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Quantum Motion raised $160M to scale silicon CMOS quantum computers for standard data centers, backed by DCVC and Kembara.

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Applied Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: APLD), a designer, builder, and operator of high-performance, sustainably engineered data centers and colocation services for artificial intelligence, cloud, networking, and blockchain workloads, has announced the closing of a $300 million senior secured bridge facility led by Goldman Sachs. The facility is intended to fund the continued development […]

Researchers say works may have been incorrectly inscribed in 1700s, leading to centuries-long misunderstanding They are two small sketches by the Renaissance master Hans Holbein: one has long been considered to be a portrait of Henry VIII’s doomed second wife, Anne Boleyn, and the other is of an unknown woman whose name was lost to time. Now researchers using AI have discovered that the unnamed woman might be the tragic queen after all, while the other figure could in fact be Boleyn’s mother. Continue reading...

Using AI tools, the team reworked part of the ribosome to need one less amino acid.

Insider Brief SoftBank Group is planning to create and list a U.S.-based AI and robotics company called Roze focused on building data centers, according to Reuters, citing a report from the Financial Times. The report said the company could go public as early as this year, with executives targeting a valuation of about $100 billion. […]

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly. That when something goes wrong in the public system, alarms go off and someone takes responsibility or is held accountable if they do not. But in 2020 in Gothenburg, injustice arrived quietly, disguised as efficiency. For the first time, the city used an algorithm to allocate places in its schools. After all, working out geographical catchment areas and admissions is an administrative headache for any municipality. What better than a machine to optimise distances, preferences and capacity? The system was designed to serve public efficiency: framed as neutral, streamlined and objective. Charlotta Kronblad researches digital transformation at the University of Gothenburg. Continue reading...

You need infrastructure to build AI a and robots, but apparently you also need AI and robots to build infrastructure.