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OpenAI Apparently Wants to Make Its Own AI Chips on Top of the ‘iPhone for AI’
The AI development boom has resulted in chip shortages and skyrocketing prices creating an opportunity for a new player.
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Meta Proposes Making EU Users Pay If They Don’t Want to See Targeted Ads
Meta’s bread and butter has long been its user-centric targeted ad business, but European regulations are forcing the company to rethink how it can monetize its ostensibly free social platforms. The answer? Make users pay up if they prefer not to let their data be used to sell them products. Last month, a separate report…
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First Major Chromebook Update in Years Promises Juiced-Up Specs and a Material You Look
For the decade that the Chromebook line of ultra-cheap laptops has been around, the company has left the ChromeOS-based design to linger without many meaningful updates. Now the tech giant is here with Chromebook Plus touting a new hardware standard and a few software tweaks the company promises will be a step up for anybody…
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Microsoft May Go Nuclear to Support Its Energy-Hungry AI
Artificial intelligence has proved a costly endeavour—well, yes, in terms of money, but AI requires massive amounts of energy, and water consumption to operate at scale. That hasn’t stopped big tech companies such as Google and Microsoft from putting that energy-hungry AI into practically every single one of their user and enterprise end-products. Big daddy…