Cat Bell State Measurement
A measurement protocol requiring only a half beam splitter and photon-number-resolving detectors circumvents the need for complex nonlinear operations in discerning quantum states. This advance simplifies Bell state measurement for rotation-symmetric cat codes, broadening their potential as a platform for quantum technologies. The research also reveals a specific loss regime where utilising higher-order codes offers performance benefits.
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Ntt Co Team Proposes Half-Beam Splitter Protocol for Rotation-Symmetric Cat Bell State Measurement. This advance simplifies Bell state measurement for rotation-symmetric cat codes, broadening their potential as a platform for quantum technologies. The research also reveals a specific loss regime where utilising higher-order codes offers performance benefits.
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A measurement protocol requiring only a half beam splitter and photon-number-resolving detectors circumvents the need for complex nonlinear operations in discerning quantum states.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 20:52
Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research across eight institutions
Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD to eight Canadian research institutions to fund work on beneficial and responsible AI applications. The partnerships span Canada’s three leading regional AI institutes, Amii in Edmonton, Mila in Montréal, and the Vector Institute in Toronto, along with children’s hospital CHEO, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Université Laval, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD to eight Canadian research institutions to fund work on beneficial and responsible AI applications. The partnerships span Canada’s three leading regional AI institutes, Amii in Edmonton, Mila in Montréal, and the Vector Institute in Toronto, along with children’s hospital CHEO, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Université Laval…
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Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD to eight Canadian research institutions to fund work on beneficial and responsible AI applications.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 20:48
Grok Build was uploading entire Git repositories to xAI’s cloud, including committed secrets
A security researcher published a wire-level analysis on July 12 proving that xAI’s Grok Build coding CLI was packaging developers’ entire tracked repositories, including full Git history, committed secrets, and API keys, and sending them to a Google Cloud Storage bucket. The upload volume was roughly 27,800 times greater than the data the coding task […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Grok Build was uploading entire Git repositories to xAI’s cloud, including committed secrets. A security researcher published a wire-level analysis on July 12 proving that xAI’s Grok Build coding CLI was packaging developers’ entire tracked repositories, including full Git history, committed secrets, and API keys, and sending them to a Google Cloud Storage bucket.
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The upload volume was roughly 27,800 times greater than the data the coding task […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 20:14
Asavanant and Colleagues Propose Loss-Tolerant AOFF Architecture for Quantum Teleportation
Optical quantum computers promise speed and scale, but have long been held back by the slow processing of information between light and electronics. Now, a new architecture bypasses these bottlenecks by performing all operations using light alone, eliminating optical-to-electrical conversions. This allows for continuous, high-throughput calculations and a dramatic reduction in processing time for complex quantum circuits.
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Asavanant and Colleagues Propose Loss-Tolerant AOFF Architecture for Quantum Teleportation. Now, a new architecture bypasses these bottlenecks by performing all operations using light alone, eliminating optical-to-electrical conversions. This allows for continuous, high-throughput calculations and a dramatic reduction in processing time for complex quantum circuits.
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Optical quantum computers promise speed and scale, but have long been held back by the slow processing of information between light and electronics.
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 20:12
GCS Opens 36th Call for Large-Scale HPC Computing Projects
July 14, 2026 — As part of its 36th large-scale call, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) is now accepting applications for GCS Large-Scale Projects covering the period from November 1, 2026, to October 31, 2027. The three centers that comprise the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS)—the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Jülich Supercomputing […] The post GCS Opens 36th Call for Large-Scale HPC Computing Projects appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 14, 2026 — As part of its 36th large-scale call, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) is now accepting applications for GCS Large-Scale Projects covering the period from November 1, 2026, to October 31, 2027.
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July 14, 2026 — As part of its 36th large-scale call, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) is now accepting applications for GCS Large-Scale Projects covering the period from November 1, 2026, to October 31, 2027.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 19:30
Thawed Gaussian Dynamics Unifies Quantum & Classical Simulations
Thawed Gaussian Ehrenfest dynamics unifies existing methods to describe both electronic nonadiabaticity and nuclear quantum effects within a single framework. This approach combines Ehrenfest dynamics and thawed Gaussian wavepacket dynamics, offering a way to simulate molecular quantum dynamics when the Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks down.
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Thawed Gaussian Ehrenfest dynamics unifies existing methods to describe both electronic nonadiabaticity and nuclear quantum effects within a single framework. This approach combines Ehrenfest dynamics and thawed Gaussian wavepacket dynamics, offering a way to simulate molecular quantum dynamics when the Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks down.
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Thawed Gaussian Ehrenfest dynamics unifies existing methods to describe both electronic nonadiabaticity and nuclear quantum effects within a single framework.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 19:28
Yale Researchers Couple Microwave Photons to 110 GHz Phonons
Researchers at Yale University , led by Boxuan Tian, Jiacheng Xie, and Hong X. Tang in the Department of Electrical Engineering, have demonstrated the ability to excite mechanical vibrations at 110 G…
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Researchers at Yale University , led by Boxuan Tian, Jiacheng Xie, and Hong X. Tang in the Department of Electrical Engineering, have demonstrated the ability to excite mechanical vibrations at 110 GHz within a bulk lithium niobate crystal, with cooperativity up to 16.6 at 110 GHz.
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Yale researchers coupled microwave energy to 110 GHz vibrational modes, or phonons, in lithium niobate crystals.
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 19:26
SDSC to Host Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference
July 14, 2026 — The Fast Machine Learning (FastML) Foundation will hold the Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference 2026 through the University of California San Diego from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4. FastML will take place at the Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing San Diego Supercomputer Center. Early bird registration, which ends July […] The post SDSC to Host Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference appeared first on HPCwire .
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SDSC to Host Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference. FastML will take place at the Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing San Diego Supercomputer Center. Early bird registration, which ends July […] The post SDSC to Host Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference appeared first on HPCwire .
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July 14, 2026 — The Fast Machine Learning (FastML) Foundation will hold the Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference 2026 through the University of California San Diego from Aug.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 19:21
Exponential Localization Shields Quantum States From Time Changes
Researchers discovered that evolving quantum states exhibit universal energy-space localization, effectively “shielding” them from time-dependent perturbations.
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Researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook have demonstrated that quantum states within systems governed by certain Hamiltonians can exhibit unexpectedly stable behavior, remaining constrained to a defined energy window even when subjected to dynamic external changes.
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Researchers discovered that evolving quantum states exhibit universal energy-space localization, effectively “shielding” them from time-dependent perturbations.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 19:21
Levitated Optomechanics Squeeze Phonon Lasers by 3.15 dB
Researchers achieved thermomechanical squeezing in a phonon laser using levitated optomechanics, reducing noise by 3.15 dB.
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Researchers have achieved a 3.15 ± 0.35 decibel squeeze in a thermomechanically driven phonon laser using a levitated optomechanical system, a result previously unattained for classical squeezing of phonon lasers.
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Researchers achieved thermomechanical squeezing in a phonon laser using levitated optomechanics, reducing noise by 3.15 dB.
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 19:09
NSF Names 12 New Regional Innovation Engines to Advance Critical Tech
July 14, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation announced it awarded the newest NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) awards to 12 U.S. teams across 20 states. These NSF Engines will build and scale innovation clusters that aim to accelerate the development of critical technologies, prepare talent for emerging jobs and grow regional economies. Building on decades […] The post NSF Names 12 New Regional Innovation Engines to Advance Critical Tech appeared first on HPCwire .
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NSF Names 12 New Regional Innovation Engines to Advance Critical Tech. These NSF Engines will build and scale innovation clusters that aim to accelerate the development of critical technologies, prepare talent for emerging jobs and grow regional economies.
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National Science Foundation announced it awarded the newest NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) awards to 12 U.S.
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 19:08
Ultralytics YOLO26 to Bring Real-Time Computer Vision to Intel Processors
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 14, 2026 — Ultralytics, the company behind the YOLO family of object detection models, today announced collaboration with Intel to bring production-ready YOLO (You Only Look Once) computer vision models to Intel hardware, making real-time vision AI faster, easier, and more cost-effective to deploy across industries from robotics to manufacturing, logistics, and […] The post Ultralytics YOLO26 to Bring Real-Time Computer Vision to Intel Processors appeared first on HPCwire .
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Most real-world vision AI technologies run on existing, CPU-based infrastructures including industrial PCs, laptops and edge devices. By pairing Ultralytics YOLO models with OpenVINO Toolkit, developers can deploy YOLO models across various platforms powered by any Intel processor, putting the compute where appropriate: CPU, GPU, or NPU.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 14, 2026 — Ultralytics, the company behind the YOLO family of object detection models, today announced collaboration with Intel to bring production-ready YOLO (You Only Look Once) computer vision models to Intel hardware, making real-time vision AI faster, easier, and more cost-effective to deploy across industries from robotics to manufacturing, logistics, and […] The post Ultralytics YOLO26 to Bring Real-Time Computer Vision to Intel Processors appeared first on HPCwire .
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 19:07
Baya Systems and Kandou AI Partner to Tackle AI Memory Wall
Baya’s WeaveIP fabric and WeaverPro software accelerating architecture development for Kandou’s 448G copper AI connectivity platform SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SAINT-SULPICE, Switzerland, July 14, 2026 — Baya Systems, a leader in software-defined fabric IP for AI and high-performance computing, and Kandou AI, a pioneer in high-speed connectivity for AI infrastructure, today announced a strategic IP licensing […] The post Baya Systems and Kandou AI Partner to Tackle AI Memory Wall appeared first on HPCwire .
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Baya’s WeaveIP fabric and WeaverPro software accelerating architecture development for Kandou’s 448G copper AI connectivity platform SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SAINT-SULPICE, Switzerland, July 14, 2026 — Baya Systems, a leader in software-defined fabric IP for AI and high-performance computing, and Kandou AI, a pioneer in high-speed connectivity for AI infrastructure, today annou…
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and SAINT-SULPICE, Switzerland, July 14, 2026 — Baya Systems, a leader in software-defined fabric IP for AI and high-performance computing, and Kandou AI, a pioneer in high-speed connectivity for AI infrastructure, today announced a strategic IP licensing […] The post Baya Systems and Kandou AI Partner to Tackle AI Memory Wall appeared first on HPCwire .
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 18:55
Xing and Colleagues Presents Quantum Algorithm for Simulating GPDs in the Schwinger Model
Quantum simulation has moved beyond calculating quasi-GPDs within simplified models, establishing a unified framework capable of computing both parton distribution functions and generalised parton distributions. This algorithm represents a step change in accessing hadron structure, previously limited by computational complexity. By utilising Wilson fermions and a polynomial scaling approach, it offers a new avenue for exploring the internal dynamics of particles.
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Xing and Colleagues Presents Quantum Algorithm for Simulating GPDs in the Schwinger Model. This algorithm represents a step change in accessing hadron structure, previously limited by computational complexity. By utilising Wilson fermions and a polynomial scaling approach, it offers a new avenue for exploring the internal dynamics of particles.
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Quantum simulation has moved beyond calculating quasi-GPDs within simplified models, establishing a unified framework capable of computing both parton distribution functions and generalised parton distributions.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 18:45
Paramount says it will take the Warner Bros merger to the Supreme Court if states block the deal
Paramount Skydance is still aiming to close its roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery by the end of September despite a lawsuit filed by 12 state attorneys general seeking to block the deal on antitrust grounds. Jeffrey Kessler, Paramount’s lead trial counsel, told CNBC on Tuesday that the company is prepared to take […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Paramount says it will take the Warner Bros merger to the Supreme Court if states block the deal. Paramount Skydance is still aiming to close its roughly $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery by the end of September despite a lawsuit filed by 12 state attorneys general seeking to block the deal on antitrust grounds.
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Jeffrey Kessler, Paramount’s lead trial counsel, told CNBC on Tuesday that the company is prepared to take […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 18:37
Cloudera and VAST Data Launch Unified AI Factory for Hybrid Enterprise AI
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 14, 2026 — Cloudera today announced a strategic partnership with VAST Data to deliver a unified AI factory, a scalable production environment where data is continuously ingested, refined, governed, and delivered to AI models for training and inference. This infrastructure is available for enterprises operating across on-premises environments and public clouds, […] The post Cloudera and VAST Data Launch Unified AI Factory for Hybrid Enterprise AI appeared first on HPCwire .
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Cloudera and VAST Data Launch Unified AI Factory for Hybrid Enterprise AI. SAN JOSE, Calif., July 14, 2026 — Cloudera today announced a strategic partnership with VAST Data to deliver a unified AI factory, a scalable production environment where data is continuously ingested, refined, governed, and delivered to AI models for training and inference.
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This infrastructure is available for enterprises operating across on-premises environments and public clouds, […] The post Cloudera and VAST Data Launch Unified AI Factory for Hybrid Enterprise AI appeared first on HPCwire .
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 18:12
Can SiPearl Revive the European HPC and AI Chip Industry?
The stars appear to be aligning for SiPearl, the French chip startup that was founded in 2020 to develop an all-European chip for sovereign AI and HPC workloads. The company is now just months away from shipping its first ARM-based processor, the Rhea1, just as CPUs come back into favor for AI and HPC. As […] The post Can SiPearl Revive the European HPC and AI Chip Industry? appeared first on HPCwire .
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Can SiPearl Revive the European HPC and AI Chip Industry?. As […] The post Can SiPearl Revive the European HPC and AI Chip Industry? appeared first on HPCwire .
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The stars appear to be aligning for SiPearl, the French chip startup that was founded in 2020 to develop an all-European chip for sovereign AI and HPC workloads.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 18:00
Nintendo is pulling a console from Europe over battery rules. Meta’s glasses just got exempted from them.
The European Commission has exempted wearable technology from rules requiring batteries that users can remove and replace. The change clears the biggest obstacle to Meta’s latest smart glasses reaching the EU, Politico reports. The delegated act, adopted on Tuesday, adds six product categories to the exemption list. It covers wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Nintendo is pulling a console from Europe over battery rules. Meta’s glasses just got exempted from them.. The European Commission has exempted wearable technology from rules requiring batteries that users can remove and replace.
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It covers wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 17:51
Imec and Diraq Scale CMOS-Manufactured Silicon Spin Qubits to Eight-Qubit Array
LEUVEN, Belgium and SYDNEY, July 14, 2026 — Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub for advanced semiconductor technologies, and Diraq, a pioneer of silicon-based quantum computing, have announced they have demonstrated the coherent operation and readout of an eight silicon MOS spin-qubit array designed and fabricated on imec’s advanced 300mm spin-qubit technology platform using […] The post Imec and Diraq Scale CMOS-Manufactured Silicon Spin Qubits to Eight-Qubit Array appeared first on HPCwire .
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LEUVEN, Belgium and SYDNEY, July 14, 2026 — Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub for advanced semiconductor technologies, and Diraq, a pioneer of silicon-based quantum computing, have announced they have demonstrated the coherent operation and readout of an eight silicon MOS spin-qubit array designed and fabricated on imec’s advanced 300mm spin-qubit technology pl…
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LEUVEN, Belgium and SYDNEY, July 14, 2026 — Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub for advanced semiconductor technologies, and Diraq, a pioneer of silicon-based quantum computing, have announced they have demonstrated the coherent operation and readout of an eight silicon MOS spin-qubit array designed and fabricated on imec’s advanced 300mm spin-qubit technology platform using […] The post Imec and Diraq Scale CMOS-Manufactured Silicon Spin Qubits to Eight-Qubit Array appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 17:51
Meta sued by 26 employees who say its AI systems targeted workers on medical leave for layoffs
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of using AI-powered systems that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who had taken medical leave when selecting people for mass layoffs. The suit, filed Monday in Oakland, California, alleges that Meta relied on productivity metrics and AI token usage data […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Meta sued by 26 employees who say its AI systems targeted workers on medical leave for layoffs. Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of using AI-powered systems that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who had taken medical leave when selecting people for mass layoffs.
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The suit, filed Monday in Oakland, California, alleges that Meta relied on productivity metrics and AI token usage data […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 17:50
SLAC’s Shannon Harvey Advances Scalable Quantum Dot Qubits
At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Q-NEXT collaborator Shannon Harvey develops quantum dots — a mass-producible type of qubit. Driven by curiosity about nature and how things work, Harvey draws on her facility for working at the nanoscale. July 14, 2026 — Studying an object with zero dimensions takes serious creativity. Consider the singularity — a point […] The post SLAC’s Shannon Harvey Advances Scalable Quantum Dot Qubits appeared first on HPCwire .
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SLAC’s Shannon Harvey Advances Scalable Quantum Dot Qubits. Driven by curiosity about nature and how things work, Harvey draws on her facility for working at the nanoscale. Consider the singularity — a point […] The post SLAC’s Shannon Harvey Advances Scalable Quantum Dot Qubits appeared first on HPCwire .
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At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Q-NEXT collaborator Shannon Harvey develops quantum dots — a mass-producible type of qubit.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 17:44
University of Vienna Achieves Dark Optical Particle Control
Researchers at the University of Vienna have demonstrated the dark optical trapping of resonant transition-metal dichalcogenide particles, a technique utilizing light to control and manipulate these materials. This method enables particle control without direct illumination, offering a new approach to manipulating matter at small scales.
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Researchers at the University of Vienna have demonstrated the dark optical trapping of resonant transition-metal dichalcogenide particles, a technique utilizing light to control and manipulate these materials. This method enables particle control without direct illumination, offering a new approach to manipulating matter at small scales.
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Researchers at the University of Vienna have demonstrated the dark optical trapping of resonant transition-metal dichalcogenide particles, a technique utilizing light to control and manipulate these materials.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 17:33
IBM shares plunge after preliminary Q2 revenue falls short of estimates despite surging AI bookings
IBM issued preliminary second-quarter results on Monday showing revenue of roughly $17 billion, up one percent year over year but well below the $18 billion that analysts had expected. Shares fell as much as 17 percent in premarket trading, erasing weeks of gains that had been fuelled by bullish analyst coverage and a stock rally […] This story continues at The Next Web
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IBM issued preliminary second-quarter results on Monday showing revenue of roughly $17 billion, up one percent year over year but well below the $18 billion that analysts had expected. Shares fell as much as 17 percent in premarket trading, erasing weeks of gains that had been fuelled by bullish analyst coverage and a stock rally […] This story continues at The Next Web
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IBM issued preliminary second-quarter results on Monday showing revenue of roughly $17 billion, up one percent year over year but well below the $18 billion that analysts had expected.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 17:31
NSF Funds 12 New Regional Innovation Engines Including Quantum Technologies Initiative
Insider Brief Press release – The U.S. National Science Foundation announced it awarded the newest NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) awards to 12 U.S. teams across 20 states. These NSF Engines will build and scale innovation clusters that aim to accelerate the development of critical technologies, prepare talent for emerging jobs and grow regional economies. Building […]
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NSF Funds 12 New Regional Innovation Engines Including Quantum Technologies Initiative. National Science Foundation announced it awarded the newest NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) awards to 12 U.S.
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Insider Brief Press release – The U.S.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 17:22
4-to-2 Quantum Code Achieves Supremacy Over Classical Methods
Researchers demonstrated a 4-to-2 entanglement-assisted prepare-measure random-access code, surpassing classical methods and establishing quantum supremacy.
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Pan report a specific instance of quantum supremacy using a 4-to-1 code, in which four input bits are compressed into either one or two qubits, with performance exceeding both classical random-access codes and existing quantum methods.
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Researchers demonstrated a 4-to-2 entanglement-assisted prepare-measure random-access code, surpassing classical methods and establishing quantum supremacy.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 17:22
Upwind links compromise of multiple AsyncAPI npm packages to coordinated attack on software release process
Developers often assume that packages published through official channels have passed through a secure release process. That assumption is fundamental to modern software development, where open source components are routinely integrated into applications through automated dependency management. A new investigation suggests that confidence can be challenged when attackers gain access to the systems responsible for publishing software. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Upwind links compromise of multiple AsyncAPI npm packages to coordinated attack on software release process. Developers often assume that packages published through official channels have passed through a secure release process. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 17:13
U-238 Resonance Integral Computed With Quantum Monte Carlo Speedup
Monte Carlo methods, crucial for reactor physics, face limitations due to statistical error.
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U-238 Resonance Integral Computed With Quantum Monte Carlo Speedup. Monte Carlo methods, crucial for reactor physics, face limitations due to statistical error.
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Monte Carlo methods, crucial for reactor physics, face limitations due to statistical error.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 17:11
Chinese Academy of Sciences Maps Entanglement via Magic Barrier
Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers linked quantum entanglement growth to a newly defined “magic barrier” within many-body systems, revealing its relation to entropy.
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Researchers at the Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , in collaboration with Shuo Liu from Princeton University , have identified a new way to analyze how bipartite entanglement grows in quantum systems.
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Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers linked quantum entanglement growth to a newly defined “magic barrier” within many-body systems, revealing its relation to entropy.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 17:10
How IFIMAC Visualized Vortices in a Topological Superconductor
IFIMAC researchers used low-temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to observe superconducting vortices in 𝛾-PtBi2, confirming 2D quantum coherence with Tc=2.9 K.
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Researchers have directly observed quantized superconducting vortices within the two-dimensional material γ-PtBi₂, confirming the existence of macroscopic quantum phase coherence in what is described as a putative topological superconductor. The researchers report observing quantized superconducting vortices and the Josephson effect, demonstrating a coherent quantum state.
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IFIMAC researchers used low-temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to observe superconducting vortices in 𝛾-PtBi2, confirming 2D quantum coherence with Tc=2.9 K.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 17:07
IBM-UChicago Collaboration Achieves Accurate Molecular Insights With LASSQD
LASSQD, a new method from researchers at the University of Chicago and IBM, uses hybrid classical/quantum computing for molecular insights.
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Researchers from the IBM – University of Chicago Quantum Collaboration have developed LASSQD, a new computational framework that tackles molecular modeling by first breaking down complex systems into smaller fragments and then employing a quantum sampling technique.
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LASSQD, a new method from researchers at the University of Chicago and IBM, uses hybrid classical/quantum computing for molecular insights.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 17:05
QSE Lands First Financial Services Order for Quantum Risk Tool From Equity Insider
QSE – Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. received a financial services order for its Quantum Preparedness Assessment platform from a global insurer’s Malaysian operations.
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QSE Lands First Financial Services Order for Quantum Risk Tool From Equity Insider. QSE – Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. received a financial services order for its Quantum Preparedness Assessment platform from a global insurer’s Malaysian operations.
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QSE – Quantum Secure Encryption Corp.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 17:05
zerothird GmbH Deploys QKD in Live Finance System
zerothird GmbH has successfully integrated entanglement-based quantum key distribution, or eQKD, into a live financial system, using a 22km fiber link.
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Achieving 93.7% total uptime, with no failures originating from the quantum optical components, addresses a critical concern regarding the reliability of these technologies in real-world applications.
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zerothird GmbH has successfully integrated entanglement-based quantum key distribution, or eQKD, into a live financial system, using a 22km fiber link.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 17:03
Portugal Quantum Computing Companies 2026: Complete Vendor Guide
Portugal quantum computing companies in 2026: the leading vendors, startups and research institutes building Portugal's quantum ecosystem, profiled in depth.
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The leading portugal quantum computing companies and institutions in 2026 form a research-led ecosystem, organised around strong research institutes and the PTQCI national quantum-communication programme. Portugal has very few pure commercial quantum companies, but it has a serious research base and a clear national effort in quantum communication.
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Portugal quantum computing companies in 2026: the leading vendors, startups and research institutes building Portugal's quantum ecosystem, profiled in depth.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 17:02
enQase Receives FIPS 140-3 Validation for Cryptographic Security Module
Insider Brief Press release – enQase, a pioneer in quantum security and crypto-agility, today announced that the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) has issued FIPS 140-3 Certificate #5346 for the enQase FIPS 140-3 Cryptographic Module. The certificate, issued under the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3, confirms that the enQase FIPS 140-3 Cryptographic Module has completed […]
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The certificate, issued under the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-3, confirms that the enQase FIPS 140-3 Cryptographic Module has completed […]
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Insider Brief Press release – enQase, a pioneer in quantum security and crypto-agility, today announced that the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) has issued FIPS 140-3 Certificate #5346 for the enQase FIPS 140-3 Cryptographic Module.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 16:53
Kalshi builds a forward curve for computing power as exchanges race to turn GPUs into a tradable commodity
Kalshi, the prediction markets exchange, has built a forward curve that tracks the future price of computing power, joining a growing list of exchanges and index operators trying to turn GPU rental costs into a standardised financial instrument. The tool uses weekly and monthly event contracts related to compute prices, extending up to a year […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Kalshi builds a forward curve for computing power as exchanges race to turn GPUs into a tradable commodity. Kalshi, the prediction markets exchange, has built a forward curve that tracks the future price of computing power, joining a growing list of exchanges and index operators trying to turn GPU rental costs into a standardised financial instrument.
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The tool uses weekly and monthly event contracts related to compute prices, extending up to a year […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 16:25
Dimon says AI already eliminated 30 to 40 percent of jobs in some JPMorgan divisions
JPMorgan Chase has cut jobs by as much as 40 percent in some parts of the bank using artificial intelligence, CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday. But investors hoping the technology will dramatically improve profit margins are likely to be disappointed. Dimon said that in a competitive market, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Dimon says AI already eliminated 30 to 40 percent of jobs in some JPMorgan divisions. JPMorgan Chase has cut jobs by as much as 40 percent in some parts of the bank using artificial intelligence, CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday.
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Dimon said that in a competitive market, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 16:21
Pan and Colleagues Propose Hierarchical Logical Processor for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
At a physical error rate of one in a thousand, a new quantum processor design achieves three to four times greater qubit efficiency than standard approaches. This hierarchical architecture also reduces the physical qubits needed per logical qubit by between one and two hundred, alongside a twenty to thirty-fold reduction in error-correction cycle time. Combining established codes with elongated ‘shuttle bus’ connections, it offers a pathway to more compact and faster quantum computation.
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Pan and Colleagues Propose Hierarchical Logical Processor for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation. This hierarchical architecture also reduces the physical qubits needed per logical qubit by between one and two hundred, alongside a twenty to thirty-fold reduction in error-correction cycle time.
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At a physical error rate of one in a thousand, a new quantum processor design achieves three to four times greater qubit efficiency than standard approaches.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 16:17
India’s Udaan secures $160 million in new funding as it races to fix its balance sheet before an IPO
Indian B2B ecommerce platform Udaan has secured $160 million in a funding round that combines fresh equity from a new investor, additional debt, and the conversion of existing convertible bonds into equity, according to Bloomberg. Lightspeed Venture Partners and M&G Investments are participating in the round. The deal is designed to clean up Udaan’s balance […] This story continues at The Next Web
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India’s Udaan secures $160 million in new funding as it races to fix its balance sheet before an IPO. Indian B2B ecommerce platform Udaan has secured $160 million in a funding round that combines fresh equity from a new investor, additional debt, and the conversion of existing convertible bonds into equity, according to Bloomberg.
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The deal is designed to clean up Udaan’s balance […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 15:28
QSysMM Framework Unifies Quantum System Models into One Source
Engineered quantum systems require synchronized models, but current methods fall short.
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QSysMM Framework Unifies Quantum System Models into One Source. Engineered quantum systems require synchronized models, but current methods fall short.
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Engineered quantum systems require synchronized models, but current methods fall short.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 15:15
QuiX Quantum Deploys First Universal Photonic Quantum Architecture
QuiX Quantum announced Carina, a universal photonic quantum computing architecture for deployment in standard data centers.
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On July 14, 2026, QuiX Quantum announced Carina, a universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for installation in standard data centers and intended as a foundation for future fault-tolerant systems. Developed within the DLR Quantum Computing Initiative, Carina addresses a long-standing challenge in the field, as Prof.
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QuiX Quantum announced Carina, a universal photonic quantum computing architecture for deployment in standard data centers.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 15:14
Xanadu and Lockheed Martin Scale Quantum Training With New Effort
Xanadu and Lockheed Martin are collaborating to expand quantum workforce development, addressing the growing need for skilled professionals as quantum technologies move toward practical applications. Through Lockheed Martin’s Quantum Talent Pipeline program, engineers are utilizing Xanadu’s PennyLane platform and resources to gain practical quantum computing skills.
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Xanadu and Lockheed Martin are collaborating to expand quantum workforce development, addressing the growing need for skilled professionals as quantum technologies move toward practical applications. Through Lockheed Martin’s Quantum Talent Pipeline program, engineers are utilizing Xanadu’s PennyLane platform and resources to gain practical quantum computing skills.
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Xanadu and Lockheed Martin are collaborating to expand quantum workforce development, addressing the growing need for skilled professionals as quantum technologies move toward practical applications.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 15:10
AI Boom Could Drive Data Center Power to 169 Gigawatts by 2030
A new study estimates U.S. data center power capacity could increase from 40 gigawatts in 2025 to 169 gigawatts by 2030, driven by growing demand for artificial intelligence. Without emissions management strategies, carbon dioxide production from powering these data centers may rise significantly, reaching over 404 million metric tons annually by 2030.
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A new study estimates U.S. data center power capacity could increase from 40 gigawatts in 2025 to 169 gigawatts by 2030, driven by growing demand for artificial intelligence. Without emissions management strategies, carbon dioxide production from powering these data centers may rise significantly, reaching over 404 million metric tons annually by 2030.
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data center power capacity could increase from 40 gigawatts in 2025 to 169 gigawatts by 2030, driven by growing demand for artificial intelligence.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 15:05
Quantum X Labs’ Energy Maps Sample Continuous Data 10× Faster
Quantum X Labs has validated a workflow for quantum sampling of continuous data, converting probability distributions into quantum-compatible energy maps. This technology enables the use of quantum computing for real-world problems expressed as continuous data, such as those found in healthcare and finance.
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Quantum X Labs’ Energy Maps Sample Continuous Data 10× Faster. Quantum X Labs has validated a workflow for quantum sampling of continuous data, converting probability distributions into quantum-compatible energy maps. This technology enables the use of quantum computing for real-world problems expressed as continuous data, such as those found in healthcare and finance.
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Quantum X Labs has validated a workflow for quantum sampling of continuous data, converting probability distributions into quantum-compatible energy maps.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 15:03
NTHU Future Fund to Support Quantum Technology Startups in Taiwan
Insider Brief Press release – To establish a long-term capital mechanism that supports deep tech innovation, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) and Top Taiwan Venture Capital Co., Ltd. officially launched their collaboration during the 2026 Taiwan Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Conference and announced the establishment of the NTHU Future Fund. The fund combines […]
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Insider Brief Press release – To establish a long-term capital mechanism that supports deep tech innovation, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) and Top Taiwan Venture Capital Co., Ltd. officially launched their collaboration during the 2026 Taiwan Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Conference and announced the establishment of the NTHU Future Fund. The fund combines […]
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Insider Brief Press release – To establish a long-term capital mechanism that supports deep tech innovation, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) and Top Taiwan Venture Capital Co., Ltd.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 14:56
Photon Queue Wins $500,000 Grant to Establish Quantum Technology Presence in New Mexico
Insider Brief Press release – Photon Queue, a quantum technology company building high-efficiency quantum storage for next-generation quantum computing systems, today announced it has received $500,000 in grant funding to establish a presence in New Mexico. The funding includes support from the New Mexico Economic Development Department and Roadrunner Venture Studios, and will help Photon […]
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Insider Brief Press release – Photon Queue, a quantum technology company building high-efficiency quantum storage for next-generation quantum computing systems, today announced it has received $500,000 in grant funding to establish a presence in New Mexico.
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Insider Brief Press release – Photon Queue, a quantum technology company building high-efficiency quantum storage for next-generation quantum computing systems, today announced it has received $500,000 in grant funding to establish a presence in New Mexico.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 14:53
Quantum Machines’ Parametric Systems Generate High-Throughput Entanglement
Entanglement is vital for quantum networks, and can be efficiently generated using systems driven by parametric processes.
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An advance in entanglement distribution has been experimentally demonstrated by efficiently generating Gaussian continuous-variable entangled states in parametrically driven systems, even over long distances.
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Entanglement is vital for quantum networks, and can be efficiently generated using systems driven by parametric processes.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 14:53
Sharif University Researchers Detail New Complexity Growth Methods
Researchers from Sharif University of Technology detail new methods for calculating Krylov complexity in time-dependent quantum systems, utilizing the Magnus expansion.
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While prior work largely focused on static systems, the team’s approach offers tools for analyzing a broader class of time-dependent quantum dynamics . “This allows the Krylov complexity to be extracted from a sequence of controlled local approximations,” they state, offering tools for analyzing complexity growth in a wider range of quantum systems.
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Researchers from Sharif University of Technology detail new methods for calculating Krylov complexity in time-dependent quantum systems, utilizing the Magnus expansion.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 14:51
SysML v2 Drives Digital Twin Framework for Quantum Networks
Researchers propose a Model-Driven Engineering approach to build reusable, system-level twins for evolving quantum networks, utilizing SysML v2.
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Researchers are utilizing SysML v2, a modeling language not traditionally associated with quantum technology, within a digital twin framework designed to integrate the disparate elements of growing quantum networks.
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Researchers propose a Model-Driven Engineering approach to build reusable, system-level twins for evolving quantum networks, utilizing SysML v2.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 14:48
Qiskit v2.5 Release Enables Multi-Representation Compilation Workflows and New Name IBM Quantum Compute Service
Qiskit v2.5 introduces a new compiler framework enabling workflows with staged lowering between representations like Clifford+T, and Pauli-based computation.
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The team states that alongside these improvements, Qiskit Runtime Service is now officially the IBM Quantum Compute Service, a platform naming update intended to clarify the distinction between the open-source SDK and IBM’s quantum services. The latest release of Qiskit, version 2.
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Qiskit v2.5 introduces a new compiler framework enabling workflows with staged lowering between representations like Clifford+T, and Pauli-based computation.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 14:43
Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause
The man behind Google’s AI thinks the world needs a referee. And he has drafted the rules. Demis Hassabis wants a US-led watchdog that vets frontier models before release. It is modelled on Wall Street’s policeman, and it could slow the whole industry down. Demis Hassabis does not usually sound the alarm. On Tuesday he […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause. The man behind Google’s AI thinks the world needs a referee. Demis Hassabis wants a US-led watchdog that vets frontier models before release.
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Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 14:43
Open Quantum Institute’s CERN CIO Urges Open Quantum Access at WSIS Forum 2026
The convergence of artificial intelligence and quantum technologies raises critical questions about access, skill development, and governance. The Open Quantum Institute advocates for proactively establishing open, accessible, and responsibly governed quantum computing, learning from the challenges experienced with AI development.
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Open Quantum Institute’s CERN CIO Urges Open Quantum Access at WSIS Forum 2026. The convergence of artificial intelligence and quantum technologies raises critical questions about access, skill development, and governance.
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The Open Quantum Institute advocates for proactively establishing open, accessible, and responsibly governed quantum computing, learning from the challenges experienced with AI development.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 14:37
Planckian and Quantum Elements Partner on Superconducting Design
Quantum Elements & Planckian are collaborating to build digital twins, enhancing quantum error correction for Planckian’s superconducting architectures.
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Planckian , an Italian firm developing a novel superconducting quantum processor , is partnering with Quantum Elements to build detailed digital twins of its hardware and accelerate quantum error correction.
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Quantum Elements & Planckian are collaborating to build digital twins, enhancing quantum error correction for Planckian’s superconducting architectures.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 14:25
Quantum Networks Benefit From Stabilized, “On Demand” Entanglement
Remote entanglement, crucial for quantum networks, now benefits from advances in generating and maintaining connections—researchers are achieving more reliable, “on demand” links and improved stability of these quantum correlations.
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What was once a puzzle regarding difficulties in interpreting quantum mechanics is now a practical pursuit as researchers explore methods for sustaining quantum entanglement over distance. Researchers have demonstrably stabilized quantum entanglement between physically separate qubits without the need for repeated preparation, a feat previously limited by the inherent fragilit…
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Remote entanglement, crucial for quantum networks, now benefits from advances in generating and maintaining connections—researchers are achieving more reliable, “on demand” links and improved stability of these quantum correlations.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 14:17
Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on
Britain wants to be an AI superpower. One of its flagship data centres cannot get the electricity to switch on. Nscale’s £2bn Essex site has the money, the planning permission, and a grid connection, but no power arriving in time. Nscale has the cash, the site, and the customer. What it does not have is […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on. Britain wants to be an AI superpower. One of its flagship data centres cannot get the electricity to switch on.
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What it does not have is […] This story continues at The Next Web
Yubico
Jul 14, 14:12
OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members
The rapid advancement of AI is changing the global cybersecurity landscape. As these technologies become more powerful, safeguarding access to them is increasingly critical — particularly for the sec…
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OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members. As these technologies become more powerful, safeguarding access to them is increasingly critical — particularly for the security researchers and defenders working to identify vulnerabilities, strengthen software and improve cyber resilience.
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The rapid advancement of AI is changing the global cybersecurity landscape.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 14:09
UIUC and ISTA Demonstrate Steady Entanglement of Qubits
Researchers at UIUC & ISTA achieved continuous entanglement—a key resource for quantum computing—without precise control pulses.
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These teams demonstrate methods for maintaining a continuous entangled link between qubits, potentially enabling new quantum interconnects and distributed quantum computing architectures. Research outlining the findings indicates the ultimate goal is creating a system where multiple quantum processors can be interconnected rather than relying on single, monolithic units.
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Researchers at UIUC & ISTA achieved continuous entanglement—a key resource for quantum computing—without precise control pulses.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 14:08
Yuan and Colleagues Present Three-Layer Architecture for Generic Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
Until now, building a dependable quantum computer meant tightly coupling software to specific hardware and error correction methods. This work introduces a three-layer architecture that decouples these elements, offering a universal standard for fault-tolerant quantum computation. By mirroring classical computer design, it establishes a new foundational model for organising modular quantum systems and accelerating development.
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Yuan and Colleagues Present Three-Layer Architecture for Generic Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation. This work introduces a three-layer architecture that decouples these elements, offering a universal standard for fault-tolerant quantum computation.
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Until now, building a dependable quantum computer meant tightly coupling software to specific hardware and error correction methods.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 14:04
Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks
The pitch for medical AI is that it frees clinicians to care for patients. Two stories this week suggest the reality can run the other way. In New York, nurses say software replaced them. In Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic leader says the software was not safe to trust. Marilyn Shuler spent 39 years reading […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The pitch for medical AI is that it frees clinicians to care for patients. In New York, nurses say software replaced them. In Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic leader says the software was not safe to trust.
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Marilyn Shuler spent 39 years reading […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 14:00
Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%
Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of the boldest climate targets in tech. By […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres.
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By […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 13:53
Uber lost the self-driving race. Now it wants to write the rules
Uber lost the race to build a self-driving car. Now it wants to write the rules for everyone who did. In two US states it is lobbying for laws that would force robotaxis onto its app, and its own product chief is happy to explain why. Uber could not win the race to build a […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Uber lost the race to build a self-driving car. Now it wants to write the rules for everyone who did. In two US states it is lobbying for laws that would force robotaxis onto its app, and its own product chief is happy to explain why.
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Uber could not win the race to build a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 13:38
INL Links HPC, AI and Digital Twin to Control Research Reactor Remotely
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, July 14, 2026 — For the first time, researchers from Idaho National Laboratory, the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Purdue University used a geographically distributed control system to remotely and automatically adjust the power of a research reactor in real time, with the reactor’s own safety systems […] The post INL Links HPC, AI and Digital Twin to Control Research Reactor Remotely appeared first on HPCwire .
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, July 14, 2026 — For the first time, researchers from Idaho National Laboratory, the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Purdue University used a geographically distributed control system to remotely and automatically adjust the power of a research reactor in real time, with the reactor’s own safety systems […]…
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, July 14, 2026 — For the first time, researchers from Idaho National Laboratory, the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Purdue University used a geographically distributed control system to remotely and automatically adjust the power of a research reactor in real time, with the reactor’s own safety systems […] The post INL Links HPC, AI and Digital Twin to Control Research Reactor Remotely appeared first on HPCwire .
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 13:37
Intel Invests €5B to Expand Manufacturing in Europe
LEIXLIP, Ireland, July 13, 2026 — Intel has announced a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) capital investment at its Leixlip campus in Ireland, marking the next phase in the site’s capacity expansion. Global demand for AI and high-performance computing is driving the need for advanced silicon to power AI Factories, and Intel is scaling capacity in […] The post Intel Invests €5B to Expand Manufacturing in Europe appeared first on HPCwire .
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LEIXLIP, Ireland, July 13, 2026 — Intel has announced a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) capital investment at its Leixlip campus in Ireland, marking the next phase in the site’s capacity expansion.
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LEIXLIP, Ireland, July 13, 2026 — Intel has announced a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) capital investment at its Leixlip campus in Ireland, marking the next phase in the site’s capacity expansion.
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 13:20
Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce Lead UK Effort to Advance Hybrid Quantum-HPC Design Workflow
BROOMFIELD, Colo. and CAMBRIDGE, England, July 14, 2026 — Quantinuum Inc., Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and EPCC, the UK National Supercomputing Centre based at the University of Edinburgh, today announced an agreement to explore the quantum computing capabilities needed in future industrial workflows, such as gas turbine design. Under the agreement, Quantinuum will provide access to its […] The post Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce Lead UK Effort to Advance Hybrid Quantum-HPC Design Workflow appeared first on HPCwire .
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Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce Lead UK Effort to Advance Hybrid Quantum-HPC Design Workflow. and CAMBRIDGE, England, July 14, 2026 — Quantinuum Inc., Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and EPCC, the UK National Supercomputing Centre based at the University of Edinburgh, today announced an agreement to explore the quantum computing capabilities needed in future industrial workflows, such as gas t…
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Under the agreement, Quantinuum will provide access to its […] The post Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce Lead UK Effort to Advance Hybrid Quantum-HPC Design Workflow appeared first on HPCwire .
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 13:19
New Mexico Awards $1.2M to Grow State’s Quantum Sector
ALBUQUERQUE, July 14, 2026 — Economic Development New Mexico’s Technology & Innovation Office (TIO) has awarded $1.2 million to six companies through the New Mexico Quantum Technologies Award, a competitive grant program that supports early-stage quantum and quantum-enabling technology companies growing operations in the state. The New Mexico Quantum Technologies Award provides grants of up to […] The post New Mexico Awards $1.2M to Grow State’s Quantum Sector appeared first on HPCwire .
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New Mexico Awards $1.2M to Grow State’s Quantum Sector. ALBUQUERQUE, July 14, 2026 — Economic Development New Mexico’s Technology & Innovation Office (TIO) has awarded $1.2 million to six companies through the New Mexico Quantum Technologies Award, a competitive grant program that supports early-stage quantum and quantum-enabling technology companies growing operations in the…
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The New Mexico Quantum Technologies Award provides grants of up to […] The post New Mexico Awards $1.2M to Grow State’s Quantum Sector appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 13:17
Meta is pushing brands onto its AI ad tools. The results are a mess
Meta is pushing advertisers to hand their campaigns to its AI. A Business Insider investigation found the tools spitting out gibberish copy, mangled limbs and products that no longer look like the products. Meta’s reply, in effect: that’s your problem. Meta wants brands to let its AI build their ads. A Business Insider investigation shows […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Meta is pushing brands onto its AI ad tools. Meta is pushing advertisers to hand their campaigns to its AI. Meta wants brands to let its AI build their ads.
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A Business Insider investigation shows […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 13:08
Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal a $2bn French quantum bet, and a French kill switch
France’s Pasqal is heading to Nasdaq at a $2bn valuation, roughly 100 times its revenue. Its own filings spell out two things. Quantum computing might never pay off. And Paris can veto who owns the company. Pasqal, the French quantum-computing firm, is going public in the United States. It is merging with a blank-cheque company, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal a $2bn French quantum bet, and a French kill switch. Quantum computing might never pay off. Pasqal, the French quantum-computing firm, is going public in the United States.
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It is merging with a blank-cheque company, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 13:07
QuiX Quantum Unveils Universal Photonic Quantum Computing Architecture
Developed for the German Aerospace Center’s Quantum Computing Initiative (DLR QCI), Carina represents a compact, room-temperature foundation for future fault-tolerant quantum computing in data center environments ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, July 14, 2026 — QuiX Quantum today announced Carina, the world’s first universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for deployment in customer data center environments as an […] The post QuiX Quantum Unveils Universal Photonic Quantum Computing Architecture appeared first on HPCwire .
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Developed for the German Aerospace Center’s Quantum Computing Initiative (DLR QCI), Carina represents a compact, room-temperature foundation for future fault-tolerant quantum computing in data center environments ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, July 14, 2026 — QuiX Quantum today announced Carina, the world’s first universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for deploymen…
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Developed for the German Aerospace Center’s Quantum Computing Initiative (DLR QCI), Carina represents a compact, room-temperature foundation for future fault-tolerant quantum computing in data center environments ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, July 14, 2026 — QuiX Quantum today announced Carina, the world’s first universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for deployment in customer data center environments as an […] The post QuiX Quantum Unveils Universal Photonic Quantum Computing Architecture appeared first on HPCwire .
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 13:01
FormationQ Brings Quantum Computing to Chimpanzee Behavior Research
LONDON and AUSTIN, Texas, July 14, 2026 — The Jane Goodall Institute USA and FormationQ today announced a landmark research partnership that will apply trapped-ions quantum computing by IonQ to one of the most enduring questions in behavioral ecology: why do some species engage in lethal intergroup violence while others live peacefully alongside their neighbors? […] The post FormationQ Brings Quantum Computing to Chimpanzee Behavior Research appeared first on HPCwire .
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FormationQ Brings Quantum Computing to Chimpanzee Behavior Research. LONDON and AUSTIN, Texas, July 14, 2026 — The Jane Goodall Institute USA and FormationQ today announced a landmark research partnership that will apply trapped-ions quantum computing by IonQ to one of the most enduring questions in behavioral ecology: why do some species engage in lethal intergroup violence w…
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[…] The post FormationQ Brings Quantum Computing to Chimpanzee Behavior Research appeared first on HPCwire .
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 13:00
Xanadu and Lockheed Martin Expand Quantum Talent Pipeline
TORONTO, July 14, 2026 — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited, a leading photonic quantum computing company, and Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company, today announced a new strategic effort to scale quantum training and workforce development through Lockheed Martin’s Quantum Talent Pipeline (QTP) program. As quantum technologies transition from research labs to mission-critical environments, […] The post Xanadu and Lockheed Martin Expand Quantum Talent Pipeline appeared first on HPCwire .
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TORONTO, July 14, 2026 — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited, a leading photonic quantum computing company, and Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company, today announced a new strategic effort to scale quantum training and workforce development through Lockheed Martin’s Quantum Talent Pipeline (QTP) program.
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TORONTO, July 14, 2026 — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited, a leading photonic quantum computing company, and Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company, today announced a new strategic effort to scale quantum training and workforce development through Lockheed Martin’s Quantum Talent Pipeline (QTP) program.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 13:00
Flex raises $70m from Ryan Smith’s Halo fund to take its AI private bank global
Six months ago, Flex raised $60m and called it a Series B. On Tuesday it said it had raised another $70m, and rather than move down the alphabet, it settled on a Series B1. The round was led by Halo, the investment firm set up last year by Qualtrics founder Ryan Smith, who owns the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Flex raises $70m from Ryan Smith’s Halo fund to take its AI private bank global. Six months ago, Flex raised $60m and called it a Series B. On Tuesday it said it had raised another $70m, and rather than move down the alphabet, it settled on a Series B1.
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The round was led by Halo, the investment firm set up last year by Qualtrics founder Ryan Smith, who owns the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 13:00
xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted
Emails between regulators and xAI’s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Within five miles on the Tennessee side, about 94% of residents are Black. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, where residents say the turbines running around the clock sound like jet engines. “I can’t do anything […] This story continues at The Next Web
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xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted. Emails between regulators and xAI’s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, where residents say the turbines running around the clock sound like jet engines.
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“I can’t do anything […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 12:56
Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, and it’s testing London’s new private market to prove it
Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, worth £800m, or $1.1bn. But no fundraise set that price. Staff did, by selling shares on London’s untested new private market. Moneybox, the British savings and investing app, is now a unicorn. It has put a value of about £800m, or $1.1bn, on itself, the Financial Times first reported. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, and it’s testing London’s new private market to prove it. Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, worth £800m, or $1.1bn. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 12:40
‘Listing is a must’: China’s LimX raises $200m as the humanoid IPO race heats up
China’s humanoid gold rush just minted another contender. LimX Dynamics has raised $200m at a $2.21bn valuation. And its founder says the race to list has become do-or-die. A Shenzhen humanoid startup has become the latest name in China’s robot boom to command a giant valuation. On Tuesday, LimX Dynamics said it had closed a […] This story continues at The Next Web
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‘Listing is a must’: China’s LimX raises $200m as the humanoid IPO race heats up. China’s humanoid gold rush just minted another contender. A Shenzhen humanoid startup has become the latest name in China’s robot boom to command a giant valuation.
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On Tuesday, LimX Dynamics said it had closed a […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 12:22
ECB names 36 payment firms for the digital euro pilot
Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, Revolut, Stripe and Adyen made the list. The 12-month trial starts in the second half of 2027, and the money it moves will not be legal tender. The European Central Bank published the list on Tuesday: 36 payment service providers, drawn from more than 50 applicants, will run the first pilot of […] This story continues at The Next Web
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ECB names 36 payment firms for the digital euro pilot. Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, Revolut, Stripe and Adyen made the list. The 12-month trial starts in the second half of 2027, and the money it moves will not be legal tender.
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The European Central Bank published the list on Tuesday: 36 payment service providers, drawn from more than 50 applicants, will run the first pilot of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 12:14
Zhang and Colleagues Develop Vibe Calibration for 112-Qubit Superconducting Quantum Processors
Manual calibration of a 112-qubit processor previously required considerable time and expertise. Now, a new system autonomously calibrates 108 of those qubits in just 4. 7 hours, a four to five-fold speed increase.
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Zhang and Colleagues Develop Vibe Calibration for 112-Qubit Superconducting Quantum Processors. Now, a new system autonomously calibrates 108 of those qubits in just 4. 7 hours, a four to five-fold speed increase.
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Manual calibration of a 112-qubit processor previously required considerable time and expertise.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 12:13
New York freezes new data centres for a year, the first US state to pull the brake
Kathy Hochul stopped the diggers on Tuesday. New York became the first US state to halt construction of large new data centres, imposing a one-year moratorium on anything drawing 50 megawatts or more, on the grounds that the buildings powering the AI boom are pushing up household bills, draining water, and landing hardest on the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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New York freezes new data centres for a year, the first US state to pull the brake. Kathy Hochul stopped the diggers on Tuesday. New York became the first US state to halt construction of large new data centres, imposing a one-year moratorium on anything drawing 50 megawatts or more, on the grounds that the buildings powering the AI boom are pushing up household bills, drainin…
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Kathy Hochul stopped the diggers on Tuesday.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 11:54
The father of reinforcement learning is leaving Carmack to build his own AI
One of the most decorated minds in AI is striking out alone. Richard Sutton shared the 2024 Turing Award for founding modern reinforcement learning. On Monday he said he is leaving John Carmack’s startup Keen Technologies to start a new one, Oak Lab. He announced it plainly on X. He praised Carmack and Keen, then […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The father of reinforcement learning is leaving Carmack to build his own AI. One of the most decorated minds in AI is striking out alone. On Monday he said he is leaving John Carmack’s startup Keen Technologies to start a new one, Oak Lab.
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He praised Carmack and Keen, then […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 11:22
Tower Semiconductor puts $3bn into Japan, and Tokyo is paying for a third of it
Tower Semiconductor said on Tuesday it will spend roughly $3bn expanding its 300mm operations in Japan, net of about $1bn in grants from the Japanese government, in a two-track build-out aimed squarely at the optical components that AI data centres are consuming faster than anyone can make them. The announcement, made with the backing of Japan’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Tower Semiconductor puts $3bn into Japan, and Tokyo is paying for a third of it. Tower Semiconductor said on Tuesday it will spend roughly $3bn expanding its 300mm operations in Japan, net of about $1bn in grants from the Japanese government, in a two-track build-out aimed squarely at the optical components that AI data centres are consuming faster than anyone can make them.
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The announcement, made with the backing of Japan’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 11:20
Xanadu and Lockheed Martin Expand Quantum Workforce Training With PennyLane
Insider Brief Press release – Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited (“Xanadu”; NASDAQ/TSX: XNDU), a leading photonic quantum computing company, and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), a global security and aerospace company, today announced a new strategic effort to scale quantum training and workforce development through Lockheed Martin’s Quantum Talent Pipeline (QTP) program. As quantum technologies transition from […]
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Xanadu and Lockheed Martin Expand Quantum Workforce Training With PennyLane. Insider Brief Press release – Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited (“Xanadu”; NASDAQ/TSX: XNDU), a leading photonic quantum computing company, and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), a global security and aerospace company, today announced a new strategic effort to scale quantum training and workforce develop…
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As quantum technologies transition from […]
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 11:16
Quantum Elements and Planckian Partner on Digital Twins for Superconducting Quantum Processors
Insider Brief Press release – Quantum Elements, a provider of AI-powered digital twins for quantum computing developers, today announced a development agreement with Planckian, an Italian quantum computing company pioneering a novel superconducting quantum processor architecture, to support Planckian‘s error correction strategy. Through this collaboration, Quantum Elements will develop architecture-specific noise models and digital twin capabilities to characterize the physical noise environment […]
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Insider Brief Press release – Quantum Elements, a provider of AI-powered digital twins for quantum computing developers, today announced a development agreement with Planckian, an Italian quantum computing company pioneering a novel superconducting quantum processor architecture, to support Planckian‘s error correction strategy.
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Insider Brief Press release – Quantum Elements, a provider of AI-powered digital twins for quantum computing developers, today announced a development agreement with Planckian, an Italian quantum computing company pioneering a novel superconducting quantum processor architecture, to support Planckian‘s error correction strategy.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 10:57
Switzerland opens a competition probe into Google’s vanishing Android choice screen
Switzerland’s Competition Commission opened a preliminary investigation into Google on Tuesday, after the search engine selection prompt that Android owners elsewhere in Europe still meet when they switch on a new handset quietly stopped appearing on Swiss phones. The feature, known as the Choice Screen, asks users which search engine they want as their default […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Switzerland opens a competition probe into Google’s vanishing Android choice screen. Switzerland’s Competition Commission opened a preliminary investigation into Google on Tuesday, after the search engine selection prompt that Android owners elsewhere in Europe still meet when they switch on a new handset quietly stopped appearing on Swiss phones.
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The feature, known as the Choice Screen, asks users which search engine they want as their default […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 10:49
QuiX Quantum Announces Photonic Quantum Computing Architecture For Commercial Deployment
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuiX Quantum today announced Carina, the world’s first universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for deployment in customer data center environments as an essential foundation for future fault-tolerant systems. Developed as part of the Universal Photonic Quantum Computer (UPQC) project of the DLR Quantum Computing Initiative (DLR QCI), funded by […]
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QuiX Quantum Announces Photonic Quantum Computing Architecture For Commercial Deployment. Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuiX Quantum today announced Carina, the world’s first universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for deployment in customer data center environments as an essential foundation for future fault-tolerant systems.
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Developed as part of the Universal Photonic Quantum Computer (UPQC) project of the DLR Quantum Computing Initiative (DLR QCI), funded by […]
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 10:39
Q-CTRL Quantum Navigation On Display At Farnborough Airshow
Q-CTRL will present the first airworthiness-qualified quantum navigation system, a GPS backup, at the Farnborough International Airshow. Validated through air, land, and maritime trials, the system maintains positioning accuracy better than 0.3 nautical miles for 95% of flight time, addressing increasing disruptions from GPS interference.
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Q-CTRL Quantum Navigation On Display At Farnborough Airshow. Q-CTRL will present the first airworthiness-qualified quantum navigation system, a GPS backup, at the Farnborough International Airshow. Validated through air, land, and maritime trials, the system maintains positioning accuracy better than 0.
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Q-CTRL will present the first airworthiness-qualified quantum navigation system, a GPS backup, at the Farnborough International Airshow.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 10:31
Geneva Data Anchors Cloud Workloads, Proving Sovereignty with nLighten, Arqit
nLighten & Arqit’s proof of concept anchors cloud workloads to a sovereign European infrastructure, utilizing their Geneva data centre.
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nLighten and Arqit have demonstrated a functional link between sovereign European infrastructure and major public cloud services, addressing a critical challenge for regulated organizations. This is not simply about where data resides, but how security protocols extend with it, a challenge particularly acute for organizations in financial services, pharmaceuticals, and the pub…
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nLighten & Arqit’s proof of concept anchors cloud workloads to a sovereign European infrastructure, utilizing their Geneva data centre.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 10:19
SLAC Quantum Dots Aim for Mass-Producible Qubits
At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientist Shannon Harvey is tackling one of quantum computing’s biggest hurdles: creating qubits that can be manufactured at scale.
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At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientist Shannon Harvey is tackling one of quantum computing’s biggest hurdles: creating qubits that can be manufactured at scale. Quantum dots offer a pathway toward practical quantum computing due to their potential for large-scale fabrication, a critical hurdle in realizing functional quantum processors.
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At SLAC, Shannon Harvey is fabricating quantum dots, a mass-producible type of qubit, for Q-NEXT collaboration.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 10:13
Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce to Explore Quantum-Supercomputer Hybrid Workflows
Quantinuum & Rolls-Royce will combine Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer with supercomputing expertise from the University of Edinburgh, advancing fluid dynamics simulations for gas turbine design.
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Rolls-Royce is using quantum computing to improve the design of its gas turbines, collaborating with Quantinuum , Riverlane , and EPCC, the UK National Supercomputing Centre at the University of Edinburgh.
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Quantinuum & Rolls-Royce will combine Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer with supercomputing expertise from the University of Edinburgh, advancing fluid dynamics simulations for gas turbine design.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 10:08
Jane Goodall Institute Launch First Quantum Ecology Research Program
The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) and FormationQ announced a two-year research program, applying quantum computing to study the roots of peaceful coexistence versus violence in chimpanzees and bonobos.
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The difference in social behavior between chimpanzees and bonobos, one species marked by lethal intergroup conflict, the other by peaceful coexistence, is now the focus of an ambitious research program leveraging the power of quantum computing.
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The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) and FormationQ announced a two-year research program, applying quantum computing to study the roots of peaceful coexistence versus violence in chimpanzees and bonobos.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 09:59
Deutsche Telekom and AIT Lead New European Quantum Communication Infrastructure Projects
Insider Brief Press release – Deutsche Telekom and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology are pleased to announce that they have been awarded two new Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) under the European Commission’s programme on quantum technologies. Deutsche Telekom will coordinate PETRUS2, while AIT will coordinate HarmoniQCI, two complementary projects supporting the development, standardisation, […]
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Insider Brief Press release – Deutsche Telekom and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology are pleased to announce that they have been awarded two new Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) under the European Commission’s programme on quantum technologies.
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Insider Brief Press release – Deutsche Telekom and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology are pleased to announce that they have been awarded two new Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) under the European Commission’s programme on quantum technologies.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 09:40
MIT and Caltech Researchers Create Single Ion Achieving Quantum Error Correction (QEC)
Researchers achieved up to 2.2x improvement in qubit stability using quantum error correction (QEC) on a single atomic ion, a step toward lowering the overhead of QEC.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology have demonstrated an advance in quantum error correction, achieving up to a 2.2-fold reduction in errors and extending the qubit’s useful lifetime by up to 1.5 times compared to an unencoded qubit.
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Researchers achieved up to 2.2x improvement in qubit stability using quantum error correction (QEC) on a single atomic ion, a step toward lowering the overhead of QEC.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 09:35
Huawei Digital Power now rivals Tesla’s energy division in revenue
Ask most people what Huawei sells and you will get smartphones, or 5G, or a decade of geopolitical argument. Almost nobody says solar inverters. Yet Huawei Digital Power Technology, the division that makes them, along with battery storage systems and electric-vehicle charging kit, booked 68.7bn yuan of revenue in 2025, up 24.4% on the year […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Huawei Digital Power now rivals Tesla’s energy division in revenue. Almost nobody says solar inverters. Yet Huawei Digital Power Technology, the division that makes them, along with battery storage systems and electric-vehicle charging kit, booked 68.7bn yuan of revenue in 2025, up 24.4% on the year […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Ask most people what Huawei sells and you will get smartphones, or 5G, or a decade of geopolitical argument.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 09:25
Tennessee Announces $3 Million Commitment to Support NSF X-Labs Quantum Teams
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Gov. Bill Lee and Deputy Gov. and Tennessee Department of Economic Development Commissioner (TNECD) Stuart C. McWhorter announced a $3 million funding commitment to support National Science Foundation (NSF) X-Labs quantum teams that choose to establish research, commercialization or business operations in Tennessee. The investment is designed to help winning […]
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Tennessee Announces $3 Million Commitment to Support NSF X-Labs Quantum Teams. and Tennessee Department of Economic Development Commissioner (TNECD) Stuart C. McWhorter announced a $3 million funding commitment to support National Science Foundation (NSF) X-Labs quantum teams that choose to establish research, commercialization or business operations in Tennessee.
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Gov.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 09:21
OpenAI wants its legal fees from xAI, while Apple comes for OpenAI
On Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge in California to rule that xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against it “should never have been filed,” and to make Elon Musk’s company cover more than $1m in legal expenses. The filing landed hours after xAI gave notice that it intends to appeal. The case has been dismissed twice; […] This story continues at The Next Web
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OpenAI wants its legal fees from xAI, while Apple comes for OpenAI. On Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge in California to rule that xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against it “should never have been filed,” and to make Elon Musk’s company cover more than $1m in legal expenses. The filing landed hours after xAI gave notice that it intends to appeal.
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The case has been dismissed twice; […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 09:15
Logical Qubit Technology Launches Quantum Cloud Platform for Superconducting Quantum Computing
Insider Brief Press release – On July 9, 2026, Logical Qubit Technology Co., Ltd hosted its Quantum Day 2026 event, officially unveiling its superconducting quantum computing cloud platform. The platform delivers high-performance quantum computing cloud services to universities, research institutions, and potential application sectors including biomedicine, chemistry, materials, energy, AI, finance, and logistics. A Quantum […]
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Insider Brief Press release – On July 9, 2026, Logical Qubit Technology Co., Ltd hosted its Quantum Day 2026 event, officially unveiling its superconducting quantum computing cloud platform. The platform delivers high-performance quantum computing cloud services to universities, research institutions, and potential application sectors including biomedicine, chemistry, material…
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Insider Brief Press release – On July 9, 2026, Logical Qubit Technology Co., Ltd hosted its Quantum Day 2026 event, officially unveiling its superconducting quantum computing cloud platform.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 08:59
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng overtakes Amodei and Brockman as AI’s richest founder
Liang Wenfeng is now the wealthiest founder in artificial intelligence, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which revalued his stake in DeepSeek on 13 July and added roughly $19bn to his fortune overnight. His net worth is put at about $36bn, up from around $16.7bn, placing him above Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI president […] This story continues at The Next Web
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DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng overtakes Amodei and Brockman as AI’s richest founder. Liang Wenfeng is now the wealthiest founder in artificial intelligence, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which revalued his stake in DeepSeek on 13 July and added roughly $19bn to his fortune overnight. His net worth is put at about $36bn, up from around $16.
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His net worth is put at about $36bn, up from around $16.7bn, placing him above Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI president […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 08:54
nLighten and Arqit Demonstrate Sovereign Cloud Security Model Using Quantum-Safe Encryption
Insider Brief Press release – nLighten, a European edge data centre platform, and Arqit Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: ARQQ, ARQQW) a global leader in PQC migration and quantum-safe encryption, today announced the successful completion of a joint proof of concept (POC), demonstrating how organisations can use public cloud services while maintaining control over sensitive data and cryptographic assets. For […]
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Organisations can take advantage of public cloud services, AI capabilities and on-demand scalability, while maintaining confidence that sensitive data remains protected, auditable and governed within a trusted European infrastructure foundation.
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Insider Brief Press release – nLighten, a European edge data centre platform, and Arqit Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: ARQQ, ARQQW) a global leader in PQC migration and quantum-safe encryption, today announced the successful completion of a joint proof of concept (POC), demonstrating how organisations can use public cloud services while maintaining control over sensitive data and cryptographic assets.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 08:47
Ericsson revenue falls 6% as component costs bite and licensing income dries up
Ericsson booked SEK 52.7bn of revenue in the second quarter, down 6% from SEK 56.1bn a year earlier, as weaker patent licensing income and currency movements outweighed growth in a handful of regional markets. The Swedish equipment maker published the figures on Tuesday morning. Profit, however, went the other way. Adjusted operating profit came in at SEK […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Ericsson revenue falls 6% as component costs bite and licensing income dries up. Ericsson booked SEK 52.7bn of revenue in the second quarter, down 6% from SEK 56.1bn a year earlier, as weaker patent licensing income and currency movements outweighed growth in a handful of regional markets. Adjusted operating profit came in at SEK […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Adjusted operating profit came in at SEK […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 08:41
Finland’s NestAI is building the AI layer Europe’s militaries want to own
A Helsinki lab barely a year old, bankrolled by Nokia and the Finnish state, is now writing battlefield software with two defence ministries. The technology matters less than who controls it. On the last day of June, officials from Finland’s Ministry of Defence, the Estonian Defence Forces, and a Helsinki AI lab founded only last […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Finland’s NestAI is building the AI layer Europe’s militaries want to own. A Helsinki lab barely a year old, bankrolled by Nokia and the Finnish state, is now writing battlefield software with two defence ministries. The technology matters less than who controls it.
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On the last day of June, officials from Finland’s Ministry of Defence, the Estonian Defence Forces, and a Helsinki AI lab founded only last […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 08:38
SLAC Scientist Advances Research on Scalable Quantum Dot Qubits
Insider Brief Press release – Studying an object with zero dimensions takes serious creativity. Consider the singularity — a point packed with infinite energy that sparked the Big Bang. Or the humble mathematical point, an abstract but indispensable fixture in space-time. Grasping a thing that has no size or shape demands imagination and rigor. Or […]
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SLAC Scientist Advances Research on Scalable Quantum Dot Qubits. Consider the singularity — a point packed with infinite energy that sparked the Big Bang. Grasping a thing that has no size or shape demands imagination and rigor.
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Insider Brief Press release – Studying an object with zero dimensions takes serious creativity.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 08:25
Intel commits $5.7bn to Xeon production in Ireland
Intel is spending €5bn, or about $5.7bn, upgrading its campus at Leixlip outside Dublin, the company said on Monday. The money is not for a new fab. It is for getting more out of the ones already standing. The plan is to upgrade existing fabrication facilities, install leading-edge equipment, and extend the automated track system so […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Intel commits $5.7bn to Xeon production in Ireland. Intel is spending €5bn, or about $5.7bn, upgrading its campus at Leixlip outside Dublin, the company said on Monday. It is for getting more out of the ones already standing.
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The plan is to upgrade existing fabrication facilities, install leading-edge equipment, and extend the automated track system so […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 08:20
Australia finds serious gaps in Big Tech’s response to child sexual abuse online
Australia’s online safety regulator has told the largest technology companies in the world that the tools to stop sexual extortion already exist, and that they are not using them. In a transparency report published on Tuesday, eSafety said companies including Apple, Meta, and Google have “significant gaps” in how they detect and prevent child sexual exploitation […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Australia finds serious gaps in Big Tech’s response to child sexual abuse online. Australia’s online safety regulator has told the largest technology companies in the world that the tools to stop sexual extortion already exist, and that they are not using them.
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In a transparency report published on Tuesday, eSafety said companies including Apple, Meta, and Google have “significant gaps” in how they detect and prevent child sexual exploitation […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 08:13
Masayoshi Son says AI will cost $5tn a year by 2040, and calls bubble talk absurd
“Every year $5 trillion, or 800 trillion yen, you might think that’s a lie, but I am confident that’s what it will cost.” That was Masayoshi Son on Tuesday, at SoftBank’s annual corporate conference in Tokyo, telling the room what building artificial intelligence will require each year by 2040. Yet, he did not say how he […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Masayoshi Son says AI will cost $5tn a year by 2040, and calls bubble talk absurd. “Every year $5 trillion, or 800 trillion yen, you might think that’s a lie, but I am confident that’s what it will cost.” That was Masayoshi Son on Tuesday, at SoftBank’s annual corporate conference in Tokyo, telling the room what building artificial intelligence will require each year by 2040.
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Yet, he did not say how he […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 08:05
Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and University of Edinburgh Sign Agreement to Explore Quantum Computing For Industrial Design And Simulation
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantinuum Inc. (NASDAQ:QNT), Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and EPCC, the UK National Supercomputing Centre based at the University of Edinburgh, today announced an agreement to explore the quantum computing capabilities needed in future industrial workflows, such as gas turbine design. Under the agreement, Quantinuum will provide access to its quantum systems and […]
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Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and University of Edinburgh Sign Agreement to Explore Quantum Computing For Industrial Design And Simulation. Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantinuum Inc. (NASDAQ:QNT), Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and EPCC, the UK National Supercomputing Centre based at the University of Edinburgh, today announced an agreement to explore the quantum computing cap…
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Under the agreement, Quantinuum will provide access to its quantum systems and […]
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 08:03
Seoul court suspends the order making Coupang’s founder its controlling person
Coupang has won the first round of its fight with South Korea’s competition regulator. The Seoul High Court on Tuesday suspended the Fair Trade Commission’s decision to name founder Bom Kim as the e-commerce group’s controlling figure, freezing the disclosure obligations that came with it while the underlying lawsuit is heard. The court’s Administrative Division 7 granted […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Seoul court suspends the order making Coupang’s founder its controlling person. Coupang has won the first round of its fight with South Korea’s competition regulator. The Seoul High Court on Tuesday suspended the Fair Trade Commission’s decision to name founder Bom Kim as the e-commerce group’s controlling figure, freezing the disclosure obligations that came with it while the…
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The court’s Administrative Division 7 granted […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 07:48
Review Maps Roadmap for Excitons in Magnetic Quantum Materials
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers in City College of New York physicist Vinod M. Menon’s Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) have outlined an emerging frontier in quantum materials: atomically thin systems in which light, magnetism, and electric charge are strongly intertwined. This rapidly evolving field could enable next-generation optoelectronic and quantum technologies leveraging the […]
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Review Maps Roadmap for Excitons in Magnetic Quantum Materials. Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers in City College of New York physicist Vinod M. Menon’s Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) have outlined an emerging frontier in quantum materials: atomically thin systems in which light, magnetism, and electric charge are strongly intertwined.
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This rapidly evolving field could enable next-generation optoelectronic and quantum technologies leveraging the […]
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 07:43
China smartphone shipments fall for a fifth quarter as memory costs bite
For the fifth quarter running, fewer phones left Chinese warehouses than a year earlier. Shipments fell 4.3% to 66 million units in the second quarter, according to figures published on Tuesday by IDC, as manufacturers raised prices to cover the rising cost of memory and other components. First-half shipments were down 4.2% on the same […] This story continues at The Next Web
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China smartphone shipments fall for a fifth quarter as memory costs bite. For the fifth quarter running, fewer phones left Chinese warehouses than a year earlier. Shipments fell 4.3% to 66 million units in the second quarter, according to figures published on Tuesday by IDC, as manufacturers raised prices to cover the rising cost of memory and other components.
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First-half shipments were down 4.2% on the same […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 07:37
US Must Pair Quantum Research With Industrial Strategy, UCLA Physicist Argues
Insider Brief The United States risks repeating one of the biggest strategic mistakes in its technology history unless it pairs quantum computing research leadership with a domestic manufacturing and procurement strategy, according to a Financial Times opinion essay by UCLA physicist Prineha Narang. Narang, a professor of physical sciences and electrical and computer engineering at […]
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Narang, a professor of physical sciences and electrical and computer engineering at […]
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Insider Brief The United States risks repeating one of the biggest strategic mistakes in its technology history unless it pairs quantum computing research leadership with a domestic manufacturing and procurement strategy, according to a Financial Times opinion essay by UCLA physicist Prineha Narang.
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 07:34
The White House’s next AI energy pledge targets the utilities
The White House is preparing an event, expected within weeks, at which electric utilities, the companies that build and run data centres for Big Tech, and governors of the states hosting the biggest buildouts will be asked to promise that none of this will end up on household electricity bills. Three people familiar with the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The White House’s next AI energy pledge targets the utilities. The White House is preparing an event, expected within weeks, at which electric utilities, the companies that build and run data centres for Big Tech, and governors of the states hosting the biggest buildouts will be asked to promise that none of this will end up on household electricity bills.
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Three people familiar with the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 07:27
Thomson Reuters is cutting engineers and hiring AI-native ones
The meeting was a technology all-hands, held on Monday, and the phrase the company used afterwards was “a small number of roles”. The number an employee who attended gave to Reuters was up to 500. Thomson Reuters, the Canadian content and technology group that owns Reuters News, is cutting engineering jobs globally as it pushes […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Thomson Reuters is cutting engineers and hiring AI-native ones. The meeting was a technology all-hands, held on Monday, and the phrase the company used afterwards was “a small number of roles”. The number an employee who attended gave to Reuters was up to 500.
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Thomson Reuters, the Canadian content and technology group that owns Reuters News, is cutting engineering jobs globally as it pushes […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 07:17
Nvidia builds a white list: more than half of its Asian customers are off it
Nvidia has more than halved the number of customers in Asia cleared to buy its artificial intelligence chips, according to the Financial Times, which cited three people with knowledge of the matter. The company has built a new white list of approved regional buyers and stepped up due diligence in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan, the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Nvidia builds a white list: more than half of its Asian customers are off it. Nvidia has more than halved the number of customers in Asia cleared to buy its artificial intelligence chips, according to the Financial Times, which cited three people with knowledge of the matter.
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The company has built a new white list of approved regional buyers and stepped up due diligence in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan, the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 07:11
Canada’s banking regulator named Claude Mythos in a warning to banks
An April email to bank technology chiefs, released under access-to-information rules, shows OSFI naming Anthropic’s frontier model as a reason the window for fixing flaws is closing. Regulators do not usually name products. They write about “emerging technologies” and “advanced capabilities” and leave the reader to work out which vendor they mean. So it is […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Canada’s banking regulator named Claude Mythos in a warning to banks. An April email to bank technology chiefs, released under access-to-information rules, shows OSFI naming Anthropic’s frontier model as a reason the window for fixing flaws is closing. They write about “emerging technologies” and “advanced capabilities” and leave the reader to work out which vendor they mean.
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So it is […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 14, 07:05
Jane Goodall Institute USA and FormationQ Launch Quantum Computing Research Program to Explore Ecological Roots of War And Peace
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) USA and FormationQ today announced a landmark research partnership that will apply trapped-ions quantum computing by IonQ to one of the most enduring questions in behavioral ecology: why do some species engage in lethal intergroup violence while others live peacefully alongside their neighbours? Launching on […]
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Launching on World Chimpanzee Day, which marks the 66 th anniversary of Dr. Jane Goodall’s arrival at Gombe, Tanzania to begin her wild chimpanzee study, the two-year programme builds on more than six decades of pioneering field research, bringing together advanced computational modelling, hybrid quantum-classical computing and behavioural ecology into a new state-of-the-art…
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) USA and FormationQ today announced a landmark research partnership that will apply trapped-ions quantum computing by IonQ to one of the most enduring questions in behavioral ecology: why do some species engage in lethal intergroup violence while others live peacefully alongside their neighbours?
Thenextweb
Jul 14, 07:02
Pentagon pauses the cyber audit rule that was pushing small suppliers out
The figure that seems to have finished the programme off is not a cost. It is a ratio: more than 100,000 companies in the American defence supply chain needing an independent cybersecurity audit, against roughly 100 accredited assessors licensed to carry one out. “So the math just simply doesn’t math,” Kirsten Davies, the Pentagon’s chief […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Pentagon pauses the cyber audit rule that was pushing small suppliers out. The figure that seems to have finished the programme off is not a cost. It is a ratio: more than 100,000 companies in the American defence supply chain needing an independent cybersecurity audit, against roughly 100 accredited assessors licensed to carry one out.
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“So the math just simply doesn’t math,” Kirsten Davies, the Pentagon’s chief […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 05:30
NEC Reports First AI for Rapid 3D Modeling From Footage
NEC developed a proprietary AI technology to generate detailed 3D models from standard footage in as little as one minute, automatically filtering out unwanted elements.
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NEC Corporation reports it has developed an AI capable of generating highly detailed 3D models in as little as one minute, a process previously requiring costly specialized equipment and significantly more time.
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NEC developed a proprietary AI technology to generate detailed 3D models from standard footage in as little as one minute, automatically filtering out unwanted elements.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 05:06
£38.6B UKRI Plan Funds 20,000 Researchers Through 2031
UK Research and Innovation’s new five-year strategy will support 20,000+ researchers with a £38.6 billion government investment, driving future tech & economic growth.
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With a planned investment of more than £9 billion each year, UK Research and Innovation ( UKRI ) intends to bolster technological advancement and support the work of over 20,000 researchers across the United Kingdom.
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UK Research and Innovation’s new five-year strategy will support 20,000+ researchers with a £38.6 billion government investment, driving future tech & economic growth.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 04:53
Enterprise Quantum Cybersecurity, a Practical Guide for 2026
Enterprise quantum cybersecurity, explained. The threats, the NIST standards, the 2030 and 2035 migration deadlines, and how to build a quantum-safe enterprise before Q-Day.
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Enterprise Quantum Cybersecurity, a Practical Guide for 2026. Enterprise quantum cybersecurity, explained. The threats, the NIST standards, the 2030 and 2035 migration deadlines, and how to build a quantum-safe enterprise before Q-Day.
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Enterprise quantum cybersecurity, explained.
Hpcwire
Jul 14, 02:54
Illinois Launches $3M Fund to Attract NSF X-Labs Quantum Teams
National Science Foundation X-Labs winners choosing to build in Illinois are eligible for State investment, access to IQMP technical infrastructure, advanced prototyping facilities, and dedicated lab and office space CHICAGO, July 13, 2026 — Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) have announced the X-Labs Fast Fund to encourage […] The post Illinois Launches $3M Fund to Attract NSF X-Labs Quantum Teams appeared first on HPCwire .
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National Science Foundation X-Labs winners choosing to build in Illinois are eligible for State investment, access to IQMP technical infrastructure, advanced prototyping facilities, and dedicated lab and office space CHICAGO, July 13, 2026 — Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) have announced the X-Labs Fast Fund to encou…
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National Science Foundation X-Labs winners choosing to build in Illinois are eligible for State investment, access to IQMP technical infrastructure, advanced prototyping facilities, and dedicated lab and office space CHICAGO, July 13, 2026 — Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) have announced the X-Labs Fast Fund to encourage […] The post Illinois Launches $3M Fund to Attract NSF X-Labs Quantum Teams appeared first on HPCwire .
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 14, 00:16
University of Birmingham: Researchers Model Quantum Dynamics Using Finite Matrix-Product Operators
Influence matrices, typically growing in complexity with time, are now demonstrably finite for Rule 201, a deterministic quantum model. This provides an exact description of subsystem dynamics using a matrix-product operator with bond dimension 12, mirroring the simplicity previously found only in Rule 54. Consequently, multi-time correlations can be fully characterised in this system, extending the range of solvable instances.
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University of Birmingham: Researchers Model Quantum Dynamics Using Finite Matrix-Product Operators. This provides an exact description of subsystem dynamics using a matrix-product operator with bond dimension 12, mirroring the simplicity previously found only in Rule 54.
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Influence matrices, typically growing in complexity with time, are now demonstrably finite for Rule 201, a deterministic quantum model.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 22:13
Wang and Colleagues Introduce Logical Catalyst Protocol for Dyadic Phase Rotation Implementation
Can a quantum computation be performed with an error rate of just one in a million, despite underlying physical errors? A new protocol achieves a logical leakage rate of approximately 10−6 at a physical error rate of 10−3, using around seven attempts. This is accomplished by cultivating a reusable logical catalyst, enabling exact and constant-depth implementation of specific quantum rotations.
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Wang and Colleagues Introduce Logical Catalyst Protocol for Dyadic Phase Rotation Implementation. A new protocol achieves a logical leakage rate of approximately 10−6 at a physical error rate of 10−3, using around seven attempts. This is accomplished by cultivating a reusable logical catalyst, enabling exact and constant-depth implementation of specific quantum rotations.
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Can a quantum computation be performed with an error rate of just one in a million, despite underlying physical errors?
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:43
Riverlane Launched in 2016 Hits Tenth Birthday, Betting on Useful Quantum Computers
Founded in 2016, Riverlane initially focused on making quantum algorithms more efficient, betting that useful quantum computers would become reality.
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Founded in 2016, Riverlane began with the premise that useful quantum computers would be possible and could be unlocked through software efficiency. Initially focused on quantum algorithms, Riverlane quickly expanded to become a leader in quantum error correction, recognizing that reliable qubits, not just more of them, were key to scaling the technology.
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Founded in 2016, Riverlane initially focused on making quantum algorithms more efficient, betting that useful quantum computers would become reality.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:41
Fiber Analyzer Achieves GHz Rates for Quantum Protocol Control
Researchers built a GHz-rate, all-fiber polarization state analyzer—a key component for quantum protocols like quantum key distribution.
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Researchers at the Università degli Studi di Padova and the Padua Quantum Technologies Research Center have achieved gigahertz (GHz) rates for analyzing polarization states in fiber optic systems, a development that could accelerate advancements in quantum communication.
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Researchers built a GHz-rate, all-fiber polarization state analyzer—a key component for quantum protocols like quantum key distribution.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:41
Qiskit’s Random Forest Classifier IDs Noise With 84% Accuracy
Scalable noise identification is key for quantum processors, and researchers found a pipeline using machine learning—a Random Forest achieved 84% accuracy distinguishing noise channels.
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A random forest classifier can now identify ten distinct types of quantum noise with 84.26% accuracy, using data generated from remarkably small, 3-qubit circuits. Researchers have developed a noise fingerprinting pipeline combining classical shadow tomography with a physics-informed approach to feature engineering, addressing a critical hurdle in scaling quantum computing.
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Scalable noise identification is key for quantum processors, and researchers found a pipeline using machine learning—a Random Forest achieved 84% accuracy distinguishing noise channels.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:41
Conformal Embeddings Unlock Exact Open Quantum System Evolution
Analyzing open quantum systems, this work identifies how conformal structures—including conformal embeddings—restore exact solvability in (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theories, even for N Majorana fermions.
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Researchers have discovered a surprising pathway to exact solutions for complex, open quantum systems, revealing how intrinsic conformal structures can unlock analytically tractable dynamics.
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Analyzing open quantum systems, this work identifies how conformal structures—including conformal embeddings—restore exact solvability in (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theories, even for N Majorana fermions.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:40
QudeLeap & HKUST Build Lean-QIT for Formalizing Quantum Theory
Researchers from QudeLeap Research in Shanghai and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), along with researchers from The University of Hong Kong and Quantum Science Center o…
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Researchers from QudeLeap Research in Shanghai and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), along with researchers from The University of Hong Kong and Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong-Macao Greater Bay Area, have collaborated to build Lean-QIT, a new library for formalizing quantum information theory using Lean 4 .
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Researchers from QudeLeap and HKUST have created Lean-QIT, a Lean 4 library formalizing quantum information theory.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:34
Nonlinear Evolution Outperforms Gradient Descent in Quantum Optimization
Generalized Nonlinear Imaginary-Time Evolution (NITE) demonstrates improved performance versus standard gradient descent, excelling at quantum state preparation.
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Researchers at Universiteit Leiden have demonstrated a new approach to quantum optimization, presenting Generalized Nonlinear Imaginary-Time Evolution (NITE) as an alternative to standard gradient descent.
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Generalized Nonlinear Imaginary-Time Evolution (NITE) demonstrates improved performance versus standard gradient descent, excelling at quantum state preparation.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:31
Single Quantum’s 50-km Interferometer Achieved 4.42×10⁻⁶ Rad Phase Sensitivity
Researchers used a 50-km fiber interferometer with Single Quantum’s detectors to achieve 4.42×10⁻⁶ rad phase sensitivity, resolving gravitational time dilation.
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The researchers reported that this detector system proved highly reliable during extended measurement campaigns and was straightforward to operate, facilitating the large-scale quantum optics experiment and enabling future investigations with entangled states of light.
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Researchers used a 50-km fiber interferometer with Single Quantum’s detectors to achieve 4.42×10⁻⁶ rad phase sensitivity, resolving gravitational time dilation.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:21
University of Waterloo Receives $7.1M for Quantum & Multidiscipline Research
The University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing secured $7.1M in federal funding, supporting projects across Engineering, Science & Math.
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A $149,945 investment will bolster the development of quantum sensors at the University of Waterloo, funding millimeter-wave infrastructure designed by Bradley Hauer, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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The University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing secured $7.1M in federal funding, supporting projects across Engineering, Science & Math.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 20:18
Twelve states are suing to stop the Paramount-Warner deal that Washington already waved through
A dozen states have sued to block Paramount Skydance’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The suit, led by California attorney general Rob Bonta, was filed in federal court in California’s Northern District, CNBC reports. The timing is pointed. The Justice Department approved the roughly $110bn deal last month without conditions or divestitures, after an eight-month review. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Twelve states are suing to stop the Paramount-Warner deal that Washington already waved through. A dozen states have sued to block Paramount Skydance’s takeover of Warner Bros. The suit, led by California attorney general Rob Bonta, was filed in federal court in California’s Northern District, CNBC reports.
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Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:15
DOE’s Northeastern & Brookhaven Lab Expand Quantum Computing Toolkit
Researchers expanded the quantum toolkit with a new Hermite transform algorithm, a key primitive for boosting quantum computer efficiency.
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Researchers have developed a new quantum algorithm, the quantum Hermite transform, representing a move beyond the limited number of operations currently available for quantum computers to outperform classical systems.
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Researchers expanded the quantum toolkit with a new Hermite transform algorithm, a key primitive for boosting quantum computer efficiency.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:01
Orange Belgium Unifies Networks with Nokia’s 400G-Ready Transport
Orange Belgium is unifying its entire fixed and mobile network infrastructure with Nokia’s 1830 PSS platform, establishing a single converged optical transport network across Belgium.
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Orange Belgium is unifying its entire fixed and mobile network infrastructure with Nokia’s 1830 PSS platform, establishing a single converged optical transport network across Belgium. The multi-year project aims to modernize operations and deliver a more resilient, scalable network capable of supporting increasing bandwidth demands from services like artificial intelligence, v…
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Orange Belgium is modernizing its network with Nokia, unifying fixed & mobile infrastructure across Belgium.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:01
300 Quantum Ambassadors Trained by New FAU Center Director
More than 300 quantum computing ambassadors have benefited from the expertise of Robert Loredo, experience he brings to Florida Atlantic University as the newly appointed executive director for Quant…
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More than 300 quantum computing ambassadors have benefited from the expertise of Robert Loredo, experience he brings to Florida Atlantic University as the newly appointed executive director for Quantum Technologies.
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Robert Loredo leads FAU’s Center for Quantum Technologies, expanding research & workforce development.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 20:01
Xi’an Jiaotong University Details Tripartite Electron-Magnon Coupling
Xi’an Jiaotong University researchers predicted a mechanism for strong, tunable interactions between trapped electrons, magnon modes, and electron motion.
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Researchers at the School of Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University report a novel mechanism for strong coupling in hybrid quantum systems, predicting a nonlinear interaction where two phonons simultaneously interact with a single spin and magnon excitation.
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Xi’an Jiaotong University researchers predicted a mechanism for strong, tunable interactions between trapped electrons, magnon modes, and electron motion.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 19:59
Tesla’s Cybercab drove across a car park, and the real news happened two days earlier
Tesla has said Cybercab employee rides are starting soon at its Texas factory. The announcement came with a clip of a gold Cybercab, butterfly doors up and no steering wheel or pedals, driving itself across the outbound lot, Mashable reports. Note the tense. Tesla said the rides are “starting soon”, not that they have started, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Tesla’s Cybercab drove across a car park, and the real news happened two days earlier. Tesla has said Cybercab employee rides are starting soon at its Texas factory. The announcement came with a clip of a gold Cybercab, butterfly doors up and no steering wheel or pedals, driving itself across the outbound lot, Mashable reports.
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Tesla said the rides are “starting soon”, not that they have started, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 19:56
Harvard University Team Probes Vortex Dynamics for Understanding Superconducting Levitation
Previously, magnetically levitated particles suffered mechanical quality factors limited to 107. Now, observations of random telegraph signals within a levitated particle reveal the dynamics of individual vortices in a YBCO superconducting film. This offers a new way to explore dissipation mechanisms and potentially create highly sensitive mechanical transducers.
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Harvard University Team Probes Vortex Dynamics for Understanding Superconducting Levitation. Now, observations of random telegraph signals within a levitated particle reveal the dynamics of individual vortices in a YBCO superconducting film. This offers a new way to explore dissipation mechanisms and potentially create highly sensitive mechanical transducers.
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Previously, magnetically levitated particles suffered mechanical quality factors limited to 107.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 19:55
AI Designed Peptides Emerge From Hybrid Quantum-Classical Design
Identifying allele-specific peptides for immunotherapies is difficult, but a new approach using Hybrid quantum-classical methods generated diverse candidates.
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Researchers from eight institutions across Denmark, the UK, and Poland have combined quantum computing with classical methods to design peptides capable of binding to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules, a critical step in initiating immune responses.
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Identifying allele-specific peptides for immunotherapies is difficult, but a new approach using Hybrid quantum-classical methods generated diverse candidates.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 19:52
Shahrood University of Technology: Researchers Enhance Quantum Key Distribution with Novel Self-Sifting Protocol
Can secure communication rely on discarding data rather than meticulously protecting every signal? This new protocol achieves precisely that, shifting all key sifting and eavesdropper detection to the receiver after quantum transmission. By eliminating public announcements of control modes and utilising previously discarded rounds, it limits information leakage and enhances security against specific attacks.
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Shahrood University of Technology: Researchers Enhance Quantum Key Distribution with Novel Self-Sifting Protocol. This new protocol achieves precisely that, shifting all key sifting and eavesdropper detection to the receiver after quantum transmission.
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Can secure communication rely on discarding data rather than meticulously protecting every signal?
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 19:38
Google’s big Waze AI update includes a button that makes the app shut up
Google has given Waze a batch of new features, most of them powered by Gemini. The headline additions are a motorcycle mode, personalised routing, conversational map editing, and Gemini-powered destination search, The Verge reports. The most interesting one does the opposite of what you would expect. It is called less chatty mode, and it makes the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google’s big Waze AI update includes a button that makes the app shut up. Google has given Waze a batch of new features, most of them powered by Gemini. The headline additions are a motorcycle mode, personalised routing, conversational map editing, and Gemini-powered destination search, The Verge reports.
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It is called less chatty mode, and it makes the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 19:21
Intel is putting 5 billion euros into Ireland, and Europe just got one of the few EUV fabs on the continent
Intel is committing 5 billion euros, around $5.7bn, to expand its campus at Leixlip in Ireland. The money is aimed at data-centre processors for AI and high-performance computing, Bloomberg reports. It is a serious share of the company’s budget. The sum represents roughly 30% of Intel’s $17bn capital expenditure planned for 2026, with most of it […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Intel is putting 5 billion euros into Ireland, and Europe just got one of the few EUV fabs on the continent. Intel is committing 5 billion euros, around $5.7bn, to expand its campus at Leixlip in Ireland. The money is aimed at data-centre processors for AI and high-performance computing, Bloomberg reports.
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The sum represents roughly 30% of Intel’s $17bn capital expenditure planned for 2026, with most of it […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 13, 19:02
ASC26 Wuxi Wrap Up: Awards & Trophies
The last five days were very challenging for the 125 students participating in the ASC26 competition. It began with a long weekend of building their cluster and getting the environment settled in. When they began testing the applications, many teams found that the optimizations that worked on their university training systems didn’t work on their […] The post ASC26 Wuxi Wrap Up: Awards & Trophies appeared first on HPCwire .
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ASC26 Wuxi Wrap Up: Awards & Trophies. It began with a long weekend of building their cluster and getting the environment settled in. When they began testing the applications, many teams found that the optimizations that worked on their university training systems didn’t work on their […] The post ASC26 Wuxi Wrap Up: Awards & Trophies appeared first on HPCwire .
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The last five days were very challenging for the 125 students participating in the ASC26 competition.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 19:02
Nadella says you pay for AI twice, and Microsoft helped build the trap
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says every firm using AI is paying for it twice, once in cash, and once in the secrets it hands over to make the thing useful. He calls it the Reverse Information Paradox. He also runs the company that helped build the trap. Satya Nadella has a warning for everyone buying AI. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Nadella says you pay for AI twice, and Microsoft helped build the trap. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says every firm using AI is paying for it twice, once in cash, and once in the secrets it hands over to make the thing useful. Satya Nadella has a warning for everyone buying AI.
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Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 18:59
ORNL deploys IQM Radiance 20-Qubit System at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s recent IQM Radiance system installation, Pathfinder, marks the DOE’s first commercial quantum computer at ORNL.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed Pathfinder , the Department of Energy’s first commercially procured quantum computer, a 20-qubit IQM Radiance system designed to integrate quantum computing with existing high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and simulation capabilities.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s recent IQM Radiance system installation, Pathfinder, marks the DOE’s first commercial quantum computer at ORNL.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 18:56
AI is ending older workers’ careers early, and it is coming for the well-paid ones first
The debate about AI and jobs has focused on graduates. New research suggests it should also be looking at people in their late fifties, CNBC reports. Workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed occupations are now exiting work at higher rates than before ChatGPT launched. The finding comes from Geoffrey Sanzenbacher at Boston College’s Center for […] This story continues at The Next Web
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AI is ending older workers’ careers early, and it is coming for the well-paid ones first. The debate about AI and jobs has focused on graduates. New research suggests it should also be looking at people in their late fifties, CNBC reports.
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The finding comes from Geoffrey Sanzenbacher at Boston College’s Center for […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 18:53
The web is now mostly bots. Cloudflare is rebuilding its defences around that
For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company’s new tool, stops checking IDs at the door and starts watching how visitors behave once they are inside. The internet just passed a strange milestone. Bots now generate more web requests than people do. By Cloudflare’s count, automated […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The web is now mostly bots. For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Bots now generate more web requests than people do.
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By Cloudflare’s count, automated […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 18:48
How Quantum Shadows Mimic Classical Statistics at One Setting
At a single setting, quantum probabilities appear as classical detector-click statistics, resembling “Operational Shadows” of Hilbert-space probabilities.
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At a single, fixed measurement, the probabilities yielded by a quantum system can become indistinguishable from those of a classical one, as observed through detector clicks. This finding, submitted by Karl Svozil on July 10, 2026, reveals a specific condition where quantum behavior exactly mimics classical statistics.
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At a single setting, quantum probabilities appear as classical detector-click statistics, resembling “Operational Shadows” of Hilbert-space probabilities.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 18:39
SPAM Errors Fall Below 0.1% in Nord Quantique Qubit System
Nord Quantique lowered state preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors to below 0.1% in its grid state qubit, a 100-fold improvement.
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Nord Quantique has achieved a significant improvement in quantum error correction, reducing state preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors to below 0.1% in its single-mode grid state qubit system. “This breakthrough advances our mission to realize fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2030,” said Julien Camirand Lemyre , CEO and Co-founder of Nord Quantique.
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Nord Quantique lowered state preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors to below 0.1% in its grid state qubit, a 100-fold improvement.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 18:39
Imec and Diraq Fabricate First 8-Qubit Silicon Spin Array
Imec & Diraq achieved coherent operation of an eight-qubit array using silicon MOS spin qubits, fabricated via a 300mm CMOS process.
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The demonstration, detailed in a recent Nature Communications paper, indicates that established industrial semiconductor processes can support the creation of quantum processors exceeding the complexity of individual qubits or small pairings.
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Imec & Diraq achieved coherent operation of an eight-qubit array using silicon MOS spin qubits, fabricated via a 300mm CMOS process.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 18:39
Q-PLANET Launches with 28 European Partners and €50M Budget
The official kick-off of Q-PLANET, a €50 million European pilot line coordinated by Pasqal, aims to industrialize neutral atom quantum chips.
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A €50 million initiative has launched to build a European supply chain for neutral atom quantum chips, with the Q-PLANET project formally kicking off on July 8 and 9. The consortium, coordinated by Pasqal , unites 28 European research organizations, industry partners, and academic groups across 11 member states to accelerate the industrialization of this promising quantum comp…
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The official kick-off of Q-PLANET, a €50 million European pilot line coordinated by Pasqal, aims to industrialize neutral atom quantum chips.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 18:37
Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it
A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud and AI without letting America reach inside. The fear driving it stopped being hypothetical this year. Valarian, a London-based sovereignty startup, has raised a $50m (£37m) Series A led by the US venture fund NEA, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it. A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud and AI without letting America reach inside. The fear driving it stopped being hypothetical this year.
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Valarian, a London-based sovereignty startup, has raised a $50m (£37m) Series A led by the US venture fund NEA, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 18:33
Hybrid Quantum and Classical Workload Management with Graph-based Scheduling
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed Fluence, a new Kubernetes scheduler plugin that reduces the cost of utilizing quantum computing resources.
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Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed Fluence, a new Kubernetes scheduler plugin that reduces the cost of utilizing quantum computing resources. This advancement addresses a key challenge in hybrid quantum-classical workflows: coordinating tasks between classical and remote quantum processors introduces significant delays.
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Fluence, a Kubernetes plugin using the Fluxion graph-based scheduler, cuts AWS quantum device costs by 70×.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 18:26
The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them
The European Union and the United Kingdom have jointly sanctioned Russia’s cyber apparatus for the first time. The EU listed nine individuals and four entities, while the UK went further with 24, Politico reports. The language is what matters here. The EU’s High Representative Kaja Kallas denounced not a group but an ecosystem, spanning intelligence services, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them. The European Union and the United Kingdom have jointly sanctioned Russia’s cyber apparatus for the first time. The EU listed nine individuals and four entities, while the UK went further with 24, Politico reports.
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The EU’s High Representative Kaja Kallas denounced not a group but an ecosystem, spanning intelligence services, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 18:21
Helsing raises $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, and its cap table tells a story
Munich’s Helsing has raised $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, making it Europe’s largest defence startup. The round is a bet on sovereign AI. A lot of the money paying for it is American. Europe’s biggest defence startup just got a lot bigger. On Monday Helsing said it had closed a $1.8bn Series E that values […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Helsing raises $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, and its cap table tells a story. Munich’s Helsing has raised $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, making it Europe’s largest defence startup. The round is a bet on sovereign AI.
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On Monday Helsing said it had closed a $1.8bn Series E that values […] This story continues at The Next Web
Cakehonolulu
Jul 13, 18:18
Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?
I couldn't start this entry in any other way possible but by thanking everyone who enjoyed the Linux on Jaguar post.
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I know it doesn't sound too fascinating but for me, other than job hunting (Which is not my bread and butter anyway), bringing up a piece of silicon and having it run something you made/helped making is super fun. you know; the usual engineering stuff.
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I couldn't start this entry in any other way possible but by thanking everyone who enjoyed the Linux on Jaguar post.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 18:15
AVS Quantum Science’s Squeezed Light Protocol Boosts Fidelity Gap by 29 Percent
A new quantum identity authentication protocol utilizes squeezed light to enhance secure communication systems, leveraging quantum noise reduction to prevent eavesdropping. The four-direction protocol increases the fidelity gap by 29 percent compared to binary-squeezed methods, improving discrimination without additional hardware.
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A new quantum identity authentication protocol utilizes squeezed light to enhance secure communication systems, leveraging quantum noise reduction to prevent eavesdropping. The four-direction protocol increases the fidelity gap by 29 percent compared to binary-squeezed methods, improving discrimination without additional hardware.
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A new quantum identity authentication protocol utilizes squeezed light to enhance secure communication systems, leveraging quantum noise reduction to prevent eavesdropping.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 18:04
Quantum Physics Algebra Links Entropy to Macroscopic Thermodynamics
This research uses a coarse-grained approach, building a thermodynamics framework via measurement statistics & Quantum Physics observables.
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Researchers Antoine Rignon-Bret and Cyril Elouard have developed a new algebraic framework for understanding the thermodynamics of complex quantum systems, moving beyond calculations that demand complete knowledge of a system’s state.
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This research uses a coarse-grained approach, building a thermodynamics framework via measurement statistics & Quantum Physics observables.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 18:03
Meta’s Hyperion data centre hit $50bn, and split a Louisiana town in two
Meta’s Hyperion data centre in rural Louisiana has ballooned from $10bn to more than $50bn in under two years. In a parish of 20,000 people, it has made some locals a fortune and priced others out of their homes. Meta just made its biggest AI bet bigger. On Monday the company said its Hyperion data […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Meta’s Hyperion data centre hit $50bn, and split a Louisiana town in two. Meta’s Hyperion data centre in rural Louisiana has ballooned from $10bn to more than $50bn in under two years. Meta just made its biggest AI bet bigger.
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On Monday the company said its Hyperion data […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 18:00
TU Graz finds zero-retention in bottleneck quantum repeater families
TU Graz research reveals certain bottleneck network families exhibit zero retention of entanglement, while others adhere to a predictable coverage principle in quantum networks.
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Simulations of entanglement-based quantum networks reveal a vulnerability: certain repeater configurations exhibit zero retention of usable entangled states when subjected to realistic attacks.
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TU Graz research reveals certain bottleneck network families exhibit zero retention of entanglement, while others adhere to a predictable coverage principle in quantum networks.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 17:54
200 economists just admitted they can’t see where AI is taking the economy
Two hundred economists, sixteen of them Nobel laureates, have signed a statement on AI and the economy. The punchline: the smartest people in the room are telling you they cannot see the road. Economists do not usually panic in public. This week, more than 200 of them did it together. On Monday a group of […] This story continues at The Next Web
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200 economists just admitted they can’t see where AI is taking the economy. Two hundred economists, sixteen of them Nobel laureates, have signed a statement on AI and the economy. Economists do not usually panic in public.
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On Monday a group of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:53
Quantum Reservoir Expressivity Confirmed on IBM Hardware via ORS Score
Quantum reservoirs present a hardware-friendly approach to quantum machine learning by utilizing fixed random dynamics and classical readout, rather than trainable circuits. Evaluating performance relies on reservoir selection, and this work introduces a scalable framework—based on order-statistics expressivity and effective rank—to diagnose these systems.
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Quantum reservoirs present a hardware-friendly approach to quantum machine learning by utilizing fixed random dynamics and classical readout, rather than trainable circuits. Evaluating performance relies on reservoir selection, and this work introduces a scalable framework—based on order-statistics expressivity and effective rank—to diagnose these systems.
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Quantum reservoirs present a hardware-friendly approach to quantum machine learning by utilizing fixed random dynamics and classical readout, rather than trainable circuits.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:47
Université de Bordeaux Builds Stable Quantum Krylov Method
Université de Bordeaux researchers introduced Orthogonal Quantum Krylov Diagonalization (OQKD), a new framework for computing low-energy spectra, improving upon existing Quantum Krylov approaches by eliminating overlap-matrix regularization.
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Researchers at Université de Bordeaux, CNRS , and LOMA have developed a new quantum computing method, Orthogonal Quantum Krylov Diagonalization (OQKD), that directly reformulates the classical Lanczos recursion at the operator level.
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Université de Bordeaux researchers introduced Orthogonal Quantum Krylov Diagonalization (OQKD), a new framework for computing low-energy spectra, improving upon existing Quantum Krylov approaches by eliminating overlap-matrix regularization.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:44
Hybrid Qubit-Boson Gate Achieves High Fidelity in Circuit QED Simulations
A hybrid qubit-boson beam-splitter gate is introduced, coupling a microwave cavity mode to a two-qubit system with Kerr nonlinearity within a circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) model. This gate primitive aims to provide a native implementation for quantum information processing, potentially reducing overhead and enabling new approaches to quantum dynamics.
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Hybrid Qubit-Boson Gate Achieves High Fidelity in Circuit QED Simulations. A hybrid qubit-boson beam-splitter gate is introduced, coupling a microwave cavity mode to a two-qubit system with Kerr nonlinearity within a circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) model.
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This gate primitive aims to provide a native implementation for quantum information processing, potentially reducing overhead and enabling new approaches to quantum dynamics.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:42
COSMA achieves a 2.5× cost reduction via joint quantum kernel optimization
COSMA, a new framework for fermionic simulation kernels, achieves up to 2.5x cost reduction via joint optimization of qubit mapping and Pauli scheduling.
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This approach addresses a critical performance bottleneck as quantum computers scale toward tackling complex chemical simulations, and the results demonstrate that cross-layer co-design is essential for efficient and scalable quantum simulation on multi-core quantum hardware.
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COSMA, a new framework for fermionic simulation kernels, achieves up to 2.5x cost reduction via joint optimization of qubit mapping and Pauli scheduling.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 17:38
Monzo founder Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic’s compute team
Tom Blomfield built two of Britain’s best-known fintech companies. Now the Monzo founder is joining Anthropic, and his job is to help crack the AI industry’s hardest problem: compute. One of the biggest names in UK tech is heading to one of the most valuable companies in AI. Tom Blomfield co-founded the digital bank Monzo […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Monzo founder Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic’s compute team. Now the Monzo founder is joining Anthropic, and his job is to help crack the AI industry’s hardest problem: compute. One of the biggest names in UK tech is heading to one of the most valuable companies in AI.
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Tom Blomfield co-founded the digital bank Monzo […] This story continues at The Next Web
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:30
IQM Hardware Shows ZNE Can Report False 21% Improvements
Analysis of IQM hardware reveals Zero-Noise Extrapolation (ZNE) can falsely report up to 21% improvement, independent of actual noise reduction.
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IQM Euro-Q-Exa hardware has revealed a flaw in Zero-Noise Extrapolation, a widely used quantum error mitigation technique. Dominik Köster and Wolfgang Mauerer are the authors of this work, which addresses a threat to empirical evaluations in quantum computing.
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Analysis of IQM hardware reveals Zero-Noise Extrapolation (ZNE) can falsely report up to 21% improvement, independent of actual noise reduction.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:28
Universität zu Köln Team Achieves Quantum Game Advantage
Researchers at the University of Cologne have demonstrated that separable quantum states, unlike previous examples, can create advantageous equilibria in Bayesian games, exceeding the performance of all classically correlated strategies. This finding indicates that resources beyond entanglement can provide a quantum advantage, even within classical game scenarios.
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Researchers at the University of Cologne have demonstrated that separable quantum states, unlike previous examples, can create advantageous equilibria in Bayesian games, exceeding the performance of all classically correlated strategies. This finding indicates that resources beyond entanglement can provide a quantum advantage, even within classical game scenarios.
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Researchers at the University of Cologne have demonstrated that separable quantum states, unlike previous examples, can create advantageous equilibria in Bayesian games, exceeding the performance of all classically correlated strategies.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:26
Node-Free Quantum Evolution Reaches Global Minimum Stability
This study of free quantum evolution, allowing nodes, demonstrates it’s a local minimum—and a global one when nodes aren’t present.
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Researchers are revealing a surprising link between the stability of quantum wave functions and the presence of nodes, points where the wave function crosses zero. The analysis focuses on solutions within the complex mathematical space L 2 (ℝ d , ℂ), highlighting a highly technical approach to understanding quantum behavior.
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This study of free quantum evolution, allowing nodes, demonstrates it’s a local minimum—and a global one when nodes aren’t present.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:25
University of Basel Proposes New Superconducting Qubit Design
Researchers at the University of Basel propose a new superconducting qubit design, singlet-triplet qubits, which integrate quantum dots with Josephson junctions and do not require spin-orbit interaction. This design combines the benefits of spin-based quantum computing and circuit quantum electrodynamics, potentially broadening material options and simplifying control with minimal overhead.
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University of Basel Proposes New Superconducting Qubit Design. Researchers at the University of Basel propose a new superconducting qubit design, singlet-triplet qubits, which integrate quantum dots with Josephson junctions and do not require spin-orbit interaction.
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This design combines the benefits of spin-based quantum computing and circuit quantum electrodynamics, potentially broadening material options and simplifying control with minimal overhead.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:24
Institute of Industrial Science Reports Local Determinacy in Quantum Dynamics
Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, demonstrate local determinacy in quantum dynamics, challenging conventional views of open systems.
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This approach, detailed in work licensed on arXiv.org , proposes a new formulation of master equations for open systems where a quantum state’s evolution is dictated by its behavior at any given moment. The team found that their coordinate-free formulation offered advantages in understanding the dynamics of these systems.
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Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, demonstrate local determinacy in quantum dynamics, challenging conventional views of open systems.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:22
Researcher’s 140-Page Notes Detail Quantum Path to PDE Solutions
These 140-page lecture notes detail a novel approach, utilizing block encoding, to solving partial differential equations with quantum computation.
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Xiantao Li has released detailed 140-page lecture notes outlining a quantum approach to solving Partial Differential Equations, bridging the fields of numerical analysis and quantum computation.
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These 140-page lecture notes detail a novel approach, utilizing block encoding, to solving partial differential equations with quantum computation.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:19
Noise-Directed Warm-Starting Boosts 100-Qubit Quantum Optimization
Progress in quantum optimization is limited by hardware noise and qubit count, but researchers have proposed a noise-aware approach, Noise-Directed Adaptive Warm-Starting, to improve performance on quantum algorithms. This method leverages bitflip gauge transformations to exploit noise components and was experimentally implemented on 100-qubit systems, demonstrating improved results without increasing circuit complexity.
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Progress in quantum optimization is limited by hardware noise and qubit count, but researchers have proposed a noise-aware approach, Noise-Directed Adaptive Warm-Starting, to improve performance on quantum algorithms.
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Progress in quantum optimization is limited by hardware noise and qubit count, but researchers have proposed a noise-aware approach, Noise-Directed Adaptive Warm-Starting, to improve performance on quantum algorithms.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:18
Paderborn University Maps Regimes for Quantum Dot Cluster State Control
Paderborn University researchers detail methods for generating linear photonic cluster states using semiconductor quantum dots, key for quantum information processing.
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Paderborn University and Wyant College researchers compared four approaches to generating linear photonic cluster states using semiconductor quantum dots, a crucial step for advancing measurement based quantum information processing.
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Paderborn University researchers detail methods for generating linear photonic cluster states using semiconductor quantum dots, key for quantum information processing.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:13
Quantum Sensing, Networking, Computing Unite in NSF’s Project Triad
The U.S. National Science Foundation launched Project Triad, an initiative to integrate quantum sensing, networking, and computing into a single system. This first-of-its-kind effort aims to move quantum technology beyond research and into practical applications, bolstering economic competitiveness and national security.
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National Science Foundation launched Project Triad, an initiative to integrate quantum sensing, networking, and computing into a single system. This first-of-its-kind effort aims to move quantum technology beyond research and into practical applications, bolstering economic competitiveness and national security.
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National Science Foundation launched Project Triad, an initiative to integrate quantum sensing, networking, and computing into a single system.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:06
Kim and Colleagues Develop Multi-Tone Framework for Multimode Entangling-Gate Synthesis
Entangling up to 1000 trapped ions with precision was previously limited by the escalating complexity of controlling their collective movements. Now, a new numerical framework achieves this using only global laser control, demonstrating that the resources needed do not increase exponentially with ion number. This offers a scalable pathway towards building larger, more programmable quantum processors based on trapped ions.
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Kim and Colleagues Develop Multi-Tone Framework for Multimode Entangling-Gate Synthesis. Entangling up to 1000 trapped ions with precision was previously limited by the escalating complexity of controlling their collective movements.
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This offers a scalable pathway towards building larger, more programmable quantum processors based on trapped ions.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 17:00
Peking University Quantum Chip Computes Spectroscopy for Open Quantum Systems
Peking University researchers demonstrated a new method for generalised quantum computational spectroscopy on a quantum chip, expanding analysis to open quantum systems.
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Researchers at Peking University have demonstrated a quantum chip capable of generalized quantum computational spectroscopy, published July 11, 2026, and moving beyond the limitations of previous quantum algorithms largely restricted to static and closed quantum systems.
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Peking University researchers demonstrated a new method for generalised quantum computational spectroscopy on a quantum chip, expanding analysis to open quantum systems.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 16:57
Quantum Circuits Cut Data Imbalance Recall Gap by 10–25%
Hybrid quantum-classical models using Quantum Circuit Born Machines address data imbalance, improving recall by 10–25% on tabular datasets.
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This performance boost demonstrates a measurable gain directly linked to harnessing quantum mechanical principles. The team’s approach centers on the QCBM, a parameterized quantum circuit designed to model complex probability distributions.
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Hybrid quantum-classical models using Quantum Circuit Born Machines address data imbalance, improving recall by 10–25% on tabular datasets.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 16:56
Grover Walks on Graphs Hit Entropy Upper Bound
This study analyzes entanglement entropy in two-particle quantum walks on graphs, specifically the two-particle Grover walk.
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Researchers have pinpointed the exact values of ‘n’ for which a specific quantum system reaches its upper bound of entanglement, revealing a level of precision in quantum behavior. Their work demonstrates that for the complete bipartite graph Kn,n, they determine the values of n for which the quantum states evolved from specific initial states attain the upper bound of the ent…
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This study analyzes entanglement entropy in two-particle quantum walks on graphs, specifically the two-particle Grover walk.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 16:56
Decoupling from China would cost the West $23.6tn
Cutting the West’s reliance on China would carry a staggering price. A new study puts the cost of decoupling from China at $23.6tn over 25 years, and warns the bill would land hardest on the industries building Europe’s tech future. The West has spent three years talking about reducing its dependence on China. A new […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Decoupling from China would cost the West $23.6tn. The West has spent three years talking about reducing its dependence on China. A new […] This story continues at The Next Web
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A new […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thequantuminsider
Jul 13, 16:54
Q-PLANET Begins Development of European Pilot Line for Neutral Atom Quantum Chips
Insider Brief Press release – Last two days marked the official kick-off of Q-PLANET (Quantum Pilot Line for production of Advanced chips for Neutral atom European Technologies), one of the 6 European Quantum Chip Stability Pilot Lines co-founded by the European Union and the Chips Joint Undertaking and National and Regional Authorities of the participating […]
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Coordinated by Pasqal , a global leader in neutral atom quantum computing, the consortium brings together 28 European RTOs, industry partners, and academic research groups across 11 EU Member States, with the goal of strengthening Europe’s leadership and resilience in the quantum supply chain.
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Insider Brief Press release – Last two days marked the official kick-off of Q-PLANET (Quantum Pilot Line for production of Advanced chips for Neutral atom European Technologies), one of the 6 European Quantum Chip Stability Pilot Lines co-founded by the European Union and the Chips Joint Undertaking and National and Regional Authorities of the participating […]
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 16:54
Researchers Define Quantum Orchestra for Hybrid Languages
Alex Rice and a team developed a method for defining the semantics of hybrid quantum computations, utilizing a quantum orchestra monad to capture the style of quantum effect within programming languages. This monad, based on quantum instruments, allows for the interpretation of divergent programs that include mid-circuit measurements and potential non-termination.
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Alex Rice and a team developed a method for defining the semantics of hybrid quantum computations, utilizing a quantum orchestra monad to capture the style of quantum effect within programming languages. This monad, based on quantum instruments, allows for the interpretation of divergent programs that include mid-circuit measurements and potential non-termination.
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Alex Rice and a team developed a method for defining the semantics of hybrid quantum computations, utilizing a quantum orchestra monad to capture the style of quantum effect within programming languages.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 16:51
Beihang University Finds Purification Rate Constant at Unit Efficiency
Beihang University researchers identified speed limits for quantum state purification, finding maximal decay is a state-independent constant.
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Researchers at Beihang University have identified a boundary on how effectively quantum bits, or qubits , can be purified, revealing that for a qubit, the decay rate of the determinant presents a sharp null test at unit efficiency.
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Beihang University researchers identified speed limits for quantum state purification, finding maximal decay is a state-independent constant.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 16:50
Researchers Establish Quantitative WAY-Type Theorems
Hokkyo & Tajima establish quantitative Wigner-Araki-Yanase (WAY) theorems, extending bounds on quantum measurement & control to discrete and antiunitary symmetries.
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Akihiro Hokkyo and Hiroyasu Tajima have established a new set of quantitative theorems that directly link errors in quantum measurements and gates to the asymmetry of the equipment used, offering a fundamental limit for controlling quantum systems.
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Hokkyo & Tajima establish quantitative Wigner-Araki-Yanase (WAY) theorems, extending bounds on quantum measurement & control to discrete and antiunitary symmetries.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 16:49
Adaptive Circuit Cuts Quantum Simulation Depth for Open Systems
Simulating open quantum systems now requires less depth, thanks to an algorithm using adaptive variational quantum trajectory compression.
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Researchers have developed an algorithm that reduces the computational demands of simulating complex, real-world quantum systems on current quantum hardware. The team reports a method for simulating Lindbladian dynamics, the behavior of open quantum systems subject to environmental noise, by compressing the quantum circuits needed to represent these systems.
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Simulating open quantum systems now requires less depth, thanks to an algorithm using adaptive variational quantum trajectory compression.
Quantumzeitgeist
Jul 13, 16:45
$3 Million Funds Quantum Tech Commercialization in Tennessee
Tennessee commits $3 million to support National Science Foundation X-Labs quantum teams, attracting them to commercialize technologies within the state.
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Tennessee is directing $3 million in state funding to incentivize National Science Foundation ( NSF ) X-Labs quantum teams to establish operations within its borders, a financial commitment designed to accelerate the commercialization of advanced quantum technologies.
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Tennessee commits $3 million to support National Science Foundation X-Labs quantum teams, attracting them to commercialize technologies within the state.
Thequantuminsider
Jul 13, 16:41
Imec and Diraq Demonstrate Eight-Qubit Silicon Spin Array on CMOS-Compatible Platform
Insider Brief Press release – Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub for advanced semiconductor technologies, and Diraq, a pioneer of silicon-based quantum computing, today announce they have demonstrated the coherent operation and readout of an eight silicon MOS spin-qubit array designed and fabricated on imec’s advanced 300mm spin-qubit technology platform using a CMOS-compatible process. The […]
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The results, published in a Nature Communications paper, mark an important step toward scalable quantum processors manufactured with the same industrial technologies used to produce today’s most advanced semiconductor chips.
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Insider Brief Press release – Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub for advanced semiconductor technologies, and Diraq, a pioneer of silicon-based quantum computing, today announce they have demonstrated the coherent operation and readout of an eight silicon MOS spin-qubit array designed and fabricated on imec’s advanced 300mm spin-qubit technology platform using a CMOS-compatible process.
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 16:26
France thinks cheap power is its AI edge. Now it must decide who plugs in
France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe’s overlooked advantage in AI. A debate has now opened over that power. Should it go to homegrown AI firms, or to the American giants building data centres on French soil? When the head of Europe’s biggest AI lab arrived at last month’s G7 working lunch on artificial […] This story continues at The Next Web
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France thinks cheap power is its AI edge. France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe’s overlooked advantage in AI. Should it go to homegrown AI firms, or to the American giants building data centres on French soil?
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When the head of Europe’s biggest AI lab arrived at last month’s G7 working lunch on artificial […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 16:07
Cursor is building a Claude Cowork rival, and Musk may decide its fate
The race to automate the office just gained a third runner. Cursor is building Sand, a general-purpose agent to rival Claude Cowork. Whether it ever ships may come down to Elon Musk. Cursor made its name as a tool for people who write code. Now it is building one for people who do not. According […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Cursor is building a Claude Cowork rival, and Musk may decide its fate. Cursor is building Sand, a general-purpose agent to rival Claude Cowork. Now it is building one for people who do not.
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According […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 15:54
The AI boom broke the memory market, and the bust could be brutal
The AI boom has broken the memory market’s oldest rule. Prices that should be falling are soaring instead, and the AI memory crunch will not ease until 2028. The hangover, when it comes, could be brutal. Memory is meant to be boring. For decades DRAM and NAND flash have behaved like any commodity, sliding through […] This story continues at The Next Web
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The AI boom broke the memory market, and the bust could be brutal. The AI boom has broken the memory market’s oldest rule. Prices that should be falling are soaring instead, and the AI memory crunch will not ease until 2028.
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For decades DRAM and NAND flash have behaved like any commodity, sliding through […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hpcwire
Jul 13, 15:27
Nord Quantique Achieves Sub-0.1% SPAM Errors in Bosonic Qubit Study
SHERBROOKE, Quebec, July 13, 2026 — Nord Quantique, a quantum computing company advancing efficient, scalable, and error corrected architectures, recently published a research paper demonstrating quantum error correction (QEC) of a single-mode grid state qubit with state preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors below 0.1%; a roughly 100-fold improvement over prior results in comparable GKP-based systems, and […] The post Nord Quantique Achieves Sub-0.1% SPAM Errors in Bosonic Qubit Study appeared first on HPCwire .
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SHERBROOKE, Quebec, July 13, 2026 — Nord Quantique, a quantum computing company advancing efficient, scalable, and error corrected architectures, recently published a research paper demonstrating quantum error correction (QEC) of a single-mode grid state qubit with state preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors below 0.
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SHERBROOKE, Quebec, July 13, 2026 — Nord Quantique, a quantum computing company advancing efficient, scalable, and error corrected architectures, recently published a research paper demonstrating quantum error correction (QEC) of a single-mode grid state qubit with state preparation and measurement (SPAM) errors below 0.1%; a roughly 100-fold improvement over prior results in comparable GKP-based systems, and […] The post Nord Quantique Achieves Sub-0.1% SPAM Errors in Bosonic Qubit Study appeared first on HPCwire .
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 15:22
Bosses want you to use AI. Then they credit the AI
Companies are ordering staff to lean on AI, then handing the credit to the machine. Researchers call it the AI penalty, and workers say it is costing them promotions and raises. Aubrey spent more than a year on a project to speed up a costly medical manufacturing process. When she finished, her manager asked her […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Bosses want you to use AI. Companies are ordering staff to lean on AI, then handing the credit to the machine. Researchers call it the AI penalty, and workers say it is costing them promotions and raises.
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When she finished, her manager asked her […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 15:07
Australia’s AI copyright fight now has a datacentre price tag
The fight over Australia AI copyright has a price tag: tens of billions in datacentres. The prize for AI firms is the right to train on the country’s books, music and journalism. Australia has become the latest test of a question every government now faces. How much of a nation’s creative work can AI companies […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Australia’s AI copyright fight now has a datacentre price tag. The fight over Australia AI copyright has a price tag: tens of billions in datacentres. The prize for AI firms is the right to train on the country’s books, music and journalism.
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How much of a nation’s creative work can AI companies […] This story continues at The Next Web
Thenextweb
Jul 13, 14:30
Meta’s AI detector can’t catch its own cropped fakes
The Meta AI detector promises to catch Meta’s own fakes. Crop the image, and more than half slip straight past it. The tool was meant to be a fix for the deepfake problem, not an example of it. This week Meta previewed an image detector alongside Muse Image, its most advanced image generator yet, and […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Meta’s AI detector can’t catch its own cropped fakes. The Meta AI detector promises to catch Meta’s own fakes. Crop the image, and more than half slip straight past it.
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This week Meta previewed an image detector alongside Muse Image, its most advanced image generator yet, and […] This story continues at The Next Web