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Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Bitcoin Energy Drone Malaysia

Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K local chip jobs are set to be created in four years (www.nytimes.com)
13 days ago

Documents: Foxconn's subsidiaries and China's Luxshare plan expansions in Vietnam to boost gaming device production, reinforcing Vietnam's supply chain role (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago China Vietnam

How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into the US' chip hub, investing tens of billions and showing the difficulties of large-scale US projects (www.nytimes.com)
13 days ago Intel

DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says “the more constitutional you want to make” the US' Caribbean boat strikes “the more you're going to need” Palantir (gizmodo.com)
13 days ago

Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites, £1M+ under the OSA, the largest penalty so far, and threatens action against a “major social media company” (www.ft.com)
13 days ago

Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are “not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money” (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Google AI

Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll (news.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Climate

Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago AI

Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on “pragmatic interpretability” (www.alignmentforum.org)
13 days ago Google

10 More Representations of Death from Myth, Legend, and Folktale (listverse.com)
13 days ago

BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank developing a euro-pegged stablecoin in a JV called Qivalis (www.coindesk.com)
13 days ago Europe

Sources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding to <10% from 30%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago India Mobile

Some people are feeding their private medical information into chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, only to receive generalized or inaccurate diagnoses in response (www.nytimes.com)
13 days ago chatbot

Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs' actions hint at a worldview in which AI models will continue to fare poorly at generalization and on-the-job learning (www.dwarkesh.com)
13 days ago AI

In an interview, Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by “YOLO-ing” and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Interview AI

Russian Astronaut Kicked Out of the US For Stealing Proprietary SpaceX Designs (slashdot.org)
13 days ago Russia SpaceX

Horizon Quantum, which aims to list on Nasdaq via a SPAC in Q1 2026, claims it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore (www.cnbc.com)
13 days ago Singapore Quantum

Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian “design is how it works” ethos in Apple's UI design (daringfireball.net)
13 days ago Apple

Sources: the European Commission plans a new antitrust probe into Meta over its rollout of AI features in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Europe AI WhatsApp

Paris-based CRM unicorn Brevo, formerly known as Sendinblue, raised €500M and says it surpassed €200M in ARR in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Paris CRM

OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce “confessions”, or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat (www.technologyreview.com)
13 days ago

Nvidia says its GB200 Blackwell AI servers boost performance 10x compared to H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking and DeepSeek's R1 (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago AI Nvidia

Valve Reveals Its the Architect Behind a Push To Bring Windows Games To Arm (games.slashdot.org)
13 days ago

The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in “censorship”, including fact-checking and online safety (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Trump H1B

A profile of Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski, who pivoted from Jehovah's Witness to helping solve “species-level” problems by funding AI research (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago AI

Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI tools that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $35M Series B led by VMG Partners at a $350M valuation (www.geekwire.com)
13 days ago AI Seattle

Sources: Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, last summer for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago

AT&T and Verizon Are Fighting Back Against T-Mobile's Easy Switch Tool (mobile.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Mobile AT&T

Intel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Intel

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