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A profile of Chetan Nayak, who leads Microsoft's Station Q team trying to build a quantum computer; source: Microsoft spends ~$300M annually on quantum research (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal)
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A profile of Chetan Nayak, who leads Microsoft's StatiArcade, a gen-AI marketplace for designing jewelry, raised a $25M Series A led by Canaan Partners, bringing total funding to $42M, and expands to home goods (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
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Arcade, a gen-AI marketplace for designing jewelry, raisDemocratic Senators helping Trump's strongest Senate allies repeal Section 230 could give the Trump administration unprecedented power to control online speech (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
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Democratic Senators helping Trump's strongest Senate allies reMistral debuts Mistral Small 3.1, a 24B-parameter multimodal and multilingual open-source model it says outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o-mini and runs on 32GB RAM (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
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Mistral debuts Mistral Small 3.1, a 24B-parameter multimodPavel Durov says Telegram now has 1B+ MAUs, up from 950M in July 2024, and made $547M in profits in 2024, and calls WhatsApp "a cheap, watered-down imitation" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Pavel Durov says Telegram now has 1B+ MAUs, up from 950M in JuA jury finds Frank founder Charlie Javice guilty of defrauding JPMorgan Chase by falsifying Frank user numbers; the charges carry a maximum sentence of 30 years (Luisa Beltran/Fortune)
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A jury finds Frank founder Charlie Javice guilty of defrauding
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