Trump brags about blackmailing a CEO of a major AI company (“one of the big ones”) by threatening him with jail following a DOJ investigation. This unnamed CEO totally turned around their attitude and now says “yes sir. yes sir” to Trump’s requests. Any guesses who?
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SEALSQ subsidiary Wecan wins RegTech award for compliance platform integrating post-quantum cryptography. The AI-native system provides quantum-resistant security for financial institutions' client lifecycle management and regulatory workflows. #PostQuantumCryptography #RegTech #News
FT Exclusive: The woman at the centre of the Nvidia spying scandal pitched an AI chips deal to China-based investors, touting her ability to secure the US company’s coveted GPUs and her commercial relationship with Chinese tech giant Alibaba. ft.trib.al/k89WPBV
Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe coding apps amid a changing internet
Sources: Alice Huang and her partner pitched a Southeast Asia data center project to China-based investors in 2025, saying they had "no problem securing GPUs" (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Why paying off a mortgage early could be the wrong move
Alleged Chinese spy linked to Nvidia chief pitched AI chips deals to investors ft.trib.al/oHnggtz
ByteDance's Seedream 5.5. 1. pixel-level preservation of unedited regions and reduced detail loss across successive edits. 2. Generate transparent and semi-transparent assets with native RGBA output, ready for compositing and reuse.
Agent skills from Jane Street A collection of skills for AI agents and chatbots. Each skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file with instructions for the agent. github.com/janestreet/a...
Nominal, which builds software to make hardware manufacturing more efficient, raised $240M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B after raising $80M in March (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy partners with Quincus and Quantinuum to explore quantum computing, AI, and HPC applications for maritime operations and logistics challenges. #QuantumComputing #MaritimeInnovation #News
SemiQon announces Dr. Thierry Botter as Chief Commercial Officer. Botter brings extensive experience in quantum technology, business development, and industry policy to lead commercial strategy. #QuantumBusiness #QuantumHardware #News
Malaysia is accelerating its shift to quantum-resistant security measures to strengthen national data protection. The Communications Ministry has instructed MCMC to advance the transition as quantum computing advances pose emerging cybersecurity challenges.
Google unveils two specialized TPUs, the TPU 8tx, to be paired with AMD CPUs, and TPU 8i Max, a dual-chip package for long-context window tasks, launching 2027 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Researchers discovered quantum circuits compressed with tensor networks exhibit predictable structures—RZZ for Ising models, fSim for Heisenberg XXZ. Retaining subtle Weyl structures enables more efficient compression and extends simulation capabilities on current hardware.
The FT asks whether managers should be paid less when AI agents replace their employees. I think the bigger question is whether individual contributors should be paid more when agents help them deliver the work of entire teams. AI may force tech companies to reward impact instead of headcount.
Researchers demonstrated quantum interference stabilizing atomic bound states above their normal dissociation threshold using Floquet-engineered Feshbach resonances in ultracold lithium, enabling active control of quantum system decay—a long-predicted phenomenon finally experi...
Multiple organizations achieved major milestones in quantum error correction: IBM verified code distances accurately, NVIDIA demonstrated eight-qubit correction with AI optimization, and companies reported record revenue growth driving commercial adoption.
Quantum games now span three fundamentally different categories—games using real quantum processors for content generation, educational games teaching quantum concepts on classical machines, and citizen science games where players solve research problems. These should not be c...
Alphabet's Wing plans to invest up to $125M over two years to build a 15,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce tens of thousands of drones (Mark R. Long/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Thomson Reuters reported third quarter revenue up 10% year on year to $1.8bn driven party by the sucess of its CoCounsel AI tool for lawyers investors.thomsonreuters.com/news-release...
A profile of Alice Huang, a suspected Chinese spy who founded Megaspeed in 2023 and spent years in Jensen Huang's orbit; Megaspeed's Nvidia imports top $4.6B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Thierry Botter, former QuIC Executive Director, appointed as Chief Commercial Officer of SemiQon to drive quantum computing commercialization and expand global market reach. #QuantumComputing #Commercialization #News
Reuters has begun selling access to an archive of content dating back to 1987 via the Databricks AI marketplace. This will enable companies building AI systems to pay for access to licensed Reuters content. www.reuters.com/media-center...
CoRL 2026 KICKOFF: NVIDIA's Jim Fan promised an uncut, autonomous robot demo at 1:50 PM CT today. No cuts. No speedup. No operator. On the demo floor, YUBI recorded 8,434 hours of robot work. The tool it succeeds logged 12. Video: YUBI, AIRoA #Robotics #CoRL2026
Physical Intelligence may be worth $20B. It owns no robots. The newest pi model is not published or downloadable. It is rented through the Pi API, and 18 named partners are already building on it. Video: @physicalintelligence.bsky.social #robotics
A shifting political landscape gives right-to-repair advocates their best shot yet at meaningful federal reform.
Tesla expands robotaxi service to San Antonio
Jensen Huang maintains deep control over Nvidia, managing 60+ direct reports and owning a 3.56% stake, presenting a challenge for Nvidia's 10-person board (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
The key to the movement of these flexible robots is the algae’s photosynthetic capabilities.
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