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Even as they build out agentic tools themselves, leaders from the two companies say the capabilities aren’t quite there yet.

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MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...

Summarywith Microsoft, Atom Computing, and QuEra leading efforts to deliver small, error-corrected machines. enabling error ...

SummaryIn data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, ...