A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.
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Apple Reports Record iPhone Sales Amid Holiday Bump
New phone designs, coupled with robust holiday spending, continued to lift iPhone sales in the quarter and drove the company to record profits.
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Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60%
The company said on Wednesday that revenue in the most recent quarter was $81.3 billion, but its share price dropped more than 7 percent in after-hours trading.
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Amazon and Google Eat Into Nvidia’s A.I. Chip Supremacy
The rivals made billions of dollars in the business over the past year, showing other companies that Nvidia isn’t the only game in town.
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County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation. The case was brought by Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn, two penetration testers who at the time were employed by Colorado-based...
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Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think?
Anthropic’s secret to building a better AI assistant might be treating Claude like it has a soul—whether or not anyone actually believes that’s true. But Anthropic isn’t saying exactly what it believes either way. Last week, Anthropic released what it calls Claude’s Constitution, a 30,000-word document outlining the company’s vision for how its AI assistant...
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John Wall’s Wizards retirement celebration honors his deeper impact beyond basketball
A reputation has a way of sticking with you, no matter how much time and circumstances have changed. You never get a second chance at a first impression, sure, but at some point you should be allowed the grace of maturation. When it comes to former NBA guard John Wall, many things are true. The...
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Steven Adams’ Season-Ending Injury Deals Major Blow to Rockets’ Contender Push
The Houston Rockets have weathered injuries all season, but losing Steven Adams for the remainder of the year represents one of the most significant setbacks yet for a team firmly entrenched in the Western Conference race. Adams has undergone season-ending surgery on his left ankle, a development first reported by ESPN’s Shams Charania and later...
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Tesla Profit Slumps, but Investors May Not Care
The automaker also said it would invest $2 billion in xAI, the artificial intelligence company controlled by its C.E.O., Elon Musk, and stop making the two oldest models in its lineup.