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Amazon, Alphabet and Meta Platforms in recent months have each turned to the bond markets to raise tens of billions of dollars for their massive investments in AI data centers. And all three are likely to borrow much more in the next couple of years, with their projected capital expenditures now likely to come close to or surpass the cash they generate.
How much more can they borrow, without suffering a credit ratings downgrade and seeing their financing costs rise, is now a big question. Right now, credit
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem. This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recognized that it simply wasn’t feasible (or economical) to push everything through large reasoning models. So, when building out an internal Ask AT&T personal assistant, they reconstructed the orchestration layer. The result: A multi-agent stack built on LangChain... Read more ›
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Nasdaq falls 1.5% despite better than expected results from Nvidia on Wednesday Read more ›
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A single large sell order triggered a 30% flash crash on decentralized perp exchange Lighter even as bitcoin was climbing elsewhere. Read more ›
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Cargo bikes can deliver twice as many parcels as vans in crowded city streets, at a tenth of the cost and with nearly no emissions. Yet, across major European cities, they account for only a fraction of deliveries. Why the gap? 150sec spoke with Nicolas Collignon, co-founder of Kale AI, an urban logistics startup that ... Read more ›
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For fans of AI image generation and editing, I keep hearing that Google’s Nano Banana is what everyone loves to use. As someone who stays far away from AI slop, I can’t say that I’ve used it more than a handful of times. I did use it to make that awful logo at the top … Continued Read the original post: Google Introduces Nano Banana 2 Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called "Patty," is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees with meal preparation but also evaluate their interactions with customers for "friendliness." Thibault Roux, Burger King's chief digital officer, tells The Verge that the company compiled information from franchisees... Read more ›
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Scientists at the University of Oxford have finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it turns out both sides were right. By reanalyzing Apollo mission rocks, they discovered that the Moon did occasionally generate an incredibly powerful magnetic field, even stronger than Earth’s — but only for fleeting bursts lasting thousands of years or less. Most of the time, the Moon’s magnetic field was weak. Read more ›
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Tim Cook teases Apple’s March launch week, with a low-cost MacBook, updated MacBook Air and Pro, and iPhone 17e rumored to debut. Read more ›
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New research has found that different gut health testing companies can provide wildly different results from the same fecal sample. Read more ›
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Crypto is becoming a permanent 401(k) fixture. We detail the shift from regulatory bans to presidential mandate and new DOL guidance, plus the latest big institutional bets. Read more ›
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Woot is offering steep discounts on many video games and accessories, some of which are fairly recent releases. No matter what you choose from its sale catalog, you can get up to $30 off your order with the code LEVEL20 used at checkout through the end of the day on February 27th (the sale lasts […] Read more ›
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160 Democratic lawmakers from across the country are backing a soon-to-be-introduced bill that would reverse the Trump administration's decision to eliminate IRS Direct File. The Direct File Act, led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Ron Wyden (D-OR), would bring back the option to file taxes directly with the government for free. […] Read more ›
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Larry Magid: Smart dehumidifiers help control dust mites. Dehumidifiers aren't glamorous appliances, but dust mites aren't exactly welcome house guests. Read more ›
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A weirder entry to the portable TV trend, but one that makes sense if it reaches its final form Read more ›
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It gets Nano Banana Pro features, such as improved reasoning and character consistency. Read more ›
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HBO Max's password-sharing crackdown is going to get a lot bigger. During an earnings call on Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery streaming head JB Perrette said a global expansion "will start in 2026," as reported earlier by The Wrap. Warner Bros. Discovery has ramped up its paid sharing initiative in the US over the past year, […] Read more ›
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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 speaker—the first device OpenAI will release—is likely to be priced between $200 and $300, according to two people with... Read more ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: A radical bet on a totally different type of longevity cure • The Top 5: The best home sauna tech• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Secret World of Roald Dahl,” “Vigil” and “Love Story”Judging strictly by appearances, anyone who is anyone in tech is looking to carve out a niche for themselves in AI. The smart ones are asking themselves... Read more ›
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The tech world is a realm that enjoys obsessing over the newest things: the vibe coding apps, the orchestrating agents, the driverless cars. It also enjoys modernizing the very ancient. The latest example: saunas, which are believed to have existed in some form or another since the Stone Age. They’ve been popular gathering points since the Romans embraced bathing as a public pastime, and lately, there’s been a boomlet in... Read more ›
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OpenAI unveiled long term partnerships with consulting groups McKinsey & Company, Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, and Capgemini aimed at promoting its “Frontier” software for managing AI agents to businesses, in OpenAI’s latest shot at enterprise software firms. The offering will compete ... Read more ›
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Chipmaker AMD is pursuing the same growth-driving strategy that has boosted sales at rival Nvidia: lending its financial support to upstart cloud providers buying its chips. AMD will effectively guarantee a $300 million loan for data center and cloud startup Crusoe to purchase AMD’s AI chips and install them in a data center in Ohio. The loan from Goldman Sachs will be backed by the chips and related equipment, said... Read more ›
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Before we get to what’s coming this week, let’s take a moment to honor the company that has honed the power of magical thinking. That would be OpenAI, whose latest long term revenue and profit projections we reported on Friday night here. The most important element of the report was that in 2025, the cost of running AI models quadrupled, so the company’s gross margin fell to 33%, which is... Read more ›
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EBay struck a bargain this week with its agreement to purchase Depop, the popular secondhand clothing resale app, for $1.2 billion in cash. That’s less than the $1.63 billion Etsy paid for Depop five years ago. There’s a reason eBay got a good deal. Even while Depop increased its total sales last year by roughly 25% to $1 billion, Etsy had been spending heavily on marketing the U.K.-founded garment reseller... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump called on Netflix to kick former Biden administration official Susan Rice off its board, “or pay the consequences.” His comments came after Rice said on a podcast that if Democrats win control of the House of Representatives this fall “there will be an accountability ... Read more ›
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