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Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg : Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data …
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Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch : Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to bui…
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Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they start to expire later in 2026; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot cert…
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Lyft launches teen accounts in the US more than two years after Uber, with safety features such as PIN verification, real-time tracking, and audio recordings (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
Samantha Subin / CNBC : Lyft launches teen accounts in the US more than two years a…
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Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app (Valida Pau/The Information)
Valida Pau / The Information : Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate fou…
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Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of…
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How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
Alexandra Alter / New York Times : How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, …
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T-glass, a type of ultrathin glass sheet used in advanced chips, is in short supply and largely comes from Nittobo, which is not adding capacity for months (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)
Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal : T-glass, a type of ultrathin glass sheet used in a…
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A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity (Siddhant Khare)
Siddhant Khare : A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO trea…
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A look at Corning's booming fiber-optic business, boosted by data center demand and a $6B Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning's co-packaged optics for servers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : A look at Corning's booming fiber-opti…
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After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its "Yes, and..." culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind (Steve Yegge)
Steve Yegge : After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its “Yes, and..…
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DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder of London-based fund Hedosophia, after Osborne's outreach to help Epstein fix his image in 2011 (Financial Times)
Financial Times : DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder …
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Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accounts; Trump pardoned CZ in October (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times : Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's s…
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Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)
Nitin T Bhat / Heroku : Heroku says it is transitioning to a “sustaining engineerin…
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London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management platform, raised a $24.5M Series A led by AlbionVC as it seeks to expand across Europe (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu : London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management …
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