IonQ has been selected for Stage B of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. We’re helping define what utility-scale quantum really means and building the roadmap to make it real. Learn more: ionq.com/news/ionq-advances-… #QuantumComputing #DARPA #Innovation

The UK just got serious about AI infrastructure. I visited the data centre that's powering it:

If @kscalelabs robotics can't get funding, why should the US government prop up OpenAI? In the competition with China having a strong robotics ecosystem is far more important than keeping an LLM builder up and running. The technology under robotics is changing away from LLMs to world models, or VLAs. Watch @XPengMotors's presentations last night for proof of that. OpenAI doesn't have those. Why should we (US citizens) fund its R&D? @GaryMarcus is right about this one. Also, there are new AIs coming that are far more efficient. Go see what @helloVERSES has cooking with active inference. Betting on the old technology is just a waste of money.

FAA to restrict commercial launches during government shutdown spacenews.com/faa-to-restric…

L-2 days until ESCAPADE launches! Soon, the twins will be on their way to Mars for @NASA & @ucbssl to reveal how the planet’s real-time response to space weather and how the Martian magnetosphere changes over time. ESCAPADE is the FIRST multi-spacecraft science mission to Mars. Who’s ready to make history?

Simplify your multimodal data workflows. Cortex AISQL operators let you use simple SQL to TRANSCRIBE, COMPLETE, and CLASSIFY structured & unstructured data. #SnowflakeBUILD

$RLAIF "Railtown AI Technologies Inc. (CSE: RAIL) (OTCQB: RLAIF) Introducing Railtracks*: The Open Source Agentic Framework Built for Real-World AI" *Railtracks is an open source agentic framework built to help developers create, deploy, and scale autonomous agents with clarity, speed, and control. For more info: railtown.ai/blog/introducing…