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French quantum computing startup Quobly, which is developing silicon-based quantum computers, raised a €115M Series A led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ, and STMicro (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/06/03/quobly-raises-eur115m-seri…

Quobly raises €115M Series A to commercialise silicon quantum computing
Quobly, a French quantum computing company developing silicon-based quantum computers, has raised €115 million in a Series A financing round to accelerate the industrialisation of its technology and support the launch of its first commercial product. The round was led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ and STMicroelectronics, with participation from the European Innovation Council (EIC), Blast, Air Liquide Venture Capital (ALIAD) and existing investor Innovacom. Existing shareholders also include the…

Just stumbled on this (don't ask): https://web.archive.org/web/20111130040606/http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/computerworld-25-years-open-source-advocate-says-outlook-is-positive…

"The cause of ⁠the outage is understood - we have no reason to believe ​it is ​due to ​a cyberattack - and ‌our IT team is working to bring all systems back online."
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/boeing-says-o…

Boeing says IT outage affected computer systems, applications
Boeing said on Tuesday that an unplanned ‌IT outage affected some of ‌its computer systems and applications. The outage "significantly disrupted" ​the aeros...

Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec

Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission

Computing’s sustainability research examines AI-native clouds CoreWeave and Nscale. Both are young companies; both have a crypto-mining heritage; and both are very shy about publishing sustainability data.
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The AI cloud boom: who’s counting the cost?
From Google's newly invented carbon metric to two key AI clouds that publish no environmental data at all, the Computing annual sustainability audit goes under ...

Perplexity announces a feature that lets Perplexity Computer split tasks between on-device AI models and server-based models (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/02/perplexity-computer-adding-ability-to-split-tasks-be…

Perplexity Computer adding ability to split tasks between local and cloud models - 9to5Mac
Perplexity has announced a major new feature coming soon to Perplexity Computer: the ability to split tasks between local and...

University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a "worm" powered by open source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors attacks for each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/technol

Scientists Find Way to Supercharge Dangerous Computer ‘Worms’ With A.I.
Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers.

Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs based on the Xe3P architecture, described as "built for agentic AI"; they use LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)

Intel details long-awaited Crescent Island AI GPU at Computex, boasts up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X to combat memory shortages — company shares more details of its Xe3P inference accelerator at Computex
Unusual memory choice brings lots of AI data closer to the chip for efficiency

Sources: Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, to compete with AWS and Azure (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-01/meta-is-bu…

A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactiv…

A Deluge of A.I. Computing Power Is About to Come Online, Fueling Major Leaps
The number of A.I. chips that provide the computing power to advance the fast-evolving technology is doubling every nine months.