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Meta will start selling its computing power and AI models
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (220+ words) We do know that it's got computing power to spare that other AI companies are willing to pay a premium price for. Everyone is looking for a side hustle. Meta is planning to sell its excess AI computing power and…...
Morning Brew | Business News and Trends
1+ day, 50+ min ago (1443+ words) Glad you're here. Today is not only the first day of the second half of the year, but it's also a sacred day for baseball fans: Bobby Bonilla Day. Every July 1, retired third baseman Bobby Bonilla receives a $1. 19 million check…...
Comforting news about AI's threat to jobs
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (240+ words) Morning Brew You may want to hold off enrolling in clowning school to AI-proof your career, as new research undermines AI jobpocalypse fears. Companies hired more after heavily investing in AI tools, according to a study published yesterday by corporate…...
A fight brews over CA's proposed billionaire tax
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (254+ words) To tax or not to tax? That is the question that California voters will soon answer. A healthcare union's controversial measure to impose a one-time tax on billionaires was officially added to the state's November ballot this week, to the…...
Hacky sacks have officially come full circle
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (192+ words) Kickable bean bags are a thing again. You there, in the JNCO jeans, listening to CDs you bought at Sam Goody, have we got news for you: Hacky sacks are back. The small, round, and kickable bean bags are increasingly…...
Apple hikes prices as AI fuels inflation
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (303+ words) Today's hottest gadget is a time machine that will take you to an Apple store before the company raised prices on its laptops and tablets yesterday. Conceding that it's "not welcome news," Apple announced it has to charge shoppers more…...
Betting on the Baconator
1+ week, 32+ min ago (1341+ words) Ho, ho, ho. Today, June 25, is Half-Christmas, marking the midway point between the start of the year and actual Christmas. That means it's time to get serious about your naughty'nice ratio. "Matty Merritt, Molly Liebergall, Dave Lozo, Holly Van Leuven,…...
Anthropic heads to DC to try to unban newest model
2+ week, 2+ day ago (278+ words) Anthropic debuted Fable 5 last week, claiming it was a safer version of its unreleased Mythos model'which it says has potent cybersecurity capabilities that can be weaponized by hackers. But it took Fable down on Friday after the Trump administration restricted…...
The history of summer camps in the US
2+ week, 4+ day ago (284+ words) Sending kids away for weeks at a time each summer to commune with nature is as American as patriotism, capitalism, and anxiety. So, unsurprisingly, the history of summer camp twines around all three. In the summer of 1861, just after the…...
Sagrada Fam'lia is almost done after 144 years
3+ week, 1+ day ago (179+ words) Construction of the church that's taking longer than even your landlord's effort to fix that leaky faucet is nearly finished. Pope Leo XIV is visiting Barcelona today to inaugurate the Sagrada Fam'lia's 566-foot Tower "of Jesus Christ, the completion of…...