Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center
The agreement sets out hiring timelines that the company must also hit to receive these tax incentives: Meta can receive...
I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Of course, Silicon Valley was never all flowers and psychedelics. “For all that it might flatter itself with counterculture roots,...
Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year...
Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space
For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly...
YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang
Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it...
Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’
Strike 3 Holdings, a company that says it makes “high quality,” “feminist,” and “ethical” adult videos, is suing Meta in...
Move Aside, Chatbots: AI Humanoids Are Here
Michael Calore: Yeah. That's a whole other topic.Kylie Robison: Yes, it is. Will, what do you recommend?Will Knight: I'm going...
Jensen Huang Wants You to Know He’s Getting a Lot Out of the ‘Fantastic’ Nvidia-Intel Deal
One of the world’s most valuable companies is throwing Intel a lifeline.Nvidia, which has a market cap of $4.3 trillion,...
China Turns Legacy Chips Into a Trade Weapon
While the Trump administration was trying to make a TikTok deal happen during a meeting with China last weekend, Beijing...
AI Psychosis Is Rarely Psychosis at All
A new trend is emerging in psychiatric hospitals. People in crisis are arriving with false, sometimes dangerous beliefs, grandiose delusions,...
