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When OpenAI two months ago agreed to rent an unfathomably large amount of data center capacity from Oracle (4.5 gigawatts, or enough to power several large cities), we thought the market would have priced in the eventual mammoth revenue from that publicly announced deal. We were wrong.On Tuesday, Oracle disclosed that computing contracts would bring in more than $300 billion in additional revenue in the next five years. While it didn’t identify the customers responsible, the OpenAI deal is likely a key one.
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Authorities said a "high-powered, bolt-action rifle" was recovered in a wooded area near the university where Charlie Kirk was shot on Wednesday. Read more ›
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Charlie Kirk, 31, observed the Jewish Sabbath. It was a little detail buried near the bottom of one of the many profiles published since news broke that the conservative leader was killed on Wednesday. Every week from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday, Kirk would turn off his phone, spend time with his wife […] Read more ›
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Prominent far-right figures and elected officials have called for vengeance following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Read more ›
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There is mounting evidence that after the Romans left Britain, the region's economy didn't suffer as badly as once thought. Read more ›
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A computer scientist used only 'pure SQL' to construct a multiplayer DOOM-like game that runs at 30 FPS. Read more ›
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Kendall Ranking quit Big Tech and later started working for a startup. She says there are pros and cons to each, but she won't go back to Big Tech. Read more ›
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Intel has launched the Core i5-110, a six-core, 12-thread Comet Lake processor with a $200 MSRP. Read more ›
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Buying your own router is an easy way to save on your internet bill. Here's what happened when I did just that. Read more ›
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In an interview this week with The Wall Street Journal's Sam Schube, Apple's software design chief Alan Dye said the iPhone Air represents another step "towards that singular piece of glass that Steve Jobs talked about back in the day." Apple's former design chief Jony Ive and Jobs both dreamed of an all-glass iPhone with a seamless, low-profile design. Apple has made progress towards this goal over the years, with... Read more ›
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Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify,” a smartphone app that uses biometric identification, including facial recognition. The lawmakers said facial recognition remains unreliable and warned that real-time surveillance could have a chilling effect on constitutionally protected activities. "As studies have shown, when individuals believe... Read more ›
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The "Pro"-level iPhone 17 may finally end its amateur career and join the major leagues. Read more ›
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Charlie Kirk, one of America’s leading conservative activists and a close friend of President Donald Trump’s son Don Jr., has been murdered. We do not yet know who did, or why. We do not know how the Trump administration will respond. What we do know, however, is that there are good reasons to be afraid. […] Read more ›
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Business leaders including Jared Kushner, David Sacks, and Bill Ackman took to X, where they expressed dismay at Kirk's death. Read more ›
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The Apple iPhone Air feels like something that Apple from a few years ago would design – things get sacrificed at the altar of cool design, no matter whether people think those features were essential (or that the design is all that cool). We’ve seen unreliable butterfly keyboards and iffy cooling on MacBooks, we’ve seen bendy iPhones and ones that have connectivity issues depending on how you grip them. So,... Read more ›
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Fail to look at the power requirements when you're buying a power accessory, and you're just asking for a bad time. Read more ›
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Google today announced that Gmail is getting purchase and delivery updates in a special section at the top of your inbox. Honestly, I feel like I’ve had this in my personal Gmail account for weeks (month+?) and didn’t realize it was new, but it is! It’s official now. Google is actually adding a new “Purchases” … Continued Read the original post: Gmail Adds New Package Tracking Summary to Top of... Read more ›
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Apple's annual September event is now in the rearview mirror, with the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch SE 3 all set to launch on Friday, September 19. Apple is not finished on the year, though, with rumors claiming that the company might release up to six more products before 2025 ends. Here are... Read more ›
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Apple's new Live Translation feature for AirPods will be off-limits to millions of European users when it arrives next week, with strict EU regulations likely holding back its rollout. Apple says on its feature availability webpage that "Apple Intelligence: Live Translation with AirPods" won't be available if both the user is physically in the EU and their Apple Account region is in the EU. Apple doesn't give a reason for... Read more ›
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In the environment section of its iPhone Air press release this week, Apple revealed that the device is equipped with a 3D-printed titanium USB-C port. Apple said the 3D-printed titanium USB-C port offers three benefits compared to one manufactured with a conventional forging process: it is thinner, stronger, and uses 33% less material to be more environmentally friendly. 3D printing for metal is also known as metal additive manufacturing, a... Read more ›
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Microsoft is taking its biggest step to lessen reliance on OpenAI’s artificial intelligence by embracing the startup’s bitter rival Anthropic to power its most important software business. Microsoft will pay to use Anthropic’s technology for some AI features in Office 365 apps, according to two people involved in the effort. The move will blend Anthropic and OpenAI technology in the apps, after years in which Microsoft primarily used OpenAI for... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s main item, please check out my colleague Sri’s exclusive piece from Friday night revealing that OpenAI expects to burn $115 billion in cash through 2029, plus tons of other financial data the company has disclosed to investors. We are still having a hard time digesting the capital that cash burn will require the company to raise in the next five years! We will bring you... Read more ›
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A small cloud provider for artificial intelligence that’s preparing to go public has secured a major boost from its most important supplier: Nvidia. The chip giant agreed this summer to rent 10,000 of its own AI chips from the cloud firm, Lambda, for $1.3 billion over four years, and a separate $200 million deal to rent 8,000 more Nvidia chips over an unspecified time frame, according to a person with... Read more ›
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Joint ventures. Backstop agreements. Syndicated debt offerings. The richest tech companies and their bankers are developing increasingly complicated financial strategies to meet the soaring demands of funding artificial intelligence. The goal for companies like Google and Meta Platforms is to stay ahead in the AI race while offloading some of the costs and risks of the buildout. Meta is raising $29 billion for a joint venture to build a data... Read more ›
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Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML has invested $1.5 billion in French artificial intelligence developer Mistral, valuing it at $11.7 billion, up from a $6 billion valuation last year, Reuters reported. ASML will be the startup’s biggest outside shareholder and will take a board seat, the ... Read more ›
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The NFL, the world’s richest and most powerful sports league, would like you to know something: It is not thrilled with the way Nielsen measures its TV audience. Earlier this week, the NFL took the extraordinary step of criticizing media measurement firm Nielsen, which the football giant argued is undercounting the number of viewers for its games by millions of people. While plenty of television broadcasters have groused about Nielsen... Read more ›
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Klarna is planning to price its initial public offer above its planned range of $35 to $37, according to a person familiar with the matter. At the top of the range, Klarna would have a market value of $14 billion, not including unvested employee shares. The plans have not been previously ... Read more ›
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Earlier this summer, chatter in AI communities went into overdrive after OpenAI and Google revealed that their models had achieved gold medal-level performance on the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad. In the past, this competition had proved difficult for AI models, which struggled to verify whether their generated math proofs were correct without special software.This time around, though, researchers from OpenAI and Google hinted that the techniques they had used to... Read more ›
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OpenAI could spend $10 billion next year on the artificial intelligence chip it is co-designing with Broadcom, according to a report in The Financial Times. The report indicated that mass production of OpenAI’s chip would begin next year. During Broadcom’s earnings call on ... Read more ›
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Oracle stock leapt 20% in after-hours trading after the software-and-cloud firm projected that new cloud contracts it signed in the first quarter would lift revenue from that business sharply in the next few years, transforming Oracle’s financial performance. Oracle said revenue from cloud “ ... Read more ›
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