The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370 billion, and they expect that number to keep rising in 2026. The biggest spender last quarter was Microsoft, which put nearly $35 billion into data centers and other investments, equivalent to 45 percent of its revenue.Rarely, if ever, has a single technology absorbed this much money this quickly. Warnings of an AI bubble are getting louder every day, but whether or not a crash eventually happens, the frenzy is already reshaping the…
“If you had to point to one reason [crypto prediction markets] are able to come back to the US, you have to point to the Trump administration,” says Zach Hamilton, founder of crypto startup Sarcophagus, in an interview with WIRED. “Donald Trump. I mean, that’s it.”Even before the arrival of…
During their last quarterly investors webinar both Seagate Technology and Western Digital focused up their exabytes shipped hard disk drive storage capacity and their revenue and profits. However, they did not provide information that they have done in past quarters that would give investors important operational information such as the…
While Microsoft didn’t offer a specific forecast for its AI capital expenditures for the next quarter or coming year, the company’s chief financial officer, Amy Hood, said that the company’s total spend will “increase sequentially, and we now expect the fiscal year 2026 growth rate to be higher than fiscal…
Coca-Cola dropped a new batch of AI-produced ads, with a list of caveats a mile long. The beverage giant received pushback for its AI ads last year and took great pains to say that 100 people worked on the new AI ads, a number that they claim is on par…
Even the best artificial intelligence agents are fairly hopeless at online freelance work, according to an experiment that challenges the idea of AI replacing office workers en masse.The Remote Labor Index, a new benchmark developed by researchers at data annotation company Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS),…
Before today’s Quordle hints and answers, here’s what you missed on Monday:Hey, folks! Hints and the answers for today’s Quordle words are just ahead.How To Play QuordleFor any newcomers joining us, here’s how to play Quordle: Just start typing in words. You have four five-letter words to guess and nine…
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The project is environmentally sustainable in other ways. More than 95 percent of its electricity comes from offshore wind turbines. Overall, the designers estimate that this reduces energy consumption by 22.8 percent. Huang Dinan, president of Shenergy Group, another of the project’s contractors, noted that the East China Sea offers…
After the Amazon’s huge Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 price drop, Samsung and other retailers have launched a raft of new offers and discount codes that slash the price of most of the company’s smartphones.This story was updated on November 1st with a new Samsung voucher code. Last week, Samsung…
US president Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance.Zhao, widely known as CZ, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to violating anti-money-laundering laws and US sanctions. The plea formed part of a sweeping deal with the US Department of Justice, under which Binance was…
In cannabis media, size used to be the story. Bigger audiences. Louder drops. Flashier strain names. But the center of gravity is shifting. A new tier of creators is training people to judge smoke, not just talk about it. Method, standards and palate become the product. Entertainment is the format.…
Jim Sanborn couldn’t believe it. He was weeks away from auctioning off the answer to Kryptos, the sculpture he created for the CIA that had defied solution for 35 years. As always, wannabe solvers kept on paying him a $50 fee to offer their guesses to the remaining unsolved portion…
If you head over to the Google homepage, you’ll notice the Halloween spirit on full display. Today’s Google Doodle is a spooky take on one of the most famous arcade games: Pac-Man.This is not the first time Google has released a version of Pac-Man as its playable Doodle. In 2010,…
On Monday, Elon Musk’s xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. Musk first announced the project in late September on his social media platform X, saying it would be “a massive improvement over Wikipedia,” and “a necessary step towards…
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