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Volt and NorthC are launching an AI cloud service in the Netherlands that could eventually operate from Volt's planned AI gigafactory. This represents infrastructure consolidation around AI compute capacity in Europe amid growing demand for localized data center resources.
Read original →Donald Trump has nearly 17 million followers on TikTok, making him the most-followed world leader on the platform. This demonstrates the platform's reach among political figures and raises ongoing questions about U.S. policy toward TikTok's continued operation.
Read original →Mintek's preconcentration process for platinum group metals (PGMs) can double head grades from 2 g/t to 4 g/t while reducing power and water consumption. This efficiency improvement directly lowers operating costs and environmental impact for PGM mining operations.
Read original →Companies classified as 'high intensity adopters' of AI are expanding headcount across all levels, including entry-level positions, according to a new report. This indicates AI adoption is driving net employment growth rather than displacement in early-adopter organizations.
Read original →A Russian technician repaired a failed RTX 3070 GPU using a salvaged capacitor from an old radio, restoring functionality at zero cost instead of the $120 repair price. This demonstrates GPU failure modes are sometimes repairable with component-level fixes, offering a secondary market opportunity.
Read original →South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix is listing on the Nasdaq following a sevenfold stock price rally over the past year, achieving trillion-dollar valuation status. This marks a major shift in global semiconductor capital markets and reflects strong demand for memory chip manufacturing capacity.
Read original →NexGold Mining is expanding drilling operations at its Goldboro gold project in Nova Scotia as positive assays boost resource confidence. Increased drilling activity and rising share price suggest advancing toward commercial viability for the project.
Read original →Their plan to protect open-source projects from AI-discovered security holes has led to the launch of two commercial offerings: Lightwell Network and Lightwell Clearinghouse Premier.
Read original →Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.
Read original →Trump was held civilly liable in two trials for defaming E. Jean Carroll when he denied her claim he sexually abused her in a New York department store.
Read original →NGEx Minerals reports strong drill results in Argentina, extending high-grade copper-gold-silver zones at Jupiter and Saturn.
Read original →Mistral is entering the robotics market with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that guides robots through unknown environments using only a single RGB camera. Trained in simulation and refined with reinforcement learning (CISPO), it hits 76.6 percent on the R2R-CE benchmark. Mistral hasn't said when the model will be available. The article Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that steers robots using just one camera appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →This week, Microsoft took a huge ax to its Xbox business. The company announced that it would be laying off 1,600 workers now, 1,600 more over the next fiscal year, and that it would be shedding four studios. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hasn't been shy about why she's making such dramatic cuts, saying in a memo that the business is "not healthy." Speaking to Fortune, she said that "we simply spread ourselves too thin." Given the scale of the changes and Xbox's currently vague strategy of focusing only on big games, it's unclear just what the future of the platform is. As Microsoft invests much of its resources into everything AI, a struggling cons … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read original →The U.S. Global Jets ETF is down 4% Wednesday, extending a two-day decline after challenging all-time highs last week.
Read original →Peter Schiff says US debt, not interest rates, will drive precious metals sharply higher as the Fed loses room to act.
Read original →Anthropic recommends using the expensive Claude Fable 5 mainly as a planner for smaller models instead of running it on every task. Combined with Sonnet 5 in the "Advisor" pattern, this setup hits 92 percent of Fable 5's solo performance at 63 percent of the cost. The article Anthropic's fix for Fable 5's high cost is turning it into a manager that delegates to Sonnet 5 appeared first on The Decoder.
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