Quantum computing normally requires a PhD and a language that looks like hieroglyphics. MIT and IBM just made a version where you can tell the machine what you want in English.
For a decade the humanoid robot has been arriving “next year.” In 2026 it finally clocked in for a real factory shift. Where things actually stand, minus the Musk-grade hype.
Palantir’s Peter Thiel stood on a stage and accused the actual Pope of working for the Chinese Communists, because the pontiff had the nerve to suggest AI might need some rules.
SambaNova just raised a billion dollars to attack Nvidia where nobody is looking: inference, the unglamorous work of actually running AI models. Here is why that might be smart.
The Federal Reserve just handed a venture capitalist with billions staked on AI a seat studying AI’s effect on jobs. He also happens to be the Fed Chair’s college friend.
ESPN brought back the World Series of Poker with an AI sidekick that reads players’ blink rate and posture to call their bluffs on air. The poker face may be an endangered species.
The company that makes the memory feeding Nvidia’s chips just staged the biggest foreign listing in US history. American retail investors can finally buy the AI memory king.
Two years ago they wired ChatGPT into the iPhone together. Now Apple is accusing OpenAI of stealing its playbook to build a rival device. Inside one of tech’s ugliest divorces.
A plain-English roundup of the week’s major quantum computing news — the White House summit, Quantinuum’s IPO, IonQ’s $1.08B deal, Willow’s error-correction milestone and more.
Gemini 3.5 Pro is reportedly targeting July 17 after months of delays — headlined by a 2M-token context window and an Ultra-tier “Deep Think” mode. What’s real and what’s TBD.