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Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW of computing power, pushing the total cost beyond $250B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Cowboys, George Pickens finally agree to $27 million franchise tag before NFL Draft https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-george-pickens-finally-agree-27-m…

Major U.S. cloud providers are urging Washington to push back against South Korea’s planned overhaul of the security approval system for cloud providers serving its government agencies.
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/busines

U.S. cloud giants challenge South Korea's public cloud security overhaul
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are pushing back against South Korea’s public cloud security overhaul, warning the new rules could block market access and violate fair trade principles.

Poking the AI Taliban and watching everyone go totally bonkers 🤣 So, agree to disagree, but I find it exciting. Bring out the pitchforks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzLbJOfR3o

Microsoft's Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue was $34.68B vs. $34.27B est., with Azure and other cloud services surging 40% YoY; Microsoft 365 Copilot has 20M seats (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/microsoft-msft-q3-earnings-report-2026.html

Microsoft beats on top and bottom lines with 40% Azure growth
Microsoft's Azure growth did better than Wall Street had predicted, and corporate adoption of the Copilot artificial intelligence assistant is picking up.

Why can’t the tech world agree on whether AI actually "reasons"?
It turns out, the answer is hidden in how we talk about feeling cold.
https://www.ocrampal.com/i-am-vs-i-have-how-everyday-grammar-secretly-influences-the-ai-debat…

"I Am" vs. "I Have": How Everyday Grammar Secretly Influences the AI Debate
When you say "I am cold," you aren't just describing your temperature. You are picking a side in a centuries-old philosophical war, one that perfectly explains why the tech world is currently tearing itself apart over whether AI can truly "reason." There is a curious linguistic asymmetry hiding in plain

An iterative Ising decoder for quantum error correction codes
Yuanqi Liu, Weilei Zeng, Peixiang Li, Yantong Liu, Guangyao Huang, Yingwen Liu, Dongyang Wang, Junjie Wu, Lingling Lao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12301 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12301 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12301
arXiv:2606.12301v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Ising framework maps the decoding problem in quantum error correction onto ground-state optimization of a classical Hamiltonian, in which $X$-$Z$ error correlations enter as cross terms. Under phenomenological depolarizing noise, the exact joint formulation contains up to 8-body interactions for the toric code and 10-body for the $6.6.6$ color code. These high-order terms degrade solver convergence, inflate runtime, and raise the auxiliary spin overhead when embedding into native 2-body Ising hardware. In this work, we propose the iterative low-order decoding (ILOD) algorithm, which alternates between $X$- and $Z$-type sub-Hamiltonians, approximating cross-type correlations through Bayesian priors that reweight each type's couplings using the other type's inferred error configuration. This halves the maximum body count of interaction terms in the Hamiltonian, accelerating the solver, restoring convergence at larger code distances, and reducing the total spin count for 2-body embedding by a factor of $2.5$. For the toric code, ILOD attains a threshold of $4.73%$ versus $4.83%$ for the joint formulation, with the empirical runtime ratio scaling as $(0.81)^d$. For the $6.6.6$ color code, their thresholds agree within statistical uncertainty for small code distances, and ILOD remains convergent for larger distances where the joint formulation fails to converge despite a larger annealing budget.
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Filing: Amazon will acquire Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar as part of its acquisition of the satellite provider and create a subsidiary to conduct the merger (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-to-take-over-apples-20-…

Rams, Matthew Stafford agree to extension keeping him in L.A. past 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7087299/2026/05/21/rams-matthew-stafford-contract-extension/

Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO on his own terms, seemingly picking the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come

Another Day Has Come
If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this.