
Tiernan Ray
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@ZDNet AI/ML reporter; Editor, The Technology Letter. Covering business and technology for over 30 years for Barron’s, Fortune, Bloomberg, NY Times and others.
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D-WaveQuantum computing pioneer D-Wave Quantum on Tuesday announced the general availability of its sixth-generation quantum computer, the Advantage2. The company said the Advantage2 offers orders-of-magnitude greater performance compared to its prior system, expanding the tasks the company can accomplish in optimization problems. The machine even achieves the long-sought goal of quantum "supremacy," says the company, despite that term's highly controversial past.
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DellMichael Dell is pitching a "decentralized" future for artificial intelligence that his company's devices will make possible. "The future of AI will be decentralized, low-latency, and hyper-efficient," predicted the Dell Technologies founder, chairman, and CEO in his Dell World keynote, which you can watch on YouTube. "AI will follow the data, not the other way around," Dell said at Monday's kickoff of the company's four-day customer conference in Las Vegas.
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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETTwo years after the debut of Microsoft's "end-to-end, unified analytics platform," Fabric, the company on Monday rolled out new capabilities at its Build 2025 conference. Also: You can try Microsoft's free AI skills training for two more weeks, and I recommend you doThe innovations show a maturation of Microsoft's database, reporting, and AI functions as the individual offerings become more integrated. What's new with Fabric?
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Photo by I-HWA CHENG/AFP via Getty ImagesNvidia co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang kicked off the annual Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan on Monday with several announcements showcasing how its technology is being deployed across the island nation. The sum total of the announcements is nothing less than Taiwan being a giant engine of Nvidia software. Nvidia is "building accelerated computing and AI infrastructure in Taiwan," the company said in a pre-briefing with media on Friday.
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"We're excited to become a clinical-stage biotech company; it's exciting from an AI drug discovery standpoint," says Absci founder and CEO Sean McClain. AbsciArtificial intelligence has been working its way into the drug development process for years now, but with little to show so far in revamping the notoriously burdensome process.
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Lumentum and Arista shine despite uncertainty Cloud computing demand for fiber optics and networking is supporting healthy results at both Lumentum and Arista, but both companies are waiting to find out what happens when the tariff pause ends on July 8th. Some companies, such as https://t.co/cD3xpOeJ0x

Palantir sells off despite everything being ‘on fire’ The valuation is insane for Palantir, but the growth numbers keep impressing. The only fly in the ointment is Europe, where they just don’t get it, according to CEO Alex Karp. https://t.co/6MQDaJePyF $PLTR https://t.co/HURxnT41T1

Wall Street’s Best Ideas: A tariff on movies despite the U.S. trade surplus? The very vague news that the White House will impose a hundred-percent tariff on foreign movies casts a pall over Netflix, which is surprising given this is one of the few areas where the U.S. enjoys a https://t.co/wGCvl1LAs3