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China’s Zuchongzhi-3 quantum computer and Google’s Willow processor represent two contrasting approaches in the race for quantum supremacy. Both 105-qubit superconducting systems push computational boundaries but prioritize different technical milestones. Zuchongzhi-3, developed by Chinese researchers, demonstrates remarkable raw computational power. In a demanding random circuit sampling task, it processed one million samples using 83 qubits over 32 cycles in just a few hundred seconds—a feat that would take the world’s fastest classical supercomputer billions of years to replicate. This achievement highlights China’s rapid progress in scaling up quantum hardware and achieving unprecedented quantum speedup. ...

Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination – are among the major drivers expected to shape and transform the global labour market by 2030. On current trends over the 2025 to 2030 period job creation and destruction due to structural labour-market transformation will amount to 22% of today’s total jobs. This is expected to entail the creation of new jobs equivalent to 14% of today’s total employment, amounting to 170 million jobs ...

As the agent ecosystem rapidly evolves, interoperability is emerging as the foundation for scalable, secure, and collaborative AI. Industry leaders—including Google, Anthropic, Cisco, and others—are actively building open standards like Agent2Agent (A2A), Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AGNTCY to ensure agents from different vendors and platforms can discover, communicate, and work together seamlessly We’re at a pivotal moment where these standards are becoming the essential building blocks for the “Internet of Agents,” much like HTTP and TCP/IP did for the web. This collaborative push for interoperability aims to break down silos, accelerate innovation, and create a robust, trustworthy AI ecosystem that benefits enterprises and developers alike ...

Despite a $40 billion funding round, only $10 billion is secured, with the rest contingent on converting to a for-profit model. OpenAI is burning billions, potentially $14 billion in 2025 alone, due to high compute costs and infrastructure investments like the Stargate data center. SoftBank’s financial health is also at risk due to its significant investments in OpenAI, leading to potential asset sales. OpenAI’s high spending and increasing costs raise concerns about its long-term sustainability. ...

In 1980, Isaac Asimov penned a brief yet powerful opinion piece that feels strikingly relevant today. A visionary of technological futures, Asimov captured—with unsettling clarity—the mindset shaping our current era. Cult of ignorance

In the early 1990s, as the internet was beginning to shift from a government and academic experiment into a globally connected system, a quiet revolution was forming among a small but determined group of mathematicians, programmers, and digital activists. They saw what few others did: that the very architecture of this new digital realm could become either a tool of unprecedented freedom — or a mechanism for total surveillance and control. ...

A core idea behind shifting Data Left is simple but often overlooked: data is code. Or more accurately—data is produced by code. It’s not just some downstream artifact that lives in tables and gets piped into dashboards and spreadsheets. Every record, event, or log starts somewhere—created, updated, or deleted by a line of code. And just like DevOps demonstrated, if you want to manage something well, you start at the point of creation. ...

The Berkshire Hathaway Letters, written by Warren Buffett to shareholders, offer a refreshing perspective filled with specific facts, figures, and timeless business insights. Shareholder Letters

The latest twist exploits perpetual futures platforms with deep liquidity and lax KYC, effectively turning ill-gotten funds into legitimate-looking trading profits. This has gotten easier as the trading depths on perps exchanges has grown significantly over the last year. Let’s take a look at exactly how it’s done: High-Leverage Alchemy The core concept is to use extreme leverage on a no-questions-asked futures exchange to deliberately liquidate “dirty” funds, while profiting from an opposite position taken with clean money elsewhere. On these perps platforms, you have exposure to no expiry futures often offering 50x, 100x or higher leverage. At 50x leverage, a price move of just ~2% can wipe out a position entirely, along with the collateral margin supporting it. ...

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