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The Chevron Microsoft gas deal hands the oil major a 20-year contract to power a giant West Texas data centre. For a company that built its AI plans on renewables and nuclear, that is a sharp turn. Chevron will power one of the largest data centres in the United States by burning natural gas. The […]
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For most of the generative-AI era, Getty Images has been the industry’s most determined courtroom opponent, the stock-photo giant that sued the people building image generators rather than licensing to them. On Monday it changed sides, and the market rewarded the pivot with the kind of move stock photos are not usually associated with. Getty […]
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Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts Read More »
WeChat is the rare app that already does almost everything. Chinese users message, pay, book, shop, and summon a taxi without ever leaving it, which is exactly what makes Tencent’s next move interesting: rather than build a separate chatbot and fight for downloads, it is putting an AI assistant on top of the app a […]
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For a quarter of a century, the most valuable company in South Korea was Samsung Electronics, and the question was never really open. On Wednesday it became open, and then it closed the other way. SK Hynix, the smaller of the country’s two memory-chip makers, passed Samsung in market capitalisation during intraday trading, taking the […]
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Bose thinks it can be a media company for some reason Read More »
France has found another €13bn for its tech sector. And it barely cost the state a thing. The money comes through Tibi, a programme that nudges French insurers and pension funds to back venture and growth funds instead of safer, lower-yield assets. The finance ministry announced this third phase at VivaTech on Friday. The goal […]
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Hackers are not really breaking in any more. They are walking through doors we hold open for them. This past week made the shift plain. Two campaigns showed that the things developers trust most, open-source code and AI tools, have become the easiest way to attack them. 1,000 poisoned packages The first is a group […]
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Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust. Read More »
Google’s AI is having trouble telling horror stories from real life. Ask it about certain online monsters, and it will describe them as documented fact. According to a report by Futurism, Google’s AI Overviews repeatedly present entries from the “SCP Foundation” as real. The SCP Foundation is a vast collaborative fan-fiction project. Its “anomalies” are […]
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OpenAI is hiring for its stock-market debut on two very different fronts. One is the research lab. The other is Washington. This week, the company said Dean Ball will join on 6 July to lead a new team called Strategic Futures. Ball is not a researcher. He is a policy operator, and until recently he […]
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