☕️ Trump signs order to boost quantum research

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🔐 Trump signs order to boost quantum research

👓 Meta launches its own smart glasses

🛠️ OpenAI's 'Patch the Planet' takes on Anthropic

🇨🇳 China retakes world's fastest supercomputer crown

📺 Instagram takes on Netflix with TV app

💰 SpaceX lands $6.3B compute deal with Reflection AI

Plus: 🎁 15 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 4 papers.

🔐 Trump signs order to boost quantum research LINK

President Trump signed two executive orders on Monday meant to push research into quantum computing forward and tighten security practices in preparation for the risks a post-quantum world could bring to online systems.

One order calls for building a quantum computer strong enough for scientific research, tells federal agencies to plan for quantum-enabled technology, and seeks to boost domestic supply chains for quantum infrastructure and materials.

The second order aims to speed migration to post-quantum cryptography by 2031, protecting systems against quantum threats that could break the encryption algorithms long used to secure private information online.

👓 Meta launches its own smart glasses LINK

Meta is launching its own line of smart glasses called Meta Glasses, dropping the Ray-Ban and Oakley branding entirely while still making them with EssilorLuxottica and selling them through the same retail stores.

The new glasses start at $299, undercutting the $379 Ray-Ban Gen 2 and $499 Scriber and Blazer Optics models, while keeping the same comfort fit, battery life, camera quality, and dual-camera AI rocker button.

The lineup includes the chunky "Fury" frame, the more compact "Adventurer," and a Kylie Jenner design called the Starfire Kylie Edition, which has oval lenses, an embedded gem, and a charging case with a vanity mirror.

🛠️ OpenAI's 'Patch the Planet' takes on Anthropic LINK

OpenAI has teamed up with cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits on a program called Patch the Planet, which uses AI to find and fix security flaws in widely used open-source software that enterprises depend on.

The program starts each engagement by consulting maintainers, then uses OpenAI's models and Codex Security to investigate vulnerabilities, while Trail of Bits engineers review findings to filter out false positives before they reach the projects.

Initial participants include Python, Go, cURL, and python.org, and the work has already identified hundreds of security issues and merged dozens of patches, with HackerOne and Calif supporting triage and disclosure.

🇨🇳 China retakes world's fastest supercomputer crown LINK

China has taken back the title of world's fastest supercomputer for the first time since 2017, with its LineShine machine hitting 2.198 Exaflops and beating the previous leader, El Capitan, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

LineShine got around US technology embargoes by avoiding GPUs entirely, instead running on a custom 304-core processor with 13.79 million cores at 1.55GHz, drawing 42.2 megawatts for an efficiency of 52.07 Gigaflops per watt.

The previously unlisted machine, built by the National Supercomputer Center without public funding, kept some details hidden, including which company made the CPUs and the type of chip technology used in its design.

📺 Instagram takes on Netflix with TV app LINK

Instagram is moving into living rooms with its TV app, testing longer-form videos, episodic series, and Live TV as it competes with streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

The TV app is rolling out to Samsung TVs, joining Amazon Fire and Google TVs, and is gaining channels tailored to creators and topics users follow, plus support for horizontal videos and Stories.

Users can now cast Reels or content from their Saved tab directly from their phone to the TV, and watch other people's Stories within the app, which previously only played Reels.

💰 SpaceX lands $6.3B compute deal with Reflection AI LINK

SpaceX has signed a $6.3 billion deal to sell computing power to Reflection AI, an open-source artificial intelligence startup that becomes the latest outside customer to tap Elon Musk's Colossus infrastructure.

Reflection gets immediate access to Nvidia GB300s, the chips used to train and run AI models, and agreed to pay SpaceX $150 million per month from July 1, 2026 through 2029, with either side able to exit on 90 days' notice.

The deal adds to SpaceX's computing power agreements with Anthropic, Google and Cursor, which Musk's company is now acquiring, and brings in an open-source lab as enterprises reassess relying on closed AI systems.

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Bluerails Discovery: audits how discoverable your brand is to AI agents, scoring visibility gaps so non-human systems can read, understand, and interact with your site.LINK

Cotypist: local autocomplete tool that suggests context-aware text completions across Mac apps without sending your data to the cloud.LINK

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📚 Trending papers & reports

Tiny reasoning models now match giant ones on hard math and coding tests, with a 3B parameter model scoring 94.3 on a tough benchmark, beating systems many times its size.LINK

Object-detection software gets faster and more accurate across five model sizes, now handling tiny objects better and skipping a slow post-processing step, with scores ranging from 40.9 to 57.5.LINK

Self-improving agent wrappers let an AI system rewrite its own operating instructions to fix its specific weaknesses, boosting task success rates from as low as 23.8% to 38.1% without any human engineers involved.LINK

Chatbots' knowledge gaps reveal that telling an AI "A is B" doesn't mean it can reverse that logic to answer "B is A," a blind spot found across GPT-4 and other major models.LINK

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