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IQM Quantum Computers, the Finnish maker of superconducting quantum systems, has appointed Barbara Venneman to its board of directors as the company approaches what would be the first Nasdaq listing by a European quantum computing company. Venneman currently serves on the board of Vanguard, one of t
Apple’s iOS 27 developer beta contains underlying support for a feature the company never mentioned at its WWDC keynote on June 8: an Extensions framework that would allow iPhone users to swap between ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini directly inside Siri. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has
Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."
The EU is scrutinizing US export controls on advanced AI models, citing potential discrimination against partners. AI firm Anthropic is disabling its top models for foreign nationals due to national security concerns. The European Commission emphasizes the need for non-discriminatory measures and Eu
Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised India's "technology for humanity" approach at Bharat Innovates 2026 in Nice, aligning with India's vision of "AI for all." French President Emmanuel Macron echoed this, advocating for ethical and responsible AI development, cautioning against power concentrati
Unlock a party. | Image: Conclave I have this vivid memory of walking to pick up my oldest from school in June of 2022. For a variety of reasons, I was in a very bad place mentally. And to make matters worse, it was brutally hot. I was depressed, angry with the world, sunburned, and soaked through w
Our self-proclaimed Scroogian (cheapskate) book-loving writer has put together a guide on finding free books for your Kindle.
Did you come out of 'Disclosure Day' thinking it was another Spielberg banger, or wondering if the truth was worth it?
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Crypto users who thought they had found a way into the hottest IPO in years through tokenized SpaceX stock discovered on Friday that the shares would not be arriving. Binance Wallet, Bybit, and Bitget Wallet all canceled their tokenized SpaceX offerings after xStocks, the tokenized equity provider b
University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066
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There are actual reasons to get excited about Samsung’s upcoming foldables but, the more I think about it, the more I’m realizing that there’s pretty strong potential for the “Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra” to not just be disappointing, but a slightly cruel joke.
We introduce an evaluation for activation verbalizers: can they surface a target model's reasoning as it solves a math problem in a single forward pass? For open-weight NLAs, the answer seems to be: "possibly, but definitely not reliably". Lots of important capabilities currently require AI models t
"Stripe is 2.9%. Paddle is 5%. Stripe is cheaper. End of discussion." Stripe total effective cost: ~$340/mo (6.8%) At $25K MRR: Stripe total: ~$1,450/mo (5.8%) At $100K MRR: Stripe total: ~$5,200/mo (5.2%) The surprise: Paddle is cheaper than "real" Stripe (with tax handling) at almost every scale f
Six months ago I moved my RAG pipeline from Pinecone to self-hosted Qdrant. My vector search bill went from $210/month to $6.50/month. Same latency. Same recall. Here's exactly how. 5.2 million vectors (1536-dim, OpenAI embeddings) On Pinecone Serverless, this cost me roughly $210/month — storage pl
I was migrating my SaaS from Firebase to a dedicated auth provider and almost made a $21,000/year mistake. < 10K MAU: Doesn't matter, everything is free. Pick whatever has the best DX for your stack. Calculate Your Exact Number What auth provider does your team use, and at what scale? I'm curious if
Rust promises memory safety without garbage collection. That's why many of us dream of writing a kernel in it. After several years of building a from‑scratch operating system in Rust, I've collected the real — not theoretical — challenges that will make you question your life choices. Here are the f
So you built your stack on a hosted frontier model. Good throughput, clean API, your foreign-national engineers hit the same endpoint as everyone else. Then on June 12 the US government pulled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for the entire planet, three days after launch, and the reason is a com
Every guardrail in my agent-built project was earned from a real failure, not designed up front. A cost test for when to build one, when to wait, and when to retire it. On a Wednesday in late May I caught a bug by reading. The project's glossary — the What I typed next is the whole argument in one l
