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Ahead of the Paris AI summit, Macron says companies plan to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years and it is France's equivalent to Stargate — French president speaks ahead of AI summit in Paris involving executives such as OpenAI's Sam Altman
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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/wallstreetbets, and r/singularity
| Wall Street Journal: |
France plans to pledge one gigawatt of nuclear power to AI training, including 250 megawatts by the end of 2026, in a bid to expand Europe's AI capabilities — Macron aims to dedicate a gigawatt of nuclear power to create one of the world's largest AI-computing facilities.
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| Liam Dawe / GamingOnLinux: |
Steam creates an ad documentation page highlighting its ban on forcing players to watch ads, saying “developers should not utilize paid ads as a business model” — Turns out this was actually already a rule that Valve had (thanks SteamDB). It was listed on their Pricing page …
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| Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
T-Mobile says satellite texting, currently in beta and powered by Starlink, will cost $15/month from July 2025; AT&T and Verizon users can use it for $20/month — - Anticipated upgrade goes into a free beta period until July … The service is in beta mode now and users can sign …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/JEENEETards, r/singularity, r/slatestarcodex, r/accelerate, and r/OpenAI
| Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says DeepSeek's $6M training cost claim is “exaggerated and a little bit misleading” and a “fraction of the total cost” — DeepSeek Ramps Up Hiring for Arcane AI Field as Ambitions Swell — Mistral CEO Plans to Raise More Funds to Back AI Data Center| Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times: |
An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on DeepSeek, why it isn't AI's “Sputnik moment” but is “a big deal”, how DeepSeek will “get shut down” by the US, and more — Rene Haas has reshaped chip designer's business to focus on royalties rather than fees
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| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is finalizing its first in-house chip design in the next few months, to cut its Nvidia reliance, and plans to send it for fabrication at TSMC — OpenAI is pushing ahead on its plan to reduce its reliance on Nvidia (NVDA.O) for its chip supply by developing its first generation …
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| Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal: |
Nokia names Justin Hotard, who currently leads Intel's Data Center and AI operations, as its CEO starting April 1, as it focuses on data centers to drive growth — The telecom company expects data centers to be its number one growth driver in the coming years
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Inside Binance compliance boss and ex-IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan's imprisonment in Nigeria, relayed via texts from a secret phone, over money laundering charges — As a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan pioneered modern crypto investigations. Then at Binance, he got trapped between … | Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Polymarket Analytics: users put $1.1B in volume on the outcome of the Super Bowl despite regulatory hurdles; one trader made a $550K profit from Eagles bets — The Philadelphia Eagles won the Superbowl, but the Kansas City Chiefs were the early favorite on Polymarket. — What to know:
More: Blockhead, Blockonomi, The Crypto Times, and NFL.com
| Scott Rosenberg / Axios: |
Anthropic launches the Anthropic Economic Index to track AI's impact by analyzing anonymized Claude usage data, showing 57% of AI use leans toward augmentation — The more information AI makers share with the world, the better we'll be able to understand how the new technology is changing our lives.Sponsor Posts
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