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Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building a 5-gigawatt data center called Hyperion. The urgency is palpable. As SemiAnalysis reported last week and Business Insider noted, Meta is so eager to boost its computing power that it’s …

Mark Zuckerberg is in full founder mode again. This time it’s the AI version. Meta fell behind in the generative AI race earlier this year when the company rolled out its Llama 4 model. The product was not up to scratch, compared to rival offerings from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Since then, Zuck has gone on a hiring bender, personally recruiting …

Something to look forward to: It’s the kind of gadget Q might slip into James Bond’s tuxedo pocket: an SSD with a built-in self-destruct feature. TeamGroup has developed the P250Q-M80, which brings a touch of cinematic espionage to real-world data security. This industrial-grade storage device is engineered for sectors where data security is paramount, such as defense, industrial automation, and …

Meta’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has said the social media giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centres in the US. The first multi-gigawatt data centre, called Prometheus, is expected to come online in 2026, Zuckerberg said. He said one of the sites would cover an area nearly the size of Manhattan (59.1 sq km/22.8 …

Like most companies, T-Mobile wants your money but it also wants your data. Back in May, we learned T-Mobile’s T-Life app was recording customers’ phone screens by default—at least, anything they did within that app. You could opt-out, but you’d only do that if you knew it the app was doing it, and if you knew there was a setting …

Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, . CEO Mark Zuckerberg will spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating “superintelligence.” The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple domains. This is something of a holy grail for . …

Wall Street closed slightly higher as investors now brace for inflation and earnings data  Seeking Alpha Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq waver amid tariff threats as bitcoin touches latest record  Yahoo Finance Asia-Pacific markets set to open higher as investors look past Trump’s tariffs; await China data  CNBC Why U.S. stocks and bonds have ‘healthy’ returns this year despite Trump’s tariff …

Meta Built a Data Center Next Door. The Neighbors’ Water Taps Went Dry.  The New York Times ‘I can’t drink the water’ – life next to a US data centre  BBC Woman Says Zuckerberg’s AI Data Center Filled Her Tap Water With Sediment  Futurism Impact of data centers in Georgia ‘a mixed bag’  news-daily.com Data center plan is a ‘rape of the land’  The Newnan …

IN A NUTSHELL 💡 Researchers at Université Laval have developed a groundbreaking optical AI chip that uses light to achieve data transfer speeds of 1,000 gigabits per second. 🔋 The chip is remarkably energy-efficient, consuming only four joules of energy, equivalent to heating one milliliter of water by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. 📈 With its ability to transmit massive amounts of …

Updated July 14 with further details of the exact release date for the iPhone 17 series. Last month, I assessed exactly when the next iPhone series, would go on sale. Now, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg has had his say. Happily, it’s along the same lines, so perhaps we can begin to be confident when the iPhone will land. Read on …