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Tim Higgins/ Wall Street Journal: Masayoshi Son questioned Musk’s orbital AI data centers, pointing out that electricity only accounts for 7% of costs and that the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years.— SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son thinks the math doesn’t support space-based data centers — Some people have expressed skepticism…
Financial Times: Sources: Google told Meta around March that it could not offer all of the Gemini capacity that Meta wanted to purchase, disrupting and delaying some of Meta’s internal AI projects.— The growing appetite for advanced models makes computing power the tech industry’s rarest commodity.
Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The Anthropic Myth Returns, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, and Apple Prices Rise The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes of the tech world with interviews with hip insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to the Big Technology podcast. Hard fork: “Le Quotidien” and “Les Opinions”: how AI changes solitude and taste The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest developments in a rapidly changing technological world. Subscribe to Hard Fork. The Upstart Podcast: May Habib, from the writer: Creating AI tools for…
Bloomberg: The rapid pace of advances in AI has created a pervasive fear of missing out in Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees and venture capital firms.— Claude Code reduces sleep time. — Matt Van Horn, serial entrepreneur and father of four, never turns off his laptop again.
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Policy: AI executives and lobbyists say they are seeking regulatory clarification from the Trump administration but are reluctant to press for answers, fearing retaliation.— Unpredictability was on display again on Friday when the Trump administration partially lifted its ban on the export of Anthropic products…
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Hollywood is having its best summer since before the pandemic, and this hot streak is helping the annual box office exceed $10 billion for the first time in seven years.The season, which runs from the first weekend in May through Labor Day, has grossed $1.8 billion so far through Sunday. This represents a decline of less than 2% from 2019 levels, a shift of approximately $30 million. Industry analysts closely monitor this time of year, as it typically accounts for about 40% of the total annual domestic box office.“The summer box office is extremely important,” said Paul Dergarabedian, head of…
Kohl’s was once a retail darling, carving out market share as a department store catering to the middle-income American consumer with coupons and deals that built loyalty.But over the past five years, Kohl’s shares have lost nearly 70% of their value, plummeting as the retailer reported weak sales.As department stores struggle to stay relevant and middle-income consumers face budget pressures, Kohl’s is now trying to reinvigorate its sales by building on its core value proposition and investing in the in-store experience to ensure customers find what they need and come back for more. Although Wall Street analysts say the retailer…