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Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/stability-ai-releas…

Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create six-minute songs | TechCrunch
Stability Audio 3.0 small model can run on-device and generate two-minute long tracks

Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/stability-ai-releas…

Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create six-minute songs | TechCrunch
Stability Audio 3.0 small model can run on-device and generate two-minute long tracks

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Steve Miller Band:
🎵 Wild Mountain Honey
#SteveMillerBand
https://sandygold.bandcamp.com/track/wild-mountain-honey-steve-miller-band
https://open.spotify.com/track/6lELCr5OEudkNijuNqm14G

Huh. Turns out that one of the best things about solar farms is... bees! Fascinating. https://www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-farm-built-electricity-beneath/23775/

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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'Mild panic will set in soon': GOP donors left to wonder about Trump's $300 million war chest (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/09/mild-panic-will-set-in-soon-gop-donors-left-to-wonder-about-trumps-300-million-war-chest-00913096
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p16#a260509p16

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Hannah Lew:
🎵 Siloed
#HannahLew
https://hannahlew.bandcamp.com/track/siloed
https://open.spotify.com/track/6IXCXBrT9Q7HFck6ag4o8i

'Due to Trump’s illegal war': U.S. service members' deaths met with despair and rage - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/service-members-killed-in-jordan/

French carriers Bouygues Telecom, Orange, and Free-iliad sign an MOU with Altice France to acquire SFR for €20.35B, including debt, expected to close in H2 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel