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🏗️ OpenAI expands Stargate with 5 new data centre
❄️ Microsoft claims a 'breakthrough' in AI chip cooling
🎨 Google launches an AI-powered mood board app
🤖 Meta creates super PAC to fight AI rules
🤝 Microsoft is building an AI marketplace for publishers
💻 Google says more on desktop Android, Qualcomm ‘incredibly excited’
🎁 + 15 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
🏗️ OpenAI expands Stargate with 5 new data centre LINK
OpenAI plans to build five new AI data centers with its partners Oracle and SoftBank, expanding the Stargate project across several new locations throughout the United States to train models.
Oracle is developing three of the new sites in Texas and New Mexico, while SoftBank is building the other two data centers in locations across Lordstown, Ohio, and Milam County, Texas.
The expansion will bring Stargate’s total planned capacity to seven gigawatts, an amount of energy that is enough to provide electricity for more than five million separate American homes.
❄️ Microsoft claims a 'breakthrough' in AI chip cooling LINK
Microsoft's new microfluidics system brings liquid coolant directly to the chip through small channels etched onto its back, getting much closer to the heat source than traditional cold plates.
The company used AI to design flow through the nature-inspired etchings, claiming the technique can reduce the maximum silicon temperature rise inside a GPU by as much as 65 percent.
This improved cooling could allow for chip overclocking and let Microsoft place servers closer together, with its announcement focusing more on performance gains than specific environmental or sustainability benefits.
🎨 Google launches an AI-powered mood board app LINK
Google launched Mixboard, a new app that creates AI-powered mood boards from text prompts, so you don't need a collection of pictures to start your creative project.
The service incorporates Google's new Nano Banana image editing model, letting you generate visuals, ask the AI for edits, combine images, and make other small changes to your board.
Mixboard lets you regenerate the pictures for more ideas, find similar options by asking for “more like this,” and can even have the AI generate text for your creations.
🤖 Meta creates super PAC to fight AI rules LINK
Meta is launching a national super PAC called the American Technology Excellence Project, investing tens of millions of dollars to fight what the company calls "onerous" AI regulation in states.
The group, run by a Republican operative and a Democratic consulting firm, will support the election of pro-AI state candidates from both parties to defend U.S. technology leadership.
This action responds to over 1,000 state-level policy proposals introduced this year, which Meta believes could damage America’s standing in the AI race with China.
🤝 Microsoft is building an AI marketplace for publishers LINK
Microsoft is developing a pilot program called the Publisher Content Marketplace, a system designed to pay publishers when their content gets used by AI products like its Copilot assistant.
This platform is intended to handle ongoing transactions, which differs from competitors like OpenAI that have primarily focused on securing one-off content licensing deals with individual media companies.
The initiative arrives as Microsoft faces a major copyright lawsuit from The New York Times, which claims millions of its articles were used without permission to train generative AI models.
💻 Google says more on desktop Android, Qualcomm ‘incredibly excited’ LINK
Google is creating a single platform for personal computing by building the ChromeOS experience on top of Android's "common technical foundation" to unify its PC and smartphone systems.
The project's goal is to bring Google's full AI stack, including Gemini models and the assistant, along with its developer community, directly into the personal computing domain.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon is excited about this desktop Android effort as it provides a new operating system for the company's PC-class chips, such as its Oryon CPUs.
Other news you might like
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- iFixit zooms in on reports of an iPhone 17 Pro scratch problemLINK
- WhatsApp adds built-in text translations on iPhone and AndroidLINK
- Tether reportedly seeks lofty $500 billion valuation in capital raiseLINK
- UK police arrest man linked to ransomware attack that caused airport disruptions in EuropeLINK
- China's Alibaba teams up with Nvidia on AI robot techLINK
- Nvidia’s OpenAI deal fuels ‘circular’ financing concernsLINK
- Sam Altman says scaling up compute is the "literal key" to OpenAI's revenue growthLINK
- How Google’s dev tools manager makes AI coding workLINK
- Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain tractionLINK
- The AI spending boom doesn't (entirely) deserve comparisons to past frenziesLINK
- Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison is building a media empire, with stakes in TikTok, CBS, CNN and moreLINK
- Alibaba: latest AI model Qwen3-Max rivals best from OpenAI, GoogleLINK
- GitHub notifications abused to impersonate Y Combinator for crypto theftLINK
- Sophos: AI deepfakes hit 62% of firms last yearLINK
Latest research and tools
Yt-dlp: a video download tool that will soon require users to install the Deno JavaScript runtime to continue downloading videos from YouTube due to recent changes on the platform.LINK
EU age verification app: a proposed mobile-only application for verifying age online, which sparks concerns about accessibility for non-smartphone users and the usability of private web browsing.LINK
RubyGems: a project whose control was unilaterally taken by the Ruby Central organization from its maintainers, who were then removed from projects they previously managed.LINK
Quadratic memory reductions for Zero-knowledge Proofs: a reference implementation that creates zero-knowledge proofs using significantly less memory by processing data in a continuous stream rather than all at once.LINK
OpenFake: An Open Dataset and Platform Toward Large-Scale Deepfake Detection: this paper introduces a new public dataset and platform designed to help develop large-scale deepfake detection tools.LINK
Space Mission Options for Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4: this paper outlines several types of spacecraft missions that could be used to change the path of asteroid 2024 YR4.LINK
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