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Why Google should proactively break itself up: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/google-antitrust-breakup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L08.oUPn.B0yCN3RUyZxS&smid=url-share…

What if Google Just Broke Itself Up? A Tech Insider Makes the Case.
Prosecutors aren’t the only ones arguing for a smaller Google. Some critics say it might be better for investors, customers and innovation.

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT
Josh Bendavid (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CERN), Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jan Eysermans (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Chad Freer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Maxim Goncharov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Luca Lavezzo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Marianne Moore (Massachusetts Institute of Te…

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT
The recently completed SubMIT platform is a small set of servers that provide interactive access to substantial data samples at high speeds, enabling sophisticated data analyses with very fast turnaround times. Additionally, it seamlessly integrates massive processing resources for large-scale tasks by connecting to a set of powerful batch processing systems. It serves as an ideal prototype for an Analysis Facility tailored to meet the demanding data and computational requirements anticipated d…

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-truth-socia…

Tallying Trump’s online posting frenzy: 2,262 ‘truths’ in 132 days
In his current term, the president has left his own record for social media missives in the dust. He posts day and night.

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Here's the article. It's a fun piece of history. Lots of well-known names.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/17/business/business-technology-harnessing-hundreds-computers-improve-speed-efficiency.html
https://social.v.st/@th/114437577349237616

David Cope, a composer and algorithmic composition pioneer who created a program in the 1980s to write music in the style of Bach and others, died at age 83 (Miguel Salazar/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/david-cope-dead-ai…

David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.

CEO Alex Bouaziz says Deel crossed $1B annual revenue run rate in Q1 2025 and has allocated an M&A budget of between $200M and $500M in 2025 (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/deel-ey

Brookfield says it plans to invest ~$10B to build an AI data center in the Swedish city of Strangnas, after committing to spend €20B in France earlier in 2025 (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/brookfi

Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.

After Google's two antitrust losses in the past year, a look at critics' claims that its breakup might be better for investors, customers, and innovation (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

What if Google Just Broke Itself Up? A Tech Insider Makes the Case.
Prosecutors aren’t the only ones arguing for a smaller Google. Some critics say it might be better for investors, customers and innovation.