Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
An interview with early Twitter executive Jason Goldman on the platform's early free-speech-maximalist decisions, underinvestment in trust and safety, and more  —  An early Twitter exec reckons with the monster he helped create.  —  What is Twitter's legacy?

The Helsinki-based company, which builds and sells full-stack superconducting quantum computers for on-premises deployment, disclosed the financing today. It was secured before the February announcement of IQM’s SPAC merger with Real Asset Acquisition Corp at a $1.8B valuation. IQM Quantum Computers has secured a €50 million financing package, approximately $57.6 million, from funds and accounts […]

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts  —  Pretext solves the problem of calculating the height of a paragraph of line-wrapped text without touching the DOM.

The French AI company has secured the financing from a seven-bank consortium including BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, and MUFG. The data centre at Bruyères-le-Châtel is expected to be operational in Q2 2026 and is part of a broader push for European AI compute sovereignty. Mistral AI has raised $830 million in debt, its […]

Aarian Marshall / Wired:
Emails, texts, and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robotaxis to stop for school buses as required by law  —  The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings.