Meta pursues potential $10B deal to lease computing power to Anthropic: report

Meta is in talks for a $10B, 2-year cloud deal with Anthropic to power Claude models, part of its Meta Compute push.
Tech Xplore

New soft sensor can turn touch into robotic action without electronics

Built from flexible, compliant materials, soft robots are gaining relevance for tasks ranging from minimally invasive surgery ...
Wired

Quantum Computing Is Having Its Public Market Moment

Quantinuum lost nearly $200 million last year, saw revenue drop the first quarter of 2026, and says its technology may never work–yet investors are clamoring to buy the stock. The quantum-computer ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft, Atom Computing update their quantum computing progress

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies ...
Scientific American

Microsoft’s new quantum computer chip has a fundamental problem

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence Microsoft claimed today that it has improved its ...
CNN

US awards IBM and other firms $2 billion to give America the edge in quantum computing

The US Department of Commerce is awarding $2 billion to American quantum-computing companies — half of which will go to IBM — to bolster the buildout of super computers that could solve some of the ...
Scientific American

Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. Inside a ...
Foreign Affairs

The New Soft-Power Imbalance

Since the start of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has been dismantling the traditional channels of American soft power. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is no longer ...
CNN

A seismic shift in computing is on the horizon (and it’s not AI)

BMW Group and Airbus, for example, are working with quantum computing startup Quantinuum to research how the technology could be used in the development of fuel cells. Meanwhile, Accenture Labs, ...
The Motley Fool

Move Over, IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and D-Wave Quantum -- There's a Much Smarter Way to Invest in the Quantum Computing Revolution

Shares of IonQ, Rigetti Computing, D-Wave Quantum, and Quantum Computing Inc. have surged by up to 2,720% over the trailing year. Though quantum computing pure-play stocks are popular among investors, ...
Psychology Today

Some Hard Truths About "Soft-Swinging" Relationships

You could say that the upcoming star of The Bachelorette, Taylor Frankie Paul, came out swinging in 2022—soft-swinging, specifically. That's when Paul revealed on TikTok that she and her husband at ...