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When President Donald Trump announced a $500 billion plan for data centers to power artificial intelligence last Tuesday, one of the men standing to his left was already getting ready to write the checks.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son was already making plans to put a total of about $40 billion into the Stargate data center project as well as the company that is Stargate’s driving force, artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, two people familiar with the matter said. How SoftBank will finance the investment.
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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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Samsung is updating Quick Share to support AirDrop, which means you can AirDrop files from an S26 to an iPhone. Read more ›
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Back in November 2025, Google introduced the ability to share files with Apple devices via Quick Share on the Pixel 10 series. Four months later, the newly announced Galaxy S26 lineup now supports the feature as well. At the time, Google had confirmed that AirDrop and Quick Share interoperability would roll out to older Pixel devices and other Android phones. The feature arrived on the Pixel 9 series last month,... Read more ›
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A man crossing the street one San Francisco night spotted a self-driving car — and decided to confront its passenger, 37-year-old tech worker Doug Fulop. The New York Times reports the man yelled that "he wanted to kill Fulop and the other two passengers for giving money to a robot." A taxi driver would have simply driven away. But Fulop's vehicle had no driver — it was a self-driving Waymo...... Read more ›
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As the U.S. Navy submarine fleet gets older, it faces a big problem once those boats retire, and there's no easy solution in sight. Here's what we know. Read more ›
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In an in-depth article for Bloomberg Businessweek today, Mark Gurman profiled Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus, who is widely viewed as the leading candidate to become Apple's next CEO whenever Tim Cook decides to step down. The article is very long, so we recommend reading it in full, but a few of the key takeaways are that Ternus is apparently "well-liked among Apple's leadership" and helped with "reversing a... Read more ›
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Simple on the outside, but more complex than they seem. These everyday devices are doing something clever every time you use them. Read more ›
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Продолжение серии статей о параллелях между недокументированными особенностями советских ПМК и концепциями Карлоса Кастанеды, начало — тут.. Читать далее Read more ›
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Я почти никогда не использовал switch. Мне всегда казалось, что он ведёт себя непредсказуемо - без break код молча проваливается в следующую ветку. Нестрогое сравнение добавляет сюрпризов. В общем, я писал if/else и не парился.Но однажды, когда-то давно, мне стало интересно: а что, если switch не просто «другой синтаксис», а реально работает иначе под капотом? Я полез в opcodes и обнаружил кое-что, что изменило моё отношение ко всем конструкциям. Читать... Read more ›
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Trump Administration officials also don't seem to agree on the details of the deployment that's mere hours away. Read more ›
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А что если установить на mac mini Qwen Code CLI, подключить к нему Wolfram Engine и начать управлять этим со смартфона из Delta Chat? Читать далее Read more ›
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Apple has been celebrating its upcoming 50th anniversary by hosting events around the world, and a grand finale will likely take place in California. In an in-depth profile of Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus, who is widely viewed as the leading candidate to become Apple's next CEO, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the company is planning "an elaborate 50th birthday party" at its Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California, and... Read more ›
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"Billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to build a $20 billion chip plant in Austin, Texas" reports a local news station: Musk announced on Saturday night during a livestream on his social media platform X that the plant, called "Terafab," will be built near Tesla's campus and gigafactory in eastern Travis County. The long-anticipated project is a joint venture between Musk-owned properties Tesla, SpaceX and xAI... The Terafab plant is... Read more ›
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The factory will produce chips for both terrestrial and space purposes, Musk said. Read more ›
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Smartwatches are expensive, so knowing customer ratings before you buy matters. A recent survey compared major brands to see which owners felt happiest. Read more ›
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DLSS 5: from “next-gen magic” to “makeup filter gone rogue”. Hated today, inevitable tomorrow, as AI learns that vibes matter as much as pixels. Read more ›
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Last week's recommendation, Sotomayor's Wabi Sabi, has a very particular vibe that you don't find in a lot of records. One of the few things it called to mind was 2022's Topical Dancer from Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul, which I ended up revisiting this week a lot. The two records don't seem particularly alike […] Read more ›
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Hua Hong Group, China’s second-largest chip manufacturer, has developed 7-nanometer chip-making technology for AI chips, Reuters reported, citing four people familiar with the matter. Chips made at that level of precision are powerful enough to drive AI applications and support model training. ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has appointed new leaders to oversee its Stargate computing initiative after deciding to rent more AI servers from major cloud providers rather than build its own data centers, according to two people familiar with the changes. As part of its reorganization, OpenAI has divided its computing effort into three groups: technical design of the data centers OpenAI uses, commercial partnerships with firms such as cloud providers and chip firms,... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms struck a deal to spend $27 billion on Nebius Group’s AI data centers over the next five years, the cloud provider announced Monday. Dutch firm Nebius will supply Meta with $12 billion of dedicated capacity starting early next year, which will include deployment of Nvidia’s latest ... Read more ›
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Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the judge hearing Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, has shown herself in other high profile tech cases—such as Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple—to be unafraid to skewer arguments or testimony from witnesses in her courtroom.That was clear on Friday, in a hearing in the OpenAI case to determine whether an economist Musk’s lawyers have hired can submit his damages report as evidence. The economist, C. Paul Wazzan,... Read more ›
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The frantic rush to power and stand up AI data centers has spurred a range of speed hacks—from building AI tent cities, to firing up jet engines, to taking over abandoned industrial sites. What’s most surprising is all of the different ways the biggest AI data centers have improvised and scrounged to meet the staggering electricity demands of AI.Here are some of the more resourceful hacks companies are using to... Read more ›
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War focuses attention on the present. That was very clear from a week’s worth of conversations in Washington with leaders at defense tech startups, traditional military contractors and people close to the Pentagon. Until the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, buzz was building around startups such as Anduril and Saronic that promised to deliver AI-infused autonomous weapons quickly and economically. The U.S., meanwhile, has relied more in the current conflict... Read more ›
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OpenAI is in talks with private equity firms including TPG, Advent International, Bain Capital and Brookfield Asset Management to form a joint venture that would sell OpenAI’s tech to companies funded by the investment firms, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. OpenAI CEO of ... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a new AI server system based on technology the company licensed last year from chip startup Groq, designed to make its AI servers more energy- and cost-efficient for tasks such as AI coding. This is the first time Nvidia has integrated another company’s AI ... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company now expects $1 trillion in revenue from its Blackwell and Rubin AI chips between 2025 and 2027, a huge amount for a company that in the year through January reported $216 billion in revenue. In making the projection, Huang was updating a projection from ... Read more ›
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Nscale has agreed to buy the developer of one of the largest U.S. AI data center sites, confirming a report in The Information last week. Nscale is acquiring American Intelligence & Power Corporation, a firm set up earlier this year to help develop a more than 2,000-acre site in Mason ... Read more ›
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