Social Media and the Myth of the Big Tobacco Moment
Smoking used to be everywhere, the way Facebook, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and Instagram are now. Society decided to break the habit, but it took a
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Why Countries Are Pushing Social Media Bans Despite Their Flaws
Proposals for curbing social media use among children have wide support, but critics say they are ineffective.
Cheap smartphones are dead. Apple doesn’t care
An important but potentially fragile trend is emerging in the data being reported by smartphone industry trackers: while painful component price increases are denting overall
Why AI doesn’t make companies more productive
In 1987, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Solow wrote, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” The same could be said
a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI
Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1bn fund that will invest exclusively in hardware. The Machine Age Fund, announced on Friday, covers the physical layer artificial
Lovable has the .com now, and it belonged to an Italian lingerie brand
If you type lovable.com into a browser now, you land on a vibe-coding platform valued at $13.3bn. If you had typed it a month ago
Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT
Meta negotiated an unusual provision in their landmark settlement: If TikTok and YouTube also agree to penalties and changes to their products, Meta will pay
SoftBank seeks a second $10bn loan against its OpenAI stake
SoftBank is seeking a further $10bn loan to fund its OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It closed a loan of exactly that size, secured
Nvidia has paused parts of the revenue-sharing programme it launched in July
Nvidia has halted some of the transactions under the financing programme it introduced eight weeks ago, in which it extends credit to AI cloud companies
GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices
Republican campaign committees want the Supreme Court to mandate lower prices for election commercials on broadcast TV stations. If the court agrees, broadcasters would be
Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion
Nvidia is reportedly moving forward to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The acquisition could help the hardware giant expand and fortify its deep integration
Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them
Nvidia shipped its first H200 processors to China under a new US licensing scheme, and they accounted for less than 1% of $89B in quarterly
Kevin Durant’s $250,000 Hugging Face bet is reportedly worth $60M
Kevin Durant and his business partner invested $250,000 in Hugging Face’s early rounds and his payout is reported at around $60M if Nvidia’s $12.9B acquisition
The executive assistant of the future: DonnaPro’s approach to human-AI collaboration
Every productivity tool on the market right now is telling you the same thing: AI will replace what you do. Cut the middleman. Automate the