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Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip is also a case study for agentic AI in R&D
Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chiparrived this week, with numbers that are genuinely difficult to contextualise: qubits 1,000 times more reliable than those of the first generation models, a mean qubit lifetime of 20 seconds against an industry norm measured in microseconds, and a revised roadmap targeting a commercially scalable quantum computer by 2029.
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The Classical Advances Needed to Make Quantum Computers Tick
Quantum computers promise to one day solve problems beyond the most powerful supercomputers imaginable. But it’s often underappreciated how much classical computing it takes just to operate these machines. As qubit counts rise, innovations in this supporting infrastructure will be essential if they’re to live up to their promise.
To prepare for the scale of quantum computers the industry is working toward, many companies are also gearing up the classical hardware, and software, required to support them.
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How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits
Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford to hire a lawyer, and others have cases too weak or too small to interest one. She reads each one carefully, mindful of how daunting it is to walk into the courtroom alone.
Lately, like many judges across the US, she has seen a noticeable uptick in such filings.
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Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook
Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like "When should I post?" and "What are people saying in my comments?"
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New open-source voice model listens nonstop and decides every 0.4 seconds whether to speak or stay silent
Unlike GPT-4o or Qwen3.5-Omni, Audio Interaction doesn't wait for a recording to end: it translates, transcribes, chats, and picks up everyday noises like coughing in a single stream. Code, model weights, and download instructions are available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 open-source license, with the training data to follow.
The article New open-source voice model listens nonstop and decides every 0.4 seconds whether to speak or stay silent appeared first on The Decoder.
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I Built a C++ Backend So My GPU Would Stop Eating Air
A comprehensive guide to optimizing LLM inference by eliminating padding overhead with hardware-aware sequence packing.
The post I Built a C++ Backend So My GPU Would Stop Eating Air appeared first on Towards Data Science.
