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TL;DR Karp says AI could make him 20x wealthier ($300B) while middle-class salaries merely double. He called AI wealth inequality “a problem for society.” Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him “20x wealthier,“ implying a fortune approaching $300 billion, up from roughly $15 billion today. Middle-class
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TL;DR The Pentagon froze permitting for 155 wind projects (44GW) across 24 states over drone concerns. Developers have lost $2B. Industry filed suit calling it politically motivated. The Pentagon has frozen the permitting process for at least 155 new wind projects in 24 states for nearly a year, citing
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TL;DR Anthropic is in early talks for a ~$10B compute deal with Meta, the NYT reported. Meta spent $145B on AI infra and is building a cloud business to monetise it. Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a deal worth about $10
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TL;DR An AWS billing bug sent users estimated bills in the billions and trillions. Amazon confirmed it was a unit pricing error and is recomputing all estimates. AWS users woke up Friday to find estimated billing emails showing charges ranging from hundreds of millions to $2.5 trillion. A
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Valar Atomics, a startup building small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — essentially miniaturized, factory-built power plants designed to be cheaper and faster to deploy than traditional reactors — is in talks to raise a new round of capital, according to three sources familiar with the company. The three-year-old company is seeking a
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If you want a projector for presentations, business, and streaming movies without paying 4K prices, this is the deal I recommend grabbing right now. Super-bright compared to similarly priced models, the Xgimi Horizon is now $529 (was $899) at Wellbots — a $370 saving on a 1080p Android TV projector with
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Universal screen time standards A new bill asks the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop new voluntary standards that would act as guidance for parents in managing screen time for children. The Tracking Online Time And Limits Screen Time Act, unveiled on July 15 by Reps. Pat Harrigan,
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When I wrote my Ninja Creami Swirl review, I decided that the main reason that anyone should consider buying a Ninja Creami machine is so that they could make frozen treats that match their health goals. Whether you are trying to avoid processed foods, cut calories, reduce sugar, avoid dairy,
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The tech industry is cautiously optimistic about the U.S. government's announcement this week to create a centralized clearinghouse for AI-discovered vulnerabilities. The key, executives and analysts said, will be how well the new initiative executes on its mission to collect and sort information on security flaws. If
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It's not often that a mainstream outlet unrelated to gaming or PC hardware highlights the cultural significance of Doom, but The Washington Post has done exactly that by making Doom the only video game in its list of "The 25 most influential works of American culture."
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We have a fair bit of information on Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors, including that the chips will top out at 52 cores and some 474W power draw, as well as what seems to be a fairly complete list of SKUs for the desktop family. However, we didn&
