Timothy King

US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s first small modular reactors As Keir Starmer announces SMRs to be built in Wales, US ambassador says Britain should choose ‘a different path’

US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s first small modular reactors www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Trump administration signed an $80bn deal with Westinghouse, which had been struggling financially, the Trump administration could end up taking a stake in the company"

Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS fragmentation: 13 Nov. 2025 image and animation. - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS showed several fragments in the inner coma on 13 Nov. 2025. Image by g. Masi, Virtual Telescope Project.

Stage seperation complete: www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/13/c...

Rohit Gupta, the TDSB supervisor, will earn $350,000 a year +$20,000 in expenses to get the board “back on track” despite an auditor finding no evidence of financial mismanagement.

supervisor@tdsb.on.ca
rohit.gupta@tdsb.on.ca

A former Metrolinx advisor getting things back on track is just perfect.

The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy. AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?

"They’re fueled by hype & ebullient valuations. When the heat rises — when capital tightens or customers scrutinize ROI — they go up in seconds."

open.substack.com/pub/ceodinne...

"Infrastructure clones in crowded categories — 1 more LLM gateway, 1 more vector database"
#ai #aibubble

Timothy King (@tk1ng) Working out migrations strategies to substack.

Working out migration strategies to Substack this morning...
substack.com/profile/1387...

Catalysing Positive Digital Infrastructure Innovation: G20's Role in Advancing Data Agency This policy brief calls for a redesign of global digital infrastructure to centre citizen agency, equity, and sustainability.

"As data increasingly drives economic and social power, current models – dominated by a handful of Big Tech platforms – entrench structural inequalities, diminish user control, and undermine public trust."

t20southafrica.org/publications...

#T20Summit #digitalcitizenship #cdnpoli

The technical obliviousness I see in #cdned is often seated in science obliviousness. We need this kind of communications focus across all STEM programs.

If you can't explain it so people understand it, you're part of the problem.
#cdnpoli

Xanadu’s $3.6B SPAC, Quantinuum’s 98-Qubit Helios Debut, psiQuantum & Lockheed Martin, Princeton Qubit - The Week in Quantum Computing, November 3rd, 2025 Canadian firm Xanadu’s $3.6 billion goes Nasdaq SPAC (another one!). Also Canada’s 2025 budget earmarks over $210 billion for research and development incentives in strategic sectors, including AI and...

Xanadu’s $3.6B SPAC, Quantinuum’s 98-Qubit Helios Debut, psiQuantum & Lockheed Martin, Princeton Qubit - The Week in #QuantumComputing, November 3rd, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/quantump...

EU plans hub to tackle disinformation threat from Russia and others Move follows ‘escalating hybrid attacks’ by Russia and other foreign powers spreading fake articles across social media

EU plans hub to tackle disinformation threat from Russia and others

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

We need something similar in #Canada, along with laws with teeth for the treasonous types who happily take foreign money to destabilize our country.
#cdnpoli

Advanced Solar Panels: Toward a New Era of Clean Energy - IYQ 2025 Quantum Mechanics and the Birth of a Revolution Quantum mechanics represents one of the most significant revolutions in the history of modern physics, ushering in a new understanding of nature at the ...

"Advanced solar panels represent more than just a technological evolution—they symbolize a paradigm shift. From external, visible objects, they will become an integral part of the environments we live in"

quantum2025.org/news-link/ad...

Another quantum mechanically enabled modern device.

"the model delivers strong results on HTML, React, and other front-end tasks, turning prompts into responsive, production-ready apps"

#Coding week is coming up in #cdned. Betcha it'll be the human kind.

"Moonshot's comparison chart shows that these results put K2 Thinking ahead of some leading commercial models like GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5, as well as Chinese rival Deepseek-V3.2"

the-decoder.com/moonshot-ais...

AI race heats up as Chinese start-up Moonshot launches Kimi K2 Thinking Moonshot AI has launched an update to the Kimi 2 model, the Kimi K2 Thinking, which is reportedly an improved agent capable of enhanced reasoning.

AI race heats up as Chinese start-up Moonshot launches Kimi K2 Thinking www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/ai-...

IBM Advances to Next Phase of DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative IBM announced it has been selected for Stage B, the second of three stages of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative led by DARPA, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

DARPA selects IBM for Stage B of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, which aims to determine the feasibility of building a large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2033.

The progression affirms our roadmap toward fault-tolerant quantum systems: ibm.co/6013BzfX1

Photonic Inc. Advances to Stage B of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative - Photonic Photonic Inc., a global leader in distributed quantum computing, announced today it has been selected to  participate in Stage B of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Quantum Benchm...

Canadian #quantum company Photonic Inc. Advances to Stage B of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative

photonic.com/news/photoni...
#cdnpoli

Happy with the final edit:

temkblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/leve...

"You are surrounded by #quantum mechanics. Celebrate this centenary of our discovery of #quantummechanics by recognizing that it isn't coming soon but is something you've been surrounded by your whole life." #cdned #onted #IYQ2025

Leveraging Our Quantum Mechanical Advantage a history of transistors from a quantum mechanical perspective, how quantum technologies are all around us, digital is quantum, centenary of quantum

#Quantum isn't the next big thing, you've been surrounded by quantum engineering for your entire life.

A good way to end the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics during #IYQ2025? #cdned #onted

temkblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/leve...

Breakthrough could connect quantum computers at 200X the distance Quantum computers are powerful, lightning-fast and notoriously difficult to connect to one another over long distances.

"For the first time, the #technology for building a global-scale #quantum internet is within reach" 

phys.org/news/2025-11...

Another interesting use case for rare earth minerals that one country on the planet has a monopoly on.

Carl was right, no one is bothered.

Caltech's Pioneering Quantum Hub Celebrates 25 Years John Preskill reflects on the history and impact of IQIM

"We are thinking about how to use entanglement to do things like encrypted communications or more sensitive measurements- we use these tools to characterize complex phases of matter and their entanglement structure"
www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Introducing Helios: The Most Accurate Quantum Computer in the World

"Today, we launched Helios, a technological marvel redefining the possible. Helios is the most accurate #quantumcomputer in the world, with 98 of the highest fidelity physical qubits ever released, and 48 error-corrected logical qubits."

quantinuum.com/blog/introdu...

"Combine Google's free hand to engage in vertical acquisitions and its invisible empire of portfolio companies, and you have a world-spanning entity with damned few checks on its power."
pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/v...

Leveraging Our Quantum Mechanical Advantage a history of transistors from a quantum mechanical perspective, how quantum technologies are all around us, digital is quantum, centenary of quantum

#Quantum isn't the next big thing, you've been surrounded by quantum engineering for your entire life.

A good way to end the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics during #IYQ2025? #cdned #onted

temkblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/leve...

TSU 101: An Entirely New Type of Computing Hardware | Extropic Building thermodynamic computing hardware that is radically more energy efficient than GPUs.

A TSU is a type of probabilistic computer that is programmed to sample from probability distributions. The inputs to a TSU are a set of parameters that define the shape of some probability distribution, and the outputs are samples from the defined distribution.

extropic.ai/writing/tsu-...

China’s strategy on critical minerals surpasses geopolitics China leads in exporting critical minerals but faces supply challenges requiring a balanced approach towards resolution, involving geopolitical tensions.

Why China’s critical mineral strategy goes beyond geopolitics www.weforum.org/stories/2024...

Why isn't #Canada mentioned?

Could it be our slow & inconsistent policy development and implementation of REM extraction and processing?

#cdnpoli nimbyism will make it nearly impossible to engage.

Jim's response was, "learn capitalism."
You don't have to like it but you do need to understand how it works in order to leverage it to get what you want.

Anything else from regional obeisance to irrational provincial education policies to union socialism is a convenient myth to maintain status quo

That's a good question. I can only assume Council of Ministers of Education & regional edu-management across the country (there is no #Canada wide strategy or intent) isn't interested in rational explanations of how the world works. We'd rather keep stewing in our regional colonialism. #cdnpoli

Jim Balsillie asked at the 8th Annual IP Data & Research Conference: "I've been trying to engage #cdned with learning opportunities about IP & how it works in business, and was told to get lost. How do we engage #education to provide these resources?"

ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadia...

How Are Teens Using AI Companions? A new type of relationship is emerging in teens' lives—one that feels like connection but is powered by code.

Post COVID was the perfect moment for AI to storm in and provide fake company:

www.benton.org/blog/how-are...

" #Education has a responsibility to develop #AIliteracy curricula that address the specific risks of #AI companions while building critical-thinking skills about artificial relationships"

From looking at this for years, about 1/3 of the population is digitally capable (less than 10% are highly capable).
The students who left TikTok long enough to try #AI have started giving up and going back to what's comfortable (like most people do).
Meanwhile the fast movers have doubled down.