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D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits, a developer of error-corrected gate-model technology, for $550M, with $300M in stock and the rest in cash (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/d-wave-quantum-agrees-to…

D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits for $550 million to boost gate-model development
D-Wave’s crashing the gate.

There’s a lesson here, perhaps, about the tangled relationship between what is •typical• and what is •correct•, and what it is that LLMs actually do:
When medical professionals ask medical questions in technical medical language, the answers they get are typically correct.
When non-professional ask medical questions in a perhaps medically ill-formed vernacular mode, the answers they get are typically wrong.
The LLM readily models both of these things. Despite having no notion of correctness in either case, correctness is more statistically typical in one than the other.
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🏀 Fifteen former college basketball players charged in alleged betting scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/15/fifteen-former-college-basketball-players-charged-in-alleged-betting-scheme

College basketball players among 26 charged in ‘international criminal’ betting scheme
Federal prosecutors have laid charges in what they say was a scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games

Pearce allegedly crashed into WNBA player's car https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47876603/falcons-pearce-allegedly-crashed-suv-jackson-car

I’m only about a third into to @…’s reading of Dickens’ “The Christmas Carol,” but it's surprisingly delightful and entertaining, even by @… standards. So many adaptations hamfistedly moralise Dickens&#…

Allusionist 222. A Christmas Carol — The Allusionist
Today, we read the novelisation of The Muppet Christmas Carol , also known as the 1843 festive lit hit A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Suizid nach KI-Chats: Google und Character.ai wenden womöglich Urteile ab
In den USA können Google und Character.ai wohl unangenehme Gerichtsverhandlungen um Jugendliche abwenden, die sich oder andere nach KI-Chats verletzt haben.

"Millions of Christmas trees will end up in landfill this year. Here's what to do with them instead"
#Christmas #Trees #ChristmasTrees

Throwing out the Christmas tree? Here are the alternatives to landfill
Christmas trees can take years to break down when thrown into landfill, but there are some more eco-friendly ways of ending the festivity.

Military Leaders See Iran War as Part of “God’s Divine Plan” #fascism

Military Leaders See Iran War as “God’s Divine Plan” — a Chilling Turn for Trump’s Fascism
A military watchdog has been “inundated” with complaints that officials are using end-times Christian rhetoric to justify war.

For decades, one of the most reliable pillars of pro-Israel sentiment in the United States was not just Jews
but conservative Christians.
That support had a theological motive:
Israel mattered not just as an ally on a Cold War map,
but as a central actor on the map of the "End Times".
Put simply, Christians needed Jews to return to the homeland of Israel to usher in the second coming of Christ.
But now, that theological motor is sputtering.

Saquon Barkley says Christian McCaffrey is 'one of the best to ever do it' ahead of Eagles-49ers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6955944/2026/01/08/saquon-barkley-christian-mccaffrey-running-back-eagles-49ers/