Medium gives employees Friday off to participate in national strike protesting ICE
Medium gives its employees the option to take the day off to protest on Friday.
Quantonation’s double-sized second fund shows quantum still has believers
Quantonation Ventures, a venture firm investing in quantum and physics-based startups, has closed its oversubscribed second fund at €220 million, or approximately $260 million. That’s more than twice the size of its inaugural fund, and comes in addition to other signals that the quantum winter isn’t coming yet.
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Microsoft won’t stop buying AI chips from Nvidia, AMD, even after launching its own, Nadella says
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The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job
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Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot
With Microsoft spending many billions on data centers, and rumors that no one is using its AI, CEO Satya Nadella shared some usage numbers.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI in talks to merge, report says
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The Passive Income Illusion That Derails Businesses — and the Reality Most Founders Ignore
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