Škoda to supply 52 battery-trolleybuses to Esslingen. [The buses can run up to 26km between overhead trolley wires and charge batteries and derive traction power when connected to the wires.] Link
Trump is pulling billions in research money out of America's universities — and handing it to AI and scientists instead. Link
SAXON Q Brings Room-Temperature Diamond Quantum Computing to Commercial Market. Link
Anthropic sued for infringing neural network technology patents. Link
OpenAIclaims some of its models went rogue and hacked into another artificial intelligence company in an "unprecedented cyber incident". [Funny how AI goes all rogey with awesome "we don't know how it did it" capability when they're trying to raise funding, isn't it, when it can't even keep a project journal uncorrupted?] Link
PA township's residents successfully shut down approval of three proposed data center locations - two sites to go in August. Link
An Open Source 28.9 million parameter language model that generates text on an ESP32-S3, a microcontroller that costs about $8. Github
John C. Dvorak, an early and influential technology journalist for PC Magazine, [the Jim Cramer of tech journalist prognostication], died Monday at the age of 80. Link
Some highlights from the 4th annual Open Sauce, the new Maker Faire for rich kids and "influencers", from this past weekend. Video
