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Valve has opened pre-orders for its new Steam Machine, but getting one won't be simple or cheap. An AI-driven storage shortage has pushed prices up significantly, and demand is expected to be so high that Valve is running a lottery just to determine your place in the queue. The machine ships with an AMD Zen four hexacore processor.
Meanwhile, President Trump has signed two executive orders aimed at accelerating quantum computing in the United States. The goal is scientifically relevant quantum computers by two thousand twenty eight, with a post-quantum cryptography migration pilot completed a year earlier. The push is framed around protecting government systems from future cybersecurity threats that quantum machines could one day enable.
And if you rely on Anthropic's Claude for your daily work, you may have hit a wall today. The AI assistant went down for a significant number of users, with reports on Downdetector climbing past eight thousand in the United States alone. Anthropic acknowledged an elevated error rate across its platform and said it was actively investigating.
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