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TL;DR Meta’s stock rose about 6% on Friday and roughly 15% on the week, its best week since early 2024, after the company gave investors a concrete plan to monetise its AI infrastructure via Meta Compute. Wolfe Research estimates each gigawatt monetised at a ~$25bn rate could lift
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The founder of China’s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu’s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. His argument inverts the usual security logic. Real safety
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The AI build-out has done something the fossil-fuel industry could not do for itself. It has set off the largest-ever construction boom in natural gas-fired power plants, the Associated Press reports. Aging coal plants are being kept alive past their retirement dates too. Utilities, plant owners, and the federal government
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TL;DR Netflix executives have reportedly discussed adding always-on, genre-based live channels and folding rival subscriptions such as Peacock into Netflix as billed add-on tiles, per a Wall Street Journal report. Neither is confirmed; both are internal discussions with no launch date or pricing. The logic is engagement and unskippable
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Ubisoft has remade the best-loved game in its biggest franchise. Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced arrives 13 years after the original, and the BBC found it largely worth the wait. The Caribbean looks spectacular now. New underwater sections and coral reefs show off what modern hardware can do with
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Ripple effect: As Sony, and likely Microsoft, prepare to take their gaming businesses fully digital, more users may find themselves at risk of losing their purchases to account hijacking. In one case that could
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. Apple’s self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company’s chips
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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! I am back from vacation. What did I miss? Turns out, quite
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Finger joint strains are the bane of long hours spent daily on the computer, which is what led Melvin Wong, founder and engineer at Airra Labs, to build a better computer mouse – the Rotary Mouse, which is currently on Kickstarter. The action of continuously flicking a typical mouse wheel up
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I dedicated nearly fifteen years to data teams, starting as an engineer, then an analyst, progressing to a product role and senior executive position, and eventually becoming the go-to person when other data leaders faced board skepticism. Throughout my career across various companies, a recurring pattern persisted, and it took
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Let's learn about Backend via these 478 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. All that server-side nuisance. 1. Overloading Vs. Overriding in C# Method overloading and
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Prediction markets are scaling at a massive pace right now that has surprised analysts and traders alike. However, despite the momentum being in their favor, the industry has a glaring problem that is not even close to being solved today. But first, let us look at some figures. Major prediction
