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Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/court-filing…

Court filings reveal OpenAI and io's early work on an AI device | TechCrunch
Court filings in a trademark case against OpenAI reveal some of the company's early work on developing AI devices.

"A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?"
Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/teaching-the-holocaust-just-got-harder-in-mississippi-hb-1193-dei-slavery-tate-reeves

from my link log —
HAFLANG: hardware acceleration of functional languages.
https://haflang.github.io/
saved 2025-03-22 https://dotat.at…

Microsoft: Frühjahrsputz bei Treibern von Windows Update
Microsoft weist insbesondere Hardwarehersteller darauf hin, dass alte Treiber auf Windows Update der Entrümpelung anheimfallen.
https://www.

Ranked choice ballots give voters more options -- but make ballots harder to fill out (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/ranked-choice-ballots-give-voters-options-make-ballots-harder-fill-rcna214026
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p14#a250623p14

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Hardware-efficient quantum phase estimation via local control
Benjamin F. Schiffer, Dominik S. Wild, Nishad Maskara, Mikhail D. Lukin, J. Ignacio Cirac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18765

Hardware-efficient quantum phase estimation via local control
Quantum phase estimation plays a central role in quantum simulation as it enables the study of spectral properties of many-body quantum systems. Most variants of the phase estimation algorithm require the application of the global unitary evolution conditioned on the state of one or more auxiliary qubits, posing a significant challenge for current quantum devices. In this work, we present an approach to quantum phase estimation that uses only locally controlled operations, resulting in a signif…

1/2 Check this out this @… piece about the Altman/Ives “IO” startup being prosecuted for trademark by “iYo”, which I’d never heard of till today: https://daringfireball.net/…

Trademark Dispute Leads to the Disappearance of ‘io’, OpenAI and LoveFrom’s Secretive AI Collaboration
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/news/690858/jony-ive-openai-sam-altman-ai-hardware

AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/wisp

Wispr Flow raises $30M from Menlo Ventures for its AI-powered dictation app | TechCrunch
Startups developing voice AI technology and applications are having their moment. Model builders like ElevenLabs and Cartesia have raised millions of