The WNBA Is At War With Its Biggest Stars

SpaceX Enters Secretive Pentagon Contest To Build Voice-Controlled Drone Swarm Tech: Report Last week, we asked whether Anthropic's AI tool, Claude, played a role in the kill chain during the U.S. Delta Force raid targeting Maduro last month. We've also reported on the Department of War's search for "war unicorn" startups, and what appears to us to be the early innings of the rise of dual-use technologies - from humanoid robots to drones - reshaping the modern battlefield. A new Bloomberg report states that Elon Musk's SpaceX and its wholly owned...

The Upcoming AI Spend Slowdown? Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities We have been attacking this issue orthogonally for the past few weeks. Last weekend’s Cheap China Compute brought up several issues facing the AI Spend. On Thursday we published Braggawatts (which should probably be BragCompute or something), but the concept is that a lot of the announced deals are missing some, or all of the following: Enough electricity, especially at peak usage times, to fulfill their commitments. Access to water and other resources to function. Getting the various chips on time, connected and installed (hearing China is threatening to restrict exports of fiber-optic cables (another, in a long list...

Quantum Stocks Erupt As U.S. Gov't Awards $2 Billion, Takes Equity Stakes IBM and small-cap quantum names, including IonQ, D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, Infleqtion, and other peers, are surging in New York premarket trading after a Wall Street Journal report said the Trump administration is preparing to award $2 billion in CHIPS Act grants to nine quantum-computing companies. IBM is set to receive half of the $2 billion tranche, or about $1 billion, as the large-cap leader in the race to build quantum computing systems that could revolutionize national security, accelerate...