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Our panel of experts discuss what the tech industry’s allegiance to Trump really means, and how it will shape our future.

Stephanie Wang explains the journey of building MotherDuck, a serverless data warehouse, from the ground up using the in-process DuckDB. She discusses the challenges of cloudifying an embedded database, including coupled compute and storage, and details architectural choices and engineering…

Alibaba’s Qwen team has just released FP8-quantized checkpoints for its new Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B models in two post-training variants—Instruct and Thinking—aimed at high-throughput inference with ultra-long context and MoE efficiency. The FP8 repos mirror the BF16 releases but package “fine-grained FP8” weights…

We’re turning our latest cover into posters, billboards, and even a mural in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Here’s how to find it. (Pics or it didn’t happen.)

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power.

Defense tech giant Palantir is selling T-shirts and tote bags as part of a bid to encourage fans to publicly endorse it.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the “USB-C” for agent/tool integrations, giving frontend teams a standard way to wire design specs, repos/PRs, deploy targets, observability, and work management into their editors and CI without bespoke adapters. This list focuses on…

Microsoft has started testing the ability to use video wallpapers on Windows 11. The feature has been spotted in the latest builds of Windows 11, and allows you to set video files like MP4 or MKV as your desktop wallpaper…

With SCIGEN, researchers can steer AI models to create materials with exotic properties for applications like quantum computing.