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Nvidia's memory costs soar 485%, latest AI systems now cost $7.8 million to build — memory now comprises 25% of the total cost, Rubin GPUs a mere $50,000 apiece $2 million for memory alone. As prices of components are increasing rapidly due to high demand from the AI sector, the

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. AI video is moving beyond clip slop AI companies don’t just want Hollywood using AI for video, but for everything.

Telcos around the world are building sovereign AI factories based on the NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) reference architecture, giving governments, enterprises, and startups access to in‑country AI infrastructure with the right controls, trust, and performance. But infrastructure alo

Alongside tools for AI-generated podcasts, Spotify on Thursday introduced a new, ElevenLabs-powered AI tool for self-publishing audiobooks within the Spotify for Authors platform. The company said at its Investor Day event that the feature will launch in beta this June on an invi

For users, Spotify has been a place to consume podcasts made by other creators. The company wants to change that by introducing a personal podcast feature, which uses AI to generate podcasts for users based on an idea or a custom prompt. Earlier this month, the company released a

One of the common features for companies to build in the age of AI is to connect services like email, calendar, documents, and notes to create a daily brief in text or audio format. Spotify is also giving in to this temptation and releasing a new stand-alone desktop app called St

EU forced to exempt banned Chinese chipmaker after auto industry warns of supply crisis — European car factories warn of imminent supply chain collapse Yangjie filled the gap left by the Nexperia dispute, but now it's sanctioned too. The European Commission is preparing to propos

If you are a top fan of an artist, Spotify will give you a chance to book a ticket to their next show. This is the audio platform’s new bid to keep its users engaged and stream more to become eligible to be a top fan. Spotify didn’t give an exact criterion to be a “real fan,” but

Bloom Energy's shares rose to a 52-week high after it unveiled a partnership with Europe's Nebius, an AI cloud provider seeking to overcome power constraints in the AI infrastructure buildout. Nebius said Wednesday that it would deploy Bloom's fuel-cell technology to generate ele

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Bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor said the coming tokenization of financial assets could change how credit and yield are priced across the economy and pose a direct challenge to traditional banking and brokerage businesses. "The real power of tokenization is it creates a free mar

US-Backed IBM, D-Wave CHIPS Deals Expand Quantum Push IBM and D-Wave deals show Washington expanding CHIPS-era industrial policy beyond semiconductors into quantum manufacturing and compute. Quantum computing is becoming the next front in Washington’s strategic compute agenda, wi

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Samsung reportedly set to distribute up to $26.6 billion to staff in AI-driven semiconductor bonuses after last-minute union deal — average payouts could approach $400,000 per chip employee Employees to receive bonuses in stock and cash Following a last-minute deal yesterday betw

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Elon Musk's SpaceX is best known for its reusable rockets, and has been capturing headlines this year for its high-priced move into artificial intelligence through its merger with xAI. But as the company pitches investors ahead of its mammoth IPO, there's another part of its busi

Today I’m talking with Liz Lopatto, who spent the last month covering the Musk v. Altman trial in all its chaos. You’ll hear her describe the courthouse as a “zoo” and explain that there were protests of one kind or another happening outside every day. Musk v. Altman: Much ado ab

In a media landscape dominated by Baby Shark and Skibidi Toilet, one startup is reimagining children’s media by focusing on well-being, not watch time. Maka Kids is building a streaming app for children ages zero to six featuring content designed for healthy development. The star

What will it take to launch the first must-have AI consumer product? Maybe $700 million. At least according to Hark, an AI lab building models and hardware for an AI personal assistant, which said on Thursday that it had raised that much in a Series A round that values it at $6 b

When the founders of a mental health app for men called Mental saw that one feature — AI interactive audio — was resonating wildly with their users, they knew they were on to something. And so the idea for a new, and hopefully safer, kind of AI therapy app was born, which they ca

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The US government will take equity stakes worth a total of $2 billion in a slew of quantum computing companies, including a startup backed by a firm with links to the Trump family and one taken public by a Pentagon official. The announcement by the commerce department that it had

flash Huawei’s new stacking tech for high-capacity SSDs Huawei has produced 122 TB SSDs without having access to the latest 100+ layer 3D NAND from mainstream NAND suppliers, and it has done this using proprietary Die-on-Board (DoB) packaging. DoB is a wafer-level packaging or as

Earlier this month, SpaceX and Anthropic announced a new compute partnership that provides access to the rocket company’s Colossus data centers in Memphis, TN. Now, with the release of SpaceX’s IPO filing, we have more details about that deal, including how much Anthropic is payi

Plug-in hybrid powertrains were developed to be the best of both worlds: a combustion engine and fuel tank that can handle those longer journeys exactly the same as a non-hybrid car, with an electric motor and a battery large enough for most or all of someone’s daily driving rang

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It is common understanding that as quantum computing gets its feet under itself, it will work hand-in-hand with classical supercomputers and leverage what rapidly evolving AI tools can offer to begin solving some thorny calculations that the largest HPC systems may be unable to a

Taiwan raids 12 locations in its first formal crackdown on Nvidia AI chip smuggling — hunts three fugitives for document forgery, fraudulent declarations in Super Micro smuggling case Getting banned Hopper or Blackwell chips into mainland data centers just became exponentially mo

SpaceX IPO Filing Recasts Company as AI Infrastructure Giant SpaceX’s IPO filing recasts the company as a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform spanning compute, networking, energy, and orbital systems. SpaceX has officially filed to go public, unveiling an S-1 registr

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The mission begins now. GeForce NOW is dialing up the action with a blockbuster mix of spy thrills, high-speed racing and member rewards — plus eight new games joining the cloud this week, all ready to stream instantly. Leading the drop: the 007 First Light Ultimate Membership Bu

MUNICH—Headlight technology in the US is about to get smarter. When Audi’s Q9 SUV goes on sale here later this year, it will feature the automaker’s latest adaptive beam headlights, which manage the nifty trick of providing better, brighter illumination while minimizing glare for

Yesterday, I built my first Android app. Then, I made two more — three in one afternoon. I can’t believe how fast Google vibe coded my first Android app Google AI Studio does what it says on the tin: prompt to phone, in minutes flat. Google AI Studio does what it says on the tin:

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