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a16z's Matt Bornstein and others talk adding $1.7B to its $1.25B AI infrastructure fund, focusing on early rounds; Ben Horowitz calls it “one of the best funds” (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago AI

China Consumed 10.4 Trillion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity In 2025 - Double the US (hardware.slashdot.org)
29 days ago China

Sources: Microsoft is preparing to launch a session-based ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming tier in 2026; users note Xbox Cloud Gaming now references “ad support” (www.windowscentral.com)
29 days ago Microsoft Xbox

The IMF says the “surprisingly resilient” global economy is at risk of a sharp AI boom reversal, but the “levels of market frothiness” are below the dotcom bust (www.ft.com)
29 days ago AI IMF

Source: Elon Musk donates $10M to boost pro-Trump Senate candidate Nate Morris, seeking to replace Mitch McConnell, in Musk's largest-ever Senate donation (www.axios.com)
29 days ago Trump Elon Musk Senate

Bitcoin fell 3.6% to under $92K, ether fell ~5%, and solana fell 8.6%, wiping ~$100B from crypto's total value, after Trump proposed new 10% European tariffs (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago Trump Europe Bitcoin

Q&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago China AI Robot Drone

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (variety.com)
29 days ago AI Netflix

Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (www.theinformation.com)
29 days ago Slack

Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and 0.6% YoY for 2025 due to weak demand, rising prices, and memory shortages; iPhone shipments rose 28% (counterpointresearch.com)
29 days ago China iPhone 4Q

Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala's attempt to oust the agency's Chief Information Officer Robert Costello (www.politico.com)
29 days ago

More US States are Putting Bitcoin on Public Balance Sheets (yro.slashdot.org)
29 days ago Bitcoin

Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Transsion trimmed their 2026 shipment targets, with Oppo cutting up to 20%, due to the memory chip shortage (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago China Xiaomi OPPO Vivo

The memory shortage that is spiking RAM prices is now expanding to the broader PC market, driving price hikes for GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and hard drives (arstechnica.com)
29 days ago

Shenzhen-based UBTech signed deals to supply its Walker S2 humanoid robots to Airbus and Texas Instruments, and says it aims to produce 10,000+ units in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
29 days ago Airbus Robot Shenzhen Texas

Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth? (slashdot.org)
29 days ago AI

Meta's VR layoffs may help the industry long term, as most affected roles focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem (x.com)
29 days ago VR Layoffs

A look at the business and geopolitical considerations behind TSMC's international expansion, as Taiwan commits to spend $250B+ in the US in a trade deal (www.wsj.com)
29 days ago Taiwan

EHT Astronomers Will Film Swirling of a Supermassive Black Hole for the First Time (science.slashdot.org)
29 days ago

New OpenAI leak hints at upcoming ChatGPT features (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
29 days ago

OpenAI hostname hints at a new ChatGPT feature codenamed "Sonata" (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
29 days ago

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B+ in 2025 (openai.com)
29 days ago

Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe Last Year than Pure Gas-Powered Models (tech.slashdot.org)
29 days ago Europe

Young US College Graduates Suddenly Aren't Finding Jobs Faster Than Non-College Graduates (it.slashdot.org)
29 days ago

Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a “Claude bender” (www.wsj.com)
29 days ago

Young College Graduates Suddenly Aren't Finding Jobs Faster Than Non-College Graduates (it.slashdot.org)
29 days ago

SpaceX Launches New NASA Telescope to Help JWST Study Exoplanets (science.slashdot.org)
29 days ago SpaceX NASA

Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago Retail AI New York

Hundreds Answer Europe's 'Public Call for Evidence' on an Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy (news.slashdot.org)
29 days ago Europe

Microsoft Forced to Issue Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Update (tech.slashdot.org)
29 days ago Microsoft

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