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Amazon said it plans to spend up to $50 billion to build new AI data centers for its U.S. government cloud customers that will include almost 1.3 gigawatts of new computing capacity. The data center projects, which are slated to begin next year, show how Amazon Web Services is doubling down ...
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TikTok employees working for the company’s U.S. Data Security division will be moved under a U.S. joint venture ownership company in January and will no longer be able to receive Restricted Stock Units from TikTik’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, staff were told on Friday. The U.S. Data ... Read more ›
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Forced by an act of Congress, the Justice Department has released “hundreds of thousands” of pages of documents related to Epstein—but not everything, as is required by law. Read more ›
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OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up - or down - ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm. An update rolling out on Friday gives you the option to choose whether you want "more" or "less" of these personality traits, or stick with the default. There are also options to tweak how often ChatGPT uses […] Read more ›
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The Kennedy Center added Donald Trump's name to its facade on Friday. Here's a look back at how it came to be and how it has changed under Trump. Read more ›
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Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google's search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using "deceptive means" to automatically access and take Google's search results "at an astonishing scale" before selling the data to customers. Reddit also sued […] Read more ›
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Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform reliably when put to the test. The Verge methodically tested each prompt shown in the ad and found that Copilot repeatedly hallucinated interface elements that didn't exist, claimed to highlight... Read more ›
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In her new docuseries, "The End of an Era," Taylor Swift talks about the beginning of her relationship with Travis Kelce and dating athletes. Read more ›
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TikTok's new US joint venture will hand over national-security related tasks to its partners, while ByteDance holds onto key business lines. Read more ›
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Sony just purchased a controlling stake in the iconic brand featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and more. Read more ›
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Today's the deadline for the Justice Department to release its files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected financier and pedophile. Read more ›
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If you're using extra-virgin olive oil in your air fryer, this chef would like a word. Read more ›
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From "Euphoria" to "The Housemaid," here are Sydney Sweeney's best and worst movie and TV roles according to critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Read more ›
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While Gemini 3 is still making waves, Google's not taking the foot off the gas in terms of releasing new models.Yesterday, the company released FunctionGemma, a specialized 270-million parameter AI model designed to solve one of the most persistent bottlenecks in modern application development: reliability at the edge. Unlike general-purpose chatbots, FunctionGemma is engineered for a single, critical utility—translating natural language user commands into structured code that apps and devices... Read more ›
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Radio legend Delilah opens up about motherhood, love, and how her callers keep her focused on gratitude and joy. Read more ›
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The director of 'The Shawshank Redemption,' 'The Green Mile,' and 'The Mist' talks about the Stephen King project that got away. Read more ›
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Taiwan's government is considering imposing N+2 export rule on TSMC's advanced process technologies, which would make it significantly harder for the foundry to develop overseas. Read more ›
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Samsung has announced its own SOCAMM2 LPDDR5-based memory module designed specifically for AI data center platforms, pitching it as as a way to bring the power efficiency and bandwidth advantages of LPDDR5X into servers. Read more ›
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TikTok inked a deal to sell a significant portion of its U.S. operation to American investors. The sale may bring clarity, but not comfort, as travel brands wait to see the effect on the algorithms driving discovery. Read more ›
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Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit. Read more ›
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Over the past this year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ways to get useful responses out of it, one employee said. But even as ChatGPT attracted more users this year,... Read more ›
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The iPhone family is growing again. Over the next two years, Apple is planning a major expansion of its smartphone product line that could see it selling at least seven new models of its flagship device by fall 2027, up from five iPhone models today, according to multiple people working directly on the products at both Apple and its suppliers. The move will see Apple—which is often criticized for releasing... Read more ›
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Businesses such as IBM and Salesforce have long used chatbots to greet their website visitors and offer them assistance with getting more information about their products. In recent years, generative AI has livened up these chatbots so they are no longer confined to a small set of canned responses. But some technology providers are having trouble keeping these AI chatbots from going off-topic. For instance, earlier this month, Sierra, a... Read more ›
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Amazon reorganized its AI development team, it said on Wednesday, by expanding it to also include quantum computing and silicon development, which includes development of Trainium chips. Those organizations were previously part of Amazon Web Services. Amazon’s AI team, which developed its Nova ... Read more ›
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A spike of investor interest in the data center sector has prompted one major data center developer, Rowan Digital Infrastructure, to consider whether this is a good time to raise fresh capital or possibly even sell, say people familiar with the company’s thinking. If it were to raise money or sell, it would likely be valued at more than $10 billion, including its debt, the people said. Potential buyers include... Read more ›
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We’re heading into our last full working week of the year, so the news flow is likely to start quieting down. (Be on the lookout for ServiceNow’s next big acquisition, however). One story that’s likely to chug along through the holidays is the battle between Netflix and the Ellison family’s Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros. Discovery. There’s sure to be fireworks this week, if for no other reason than the... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the AI lab co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is planning to release its own in-house models next year, co-founder and Chief Scientist John Schulman said on a podcast. So far, Thinking Machines has released Tinker, an application programming ... Read more ›
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Brett Adcock, the CEO of robotics startup Figure AI, has started a new AI lab called Hark, which will be funded by $100 million of his personal capital, according to a copy of a memo Adcock sent to Figure employees and investors on Thursday seen by The Information. The AI lab will be focused on ... Read more ›
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Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud deals that customers such as OpenAI have struck with Oracle. The filing showed that as of ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has hired former UK Chancellor George Osborne to a new position it’s calling the Head of OpenAI for Countries, according to Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane’s LinkedIn post. Osborne will lead the company’s effort to expand its Stargate data center buildout across the rest of the ... Read more ›
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