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Quote of the day by investor Warren Buffett on AI capex: “That’s real money… That kind of money wasn’t even put in the railroad business” — outlining his bullish long-term thesis on AI
AI demands a huge amount of energy, water, compute, and, of course, money. Big tech companies, including Google and Meta, have pledged huge sums of money toward the capital expenditure (capex) to continue the push to more powerful AI. But many inventors feel increasingly wary that this spending is simply…
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Ukraine will mass-produce Stone Cloak EW tech after the UK allows Kyiv to build a tablet-sized device
Ukraine receives rights to produce Britain’s Stone Cloak electronic warfare system Tablet-sized device helps Ukraine counter growing Russian drone operations Stone Cloak expands Ukraine’s electronic warfare capabilities against unmanned threats Ukraine is receiving access to the intellectual property behind the UK-developed Stone Cloak electronic warfare system. The tablet-sized device is…
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A cultural crime against humanity? AI firms are destroying ultra-rare books so nobody else can read them
ISBNdb ships up to a million books anonymously to AI labs Pre-2022 books are prized because chatbots never touched their text Spine-cutting scanners destroy originals to speed up digitization for training AI companies are increasingly turning to printed books published before 2022 as preferred training material because those works predate…
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Bad updates, broken cables and blackouts – Cloudflare reveals some of the wildest reasons behind Internet downtime across the world
Cloudflare summary logs a typhoon, two earthquakes, power failures, and thirteen government exam shutdowns It also identified a fiber cut, drone damage to an AWS region, and a botched DNSSEC key rollover The report’s sharpest finding is that Tanzania’s accidental power blackout looked almost identical in the data to its…
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Is bulldozing homes, seizing land, harming the climate, and replacing workers really worth everyone having an AI agent?
There are a lot of sacrifices being made to usher in the latest technological age. Jobs, businesses, even whole industries are at risk of disappearing. Now we can add homes to the list – as new electricity infrastructure for data centers in the state of Georgia means 30 homes are…
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Zelensky confirms Ukraine’s drones will reach 6,000 miles in 2027 — enough to cover the entirety of Russia and able to reach as far as San Francisco from Kyiv
Zelensky says Ukraine’s drones will soon fly far enough to hit anywhere in Russia Kyiv and Washington quietly push forward a plan to build drones on US soil Ukraine’s drone range could jump to 10,000 km, but engineers still face big hurdles In a recent interview with American conservative commentator…
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