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Tech companies would have to pay AI data center energy costs under bill moving in Congress
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Meta gave 6 executives options worth up to $921M each, then cut 8,000 jobs after a record $56.3B quarter
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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says
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A24 Fans Mourn Its Death Following $75 Million Google AI Deal
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Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirement
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SpaceX’s stock slide costs founder his trillionaire title
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Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems
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‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’ — Cory Doctorow on the trillionaire, the AI bubble, and bosses’ cruel fantasies
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License Plate Cameras Are Tracking Your Life Without a Warrant
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Meta cut 8,000 jobs after its best quarter ever — months earlier, 6 executives got options worth up to $921 million each
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Reid Hoffman: xAI Is a Train Wreck and SpaceX Is Just Buying Its AI Cred
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If Phones Are Killing Pedestrians, Why Is It Only Happening in America?
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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline
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‘Cost Me the Election’: Data Centers Trigger Voter Backlash
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Two Game Retailers Are Refusing To Sell GTA 6 Until There’s A Disc
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‘Peppa Pig’ Causes AI Stink: Concern as Beloved Hasbro Series Asks Child Actors to Sign Over Their Voices to Artificial Intelligence
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COVID vaccine study suppressed by CDC director gets published
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White House helped Mark Zuckerberg and the Google CEO dodge a Senate grilling
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Hospitals in England declare critical incidents as machines and IT fail in heat
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‘If AI is to help build a better ​future, it must be honest about what it costs us now’: UN urges AI giants to reveal full extent of environmental damage
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Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to "midtraining" to try to catch up with Anthropic, after major executive departures (Erin Woo/The Information)
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Sail, whose software optimizes how AI models run on existing chips, emerges from stealth with $80M in seed and Series A led by Kleiner at a $450M valuation (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
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Apple says "the rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage"; the MacBook Neo rises from $599 to $699 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Apple raises Mac, iPad, and other product prices by 15%-25%, saying it has "never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly"; iPhone is unchanged (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
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Australian payments startup Airwallex raised $320M led by Lee Fixel's Addition at an $11B valuation, and is incubating blockchain payments startup Metal (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
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Scaled Cognition, a reliability-focused lab that develops the Agentic Pretrained Transformer model, raised a $100M Series A led by Khosla at a $750M valuation (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
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Exponential View: global AI sales, excluding China, hit $25B in Q1, exceeding an estimated $21B in data center and chip depreciation costs; margins remain thin (Jacob Reid/Bloomberg)
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and others launch Raise Us, a new non-profit led by ex-Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to help US workers adapt to AI (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)
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Preliminary findings: the EU says Azure and AWS are "the largest and second largest" cloud services in the EU, as the bloc weighs up tougher DMA oversight (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
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How risk modelers like Fathom and Verisk are using AI and diffusion models to bypass the limits of physics-based "cat" models to predict natural disasters (Financial Times)
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IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that utilizes a "nanostack" 3D transistor architecture, which it says could continue chip innovation for 10 years (Don Clark/New York Times)
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A profile of incoming WhatsApp CEO Kunal Shah, who studied philosophy, advised Sequoia India, and joins a growing pool of Indian-born executives at US companies (Financial Times)
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Alibaba's Hong Kong stock closed down 4.43% after Anthropic accused Alibaba of "illicitly" accessing its AI models, down 36.24% YTD; Xiaomi and Baidu fell ~2% (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
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Arm EVP Mohamed Awad says its chip architecture now accounts for 50%+ of the hyperscale cloud computing market, as AI demand transforms the data center industry (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is designing data center chips specifically for Chinese customers that are in compliance with US export controls (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia)