Ezim Joshua 
AMD closed out a remarkable five-day stretch on Monday by crossing $1 trillion in market capitalization for the first time in its history, a milestone that capped roughly 25 percent in gains accumulated over just five trading sessions. Shares jumped about 10 percent on the day alone, touching an intraday high above $615 before settling … Read more
OpenAI published a detailed policy proposal on Monday calling for coordinated international standards to govern how frontier AI systems are developed, with particular emphasis on alignment research and a technical process known as recursive self-improvement, or RSI, in which AI systems take on an increasing share of the work involved in building their own successors. … Read more
Two weeks ago, OpenAI announced that an internal AI system had produced a formal proof addressing the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of seven Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problems that each carry a $1 million award for a correct solution. The announcement immediately set off debate across the mathematics community, not just over … Read more
The United States has thrown its weight behind an ambitious new undersea internet cable project designed to give Thailand and several of its neighbors a direct digital connection to America that deliberately bypasses the South China Sea, part of a broader Washington strategy to keep Southeast Asia’s internet infrastructure outside Beijing’s reach. The U.S. Trade … Read more
Alibaba shares climbed roughly 3 percent in Hong Kong trading on Tuesday after the Chinese technology giant unveiled a powerful new AI chip and laid out an ambitious plan to more than triple its global data center capacity over the next several years, the latest sign that China’s largest cloud provider intends to compete directly … Read more
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon offered one of the starkest numbers yet on the scale of the AI infrastructure boom this week, telling CNBC-TV18 that spending across the hyperscaler ecosystem could reach $1 trillion next year, up from roughly $700 billion this year and just $300 billion the year before. Speaking on the sidelines of … Read more
AMD crossed the $1 trillion market capitalization threshold for the first time on Monday, capping a five-day rally that saw its shares climb roughly 25 percent and putting the chipmaker ahead of longtime rival Intel in one of the most closely watched races in the semiconductor industry. The stock jumped about 10 percent during the … Read more
Bethesda has sent legal counsel to confront whoever is behind Doomsol, a browser-based Doom clone tied to a cryptocurrency token called $DOOM, following weeks of confusing and increasingly concerning promotional activity from a well-known name in the franchise’s history. Sandy Petersen, the veteran level designer behind classic contributions to the original Doom, Doom II and … Read more
A small Barcelona theatre has run into an unexpected obstacle while trying to sell tickets to a play based on one of the most influential feminist essays of the 20th century: Meta’s own advertising algorithm. Teatre Raval, a newly reopened 193-seat venue, found its Instagram and Facebook promotional campaigns for a stage adaptation of Virginia … Read more
It’s easy to feel genuinely wronged by a small setback. A delayed salary, a slow month in business, a plan that fell through, in the moment, each of these can feel like the worst thing happening to anyone, anywhere. Then something shifts your view, a conversation, a news story, a walk through a part of … Read more