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| Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
T-Mobile says its satellite texting feature, currently in beta and powered by Starlink, will cost $15 per month starting in July 2025 for users on most plans — - Anticipated upgrade goes into a free beta period until July … The service is in beta mode now and users can sign up online to participate …
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X: @mdrobuck, @tmobile, @palmerluckey, and @tmfassociates
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| Sam Altman: |
Observations on AI and how it may change society, the likely uneven impact of AGI, which could mess up the balance of power between capital and labor, and more — Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/slatestarcodex, r/accelerate, and r/OpenAI
| 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.| Financial Times: |
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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/singularity, and r/wallstreetbets
| New York Times: |
Chainalysis: just under 700K wallets recorded gains on $TRUMP, 810K+ have lost money, and $6.6B has been secured in cashed-out profits, mostly by early buyers — Some traders made tens of millions off a new cryptocurrency launched by President Trump and his sons. Many others lost out.
More: Bitcoinist.com, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, Rolling Stone, and New York Times
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X: @mattyglesias, @tvietor08, and @aaschapiro
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/CryptoMarkets
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
A study found that phishing tests and other training programs designed to educate employees about online dangers reduced phishing success rates by just 2% — Researchers say the ruses, aimed at teaching gullible employees about the dangers lurking online, don't even work| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
TrendForce: China's share of global mature node manufacturing capacity in 2024 was 34%, below Taiwan's 43%, but China is forecasted to exceed Taiwan by 2027 — When Taiwan's Powerchip Technology entered a deal with the eastern Chinese city of Hefei in 2015 to set up a new chip foundry …
More: Semiconductor Industry Association, Tech in Asia, and The Japan Times
X: @lithos_graphein and @lithos_graphein
Forums: r/hardware and Beehaw
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
How DeepSeek's R1 led to more chatbots' “chains of thought” being shown to users; an expert says seeing a chatbot's supposed inner monologue can trigger empathy — How Chinese start-up DeepSeek triggered a rush to launch chatbots that “reason.”
More: TechCrunch, CNET, Futurism, and Wall Street Journal
X: @aravsrinivas, @lexfridman, @__nmca__, @chinmay185, @rao2z, and @nitashatiku
| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: TikTok CEO Shou Chew proposed to senior White House officials a US-based joint venture between US investors and TikTok that would oversee data security — Vance tapped to help oversee negotiations, with companies including Oracle and Amazon signaling interest while TikTok officials hope to avoid a sale
More: SiliconANGLE, The Information, UPI, and Forbes
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
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Forums: r/Android and r/technology
| New York Times: |
After the Los Angeles fires, over 1M people donated $250M+ via GoFundMe, or $20M more than the service collected for all natural disasters worldwide in 2024 — Donations on the crowdfunding site to people and fire relief efforts have exceeded those for all natural disasters worldwide last year.
More: Los Angeles Times
| Financial Times: |
A look at the race to bring satellite-connected smartphones to a wider market, as estimates suggest that ~350M people lack access to mobile broadband coverage — Race to bring satellite-connected phones to wider market heats up as some question bullish promises from operators
Forums: r/ASTSpaceMobile
| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
A look at Delivery Hero, profitable since late 2023, as it focuses on the Middle East and Asia while cutting costs and shedding units across 70+ countries — Germany's Delivery Hero spent years inching toward profitability, a rare feat in an industry with razor-thin margins.
More: Tech in Asia
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC says losses from January's earthquake would be ~$161.5M, dragging its Q1 revenue guidance to $25B to $25.8B, up 35.9% YoY but at the lower end of its range — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Monday that losses from the 6.4-magnitude earthquake in January would amount …
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