SoftBank Group announced today that it plans to spend up to €75 billion (around $87 billion) to expand data center capacity in France. The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.
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Last 44 daysThe Kane Parsons’ film Backrooms is expected to earn up to $90 million in its opening weekend after pulling down $38 million on Friday alone. That’s not only above expectations , but absolutely obliterates A24’s previous opening weekend record of $25.5 million for Alex Garland’s Civil War .
The golden age of Microsoft’s Github Copilot appears to be at an end — for the little guy, at least. The company is switching its billing system from a flat subscription rate to a token-usage system that has the potential to bill users at a significantly higher rate.
Gemini Spark is Google’s new 24/7 agentic assistant , designed to help you help you “navigate your digital life,” which essentially means getting your online to-dos done, summarizing the things you don’t have time to read (like the entirety of your inbox), or organizing something that would have otherwise involved too much screen time-filled manual labor,…
Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing in the next year, according to a memo viewed by The Information . This device would presumably build on the work of Limitless, an AI device startup that Meta acquired at the end of 2025.
Microsoft is facing criticism for its handling of zero-day exploits. Someone going by the name Nightmare Eclipse has been publicly feuding with the company, posting proof-of-concept exploit code.
Cecil Baldwin’s résumé includes appearances on Gravity Falls , narrating the documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Stree t , and performing as part of the New York Neo-Futurists theater company.
You may have heard that Valve’s new Steam Controller can ring like a telephone or do the Wilhelm scream . But did you know it can sing songs, too?
Art TVs aren’t exactly known for being affordable, which is why Woot’s latest sale is notable. Now through June 26th, the retailer is discounting Samsung’s 2025 Frame TV and Hisense’s 2025 CanvasTV .
As handheld consoles continue to grow and push the limits of what you can actually hold in your hands , the Arduboy FX-C comes in a refreshingly pocketable package. It manages to squeeze the best features of past models and some welcome upgrades into a handheld that’s still no larger or thicker than a few credit cards.
I live in a part of Los Angeles where I feel safer bringing pepper spray on walks. The problem is, I don’t always remember to bring it with me, and it’s not legal to carry it everywhere I go.
Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari currently dominate the web browser market, with Chrome holding a significant share due to the tech giant’s ongoing innovations, particularly in integrating generative AI into its search functionalities. However, users seeking alternatives will find a variety of browsers aiming to challenge these industry giants.
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I haven’t seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time — that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke.
Slots & Daggers , a low-key, fantasy-themed slot machine roguelike, was one of my favorite games last year. That may sound like a complicated description, but the game mixes ideas from deckbuilding roguelikes with slot machines to create an engrossing loop, and there’s steady meta-progression that helps you push further with just about every run.
Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: “Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white women will stay 13 seconds [on this video] to save my belt buckle business,”…
Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company.
Most people are still digesting the massive Anthropic news from yesterday. We’re taking the opportunity to solicit the leading AI FDE’s in the world for AIE’s new Forward Deployed Engineer track, mirroring similar pushes from both OpenAI DeployCo and Anthropic DeployCo : as well as AIE’s new Founders program, where we are doing our version of the Startup…