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YouTube subscription price changes
YouTube on Wednesday rolled out a $7.99 monthly subscription service that is ad-free for most videos.
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A platform that “buried” content before it was cool gets an AI-powered makeover
Digg founder Kevin Rose has teamed up with former rival Alexis Ohanian to buy the once-popular content aggregator.
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China is winning the chip war with the US – on paper
China produces more chip design and fabrication research papers then the next three ranked countries combined.
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Sony stockpiles inventory as Japanese companies expect Trump's policies to hurt business
Japanese electronics giant Sony and drinks maker Suntory are stockpiling inventory in the United States while their peers shift production or supply chains in efforts to fend off an evolving threat of US tariffs on the export-reliant economy.
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Trump and TSMC announce $100 billion plan to build five new US factories
Taiwanese semiconductor company TSMC on Monday announced it will invest 100 billion in the United States, including building five additional chip facilities over the coming years.
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Eutelsat soars as investors bet on OneWeb satellites as European option to Starlink
Franco-British satellite operator Eutelsat said on Monday it was committed to boosting Europe's autonomy in space-based connectivity and supplying internet access to war-torn Ukraine.
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Trump about UK's Apple demand: "something that you hear about with China"
Trump said that he had told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that he "can't do this."
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Musk's pursuit of $2.4 billion FAA contract sparks controversy
A growing number of US lawmakers are raising questions about the potential for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to interfere or take over a $2.4 billion Federal Aviation Administration telecommunications contract with rival Verizon.
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US firm Firefly scores its first moon landing with Blue Ghost spacecraft
Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday
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China's DeepSeek claims theoretical cost-profit ratio of 545% per day
DeepSeek disclosed some cost and revenue data related to its hit V3 and R1 models
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Nvidia: AI boom not dead yet
Nvidia's strong growth forecast for the first quarter on Wednesday signaled that booming demand for its artificial intelligence chips was intact, and the company said orders for its new Blackwell semiconductors were "amazing."
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Amazon debuts new Alexa voice assistant with AI overhaul
Amazon unveiled on Wednesday an overhaul of its Alexa voice assistant, embedding it with generative artificial intelligence.
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ChatGPT reacts to woman’s health scare before doctors do, likely saving her life
Love it or hate it, ChatGPT has an impact on our lives. So much so that it can actually save it.
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Trump team seeks to toughen chip controls over China – media
The Trump administration is planning to toughen semiconductor restrictions on China.
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Telegram hit with AUD$1M fine: Australia's crackdown on tech giants
Australia’s online safety regulator has fined social media platform Telegram for AUD$1 million (€608,000) for failing to respond to a transparency reporting notice deadline by over five months.
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Apple plans 20,000 jobs
Apple said on Monday it would spend $500 billion in U.S. investments in the next four years.
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From $8 to $1 per hour: GPU rental prices are crashing
Despite the AI boom and skyrocketing graphics processing unit (GPU) prices, the slump in the GPU rental market continues. The Nvidia H100, priced at nearly $30,000, is available for rent at just $1 per hour. And Nvidia’s RTX 4090 can be found for as little as $0.20 per hour.
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Space is about to get more crowded for Elon Musk
Analysis-Musk's Starlink races with Chinese rivals to dominate satellite internet
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The AI IP wars: when tech giants flip their stance on copyright
Over the last few years, big tech has scraped free data from the internet to train its machine-learning algorithms. But that quickly changed when the tables were turned and competitors began using their outputs. Suddenly, it became a problem. This pattern is appearing in so many corners of AI that it's becoming more comical than ironic.
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Synthetic android clone “terrifies” internet, but is also “pretty cool”
Social media has reacted with awe (and fear) to a video clip of the world’s first-ever bipedal, musculoskeletal android – shown writhing around midair with its creepy human-like body, hung like a puppet from above.
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