Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending
Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.
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Personalization is a ranking problem — architecture makes it work
Every product team is chasing the same moment: The user opens a page and thinks, this understands me. A shopper The post Personalization is a ranking...
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The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability
Also: Chinese open models match closed ones from Anthropic and OpenAI, AWS’s “heart-attack” billing error, and more
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AI memory shortage is now increasing the price of cars — GM warns of vast cost increases, BYD hikes driver assistance prices 20%
GM CFO Paul Jacobson says that the company's costs are expected to increase by $1.5 to $2 billion, primarily due to increasing memory chip costs. The...
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Chandrasekhar and the Limits of Physics, Part 4: Vindication
The collapsing stars Eddington swore couldn't exist turned out to be everywhere, and half a century later the world handed Chandrasekhar his Nobel. How the 1.4...
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Google slapped with $1 billion fine for violating EU's antitrust legislation
Continued non-compliance could result in further penalties of 'up to 5% of [Google's] total worldwide turnover'.
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Steam's latest update finally brings order to the chaos of your wishlist, and might even nudge people into buying you some new games
If you're among the millions whose Steam wishlists have been accumulating games for years, and you're too scared to venture in, Valve's latest Steam update should...
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Running DOOM on a Custom CPU Built From Scratch
Running DOOM on weird obscure hardware is a fun hacker pastime that’s been around for a long time now. It’s always enjoyable to see someone port it...
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Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank
Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building...
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NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars
NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they...
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