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You’re about to start hearing a lot about data center delays. In fact, executives and investors I’ve been speaking with expect this will be one of the defining themes of 2026, as delays separate world-class operators from the rest of the pack. But to understand what this will actually mean for the artificial intelligence buildout, it helps to be precise about the types of delays the industry is facing and which ones truly matter.
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"Life is finite. There is no fighting that — as much as people like to put themselves into ice, hoping that they might wake up in 50 years," Helen Mirren said. Read more ›
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If employers want AI to transform work, they should pay attention to history’s technological flops Read more ›
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DIY DDR5 is no longer just a concept, but a reality, as modder VIK-on has built his first 32GB stick from scavenged parts. The memory chips came from laptop SODIMMs, while a new PCB and cooler were acquired from China. After flashing custom firmware enabling 6400 MT/s XMP, the entire build put together cost $218. Read more ›
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Bloomberg reports on Amazon listings "automatically generated by an experimental AI tool" for stores that don't sell on Amazon. Bloomberg notes that the listings "didn't always correspond to the correct product", leaving the stores to handle the complaints from angry customers: Between the Christmas and New Year holidays, small shop owners and artisans who had found their products listed on Amazon took to social media to compare notes and warn... Read more ›
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"This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions," Powell said on Sunday. Read more ›
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There was no shortage of high-fashion looks at the 2026 Golden Globes, but some stars, such as Jennifer Lopez, missed the mark with their outfits. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET: Finland-based IXI Eyewear has raised more than $40 million from investors, including Amazon, to build glasses with adaptive lenses that could dynamically autofocus based on where the person wearing them is looking. In late 2025, the company said it had developed a glasses prototype that weighs just 22 grams. It includes embedded sensors aimed at the wearer's eyes and liquid crystal lenses... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that Cuba would no longer receive oil or money from Venezuela. Read more ›
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Julius Bruch spent seven years at McKinsey before founding an AI dementia startup. He shares what made the leap hard — and why consulting helped. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from It's FOSS: Jenny Guanni Qu, a researcher at [VC fund] Pebblebed, analyzed 125,183 bugs from 20 years of Linux kernel development history (on Git). The findings show that the average bug takes 2.1 years to find. [Though the median is 0.7 years, with the average possibly skewed by "outliers" discovered after years of hiding.] The longest-lived bug, a buffer overflow in networking code,... Read more ›
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See the Moon phase expected for January 12, 2025 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected. Read more ›
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Trump administration's global influence strategy runs through the AI supply chain. Read more ›
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Sonia Holland and Erin O'Brien, both 26, pay about $570 a month for their spacious two-bedroom apartment in Guangzhou, China. Read more ›
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I married into a family of 10 and learned that forcing a "blended family" made things worse. Living side by side saved us. Read more ›
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Celebrities attended the 2026 Golden Globes on Sunday. Selena Gomez and Colman Domingo were among the best-dressed stars of the night. Read more ›
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In October, Walmart partnered with OpenAI to launch a new partnership with ChatGPT. Now, its doing the same with Google's Gemini. Read more ›
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A tattoo artist skipped store-bought gifts and gave her family tattoos, creating a meaningful tradition rooted in creativity and trust. Read more ›
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Stephen Hutyra was inspired by a Facebook post to build a pub in his backyard. He spent $61,000 and created the space of his dreams. Read more ›
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Gentoo Linux posted its 2025 project retrospective this week. Some interesting details: Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gentoo currently considers and plans the migration of our repository mirrors and pull request contributions to Codeberg. Codeberg is a site based on Forgejo, maintained by a non-profit organization, and located in Berlin, Germany. Gentoo continues to host its own primary git, bugs, etc infrastructure... Read more ›
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The Chinese government this week asked some tech companies to temporarily halt plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, according to two people involved in the communication, throwing up a possible roadblock in Nvidia’s hopes of restarting chip sales to one of its biggest markets. The instruction came roughly a month after President Donald Trump said he would allow Nvidia to sell H200s to China, marking the biggest rollback of... Read more ›
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LMArena, a startup that operates a widely cited ranking of AI models based on their performance, has raised $150 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion, including the new money, according to the company. That’s nearly triple the valuation of its seed funding round, announced in May 2025. The funding round, co-led by existing investors Felicis and the University of California’s investment arm, will help the company pay for computing... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s official foray into health, unveiled in this post on Wednesday, has been a long time coming, as we explained last summer. In short, OpenAI is creating a special section of ChatGPT for customers to ask health-related questions and dump data from their personal health apps and wearable devices to get personalized advice. The features are in a trial phase with a subset of paid users for now. (See our... Read more ›
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OpenAI and SoftBank will each invest $500 million in SB Energy, a SoftBank-backed data center developer that’s building a site for the Stargate project. As part of the investment, the companies have agreed to work together on data centers using designs developed by OpenAI, according to a Friday ... Read more ›
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Amazon has started laying the groundwork to open a big-box retail store in the Chicago suburbs, according to planning documents. That marks a return to similar plans for a Target-like store that Amazon shelved a few years ago. In recent weeks, Amazon has sought approval from the village of ... Read more ›
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Venezuela-focused stablecoin startup Kontigo said it will repay the $340,000 that was stolen from more than 1,000 of its customers in a hack, according to a statement the company issued on Monday. In a statement published to X, Kontigo said it detected unauthorized access that affected some ... Read more ›
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Lambda, an upstart cloud provider that rents out Nvidia AI chips—and whose biggest customer was recently Nvidia itself—is trying to raise at least $350 million before a potential initial public offering this year, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Mubadala Capital, which manages money for the United Arab Emirates government and other investors, is in talks to lead the funding round, which is structured to sell stock to... Read more ›
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In its push to make ChatGPT a “personal super assistant” and stay ahead of rivals, OpenAI is developing new features that aim to turn the chatbot into a personal health hub. One feature would let people use ChatGPT to analyze data contained in their personal health apps and wearable devices, such as an Oura ring, Apple Watch or Whoop bracelet, according to two people who have seen designs for the... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang must feel like a child whose parents are perpetually at war. Weeks after he glimpsed a chance to resume sales of AI chips to China—thanks to approval from President Donald Trump—China has said, “Not so fast.” As our Hong Kong reporter Qianer Liu scooped today, the Chinese government has asked local tech companies to temporarily halt any plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 chips. China may yet... Read more ›
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It seems like these days, every big e-commerce and AI company is racing to figure out how to make AI agents that can shop just like a human. In the case of Amazon, the company’s version of AI-powered shopping is becoming widespread enough to step on other retailers’ toes—evidence that it’s pulling ahead in the nascent market.Earlier this week, Amazon sparked blowback from some small retailers that noticed they were... Read more ›
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