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  1. Korean lunar orbiter snaps first pics of the SpaceX Falcon 9 crash site on the moon — Engadget
  2. Who Is Liable When an AI Agent Hacks a Third Party? - JD Supra — Google News: AI
  3. AI Layoffs at Oracle, Amazon, and Cloudflare All Have One Thing in Common Besides Headcount Reduction - inc.com — Google News: AI
  4. Why ‘off-the-shelf’ general-purpose LLMs aren’t fit for medication use cases - Medical Economics — Google News: LLMs
  5. D-Wave Intros Two-Qubit, Error Correcting Gate For Its Dual-Rail Quantum Architecture - The Next Platform — Google News: Quantum
  6. D-Wave Intros Two-Qubit, Error Correcting Gate For Its Dual-Rail Quantum Architecture — The Next Platform
  7. Forget Taiwan Semiconductor: 2 AI Semiconductor Equipment Stocks to Buy and Hold Instead - AOL.com — Google News: TSMC
  8. D-Wave’s $550M Quantum Computing Bet Makes Error Correction 10X Cheaper - Forbes — Google News: Quantum
  9. Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 review: Health data overload, but built for the future — ZDNet AI
  10. Data Center Eyed as Part of Tech Campus in San Jose, Calif. - GovTech — Google News: AI
  11. Eastport residents fill hearings to oppose DeepGreen’s underwater AI data‑center plan - themainemonitor.org — Google News: AI
  12. 'It's a smart donut': OpenAI's first gadget will reportedly be an Echo Dot with a few twists — so I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build it - TechRadar — Google News: OpenAI
  13. AI-Generated Patches Fail Half the Time - Dark Reading — Google News: LLMs
  14. Employers may not be training workers well enough for widespread AI disruption - ESG Dive — Google News: AI
  15. The Creators at OpenAI’s Wildflower Farms Retreat—and the Backlash That Followed - observer.com — Google News: OpenAI
  16. Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — Tom's Hardware
  17. Grab the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy on 4K Blu-Ray for $50 — The Verge
  18. China’s AI ecosystem is not as open as it claims. Nor is any other country’s - The Guardian — Google News: AI
  19. AI relationships won't break your heart – but they could make it harder to love - The Jerusalem Post — Google News: AI
  20. Cloudflare debuts Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser for AI agents built on top of its Workers serverless service, available for free while in beta in Browser Run (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) — Techmeme
  21. Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction Maps Thermal Transport In GaN Thin Films (MIT, SLAC, Stanford, Argonne) — Semiconductor Engineering
  22. The 7 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month — Wired
  23. Artificial intelligence may enhance implementation of health policy - News-Medical — Google News: AI
  24. PetSmart Used AI to Drive a 22% Lift in Salon Bookings - PYMNTS.com — Google News: AI
  25. What’s behind the Google AI shakeup — The Verge AI
  26. Nvidia Stock Jumps After AMD Acquires AI Startup Taalas - Yahoo! Finance Canada — Google News: Nvidia
  27. Sponsored Content: Photonics – a key enabling technology in the quantum world - Electronics Weekly — Google News: Quantum
  28. Quantum X-Labs Advances Quantum Computing for Nuclear Particle Transport Prediction - HPCwire — Google News: Quantum
  29. OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it "cannot rule out" critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying launch (Axios) — Techmeme
  30. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities - OpenAI — Google News: OpenAI
  31. Chicago’s quantum explosion: Infleqtion opens new West Loop quantum innovation center - Chicago Star Media — Google News: Quantum
  32. Forget Taiwan Semiconductor: 2 AI Semiconductor Equipment Stocks to Buy and Hold Instead - The Motley Fool — Google News: TSMC
  33. BINSA legislation to limit biotech deals in China unveiled in Senate — Endpoints News
  34. OpenAI’s vision of the future is reportedly a donut-shaped smart speaker - Fast Company — Google News: OpenAI
  35. Exclusive: OpenAI slows release of Astra model citing cyber capabilities - Axios — Google News: OpenAI
  36. How Worried Should We Be About AI Debt? - The University of Chicago Booth School of Business — Google News: AI
  37. Donald Knuth, The Complete Guide To His 7 Planned Volumes - Quantum Zeitgeist — Google News: Quantum
  38. Rapid Switching of Optical Properties in a Doped Semiconductor By Femtosecond Laser Pulses (Imperial College London, U. of Exeter) — Semiconductor Engineering
  39. Xanadu Raised $67.2M To Expand US Quantum Operations - Quantum Zeitgeist — Google News: Quantum
  40. Big Tech's AI Borrowing Binge Hits Record Levels As Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Prepares $25 Billion Bond Sale - foreignpolicyjournal.com — Google News: AI megacaps