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IBM has spun off what it's calling America's first dedicated quantum chip foundry, backed by two billion dollars in federal and private funding. The newly formed company, named Anderon, will be headquartered in Albany, New York, operating a three-hundred-millimeter quantum wafer fabrication facility and offering manufacturing services to competing quantum hardware vendors — a notable move that treats quantum infrastructure as a shared industry resource rather than a proprietary advantage.
Shifting to a battle playing out in New Zealand, authors are pushing back against a government initiative to expand AI use across the public sector. Writers argue the push fails to account for how these systems were trained — almost certainly on copyrighted work — and that deploying AI at scale in government legitimizes a process that has never been properly consented to. It's a tension between efficiency and creative rights that no country has cleanly resolved.
And Spain has become the latest country to block prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, citing potential violations of gambling law. The move reflects a broader regulatory uncertainty around these platforms, which supporters frame as forecasting tools and critics see as little more than rebranded betting. How governments classify them will shape whether prediction markets become a mainstream information product or a legal liability.
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