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Summary: SoftBank Corp. plans to convert part of the former Sharp LCD factory in Sakai, Osaka into one of Japan’s largest battery production lines for AI data centres, with production expected within five years (~2031). The move completes a vertical integration stack spanning chips (Arm, Graphcore, Ampere), modular data centre manufacturing (Lordstown), energy generation (SB […]
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The FT’s seventh annual ranking by compound annual revenue growth. Plus: how listed companies overcome obstacles; AI and defence start-ups dominate investment; the US and China in Latin America; and technology shakes up Canadian wealth management Read more ›
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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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You're meticulously crafting the perfect escape plan from your unsatisfying life, unaware that the escape artist and the prison architect share the same mind—and that's exactly why you keep building better cages instead of finding freedom. Read more ›
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XChat, the standalone app for accessing X's messaging feature, is available to download now for iOS. X first suggested it would be stripping direct messaging from X in 2025, but at least for now, XChat is available in the original X app, the web and this new app.Based on its launch video, the new XChat app offers many of the elements of modern messaging X had already introduced to its... Read more ›
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Привет. Полгода назад я выложил singbox-launcher — десктопный GUI для управления ядром sing-box. По фидбеку стало понятно: идея зашла, людям удобно собирать и отлаживать конфиги на ноутбуке, а потом переносить их на роутеры и другие сетевые устройства. Подробнее о десктопной версии я писал на Хабре.Пару слов для тех, кто не в контексте. Есть небольшой класс кроссплатформенных сетевых ядер, которые умеют гибкую маршрутизацию трафика и поддерживают современный набор протоколов: WireGuard, VLESS,... Read more ›
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Quest For The Holy Memex: Часть 2 или Вавилонский синдром...Хорошо, у нас есть “имя зверя” - информационные перегрузки, и есть гипотеза, что именно эта штука на самом деле сильно портит мне жизнь (и не только мне), как это проверить и доказать? Как можно вообще “отдебажить” реальность? Мы не можем изолировать эти сценарии, погонять тесты - даже в естественных науках это не всегда возможно, в социальных “искусствах” вообще все очень плохо... Read more ›
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For those looking to grab a new smartwatch to pair with their Android phone, the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic is looking like a great option at the moment. As Samsung’s top model in the Watch 8 series, this device typically retails for $500. At the moment, you can cut 26% off it. The Galaxy Watch... Read the original post: Galaxy Watch 8 Classic Seeing Big $130 Off Discount Read more ›
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RUN is designed for small businesses that need straightforward HR and payroll support, but can it streamline your operations? Read more ›
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The iPhone 18 was recently rumored to come with some downgrades to keep costs low, including a display material first used in the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022. However, it's not all bad news for the iPhone 18, apparently. According to a new report, the device will come fitted with 12GB of RAM. That's up from 8GB on its predecessor, so it's quite a jump, especially seeing as how we're... Read more ›
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Gannon Van Dyke was blocked by Kalshi but got onto Polymarket and allegedly profited off trades informed by military secrets. Read more ›
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When you think of chargers for your phone, the first brand that comes to mind is probably someone like Anker. They are the things of inexpensive, yet super fast chargers that you can easily buy through places like Amazon. But so you know, Google also makes their own chargers and they’re actually pretty good. Right... Read the original post: Google’s 45W Fast Charger is 40% Off Read more ›
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Radio Silence's creature feature co-starring Rachel Weisz will now arrive in October 2027 rather than May 2028. Read more ›
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Buying a used car should be straightforward, but there are times when the whole process leads to serious headaches - through no fault of the buyer. Read more ›
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Amid RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda, Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year. Read more ›
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Strong earnings season trumps geopolitical risks for now, one trader said, as equities and crypto markets "stopped caring" about Iran war headlines. Read more ›
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The governor of Maine, Janet Mills, has vetoed a bill that halts the construction of large data centers in the state until the fall of 2027. While the bill passed both houses of the Maine's legislature on April 14, and Mills has suggested she'd support a temporary moratorium, the governor wanted a bill that would exempt an existing data center project in Jay, Maine.The bill specifically blocked the construction of... Read more ›
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It’s one of the biggest names in computing, but should you trust your HR processes to Microsoft? Read more ›
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Backrooms has got some new teaser images, and they've made me feel very unsettled. Read more ›
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Christian Weedbrook, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies, became a billionaire this week without NVIDIA investing a single dollar in his company. His 46.4 million multiple-voting shares were worth approximately $1.5 billion as of midday Friday, after Xanadu’s stock surged nearly fivefold in six trading sessions. The catalyst was not anything Xanadu […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Summary: Three senior OpenAI executives, former CPO Kevin Weil, Sora head Bill Peebles, and enterprise CTO Srinivas Narayanan – departed on the same day as the company shuts down “side quests” including Sora (discontinuing 26 April) and dismantles OpenAI for Science. The exits continue a two-year pattern that has seen only 2 of 11 co-founders […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In short: AI coding startup Cursor (Anysphere) is in talks to raise at least $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and Nvidia, nearly doubling its November 2025 valuation of $29.3 billion. The company has grown from zero to $2 billion ARR in three years – the fastest B2B […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In short: The FAA is developing SMART (Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories), an AI system that would extend air traffic conflict prediction from 15 minutes to two hours, with Palantir, Thales, and Air Space Intelligence competing for the contract. The project follows the LaGuardia crash that exposed controller overwork and aging systems, and sits […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In short: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday in what the White House called “productive and constructive” talks over access to Mythos, the frontier AI model capable of finding thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The meeting signals a thaw in the standoff that […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In short: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned on the Dwarkesh Podcast that DeepSeek optimising its AI models for Huawei’s Ascend chips instead of American hardware would be “a horrible outcome” for the United States, as the Chinese AI lab prepares to launch its V4 foundation model on Huawei’s Ascend 950PR processor. The migration from Nvidia’s […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The European Investment Fund is raising a €15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unlock up to €80 billion in scaleup funding across Europe. Germany’s WIN initiative is targeting €12 billion by 2030. France’s Tibi programme has pledged €7 billion in private capital and labelled 92 VC and growth funds with […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In short: Meta will begin companywide layoffs on 20 May, cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its 78,865-person workforce), with additional cuts planned for the second half of 2026. The restructuring, which follows earlier rounds that brought Zuckerberg’s total cuts since 2022 to roughly 25,000, is driven by a reallocation toward AI infrastructure costing $115-135 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Summary: Threads head Connor Hayes previewed a redesigned web interface that adds direct messages, a navigation sidebar with shortcuts to saved posts and insights, and a cleaner single-feed layout replacing the current multi-column design. DMs, which launched on mobile in June 2025, will roll out on web “over the coming weeks,” bringing one-on-one chats, group […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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In short: Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Report finds the performance gap between the best American and Chinese AI models has collapsed to 2.7%, down from 17.5-31.6 percentage points in May 2023, despite the US spending 23 times more on private AI investment ($285.9 billion vs $12.4 billion). China leads in AI patents (69.7% of global […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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