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Good morning, Anissa here!The AI boom requires an enormous amount of new power plants, chips and data centers. But it also requires something that’s less visible: new financial plumbing that makes it possible to lend against this costly hardware.Miami fintech startup Barkr is one of the firms building the pipes, specifically for valuing AI chips being used as loan collateral, and has already attracted the attention of Nvidia. I recently met its CEO and co-founder, Thomas Galbraith, while moderating a panel.
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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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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Australia will require large data centers powering artificial intelligence to generate as much power as they consume, and ensure that creative professionals retain control over work that may be used to train A.I. systems, as the government sets up guardrails over the rapidly growing industry. The announcements on Wednesday in a speech by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came as... Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Эдуард. В прошлой статье я рассказывал про локальный переводчик и синтез голоса на кабардинском. С тех пор проект вырос: я делаю приложение на iOS для чтения с синтезом и распознаванием речи на кабардинском и ещё паре десятков «обделённых» языков. Чтобы приложение было умным (ранжировало важные предложения, искало по смыслу, вело чат по книге, читало с выразительной интонацией), ему нужен полный набор языковых сигналов: лемма, часть речи,... Read more ›
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The SF mayor sent a letter to state regulators asking that AV companies stop "relying on live events to test unproven operational capabilities." Read more ›
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Google used live stadium capture, and combined it with archival material to bring Pele's legendary goal to life. The Veo video engine, Gemini Omni, and Nano Banana Pro AI tools tagged alongside in the journey to revive a lost marvel. Read more ›
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The AI industry’s ability to self regulate appears to be under threat from a public perception that companies like Anthropic are untrustworthy. Read more ›
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When the world’s most powerful people jet off to the annual summit hosted by Allen & Co. in Sun Valley, Idaho, to brainstorm and talk deals, they adopt a sartorial style we might call mogul casual. The latest confab, which has become popularly known as the Billionaire Summer Camp as it has garnered increasing media attention in recent years, happened this week, attracting the likes of OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Welcome to the era of the eggmaxxer • Style and Shopping: A buyer’s guide to mogul casual, Sun Valley edition• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Signal Hill,” “The Sixth Nik” and “X-Men ’97”As AI rapidly improves in areas such as coding and mathematics, AI researchers are facing the same identity crisis that software engineers and other white-collar workers have been grappling... Read more ›
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Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his family announced an agreement on Saturday to purchase the Seattle Seahawks NFL team from the estate of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. While the Seahawks didn’t disclose the purchase price, multiple publications reported that the Khosla family was paying ... Read more ›
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It’s shaping up to be a big year for equity capital markets bankers, between SpaceX’s record-breaking debut and already public companies issuing stock at a rapid clip. One often overlooked part of the market is also active, fueled in part by the capital demands of the AI boom. At-the-market offerings, a type of share sale by public companies that’s popular when prices are rising, are having a busy year—and more... Read more ›
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Since its launch in 2022, Belgium-based electric long-haul truck startup Windrose Technology has raised some $400 million from Chinese banks and other investors, according to CEO Wen Han, who also says he plans to take the company public in the U.S. and Europe this year at a $2 billion valuation. Windrose has also sponsored a professional basketball club in Belgium and pledged millions of dollars to Stanford University. And yet... Read more ›
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Guess what—tech earnings season is back. Yes, you know you missed it. Netflix, as usual, will kick off the quarterly parade of earnings updates, releasing its second-quarter numbers on Thursday. The video-streaming giant’s quarterly updates have become humdrum affairs lately, but this one might be different, given that the company’s stock has lately been sliding as investors fret about its future growth prospects.Let’s not overstate things: On most metrics, Netflix... Read more ›
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A group of states, led by California and including New York, Washington, and Connecticut, is planning to sue to block Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, The New York Times reported. The lawsuit, which is expected to argue that the deal would harm competition for ... Read more ›
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Online fashion retailer Shein received Chinese regulatory approval to list in Hong Kong, capping off the e-commerce platform’s tumultuous two-year quest to float its shares. The China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a statement on Friday that it had approved Shein’s application to sell ... Read more ›
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Samsung Electronics aims to begin operations at its first chipmaking plant in the city of Yongin, south of Seoul, by 2029, bringing the timeline forward by up to two years, according to a Samsung spokesperson. The move comes amid a surging demand for memory chips and the AI infrastructure boom. ... Read more ›
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One promise of the blockchain is that it could simplify the behind-the-scenes work of stock trades on Wall Street. That vision is due for its first real-world test in the coming days, when market infrastructure giant the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. plans to demonstrate live stock trades on the blockchain. Still, the exercise will be modest. After years of work by the biggest U.S. clearinghouse to bring stocks onto... Read more ›
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