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The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments, crimping a potential source of funding for power-hungry tech companies.
Countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia have become big destinations for data centers. Local firms are developing the projects, along with U.S. companies such as xAI, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and Google, which are drawn to the region for its cheap energy.
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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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Not packing enough cash cost me time and money during my dream bucket-list trip to the Galapagos Islands. Here's what I'll do differently next time. Read more ›
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ICANN has reopened applications for new top-level domains, allowing organizations to create custom extensions. Read more ›
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A 23-year-old university student in Taiwan is currently out on bail following an investigation into a communication breach that brought the nation’s high-speed rail network to a temporary standstill. The individual, identified by the surname Lin, is a radio enthusiast accused of interfering with the terrestrial trunked radio (TETRA) system used by rail staff. The Signal Disruption On April 5, three high-speed trains were halted for approximately 48 minutes after... Read more ›
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The rise of camera-equipped smart glasses has introduced new privacy concerns, shifting from general surveillance worries to specific reports of extortion. A recent investigation by the BBC highlighted an incident in London where a woman was filmed without her consent by an individual wearing smart glasses. The footage was subsequently uploaded to social media, where it garnered significant attention and tens of thousands of views. Discreet Recording and Financial Demands... Read more ›
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Disneyland and Disney California Adventure have officially transitioned to using facial recognition technology at most entry gates. This shift aims to streamline park access and enhance fraud prevention by replacing manual ticket checks with biometric validation. While Disney maintains that the system is designed for convenience, the move has reignited a broader conversation regarding data privacy and the normalization of surveillance in public spaces. How the Biometric System Works When... Read more ›
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If you’re tired of running your vacuum multiple times just to get the dirt and debris out of the carpets in your living room, Dyson’s 360 Vis Nav is worth a look. It’s one of the more powerful robot vacuums currently available, and now through May 11th (or while supplies last), it’s on sale at Woot […] Read more ›
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Here is a scenario that should concern every enterprise architect shipping autonomous AI systems right now: An observability agent is running in production. Its job is to detect infrastructure anomalies and trigger the appropriate response. Late one night, it flags an elevated anomaly score across a production cluster, 0.87, above its defined threshold of 0.75. The agent is within its permission boundaries. It has access to the rollback service. So... Read more ›
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Negotiations between Samsung Electronics management and the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) have reached a critical impasse over the structure of employee bonuses. While both parties are reportedly nearing an agreement on a 13% allocation of operating profits—amounting to approximately $340,000 per employee—the primary point of contention remains the duration of this commitment. Management has proposed the payout as a one-time offer, whereas the union demands it be guaranteed annually.... Read more ›
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Fandom Con, one of Northern Ireland’s leading gaming conventions specifically designed for and organised by individuals with autism and neurodiverse conditions, is set to return for its fourth year on Saturday 23rd May at ICC Belfast, with over 2,000 attendees expected from across the island of Ireland. Located just two hours from Dublin, the event […] Read more ›
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Quantum computing does not only pose a risk to up to $3 trillion in digital assets, it also threatens the security of banking systems, military communications, digital identities and more, Project Eleven’s report warns. Read more ›
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The bill's progress follows talks on jurisdiction, consumer/developer protections, and stablecoin rewards, with crypto firms backing a yield compromise. Read more ›
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Two-stroke engines have largely fallen out of fashion when it comes to newer vehicles. However, GM appears to have not forgotten about them completely. Read more ›
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One point three billion adults lack financial services, 4.7 billion lack credit, and 1.4 billion savers in low-income nations earn no deposit interest, Binance said. Read more ›
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A chain of 30 U.S. newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, the Miami Herald and the Idaho Statesman "has started to use a new AI tool that can summarize traditional articles and spit out different versions for different audiences," reports the New York Times. And the chain's reporters "are not happy about it." Journalists in many of the company's newsrooms are now withholding their bylines from articles created by the new... Read more ›
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The initiative sought to amend Switzerland's constitution, requiring the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to hold BTC alongside gold and foreign-currency reserves. Read more ›
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A jet painted with SpaceX logos ferried nearly 200 investors from the largest Wall Street funds from Newark, N.J., to the southern tip of Texas a week and a half ago for a multiday presentation from executives. The airplane was so full it couldn’t fit everyone who wanted to get on, said an investor on the trip. The massive initial public offering for Elon Musk’s rocket-and-AI company, still more than... Read more ›
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Results from Google, Microsoft and Amazon last week showed AI is still fueling cloud revenues, news that helped lift the stock market to fresh records on Friday. This week, we’ll get a clearer glimpse into whether AI can also lift the lagging prices of software stocks such as Palantir and ServiceNow.Palantir kicks off the week’s wave of corporate earnings reports on Monday. Stock in the company, which sells software to... Read more ›
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Anthropic is close to sealing the creation of a joint venture with private equity firms to sell its AI to the PE firms’ customers, the Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday, confirming earlier reporting by The Information. Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are each expected to ... Read more ›
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Video game retailer GameStop said Sunday that it had offered to buy e-commerce site eBay for $125 a share in cash and stock, a 20% increase from eBay’s share price Friday. The games retailer said it’s now built a 5% position in eBay, which it started to accumulate on February 4. GameStop CEO ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk messaged OpenAI president Greg Brockman to gauge his interest in a possible settlement of Musk’s lawsuit against him a couple days before the trial began, according to a document that OpenAI’s lawyers filed with the court on Sunday night. Musk sent his message on or about April 25, two ... Read more ›
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Some enterprise software companies are worried enough about customers using AI agents to access their data that they’re planning to install tollgates to their apps. And then there are software companies like SAP. Last month, the $200 billion German firm published a policy document for customers, suggesting it would ban them from using external AI agents to access data they store in SAP apps without the company’s official endorsement. SAP... Read more ›
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When Cursor agreed to a $60 billion conditional takeover offer from SpaceX last month—the purchase isn’t definite—some of Cursor’s rivals expected the coding startup to work with SpaceX’s xAI unit to develop new models, specifically for coding.That’s not happening anytime soon, apparently. Cursor doesn’t currently plan to codevelop coding models with xAI and is focused on improving its own model, Composer, which is powered in part by Chinese model Kimi,... Read more ›
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Good morning! Anissa here. We’ve been tracking Google’s effort to expand the reach of its tensor processing units for quite a while, and two developments last week helped us understand where things are actually headed.On one hand, Google said on its earnings call that it plans to sell its TPUs directly to customers for use in their own data centers—something we first reported last fall. The move marks a significant... Read more ›
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman said his stake in the startup he cofounded is worth close to $30 billion. His comment came in response to questioning from a lawyer for Elon Musk as Brockman began his testimony in the trial over Musk’s lawsuit alleging breach of charitable trust at OpenAI. The ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has raised $4 billion from 19 private equity firms and consultancies including TPG, Brookfield Asset Management, Bain Capital and Advent for a new company that will employ specialized tech consultants to help the PE firms’ portfolio companies integrate AI, according to a person with ... Read more ›
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