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AI data centers trigger massive 'irreversible' 76% electricity price spike in largest US region — federal watchdog demands tech giants pay for their own power infrastructure Data centers are skewing the power supply market, resulting in higher prices for everyone. Monitoring Anal

Cerebras Systems' raucous IPO this week gave investors a taste of what's to come in artificial intelligence. But it also served as a reminder of how hard it is for non-AI companies to capture Wall Street's attention. Shares of the AI chipmaker popped almost 70% in their market de

Among the live sports and entertainment shows that carried media companies' presentations to advertisers this week, another pitch kept popping up: creator content. The category of videos, which can amass millions of views on Google's YouTube and other social media platforms, is i

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D faceoff — Battle for the fastest mid-range gaming CPU Arrow Lake Refresh takes on AMD's budget X3D chip. Intel’s newly launched Arrow Lake Refresh (Core Ultra 200S Plus) desktop CPUs finally deliver what was originally expected

AI data centers require 36 times more fiber than designs with standard servers — severe glass shortages push cable lead times out to a full year Fiber preform production takes up to two years to expand. Major Chinese optical fiber manufacturers have booked orders stretching into

As the leaders of the world's two most powerful economies rekindled personal ties in Beijing on Thursday and Friday, with a cavalcade of American business leaders accompanying U.S. President Donald Trump, the Chinese capital turned into something of a spectacle. The visit — the f

For most of the past year, it looked like prediction markets had kicked off a new golden age of fraud. On Polymarket, traders raked in fortunes from suspiciously timed bets on geopolitical events like the raid on Venezuela and the Iran War. It wasn’t clear whether the US governme

First Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI, gives root access on MacOS — Claude Mythos helps security researchers bypass Memory Integrity Enforcement AI-assisted security research is producing exploits at a frightening rate. Thanks to AI-assisted security researc

M5 Max MacBook Pro paired with RTX 5090 in an eGPU dock — runs Cyberpunk 2077 at over 100 FPS at max settings with frame generation AAA gaming with an M5 MacBook and an RTX 5090 eGPU can work as long as you're willing to use a Linux VM and frame generation. Apple’s M5 Max SoC fla

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Asus enters the RAM market during the largest memory shortage in history, 48GB kit lands at $880 — brand's first DDR5 kit makes the RTX 5070 Ti look like a bargain Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand, Asus has unveiled the company's first memory

Apache helicopter's 'loyal wingmen' support drones to be used for precision strikes, other duties — British Army's Project NYX funding money goes to four firms as effort hits new milestone Drones will bolster Apache ‘reconnaissance, precision strike, target acquisition and electr

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Stopping Poor Financial Decisions: Masters in Business with Sheila Bair Barry sits down with Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair. They discuss the release of her latest book "How Not To Lose A Million Dollars" and the importance of financial literacy across age groups. Bair also discu

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May 16th, 2026 Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet | Odd Lots The internet is made for shopping. For years, the main inputs for e-commerce transactions involved targeted ads, algorithmic recommendations, SEO, and lots of mindless scrolling. Bu

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CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday he is growing increasingly concerned about signs of speculative excess in the IPO market. The "Mad Money" host warned he didn't want to "end up with another Cerebras," arguing that the highly anticipated debut of Elon Musk's SpaceX could fuel another

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday that stock investors need to remember the bond market is in the driver's seat at the moment — a dynamic that looms large ahead of key earnings reports next week. "The bond market's wrath can smackdown any stock market no matter how robust," said the

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 — meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves. YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to all adult users Likeness detection, which sc

Russian universities are promising free tuition and up to $70,000 to students who are willing to serve as drone pilots in the Russian military for a year—all while claiming students can avoid the risk of frontline combat duty in Ukraine. But there has already been one confirmed b

The ASUS ZenScreen MB16ACE is a 15.6-inch portable monitor built around a 1920×1080 IPS panel, a 60Hz refresh rate, and a single USB Type-C input. It is one of ASUS’ slimmer ZenScreen designs, trading the broader port selection of some budget portable monitors for a cleaner one-c

After several authors and class members raised objections to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement over its widespread book piracy to train AI, a federal judge has delayed final approvals of the settlement. On Thursday, US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin declined to rubber-s

In a press briefing Friday, officials for the World Health Organization announced that the case count of the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius in the South Atlantic has shrunk from 11 cases to 10 after a previously reported US case was found to be a false positive

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It’s been a three-year wait, but Prime Video finally released the series finale for Good Omens: a 90-minute single episode that sought to wrap everything up in a neat little bow. Verdict: Truncating the final season so drastically definitely hurts the first half of the series fin

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