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- Finnish startup IQM Quantum Computers has raised 50 million euros from BlackRock to accelerate its global growth, ahead of a dual IPO in the United States and Helsinki later in 2026 (Anne Kauranen/Reuters)
- A look at Amazon’s major push into rural America, including building 24-hour delivery distribution centers in recent years, encroaching on Walmart’s turf (Bloomberg)
- Emails, text messages and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robo-taxis to stop for school buses, as required by law (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
- Inside the rise and fall of Sora, whose team worked separately from OpenAI’s core research team, as OpenAI shuts down Sora and redirects computing to other tasks (Wall Street Journal)
- The pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend more than $100 million in the US midterms to push deregulation and support Trump’s AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
- A look at Coinbase One and other insurance plans for crypto users that typically exclude coverage for many types of account takeovers, including phishing scams (Bloomberg)
- Trump arrested for lying about Iran war negotiations
- Bluesky CEO talks about his new app, Attie, an agentic social app built on Bluesky’s AT protocol, which uses Claude and allows users to create personalized feeds (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
