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Just as Uber subsidized rides to reshape transportation, Cursor is subsidizing AI-assisted coding to own developer workflows. The playbook is identical: accept massive losses to achieve market position that eventually enables pricing power. Cursor offers capabilities that cost far more than users pay. The gap is investment in market share—betting that developer habits formed now […]

Forget engagement rings—synthetic diamonds are becoming critical technology infrastructure. The unique properties of lab-grown diamonds are enabling breakthroughs in semiconductors, quantum computing, and thermal management that natural diamonds could never supply. Credit: Financial Times Carbon in diamond crystalline structure has properties no other material matches: highest thermal conductivity, extreme hardness, wide bandgap, and quantum spin

The race to practical quantum computing may ultimately be won by an unlikely material: diamond. Carbon’s quantum properties—specifically nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond lattices—offer a path to room-temperature quantum computing that other approaches cannot match. Credit: Financial Times Most quantum computing approaches require extreme cooling—near absolute zero—to maintain quantum coherence. This creates massive practical barriers: cost,

Bloomberg reports copper surging toward all-time highs—and the driver is the same force reshaping everything else: AI infrastructure. Every data center, every power line, every electrical system enabling AI runs on copper. The AI boom is fundamentally a copper demand story. A single large data center requires thousands of tons of copper for electrical systems,