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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to advise the Federal Reserve on AI's economic impact. Warsh views AI as a "significant disinflationary force," but Andreessen's firm Andreessen Horowitz is heavily invested in AI companies, raising conflict-of-interest questions. The article The Fed wants AI investor Marc Andreessen to help figure out if AI can tame inflation appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Anthropic has discovered an internal "J-space" for its Claude AI that displays similarities to human internal processing. While the AI developer anthropomorphizes it as thought, it may yet prove useful as a method of improving LLM honesty, oversight, and guardrails.
Read original →The three members of a task force advising the Fed on artificial intelligence are strong proponents of the technology.
Read original →The JavaScript tool Bun has been fully rewritten from Zig to Rust, and Anthropic's Fable 5 did most of the work. The article Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Digital Services Act may force Meta to make big changes on its platforms.
Read original →These are America's cheapest states to live in for 2026, where residents can still beat inflation.
Read original →Fortuna targets stronger gold output with new spending in Argentina and Peru while advancing exploration and mine expansion.
Read original →Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang uses token consumption budgets as a performance metric, requiring engineers earning $500,000 annually to consume less than $250,000 in AI tokens to justify retention. This reflects how infrastructure costs tied to AI compute are becoming primary determinants of workforce economics at major tech firms.
Read original →Meeza completed a data center expansion for an unspecified hyperscaler nine months ahead of schedule. Accelerated delivery timelines indicate heightened competition in hyperscale infrastructure deployment and suggest strong demand for data center capacity.
Read original →CNBC identified 10 U.S. states as the most expensive places to live in 2026, with inflation cited as a primary driver of cost escalation. Regional cost inflation affects talent retention and operational expenses for technology and industrial sectors dependent on geographic workforce location.
Read original →MAX Power is beginning a multi-well commercial validation program at Canada's Lawson Complex, one of the country's first natural hydrogen discoveries. Natural hydrogen development could create a new low-carbon energy source relevant to industrial processes in energy-intensive sectors including rare earth element refining.
Read original →ZDNet tested Google's Fitbit Air wearable health device against a reference ECG monitor, evaluating accuracy metrics for heart rate monitoring. Wearable accuracy improvements support expansion of consumer health monitoring and remote patient monitoring applications.
Read original →Scaleway acquired HPC specialist Qarnot to integrate high-performance computing technology into its cloud platform. This acquisition consolidates specialized compute capabilities within a cloud infrastructure provider, expanding competitive offerings in the HPC-as-a-service market.
Read original →Ukraine conducted drone strikes on tankers near Crimea as part of a campaign to disrupt Russian fuel supply routes and transportation infrastructure. Disruption of regional fuel supply chains creates energy price volatility and supply uncertainty affecting industrial operations dependent on hydrocarbon fuels.
Read original →Burkina Faso awarded an industrial mining permit to state-owned miner SOPAMIB for the Bouboulou gold project as part of broader Sahel-region trends favoring state control of mining assets. Increased state ownership and control of mineral projects raises political risk and creates uncertainty for foreign investors in resource extraction across West Africa.
Read original →OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Work, an agent-based product powered by Codex and the now publicly available GPT-5.6. The agent can independently handle complex projects across apps like Google Drive, Slack, and Salesforce. ChatGPT Work is available now on web, mobile, and desktop, though access depends on the subscription plan. The article OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows appeared first on The Decoder.
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