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Amazon AI Exec Predicts First 'Commercially Useful' Quantum Computers in 5-7 Years

Quantum computing is becoming an increasingly competitive field, with tech giants including Microsoft, Google and IBM developing the technology.

Allbirds continues AI pivot with name change and CEO hire, sending stock soaring

Allbirds became NewBird AI in April and said it would trade shoes for AI compute infrastructure.

Apocalypse when? ‘Earth’s Black Box’ to be installed in remote Tasmanian airfield

Rouser Lab says the steel structure will record ‘every step’ humanity takes towards climate catastrophe

Fears for Xbox as it puts its developers on the chopping block once again

After the billion-dollar company’s leaders sent staff a memo saying the brand had ‘over-extended’, game studios may be in the firing line

The Feel-Good Story of the World Cup Is Too Good to Be True

Some of the people celebrating American excess are not what they seem.

The ‘Toy Story’ Franchise Forgot Its Own Message

Pixar made a classic trilogy about growing up. At that point, the studio should have left its toys behind.

This struggling rideshare stock could reap rewards of robotaxi boom, Rothschild & Co. says

Lyft stock is poised to climb on the autonomous vehicle trend, despite fears that the technology could disrupt its business, per Rothschild & Co. Redburn.

Disclosure Day is great. But Spielberg overestimates our capacity for empathy

Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor may be spectacular, but it misjudges how much humans are prepared to tolerate abuse of groups we see as ‘other’

'There’s a kind of magic to her work': Maren Hassinger’s one-of-a-kind sculptures

The artist has her most significant retrospective to date in a new exhibition that encourages attenders to take part

'A neoliberal nightmare': my ride on the Vegas Loop

Ten years ago, after complaining that traffic was ‘driving him nuts’, Musk’s Boring Company began building underground tunnels to ease congestion on the roads. Did he overpromise and underdeliver?

‘Vegetarian Nigella’ and flirty hair flips: John Early and Kate Berlant take on diet culture in new influencer satire

In his directorial debut Maddie’s Secret, Early plays a food influencer with bulimia in a wild flip on the modern melodrama

The Curious Case of Elias Thorne – And What He Tells Us About AI Inbreeding

A character bearing that name appears in a remarkable number of chatbot-generated stories. He could be a messenger from the future – or a warning that generative AI is in danger of ‘model collapse’