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Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building a 5-gigawatt data center called Hyperion. The urgency is … Continue reading

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Nvidia Says U.S. Has Lifted Restrictions on A.I. Chip Sales to China

The Silicon Valley chip giant said the Trump administration, which had shut down its sales to China three months ago, had assured it that licenses for the sales would now be granted.

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Nvidia is set to resume China chip sales after months of regulatory whiplash

Nvidia announced Monday that it’s filing applications to restart sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China, capping a spasmodic few months that saw the Trump administration impose restrictions, then quickly reverse course after a high-profile dinner meeting. The … Continue reading

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Nvidia says U.S. government will allow it to resume H20 AI chip sales to China

Nvidia says it is filing applications to with the U.S. government to resume sales of its H20 GPU to China, in what could represent a huge policy win.

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Block leads rebound in fintech stocks as analysts downplay JPMorgan data fee risk

Fintech stocks bounced back Monday as analysts downplayed the potential impact of JPMorgan’s reported plan to charge for bank data access.

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New AI voice tool trained to copy British regional accents

A UK company says it is better at reproducing a range of accents compared with US or Chinese rivals.

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Brian Singerman’s new fund has a twist, and Peter Thiel as a big backer

Former Founders Fund GP Brian Singerman and co-founder and managing partner of Quiet Capital, Lee Linden, are seeking over $500 million for a new fund called GPx, three people familiar with their strategy told TechCrunch. A significant portion of GPx’s … Continue reading

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Trade Desk’s stock jumps on S&P 500 inclusion as Ansys exits index due to acquisition

The Trade Desk is the second new technology name to join the S&P 500 in under two weeks.

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Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.

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Reddit starts verifying ages of users in the UK

The platform will bring in the measures from 14 July to stop under-18s looking at “certain mature content”.

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