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Meta’s natural gas binge could power South Dakota

Data centers have gotten so large that their power demands now rival entire U.S. states. Take Meta’s Hyperion AI data center, for example.

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Musk loves Grok’s “roasts.” Swiss official sues in attempt to neuter them.

Swiss Finance Minister Kaspar Meili has filed a criminal complaint against xAI's Grok chatbot for allegedly defaming him through its "roast" feature, sparking a debate on AI humor and legal boundaries. Elon Musk defends the feature as bold and truthful.

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Here's what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic's plans

Yesterday’s surprise leak of the source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code revealed a lot about the vibe-coding scaffolding the company has built around its proprietary Claude model.

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Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident

Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies of its most popular product’s source code off the internet. On Tuesday, a software engineer discovered that Anthropic had, seemingly by accident, included access to the source code for

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Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try

The most advanced silicon chips have accelerated the development of artificial intelligence. Now can AI return the favor? Cognichip is building a deep learning model to work alongside engineers as they design new computer chips.

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I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend. Its Answers Were All Wrong

team is one of the best in the game—reviewing products across various categories to help you shop for the best.

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Hershey applies AI across its supply chain operations

Artificial intelligence is moving beyond software and further into the physical side of business. Companies in food production and logistics are starting to use data systems to support day-to-day decisions, not long-term planning.That change is visible in The Hershey Company’s latest strategy update

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I Watched a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters to Confront My Dwindling Attention Span

few ways to wrap your head around watching a seven-and-a-half-hour movie.When I was a kid I used to mark time in “Roseannes,” where 30 minutes would equal one Roseanne—the run time of the sitcom. My junior hockey games were two Roseannes. The drive to my uncle’s was 12.

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The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home

When Zeus, a medical student living in a hilltop city in central Nigeria, returns to his studio apartment from a long day at the hospital, he turns on his ring light, straps his iPhone to his forehead, and starts recording himself.

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DeepL’s Borderless Business report reveals 83% of enterprises are still behind on language AI

AI is everywhere in the enterprise. The translation workflow often is not. That is the core finding of DeepL’s 2026 Language AI report, “Borderless Business: Transforming Translation in the Age of AI,” published on March 10.

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The Download: gig workers training humanoids, and better AI benchmarks

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home When Zeus, a medical student in Nigeria, returns to his apartment from a long day at the hospital, he st

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Less than a month: StrictlyVC San Francisco brings leaders from TDK Ventures, Replit, and more together

The first StrictlyVC of the year will be coming to San Francisco before you know it! There are still a few tickets available to join us and our stacked speaker lineup April 30, at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center.

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KPMG: Inside the AI agent playbook driving enterprise margin gains

Global AI investment is accelerating, yet KPMG data shows the gap between enterprise AI spend and measurable business value is widening fast.The headline figure from KPMG’s first quarterly Global AI Pulse survey is blunt: despite global organisations planning to spend a weighted average of $186 mill

MLCommons Releases New MLPerf Inference v6.0 Benchmark Results

MLCommons has announced the latest results of its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v6.0 benchmark suite, introducing significant updates including new LLM, recommendation, text-to-video, and VLM benchmarks to reflect real-world AI deployment scenarios.

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Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project

Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving the open source project LiteLLM. The AI startup told TechCrunch on Tuesday that it was “one of thousands of companies” affected by a recent compromise of LiteLLM’s project, which was

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SAP and ANYbotics drive industrial adoption of physical AI

Heavy industry relies on people to inspect hazardous, dirty facilities. It’s expensive, and putting humans in these zones carries obvious safety risks.

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Alexa+ gets new food ordering experiences with Uber Eats and Grubhub

Amazon’s latest upgrade to Alexa+, its next-generation AI assistant, allows you to order food from popular delivery services Uber Eats and Grubhub in a conversational manner, just as if you were chatting with a waiter at a restaurant or placing an order at a drive-thru, according to Amazon. The aim

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Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file

The entire source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code command line interface application (not the models themselves) has been leaked and disseminated, apparently due to a serious internal error.

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Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon

Sometimes an apparently good idea, a big raise from a big-name VC, and a sea of well-connected angel investors is not enough.

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OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise

OpenAI has closed a deal to raise $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, its largest funding round to date as the company is expected to hit the public markets this year. The round will add to OpenAI’s war chest as it spends enormous amounts of money on AI chips, data center buildouts, and hirin