I used the time over Christmas and in between the years to redesign my website. This time I decided to make it in the theme of an evil Sith Lord that commands the Galactic Cookie Empire, because I fou...
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ISO corporate scapegoat. OpenAI is hiring a Head of Preparedness . Or, in other words, someone whose primary job is to think about all the ways AI could go horribly, horribly wrong. In a post on X , S...
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EU law enforcement too dependent on digital infrastructure from US tech companies, Miguel De Bruycker says...
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A Grok investor said he's "deeply concerned" about the "speculative" data center market. Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images A Groq investor said he's "deeply concer...
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Solana’s bid to move beyond memecoins will depend on whether its upgrades can deliver predictable execution for serious onchain finance....
The mainnet rollout follows the Fermi testnet activation in November, further reducing block times on the layer-1 blockchain network....
A major investment bank said it was upgrading shares of TeraWulf to “outperform,” based in part on its "build-out" strategy....