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When President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate AI data center project in January 2025, the three companies charged with developing it promised to move with lightning speed, spending $100 billion almost immediately to start building 10 gigawatts of computing capacity.
More than a year later, the Stargate joint venture has not staffed up and is not developing any of OpenAIâs data centers, according to three people involved in the shelved idea. In the weeks following the announcement, Stargat
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Samsung's next flagship devices will offer Perplexity as part of an expansion to support multiple AI agents in Galaxy AI. Perplexity's AI agent will work with apps including Samsung Notes, Clock, Gallery, Reminder and Calendar, according to the announcement. And, some third-party apps will support it, though Samsung hasn't yet said which. The news comes just a few days before Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, so we can expect to find... Read more âș
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Tesla dropped the Cybertruckâs price for a limited 10-day window, aiming to spark demand after slow sales. Itâs the lowest price yet â but the offer wonât last. Read more âș
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Donald Trump threatened that there would be "consequences" for Netflix if it didn't fire board member Susan Rice. Rice served in both the Obama and Biden administrations, and recently appeared on Preet Bharara's podcast, where she said corporations that "take a knee to Trump" are going to be "caught with more than their pants down. [âŠ] Read more âș
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Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games via a new online portal. Read more âș
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President Donald Trump demanded that Netflix drop Susan Rice from its board after she was sharply critical of his administration. Read more âș
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The $370 price difference between the U.S. and the U.K. on 28TB hard drives meant that it's more cost effective to pay for a round-trip ticket and a hotel stay than to just purchase 10 drives locally. Read more âș
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The closures are expected to significantly increase wait times, so travelers should budget extra time at the airport. Read more âș
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AI energy efficiency comparisons âunfairâ bleats Sam Altman, citing amount of energy needed to evolve, then train a human Read more âș
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Airlines canceled thousands of flights across the Northeast on Sunday and Monday as a giant winter blizzard threatens to drop nearly two feet of snow. Read more âș
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Georgian skaters Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava shared a Mortal Kombat-themed performance at the Olympics over the weekend. Read more Read more âș
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Inside America's second-largest jail, chefs, not inmates, do all the cooking. Read more âș
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Georgia's figure skating team used their Pairs performance to shout out the fighting franchise and yes, use the 'Mortal Kombat' theme. Read more âș
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15 years later, McDuffie should still be with us as a person and as a creator whose work left a mark on people. Read more âș
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As quantum computing inches closer to reality, nearly 7 million bitcoin, including Satoshi Nakamotoâs 1 million coins, are potentially at risk. Read more âș
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In February 1971, an order authorized Oakland Police to enter offices in Palo Alto and homes in Menlo Park to look not just for papers but also for data stored on machines. Read more âș
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Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend its fingers backward, connect and disconnect from a robotic arm, and pick up and carry one or more objects at a time. This article in Science News includes footage of the robotic arm reattaching itself to the skittering robot hand, which can also hold objects against... Read more âș
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In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple will have a three-day stretch of product announcements from Monday, March 2 through Wednesday, March 4. In total, he expects Apple to introduce "at least five products." A week ago, Apple invited selected journalists and content creators to an "Apple Experience" in New York, London, and Shanghai on Wednesday, March 4 at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. At these in-person... Read more âș
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Mass production of the iPhone 18 Pro and the iPhone Fold is expected to get underway in July. Read more âș
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A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science â but ended up with "a sneak peak into thousands of people's homes." While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI's remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his... Read more âș
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Donald Trump weighed in amid negotiations over the Warner Bros. deal, saying Netflix should fire Susan Rice from its board "or pay the consequences." Read more âș
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Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Metaâs plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and intends to release it later this year with health-tracking features and a built-in Meta AI assistant.... Read more âș
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OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered devices that will include a smart speaker and possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. New details are starting to emerge about the group and its development strategy. The smart speakerâthe first device OpenAI will releaseâis likely to be priced between $200 and $300, according to two people with... Read more âș
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Alibaba Group on Monday unveiled Qwen3.5, the new generation of its large language models, adding to the recent flood of new AI model releases from Chinese companies ahead of the Lunar New Year, Chinaâs biggest holiday. Alibaba, a major global competitor in open-source AI models, said ... Read more âș
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OpenAI recently raised its outlook for revenue for the next five years, predicting it would generate about 27% more than previously forecast from sales of its ChatGPT subscriptions and other business lines, The Information reported Friday. But it warned it will burn more than twice as much cash ... Read more âș
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Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion to run its Claude AI on their cloud servers through 2029, according to the startupâs most optimistic recent forecasts. Thatâs not the only way the tech giants can make money from Anthropic: They get a cut of the revenue Anthropic generates if their customers buy its AI. And thatâs a fast-growing source of revenue. Anthropic paid only about... Read more âș
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Perplexity is no longer offering ads, an executive told The Financial Times. The AI search startup is pulling back from this line of business as rival OpenAI started showing its users ads in ChatGPT conversations earlier this month. The company said it was worried ads would undermine usersâ ... Read more âș
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OpenAI recently hiked its revenue outlook for the next five years, predicting that it would generate about 27% more than previously forecast from sales of its ChatGPT subscriptions, AI models, and newer business lines such as advertising and hardware, according to financial forecasts. But it warned it will burn more than twice as much cash through 2030 than previously predicted, as it spends $665 billion on the costs of running... Read more âș
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Etsy saw its profit dip in the fourth quarter, even as revenue grew slightly, the company said Thursday, a day after the online marketplace said it would sell the Gen Z-focused clothing resale app Depop to rival eBay for $1.2 billion. Etsy reported revenue of $881.6 million, a 6.6% increase from ... Read more âș
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A new holy grail has emerged in the AI industry in recent months: continual learning, or the promise of AI thatâs able to learn from real-world experience the way humans do, without having to undergo long formal training processes that require tons of computational power and data.And as youâd might expect with the rise of an ill-defined, buzzy term in the tech sector, investors are already telling me that theyâre... Read more âș
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Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world, from developing robot hands to the AI models that train robots to software to train self-driving cars. Now one startup says it can solve a perennial problem for robots and other AI-powered systems: getting precise location data that helps the bots detect other people and things.ZaiNar, a Belmont, Calif.-based startup that... Read more âș
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