Google’s Dreambeans Drops Subscription, Opens Free Testing
Google’s AI news app Dreambeans is giving up its subscription model and opening free testing, the company said in a product announcement. The app, which Google has described as a…
Equipment Giants Race to Hire Chip Talent in Korea
The job postings went up quietly, but the effect was immediate. ASML, Lam Research, Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron, the four companies that make the machinery used to manufacture advanced…
Nscale Secures Nearly $3 Billion for U.S. Data Center Campuses
On August 31, Nscale, a cloud infrastructure provider, said it had locked in financing commitments of roughly $3 billion to build two data center campuses in the United States. The…
Global Bond Selloff Deepens as Yields Reach Multi-Year Highs
In Tokyo on Tuesday morning, fixed-income desks opened to a chart that few traders had seen in their careers: the 10-year Japanese government bond yielding 3 percent, a level not…
AWS Gives Students a Year of Free Cloud Training in $500 Million Push
The pitch to college students is the same one the industry makes to its own engineers: learn the cloud, and the cloud will pay for itself. AWS launched its Student…
DeepMind’s Cyclone Model Beats Operational Forecasts by a Day
For a meteorologist, a day of extra warning is the difference between an orderly evacuation and a surprise. Google DeepMind published a model on Sunday that claims exactly that advantage:…
Strategy Resumes Buying, Adds 4,603 Bitcoin for $369.7 Million
The message went out on social media the day before: “We’re Back.” By Monday, Michael Saylor’s company had made it literal. Strategy, the software company turned bitcoin treasury, disclosed in…
IBM Quantum Computer Finishes a 15-Minute Task Classical Machines Can’t
The calculation took 15 minutes. On a classical computer, the same problem would take effectively forever, a task the researchers describe as practically impossible. The result, published on August 30…
Xbox Lets Players Trade Discs for Digital Licenses
The Disc-to-Digital program turns a decade of industry debate into a button press: a player inserts a game disc, and the console converts it into a digital license, permanently attached…
SpaceX Pays $220 Million to Take 444 Acres Out of Brownsville’s Hands
Around 11 p.m. on Saturday, the Brownsville City Council voted unanimously to cut 444 acres out of the city. The land, adjacent to SpaceX’s Starbase launch site on the Texas…
