AI Helped Spark a Quantum Breakthrough. The World 'Is Not Prepared'

New research suggests quantum computers capable of breaking internet encryption may arrive sooner than expected—with AI ...

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises ...
Reason

How To Build Your Own Internet in 2026

The internet you experience daily—endless scrolling, algorithmic feeds serving content you didn't ask for, AI-generated slop clogging search results—isn't the only internet available. It's just the ...
Mashable

Internet Princess Rayne Fisher-Quann left TikTok in search of something beyond the algorithm

Over 400 people gathered to attend Fisher-Quann's first New York City show put on in collaboration with Substack. Credit: Anna Maria Lopez It's two hours before Fisher-Quann's first live show in New ...
Forbes

Billionaire Frank McCourt Wants To Buy TikTok — And Use It To Fix The Internet

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The internet is broken. That’s the blunt diagnosis from billionaire entrepreneur Frank McCourt — and he’s placing a ...
Morningstar

MicroCloud Hologram Inc. Quantum Intelligent Interconnected Fault-Tolerant Consensus Algorithm Achieves Collaborative Control of Financial Internet Nodes

SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroCloud Hologram Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLO), ("HOLO" or the "Company"), a technology service provider, proposed a quantum intelligent interconnected ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...