nice work although, the level of marketing of calling your device 'high density...17 quantum devices' or having the bold '50 devices in the last four weeks' - does say there's some way to go!

It's a very long contract (till 2029) for just covering themselves for supply.

3 years is quite a short horizon when it comes to semiconductor fabs. Also this article is a dupe, when it was previously discussed it surfaced that after some time either party can cancel with only 90 days notice.

No its not.

"Both SpaceX and Google have the option to terminate the agreement with 90 days’ notice after December 31, 2026"

They know allocation they have from TSMC for TPUs production they know allocation they have from Nvidia they see demand curve.

You do have to worry/wonder how many people are in psych hospitals, jail, or 6ft under when something like this might be the reason.

one of the articles lines is more generally interesting 'In mammals, neurons in the spleen can communicate with macrophages, and in both mammals and birds, these neurons also connect to the central nervous system.'.

Perhaps the uncertainty is more to do with the public being able to see this new tech; think what's happened in those 30 years, some of which you as a techie would have been well aware of but most people were clueless about. Those of us using PDAs at the time, most of the public didn't imagine constant wireless connectivity and powerful computers in their pockets. Networked games, neat tricks bunches of geeks ran at the time; today everywhere. Is AI really that much of an outlier other than public knowledge?

AI is absurdly, massively centralized though.

You don't own it. You can't own it. Access can be removed at any time.

This situation may not persist but it's not like traditional pillars of society have demonstrated any incentive or even a perception of obligation to act in the public interest lately.

Local LLMs are getting pretty darn good.

True, but presumably they weren't trained locally.

you mean just like the Document editors or email systems these days? (or cloudflare etc etc)

Yeh if you want to improve the screening rate then someone needs to figure out how to make the prep easier.

There are slow-acting laxatives that you have to drink a lot of and tastes wile but is soft on the intestines, and then there is quick-acting laxative that is easier to get down. The former tends to be prescribed by default, obviously.

If you have no prior intestinal diseases and are in for a routine check, ask for the quick-acting one. You will have to drink the same total amount of liquid, but at least most of it will not be drinks of your choosing.

Also get anal cream, and apply it once before going to the toilet.

Yeh there's lots of fun things like this; PDF is a full programming language so I think in principal you can generate PDFs that display different things to different people depending on the tools used etc. I've heard it said some of the incorrect text mapping stuff has been used in the past as a copy-protection silly to stop people copy/pasting content. (It's also a pain for those using screen readers).

So hmm this allows 'electronic or digital' information to be examined - so you're fine transporting your information read out on cine film?

Wasn't there a short period where they changed the colour? I'm thinking it was a beige thing - in the 80s???

There was some trial where they painted <100 yellow, as part of some rebranding and privatisation of British Telecom. There was a public outcry and they reverted

Ah yes, that would be what I was thinking of; I think I saw one somewhere in Manchester as a kid.

Oh yeh i grew up on a lot of those; add Silent Running in as well!