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Meta Platforms has signed a deal to rent Google’s AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to develop new AI models, according to a person involved in the talks. The multi-year deal is worth billions of dollars, said a person who was briefed about it. Meta has also been talking to Google about buying TPUs for its data centers as soon as next year, though the status of that discussion couldn’t be learned.
The deal is a victory for Google, giving it another brand-name customer that could help its efforts.
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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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Around their early forties, many people quietly stop justifying their decisions to others. Research in developmental psychology and neuroscience reveals why this shift happens, and why it's one of the strongest signs of emotional maturity. Read more ›
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Televised gala offers a showcase and opportunity for the best of Chinese tech Read more ›
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The Pixel Buds Pro 2 have great ANC and long battery life, and they're marked down in several colors. Read more ›
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The Pentagon wants Anthropic to drop safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. Read more ›
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Я решил перестать гадать, почему к вечеру код превращается в тыкву, а мозг — в перегретый сервер. Вместо очередного поста про выгорание я полез в нейрофизиологию, собрал немного собственных данных, поигрался с ЭЭГ-гарнитурой, трекером сна и статистикой коммитов. В этой статье — что реально происходит с вниманием, рабочей памятью и дофаминовой системой разработчика в течение 8 часов за ноутбуком. Будет и биология, и цифры, и немного кода. Читать далее Read more ›
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Agentic AI is all about software acting independently. It's a prelude to physical AI finding a home in robots. Read more ›
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Полгода назад я понял, что мы проигрываем не конкурентам и не техдолгу. Мы проигрываем времени суток. В этой статье — мой практический разбор того, как я замерял хронотипы команды, собирал телеметрию активности, анализировал коммиты и встречи, строил простенькую модель продуктивности и в итоге полностью перестроил рабочий график удалённой команды. Будет немного биологии, немного математики, немного кода и много личных факапов. Читать далее Read more ›
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Colorado lawmakers are proposing SB26-051, a bill that would require operating systems to register a user's age bracket and share it with apps via an API. PCMag reports: The bill comes from state Sen. Matt Ball and Rep. Amy Paschal, both Democrats. "The intent is to create thoughtful safeguards for kids online through a privacy-forward framework for age assurance," Ball told PCMag. "Unlike some laws in other states, SB 51... Read more ›
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Google’s latest image model, Nano Banana 2, is a powerful AI photo editor that punctures reality. Well, sometimes. Read more ›
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This seemingly innocent kitchen behavior reveals deep-seated control issues, relationship power struggles, and unresolved anxieties that psychologists say can predict everything from marital satisfaction to childhood trauma patterns—and you might be unknowingly perpetuating them right now. Read more ›
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Malaysia’s dual 5G network model gets its first real stress test as Telekom Malaysia terminates its DNB wholesale pact and moves to U Mobile’s network TM’s switch signals that infrastructure competition is working–but raises uncomfortable questions about DNB’s financial viability Malaysia’s dual 5G network model has been the government’s big bet on infrastructure competition since ... Read more ›
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Along with the low-cost MacBook, Apple could introduce a refreshed version of the MacBook Air next week. Most of the focus will be on the new machine, but the MacBook Air is expected to get some useful internal updates. M5 Chip The next-generation MacBook Air will adopt the M5 chip, which Apple already introduced in the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro models that came out last year. Apple's M5 chip... Read more ›
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A six-month experiment tracking interruptions across ninety meetings revealed that the strongest predictor of who gets cut off has little to do with seniority and almost everything to do with conversational habits learned in childhood. Read more ›
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The exhaustion you feel after a full day of remote work goes deeper than screen fatigue. It's the cognitive cost of performing emotions through a keyhole, using only your face to do what your entire body was designed to handle. Read more ›
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Group’s shares surge 25% as CEO says ‘most companies are late’ to realise how much technology will affect employment Read more ›
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A ransomware attack on a major medical company may now be the largest health care data breach in history. Read more ›
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AI hiring tools were supposed to eliminate human bias from recruitment. Instead, research shows they're absorbing and amplifying the same discriminatory patterns, while companies trust their "objectivity" without question. 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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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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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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Nvidia is planning to release a new chip in the first half of this year for consumer laptops and desktops in collaboration with Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek, The Wall Street Journal reported. PC makers such as Dell Technologies and Lenovo Group are working on products using the chip, which ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk said Monday that SpaceX has been cutting prices for its Starlink satellite internet service to reach more customers. He made the comments in response to an article in The Information on the topic. SpaceX has introduced cheaper plans in the U.S. and other countries in recent months, has ... Read more ›
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