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“Utility-scale solar produced 31, while small-scale photovoltaic added another 9.8.”
“access is limited to anyone over age 18 on a personal account”
“Today it asked if I could ditch the dog to speed up my walks.”
“From 2023 to 2025, the volume of deepfakes online exploded, with roughly 900% annual growth as AI-driven image-generators improved.”
“According to Anthropic, the length of tasks that models can accomplish on their own is now doubling every four months, up from seven months just over a year ago.”
“The world’s two largest memory chip companies plan to invest $518 billion (~800 trillion won) to build four new memory fabs in southwestern South Korea, a region that has historically attracted little semiconductor investment.”
“Newsom's deal seeks to drive broader adoption of Claude by cutting the AI chatbot's price in half for state government agencies, as well as Californian cities and counties that decide to take advantage.”
“Starting next year, Amazon will pay for Anthropic's models based on tokens processed rather than compute hours, which could push costs up sharply.”
“people caught 18% fewer errors when the work was said to have come from an agentic “AI employee” rather than a chatbot.”
“If you combine all photovoltaic with wind and hydro, renewables produced 117 TW-hr, nearly triple the amount of power produced using coal, and nearly as much as the 124 TW-hr produced using natural gas.”
“people age 13 and up can use the image generation side of the tool”
“I got told to ditch my toddler … Turned coach off after that.”
“After training was finished, the researchers had the participants go back to determining whether each face was AI-generated. This time around, the participants’ average accuracy had “nearly doubled,” with the highest-performing candidates …”
“The company reports that as of May, Claude is writing over 80% of the code that has been merged into Anthropic’s systems.”
“The plan breaks down into three buckets. In the memory chip bucket is $518 billion for four new memory fabs in the southwest, plus $52 billion for an HBM (high bandwidth memory) packaging hub in the central region.”
“Given said the state will be looking to secure similar discount deals with other AI companies and tech providers. It invited AI model providers to negotiate with the state back in December.”
“up to $25 billion more in Anthropic”
“nearly a third of the 1,261 managers who participated in Wiles’s study said their companies already frame AI agents as employees (23% even list them on org charts).”
“growth above 20 percent year over year still left solar providing only 6 percent of the power on the US grid, a sharp contrast to coal’s 16 percent.”
“Including the hard-fought acquisition of Activision Blizzard King, which cost Microsoft $69 billion in 2023, Xbox spent more than $89 billion in investments and studio support over the past five years, while the segment's annual revenue de…”
“My coach incessantly tells me to rest, and has probably suggested I take the day off EVERY SINGLE DAY.”
“In the first phase of the study, the researchers showed a series of faces (some belonging to real humans and others AI-generated) to 45 participants and asked them to determine whether it was AI-generated.”
““We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable,” wrote Marina Favaro, who leads the Anthropic Institute, and Jack Clark, an Anthropic cofounder. “But it could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.””
“Then there’s another $356 billion (550 trillion won) for AI data centers to be built by Korean tech and energy behemoths such as SK, GS, and Naver through 2035.”
“California's first meeting with Anthropic for the deal was March 5, the same day the Pentagon formally labeled the Claude maker a supply chain risk.”
“up to $50 billion in OpenAI this year”
“They were also 44% more likely to ...”
“Split 6-3, the majority agreed that the government needs a warrant and must show reasonable cause to turn a phone’s location-tracking services into a government surveillance tool.”
“shuttering or selling off three of its studios, Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion Games.”
“coach sends AI robot to get rid of the dog to help you improve your walks.”
“Then, instead of telling participants to look out for these six qualities, the researchers trained them via six training blocks, each consisting of 96 tasks.”
“And so, Anthropic’s authors conclude, we need to slow or pause frontier AI development, “to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications.””
“All told, South Korean tech companies have committed to spend over $900 billion on AI and the demands for chips it is creating.”
“His department is formalizing recommendations for Newsom on that part of the order and expects those to be ready by next month.”
“researchers presented 1,500 workers in 104 jobs with information about what tasks AI could potentially do in their work”
“Chatrie was sentenced to 12 years in prison but challenged the geofence warrant as an unconstitutional search.”
“CEO Satya Nadella personally made $96 million in 2025.”
“yesterday was a full recovery day with minimal movement.”
“In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from Australian National University claim...”
“Semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centers are the triple axis for South Korea’s next industrial era,” President Jae Myung Lee said in a televised address Monday, calling 2026 the year South Korea must establish itself as an “irrepla…”
“Claude underpins the public engagement platform that Newsom has employed most recently for gathering residents' views on how AI is impacting their jobs and the future of work. It's also a tool for customer service at the California DMV and…”
“However, Justice Elena Kagan, penning the majority opinion, said it didn’t matter how much data the government obtained.”
“CWA represents roughly 3,500 workers across the video game industry.”
“really thought I spend 12 hours lying perfectly still, like a mummy in a sarcophagus.”
“Specifically, the researchers claim it is best to focus on these six key characteristics: symmetry, proportionality, attractiveness, expressiveness, distinctiveness, and memorability.”
“Samsung separately published a press release Monday, announcing plans to invest 2,655 trillion won (~$1.7 trillion) over the next decade, with 425 trillion won earmarked for the Honam region, the southwestern corner of the Korean peninsula.”
“And the state Department of Technology has a cybersecurity partnership with Anthropic, using Claude to spot vulnerabilities in state code and critical systems.”
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that “even short-term monitoring” of where a person has been can reveal “a wealth of detail about [his] familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations”—particularly if he’s seen visiting…”
“In 2023, roughly 300 QA workers at Microsoft subsidiary ZeniMax Online voted to unionize.”
“When the trial ends, I’m out. Coach is garbage.”
“That is not an outlandish sum compared to U.S. tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft, which will collectively spend $650 billion on AI infrastructure this year alone, according to Reuters.”
“We applaud the Court’s decision,” Crocker said. “The Court reaffirmed that you have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and that even short-term surveillance of these movements is a…”
“Four Xbox employees and CWA members shared their experiences.”
“I find myself yelling at it over text and I cannot wait for my trial to end.”
“Meanwhile, SK Group announced a 2,100 trillion won (~$1.4 trillion) medium- to long-term investment roadmap, 1,100 trillion won to expand semiconductor production capacity and 1,000 trillion won for AI data centers nationwide.”
“We are encouraged to see the Court recognize that privacy interests persist regardless of the technology involved, and that law enforcement must seek judicial authorization to obtain Americans’ geolocation information,” Schruers said.”
“Including the hard-fought acquisition of Activision Blizzard King, which cost Microsoft $69 billion in 2023”
“constantly gives me long walls of text that are either obvious, outdated or just not useful. I don’t want to read an essay every time I open the app — I just want short, actionable insights.”
“SK Hynix, the group’s core semiconductor affiliate, is central to the chip expansion push, while SK Telecom will lead the buildout of 15 gigawatts of AI data center capacity across the country.”
“He suggested that an app-by-app basis would have been appropriate, while warning against rushing to judge “new technologies” that “we barely understand.” According to Alito, the majority announced a “new rule” that will “unleash” “upheaval…”
“Xbox spent more than $89 billion in investments and studio support over the past five years”
“A cell-phone user is not to be viewed as sharing private information with third parties—which then can be freely passed on to the government—just by doing the ordinary things cell-phone users do,” Kagan wrote.”
“while the segment's annual revenue declined by nearly half a billion dollars”
“As of September 1, affected customers will no longer be able to stream 551 titles from the PlayStation Store.”
“Xbox was shuttering or selling off three of its studios, Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion Games”
“This happened in 2023, when Sony said it would have to pull 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customers’ libraries.”
“Microsoft just raised its console prices for the third time this year”
“Sony already pulled 314 StudioCanal titles from libraries in Germany and Austria in 2022.”
“CEO Satya Nadella personally made $96 million in 2025”
“Sony has also been scaling down its digital store and stopped selling movie and show rentals and purchases in August 2021.”
“CWA represents roughly 3,500 workers across the video game industry”
“The fact that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)—chemicals once common in aerosol cans and refrigerant loops—could destroy ozone in the atmosphere was discovered in 1974.”
“In 2023, roughly 300 QA workers at Microsoft subsidiary ZeniMax Online voted to unionize”
“The seasonal ozone “hole” discovered over Antarctica in 1985 pushed things along even faster, and in 1987 an international agreement was signed to phase out CFCs everywhere.”
“In the 6-3 ruling, the country's top court said that "an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information." Justice Elena Kagan said that geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition…”
“This data shows that in 1950, carbon tetrachloride was about 3–4 times as prevalent as initial CFC levels.”
“A man stole $195,000 from a bank and the case went cold until detectives served Google with a geofence warrant.”
“After setting the background with a few simulations starting in 1850, they ran many simulations from 1950 onward with slightly different starting atmospheric conditions to generate a range of realizations.”
“Google pushed back in a way, providing the police with just three of the 19 people tagged as being near the bank.”
“If we switched on our modern scientific infrastructure in 1950, ozone depletion would first be detectable (clearing the 95 percent statistical confidence bar) in the upper stratosphere over the tropics around 1957.”
“In this instance, the geofence search mandated that Google pore through the data of millions of users.”
“At this point, one-half to two-thirds of the ozone-eating chlorine up there was still carbon tetrachloride rather than CFCs.”
“A rumored flagship model dubbed "MacBook Ultra" could be the company's first laptop with an OLED touchscreen, promising a lighter design with high performance for creators.”
“By 1976, it would have been detectable in the lower stratosphere—including over Antarctica, where the ozone hole wasn’t actually discovered until another decade had passed.”
“Now it looks like 14- and 16-inch models (code-named K114 and K116) will arrive sometime in 2026.”
“The satellite currently measuring ozone at multiple heights in the stratosphere has been in orbit since 2004 and is well past its intended expiration date.”
“The company has reportedly settled on on a launch some time in the second half of 2026, likely near the end of the year, according to two key sources.”
“the 1963 eruption of Mount Agung to contend with.”
“Bloomberg's Gurman has gone back and forth, most recently saying that the MacBook Ultra would arrive "late this year and early next year," according to his report from Friday.”
“the 11-year cycle in solar activity”
“analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who said last year that a touch display MacBook Pro would "enter mass production by late 2026."”
“PNAS, 2026. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2608286123”
“Rather than next-gen M6 Silicon, Apple will use its current M5 Pro and M5 Ultra chips in the first model.”
“Google’s internal security teams have reportedly been able to link this anonymous search data to individual users in as little as two hours using so-called “linkage attacks.””
“It will then skip over the M6 and employ the upcoming AI-focused M7 chips for the second-generation model. [...] Once those chips roll out (reportedly in 2027), they'll appear in the next-gen MacBook Ultra.”
“With significant market shares across a number of tech sectors—including more than 90 percent of web search—the company doesn’t have much reason to support increased regulation.”
“That would be impressive, considering the current 16-inch MacBook Pro can run for just over 30 hours on a charge.”
“The comment period ended on May 1, and the commission is determining how to enforce the new rules. It expects to have a final decision on July 27, which will be legally binding for Google as a designated gatekeeper under the DMA.”
“The MacBook Ultra could also be the first Apple laptop with native cellular support.”
“With the flagship designation and OLED touch display, along with ever-rising memory prices, the MacBook Ultra is likely to be the company's most expensive MacBook to date.”
