Delays in finishing new factories are emerging, just as the Biden administration begins handing out money to stoke domestic production.
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U.S. Awards $1.5 Billion to Chipmaker GlobalFoundries
The grant will go toward chips for the auto and defense industries, and is the largest award to date from $39 billion in government funding.
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Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO
Enlarge (credit: Reddit) On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Reddit has signed a contract allowing an unnamed AI company to train its models on the site’s content, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes as the social media platform nears the introduction of its initial public offering (IPO), which could happen as soon...
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New app always points to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy
Enlarge / A photo of Galactic Compass running on an iPhone. (credit: Matt Webb / Getty Images) On Thursday, designer Matt Webb unveiled a new iPhone app called Galactic Compass, which always points to the center of the Milky Way galaxy—no matter where Earth is positioned on our journey through the stars. The app is...
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OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion
The A.I. start-up’s valuation tripled in less than 10 months.
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OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora, a photorealistic AI video generator
Enlarge / Snapshots from three videos generated using OpenAI’s Sora. On Thursday, OpenAI announced Sora, a text-to-video AI model that can generate 60-second-long photorealistic HD video from written descriptions. While it’s only a research preview that we have not tested, it reportedly creates synthetic video (but not audio yet) at a fidelity and consistency greater...
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DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than 1,000 Ubiquiti routers in homes and small businesses were infected with malware used by Russian-backed agents to coordinate them into a botnet for crime and spy operations, according to the Justice Department. That malware, which worked as a botnet for the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear, was removed in...
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Doing DNS and DHCP for your LAN the old way—the way that works
Enlarge / All shall tremble before your fully functional forward and reverse lookups! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Here’s a short summary of the next 7,000-ish words for folks who hate the thing recipe sites do where the authors babble about their personal lives for pages and pages before getting to the cooking: This...
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(BPRW) Georgia State University, Comcast and CodePath Announce Launch of New Computer Science Education and Career Readiness Program
(Black PR Wire) ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Georgia State University (GSU) and CodePath announced today a partnership that will the launch of the CodePath E3 Program. This new program, which will be run by GSU and CodePath, provides students with…
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OpenAI Unveils Sora, an A.I. That Generates Eye-Popping Videos
The start-up is sharing the new technology, called Sora, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.