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China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme storms close in

As Typhoon Dolphin bore down on China’s coast this week, the country’s bet on artificial intelligence to read the skies looked less like a research curiosity and more like national infrastructure. Extreme weather is intensifying, the cost of getting a forecast wrong is rising, and Beijing is pouring

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River AI raised $1.1bn to let companies train and keep their own models

TL;DR River AI raised $1.1bn led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC. NVIDIA and AMD Ventures took strategic stakes, Y Combinator and Temasek joined. Founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, incorporated in Nevada in April. Sells fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on open weight models. No valuation disclosed. River

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Build your own 120TB private cloud without subscription fees with this great TerraMaster F4-425 NAS deal

Building your own centralized storage doesn't have to mean spending a fortune on the NAS itself. We've tested a range of TerraMaster NAS devices that impressed us, and now the 4-bay TerraMaster F4-425 is down to $366 (was $430) at Amazon, saving you a solid $64.

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