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AI startup Crusoe secures $11.6B in debt and equity to expand a Texas data center it is building for OpenAI, set to open in 2026 and host up to 400K Nvidia GPUs (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-21 11:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the Coller Dolittle challenge, modeled on the Turing test with a $10M equity investment prize to decipher an animal's language and elicit a reply (Anjana Ahuja/Financial Times)
2025-05-21 10:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon issues refunds for purchases as far back as 2018; CFO Brian Olsavsky said on May 1 that Amazon took a ~$1B charge over "some historical customer returns" (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
2025-05-21 11:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: AI energy consumption is exploding, with data centers doubling electricity use between 2017 and 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption (MIT Technology Review)
2025-05-21 10:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google Meet's AI translator hands-on: emulates voice and tone, translating with a few seconds of lag, similar to watching an overdubbed foreign-language speaker (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-21 10:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Abu Dhabi's TII releases Falcon Arabic, an AI model that it claims can match the performance of models up to 10 times its size, and smaller model Falcon H1 (Omar El Chmouri/Bloomberg)
2025-05-21 10:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
UK retailer M&S says it expects a £300M profit hit from an April cyberattack and disruption to continue until July 2025; M&S' market cap has falled by ~£750M (Laura Onita/Financial Times)
2025-05-21 10:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Book excerpt: a profile of AI-obsessed autodidact Eliezer Yudkowsky, who introduced the DeepMind founders to Peter Thiel and inspired DeepMind's Shane Legg (Keach Hagey/Wired)
2025-05-21 09:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Indonesian ex-scammers reveal how Southeast Asian scam farms lured them via Facebook and Telegram ads; Indonesia says 6,700+ people were tricked since 2020 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
2025-05-21 09:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google says weather apps have "graduated from beta" on Android Auto and Cars with Google built-in, and Android Auto will "soon" get browser and video apps (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
2025-05-21 09:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google's I/O keynote was both scary and chill, a fever dream of sizzle reels selling how AI changes everything, even search, and can give users superpowers (Casey Newton/Platformer)
2025-05-21 07:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Inside China's "stolen iPhone building": electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold at a profit (William Langley/Financial Times)
2025-05-21 09:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The US SEC sues Unicoin and its executives, alleging they broke securities laws by raising $100M+ for tokens falsely claimed to be backed by real estate (CoinDesk)
2025-05-21 05:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
New York City's AI tool, launched in 2018 to score families at risk for child abuse using factors like their neighborhood, is raising racial bias concerns (Colin Lecher/The Markup)
2025-05-21 06:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Jensen Huang calls US AI chip export controls a "failure" that sped up China's efforts, cutting Nvidia's market share in China from 95% to 50% in four years (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
2025-05-21 06:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Experts warn Trump's trade policies risk US dominance in digital services, often uncounted by traditional statistics, as the EU considers retaliatory tariffs (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
2025-05-21 07:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AMD announces Zen 5-based Threadripper 9000 CPUs with up to 96 cores, along with RDNA 4-based Radeon AI Pro R9700 workstation GPU, both slated to launch in July (Tobias Mann/The Register)
2025-05-21 05:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Kalshi withdrew announcements about a collaboration with xAI just hours after CEO Tarek Mansour said the deal would "further take prediction markets mainstream" (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
2025-05-21 02:16 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Zhejiang, home to Alibaba and DeepSeek, publishes an AI policy that expects companies in the AI supply chain to make $138B+ in total operating revenues by 2027 (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
2025-05-21 04:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google announces Firebase AI Logic, combining Vertex AI and Genkit tools to more easily integrate AI into apps, and adds Figma import support in Firebase Studio (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
2025-05-21 03:17 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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