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Welcome back to The Electric!Investors and mining hands were broadsided last year by a large surplus of lithium, nickel and other battery metals and a plunge in their prices. This week, we look at a little-known reason for the unexpected hit lithium prices have taken—Chinese companies have massively overproduced iron-based cathodes.At a lithium evaporation pond in Golmud, China, a billboard promotes the production of battery metals and minerals. Photo: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg/Getty.Even as large inventories pi
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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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Astropad, the company behind the popular Astropad Studio software for turning the iPad into a drawing tablet, today launched a new app called Astropad Workbench. Astropad Workbench is a remote desktop app designed for the Mac, and more specifically, built for use with AI. With Astropad Workbench, you can control your AI agents remotely, which makes it useful for people who have set up a Mac mini as a personal... Read more ›
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The innovative material has the potential to revolutionize propulsion in outer space. Read more ›
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В последние дни последнего ледникового периода, когда люди всё ещё охотились с копьями и использовали стены пещер в качестве холстов, по палеолитическому ландшафту распространялась новая модная тенденция.Примерно 14 000 лет назад общества охотников-собирателей по всей Европе открыли для себя собак, сообщили учёные в двух новых статьях, опубликованных в среду в журнале Nature. Исследования предоставляют первые неопровержимые генетические доказательства того, что собаки существовали в палеолитический период,. Read more ›
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Microsoft has apparently terminated the account VeraCrypt uses to sign its Windows drivers and bootloader, leaving the encryption project unable to publish Windows updates and throwing future releases into doubt. VeraCrypt's developer says Microsoft gave no clear explanation or warning for the move. "I didn't receive any emails from Microsoft nor any prior warnings," Mounir Idrassi, VeraCrypt's developer, told 404 Media. From the report: VeraCrypt is an open-source tool for... Read more ›
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The settlement avoids a trial and ends the dispute over the RR/BAYC NFTs, which claimed to parody Bored Ape Yacht Club, one of the most recognizable NFT brands. Read more ›
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Despite having a front-row seat to his father's slow deterioration in retirement, he discovered that knowing exactly what not to do made him powerless to stop himself from following the same devastating script. Read more ›
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Intel’s role in Elon Musk’s ambitious chip venture is still murky, raising questions about what the partnership actually entails—and whether it can work at all. Read more ›
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Former Andreessen Horowitz general partner Anjney Midha has secured $1.3 billion for the first fund for AMP, his newly formed venture firm, according to a source with knowledge of the raise. AMP recently made a $300 million investment in Anthropic as part of the Claude maker’s $30 billion round ... Read more ›
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Security analysts aren't scanning the dark web for emojis, allowing criminals to share messages wiithout being spotted. Read more ›
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The latest Triple-i Initiative Showcase is nearly upon us, as the indie-focused event returns for its third consecutive year on Thursday, April 9 at 12PM ET / 9AM PT. We’re being promised announcements for 40 games, including eight world premieres, so it’s well worth tuning in if you like your indies. You’ll be able to watch the stream on The Triple-i Initiative YouTube channel, as well as Twitch, bilibili, niconico... Read more ›
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New channels are rollin', rollin', rollin'… OUT NOW… to your Roku sticks and Roku TVs Read more ›
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Jeff Shell is leaving Paramount after an odd lawsuit, leaving Paramount CEO David Ellison without one of his top advisors. Read more ›
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Малый бизнес в России — это всегда математика на грани. Один лишний сотрудник может превратить прибыльный месяц в убыточный. Зарплата, НДФЛ, страховые взносы, больничные, отпускные — реальная стоимость сотрудника с окладом 40 000 рублей обходится работодателю в 55 000–60 000 рублей в месяц. А ещё текучка, обучение, человеческий фактор.Именно поэтому малый бизнес первым начал внедрять ИИ — не из любви к технологиям, а из холодного расчёта. Нейросеть не берёт больничный,... Read more ›
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Samsung’s Exynos 2700, which is expected to power the next-generation Galaxy S27 and S27 Plus, has just appeared in a pair of Geekbench listings. The SoC bears the S5E9975 model number, with the listing also containing the ERD identifier, which implies it is likely tested on an engineering board. Exynos 2700 features a 10-core CPU with ARMv8 cores. The speediest cores clock in at 2.88GHz while the efficiency ones are... Read more ›
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This thin and light 16-incher doesn't offer the same graphics capabilities as an Intel laptop, but it has great specs and performance for its price. Read more ›
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Elisabeth Moss returns as June in The Handmaid's Tale spinoff The Testaments episode 1 — and its creator knew the show 'always needed its Juneness'. Read more ›
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Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude. Read more ›
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SpaceX, has submitted the initial filing for its initial public offering, Bloomberg reported, a critical step for Elon Musk’s space company toward its much anticipated listing. The company submitted what’s known as a confidential filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. SpaceX is ... Read more ›
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Apple celebrated its 50th anniversary on Wednesday. Leading up to the date, the company has mounted a full-scale media blitz, giving out numerous executive interviews and putting on big events. On Tuesday, it rang the Nasdaq opening bell, and later that night, Paul McCartney played a concert at ... Read more ›
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Four months ago, Sam Altman got testy with one of his own investors, Altimeter Capital’s Brad Gerstner, in a podcast soundbyte heard round the world. “Brad, if you want to sell your shares, I’ll find you a buyer,” Altman said.Indeed, he seems to have found plenty of buyers. Read more ›
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OpenRouter, a startup that lets AI app developers choose from hundreds of models on its application programming interface, is in talks to raise $120 million in new funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, including the investment, The Information reported Wednesday. Capital G, one of Alphabet’s ... Read more ›
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ByteDance is helping OpenClaw operate a Chinese version of its ClawHub marketplace, which distributes OpenClaw’s special files that enable AI agents to perform specific tasks. OpenClaw’s official X account said in a post on Wednesday that it has launched an official China version of its ClawHub, ... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group’s shift from open-source AI models is becoming more apparent. On Thursday, the Chinese tech giant, which has become a global leader in open-source models in the past two years, launched a new large language model called Qwen3.6-Plus, touting its “significant advancement in agentic ... Read more ›
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Private credit has turned from a growth opportunity to a source of worry for investors that own shares in big asset managers. Anxieties about how the rise of AI could hurt software companies that have borrowed hundreds of billions have escalated the concerns about the sector that started brewing last fall. In recent months, investors in several high-profile private credit funds have rushed to pull money out, in some cases... Read more ›
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Besides ChatGPT, relatively few AI consumer apps have become breakout hits. But one app maker’s experience suggests there are plenty of lucrative consumer niches to be served.Seoul-based Wrtn Technologies says it’s generating more than $8 million in revenue a month from operating AI storytelling apps for hardcore anime and game fans in South Korea and Japan. Wrtn (pronounced “written”) is about to expand to the U.S. with a similar app... Read more ›
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Tesla delivered 358,000 vehicles in the first quarter, a 6% year-over-year increase, the company said in a filing on Thursday. Deliveries in the first quarter were still lower than the same periods in 2023 and 2024, according to Tesla’s disclosures. They also undershot an analyst consensus ... Read more ›
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Microsoft on Thursday released three new AI models, building on the small but growing catalog of models it has trained internally as it aims to become more self-sufficient in AI. The three models are called MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, and are meant to transcribe audio, have ... Read more ›
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