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Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, a quantum chip that it developed using AI tools for materials science, and says it will have commercial quantum machines by 2029 — Microsoft (MS

Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new 'flagship' model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its

Microsoft has developed Project Solara, a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows. The platform is Microsoft's bet that AI will open up entirely ne

MOSS-TTS-v1.5 just reached #1 on Hugging Face Trending for Text-to-Speech, with 20.6K downloads. A multilingual, controllable TTS model with stable voice cloning, long-form generation, and precise pau

Patient-controlled health data startup Novellia Inc. today announced it has raised 18 million in Series A funding to scale up a platform that lets patients consolidate their medical records and choose

The DRC Ministry of Health removed suspected cases that have been ruled out after investigation on May 29, resulting in a significant reduction in suspect case counts . Improved laboratory capacity, i

one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day: 'Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor plann

Open-weight models have overtaken closed models on OpenRouter. 69.1% of token volume now goes to open-weight models. 30.9% to closed. Competition is a discovery procedure — and developers are discover

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital — UK company has deployed q

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to 3B, including 388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, vs. $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. — - Palo Alto Network

Shares of Palo Alto Networks Inc. edged down in late trading today despite the cybersecurity company beating expectations on earnings and revenue in its fiscal third quarter and raising its outlook fo

Pretty refreshing for foundation model training in 2026. I wonder how much of the capability gap between their model and other frontier models is because of this constraint. from: https://microsoft.ai

Query Tags is a Databricks feature that adds contextual metadata to warehouse queries, enabling better tracking, organization, and management of query workloads. This capability allows users to label

RAGE How many more young British men and women are going to die? Bleeding in the street, alone and terrified. Cuffed, in a pool of their own blood. Begging for help. How many more parents are going to

Running high grade + heavy load feels effortless in the Tesla Semi. Enough power to maintain speed when climbing, and regenerative braking making descents save and controllable. All while in silence.

Bloomberg: Russia's Federal Security Service claims it uncovered a large-scale spyware operation by “foreign intelligence operatives” on senior officials' mobile phones — Russia's Federal Security Ser

Seeing Martin Scorsese using FLUX for storyboarding and scene exploration was absolutely insane. Experiencing how one of the absolute masters of cinema & filmmaking uses the technology that we develop

Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer. Legacy mainstream media, same ones

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: SK Hynix Chair Chey Tae-won says the company plans to double its memory chip capacity over the next five years, responding to a shortage that could last to 2030 — SK Hynix Inc. p

Slate Auto's bare-bones electric pickup truck features a minimalist design stripped down to just 600 parts, including manual windows and no infotainment system, while still prioritizing privacy by avo

In the era of artificial intelligence, some companies have struggled to adopt artificial intelligence and others have pivoted to an AI framework that has yielded positive results. Snowflake Inc. this

This research note is based on four primary inputs: 1) An assessment of Snowflake Inc.’s announcements at this year’s Summit; 2) Information captured in private analyst and journalist sessions with Sn

Some of the most iconic consumer products -- Tide Pods, M&Ms, etc -- were born out of user research studies. LLMs democratize deep user research to every decision. Synthetic audiences will go even fur

Some of the most unhinged hate that I receive comes from other academics. The soldiers, the corrections officers, the truckers, and all those from the muscular classes (to borrow @VDHanson's term) see

Gowri Gurumurthy / Bloomberg: Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised 900M via five-year junk bonds, priced at par to yield 7.5%, as the sector increasingly turns to high-yield bonds — A data cent

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Source: Google asked Google Play app devs to join a “confidential content offer pilot”, offering to pay for access to codebases to use them to train AI tools — Google is try

Echo Wang / Reuters: Source: SpaceX plans to raise 75B in its IPO by selling 555.6M shares at 135 each, an unusual move since most companies set a price range before the roadshow — SpaceX plans to rai

Bloomberg: Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion — Broadcom Inc.'s promise to

Wired: Sources: after Trump nixed an AI EO on May 21, US officials are navigating internal strife and chaotic talks; early model access was the most contentious issue — Donald Trump killed an executiv

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research — Goog

Bloomberg: Sources: the EU's €20B investment plan for five AI data centers is floundering, with delays and funding issues alienating some potential partners — SoftBank Announces €75 Bln AI Data Center

Southampton, England (June 1) — Henry Nowak’s father read a statement after his son’s killer was sentenced to 21 years in prison. Henry was arrested as he told police he had been stabbed & couldn’t br

Impulse Space Inc. today announced that it has closed a 500 million late-stage investment led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC. The Series D round brings the company’s outside funding to over 1 billion.

Step-3.7-Flash is a compact language model from StepFun AI that reportedly achieves top-tier performance among models under 500 billion parameters on Hugging Face leaderboards, despite receiving limit

Tesla's market capitalization at its initial public offering in 2010 was approximately 0.1% of its current valuation, representing a roughly 1,000-fold increase in market value over the subsequent yea

the Henry Nowak murder sounds like a completely outrageous parody of the british criminal justice system. it's hard to believe it's real. - native Britons can't legally carry a breadknife - for some r

Gavin Finch / Reuters: The US sanctions Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, accusing it of helping Iran's government and blacklisted state institutions evade Western sanctions — The United States

There's never been anything like the Henry Nowak case where the victim is non-white and the assailant is white, and the police respond the way they did. That whole combination of events could really o

This is disaster from Meta AI. Imagine being able to hack high profile accounts like White House, the U.S. Space Force, and Sephora simply by chatting with a support bot. why would an AI chatbot be al

Today’s question. Why hasn’t Vickrum Digwa’s brother (Gurpreet Digwa) been arrested and charged with assisting an offender? This lying POS called 999 and said that Henry attacked his brother and racia

Cade Metz / New York Times: University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer — Researchers a

Unless you become the media, you will never know the truth Legacy Media did not want us to know about Henry Nowak’s murder. Legacy Media did not want us to see the Henry Nowak murder. Legacy Media did

Hugging Face has doubled its total storage capacity over a five-month period and is on track to reach 1 Exabyte of storage before the end of the year. This rapid growth reflects the platform's expandi

What bothers me the most about the Nowak case is how he had no chance. He was stabbed, and in other cases maybe he would have received assistance, maybe the perpetrator would have run away and then pe

What happened to Henry Nowak was not a tragedy. A tragedy is when someone noble makes a mistake with inevitably dire consequences. The murderer was not noble. He (and his family) are evil. The police

Microsoft Build 2026 brings a major set of Microsoft Foundry updates for developers building agents: hosted runtimes, Toolboxes, memory, Voice Live, Foundry IQ, new models, managed compute, and trust,