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Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes

One of Anthropic’s engineers hasn’t written a line of code in five months. Not because the work dried up, but because Claude does it now. As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase was authored by Claude, up from low single digits when Claude Code launched in February 2025. […]

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Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology

When the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled his email account. The incident was brief and bureaucratic. It was also, for European policymakers, clarifying. If a single American company could cut off a senior international official’s communications at the stroke of a pen, what else could be […]

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Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach machines how matter behaves

Science can already tell you what a molecule is and what it looks like. What it has never been able to tell you, cheaply and at scale, is how the thing behaves once it meets the messy conditions of the real world. That gap is where drugs quietly fail in trials, where food products miss […]

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Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is so significant that Microsoft has cut its timeline for achieving a scalable quantum computer from 2033 to 2029, halving the original target. The company credits […]

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Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud

Perplexity AI has developed a platform that dynamically splits AI workloads between personal computers and cloud servers, deciding in real time which tasks can run locally on a PC’s processor and which need the power of data centre hardware. CEO Aravind Srinivas announced the system at Computex in Taipei on Tuesday, describing it as an “air-traffic […]

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A German startup raised $240 million to commercialise the only fusion experiment that has ever produced net energy

Focused Energy, a Germany-based fusion startup, has raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round to develop a commercial reactor based on the same approach that produced the world’s first controlled fusion reaction with net energy gain. The round, led by German utility RWE, brings the company’s total private capital to $300 million. Focused Energy […]

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A North Dakota startup raised $10 million from ranchers and neighbours to build the operating system for beef cattle

701x, a Fargo-based agricultural technology company, has closed an oversubscribed Series B round exceeding $10 million, funded entirely by local investors from North Dakota and Minnesota and rancher-customers across the United States. No venture capital firm or institutional investor participated. The company has also hit its first profitable month and is preparing to launch in […]

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GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold.

GoPro warned on Monday that there is “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.” The action-camera maker reported a 26% revenue decline in Q1 and expects to breach several loan covenants. Shares fell as much as 14%. The cause is memory. GoPro said its earnings forecast has been “significantly impacted” […]

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Former Meta CTO raises $250 million for climate tech as the rest of venture capital chases AI

Gigascale Capital, the venture firm led by former Meta chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer, has raised a $250 million fund to invest in energy, grid infrastructure, and critical minerals startups. The fund, announced on Monday, is Gigascale’s second and its first to include institutional investors. It arrives as most of the venture capital industry has pivoted […]

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Quantinuum boosts its IPO to $1.46 billion as orders hit double-digit multiples of available shares

Quantinuum, the Honeywell-backed quantum computing company, has increased the size of its initial public offering to as much as $1.46 billion after demand from investors far exceeded the original allocation. The company is now offering 26.5 million shares at $53 to $55 each, up from a previous range of approximately 21 million shares at $45 to $50. […]

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