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New forecasts from OpenAI show the beginning of a dramatic shift in its alliances from Microsoft, its biggest shareholder, to SoftBank, its newest benefactor.
The company has told investors in recent weeks that it expects Stargate, the fledgling data center expansion project to be heavily financed by SoftBank, to support three-quarters of the computing power it will need to run and develop its AI models by 2030. That would represent a reversal from today and the next few years, when its power and data cent
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Across the US government, workers failed to get clear guidance on whether or how to respond to an email asking what they did this week, despite Elon Musk’s claim that their jobs are at risk. Read more ›
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Employees throughout the federal government have until 11:59pm ET Monday to detail five things they accomplished in the last week. Read more ›
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Trump praised Musk's efforts to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy and then called on him to do even more. Read more ›
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Tony Dalton's mustachioed Jack will come back for swordsman seconds and (probably) spend some time hanging with Daredevil. Read more ›
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The Big Two will collide in comics for the first time in over 20 years in the pages of Marvel/DC and DC/Marvel. Read more ›
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Meta's Yann LeCun warned there could be an exodus of US-based scientists due to Trump's funding cuts. Read more ›
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Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 18.4 yesterday, which users have since discovered contains support for robot vacuums in the Apple Home app through Matter. As spotted by 9to5Mac, Smart Home Centre confirmed the functionality using a Switchbot S10, which offers its own beta support for Matter. (Switchbot first added Matter robot vacuum support last […] Read more ›
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The YouTuber — real name Jimmy Donaldson — said while he's a billionaire "on paper," he has "less than a million dollars" in his bank account. Read more ›
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Seven Havens and the upcoming movie trilogy have a challenge ahead of them in bringing Avatar to the modern age of IP. Read more ›
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Good news, ghost-hunting fans - Phasmophobia's genre-defining voice recognition feature is coming to consoles. Read more Read more ›
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company is going all in on prediction markets after its success with them during the presidential election season. Read more ›
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As Nvidia has dropped support for PhysX in legacy games on its RTX 50 GPUs, a Redditor has bought a separate RTX 3050 as a dedicated PhysX card. Read more ›
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Nvidia says that a few RTX 5090 / 5090D and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs shipped with defective ROPs, telling affected users to contact the manufacturer for a replacement. Read more ›
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Broadcom has joined TSMC in considering possible deals to buy part of Intel, the Wall Street Journal reported, the latest sign of the U.S. chipmaking icon’s steady decline. Last week officials within the Trump administration asked TSMC, which makes most of the world’s most advanced chips on ... Read more ›
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Facebook wants to be cool again—and it plans to revamp itself in large part by leveraging creators, as my colleague Sylvia and I detailed in a story on Thursday. Facebook staffers have been talking to the teams of prominent YouTubers including MrBeast and former NASA engineer Mark Rober to get their feedback on how to make the app better for creators, according to a person with direct knowledge of the... Read more ›
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To make Facebook cool again, Meta Platforms is asking some of the most popular creators on YouTube for advice, ranging from MrBeast to Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who explains scientific concepts. The creators aren’t holding back. Facebook has a “big hill to climb,” said Rober, who has 64 million followers on YouTube and 5.3 million on Facebook, and whose team has been talking to Meta about Facebook for... Read more ›
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Uncertainty about the economic impact of President Donald Trump’s trade policies is dampening expectations for how consumer spending will hold up this year. Just look at Walmart, which today projected that its revenue growth this fiscal year would slow to between 3% and 4%, compared with 5% for the year that ended Jan. 31, 2025. Executives used variations of the word “uncertain” five times on a call with analysts. And... Read more ›
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The model race continues. On Monday evening, Elon Musk’s xAI released a new family of large language models, Grok 3, which includes a baseline model, a smaller and faster version of the baseline model, and two “reasoning” models.Early reactions seem promising. Andrej Karpathy, one of the cofounders of OpenAI who left the company last year, said on X that the reasoning version of Grok 3 performs around the level of... Read more ›
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New forecasts from OpenAI show the beginning of a dramatic shift in its alliances from Microsoft, its biggest shareholder, to SoftBank, its newest benefactor. The company has told investors in recent weeks that it expects Stargate, the fledgling data center expansion project to be heavily financed by SoftBank, to support three-quarters of the computing power it will need to run and develop its AI models by 2030. That would represent... Read more ›
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Long gone are the days when podcasting just meant audio episodes. Spotify and others have been pushing podcasters to post video versions of their shows, which can open up new types of advertising such as product placement and give podcasters video clips that can expand their reach. But some podcasters are skeptical that the video effort will pay off. Video is “forcing people to change what the core competency of... Read more ›
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The question “What did Ilya see?” became an oft-repeated meme asking why OpenAI’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, cast a dramatic vote to oust Sam Altman in the short-lived ouster of the CEO 15 months ago. A significant fundraising that would value Sutskever’s new startup, Safe Superintelligence, at more than $30 billion turns that question on its head. The new money would make the company one of the 12 most valuable... Read more ›
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has long been a vocal critic of Microsoft. A couple of years ago, he accused the company of violating antitrust laws in how it sells software bundles. More recently, he has slammed its artificial intelligence chatbot for giving inaccurate responses and being difficult to use. But that history hasn’t stopped Salesforce from including Microsoft in negotiations it is having with several cloud providers—also including Google and... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms’ eyewear partner, EssilorLuxottica, plans to expand annual production capacity for the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to 10 million units by the end of next year, CEO Francesco Milleri said last week. Speaking on the company’s earnings call, Milleri also revealed that since the ... Read more ›
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