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Fuel shortages that have been ramping up since the summer of 2025 are compounding into a nationwide crisis for Russia, forcing the oil-producing nation to ban energy sales and import instead.In the annexed peninsula of Crimea, one of the first Russian-controlled areas hit by the dearth, public gasoline sales were…
Kioxia may have become Japan’s most valuable company amid the AI boom, but South Korea’s chip giants still hold a structural edge, according to the Bain Capital executive who led the company’s buyout from Toshiba.”The reason South Korean companies are so successful in the semiconductor industry is the powerful top-down…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth shed new light on the data leak that made the company pause its unpopular Model Capability Initiative.In an interview with The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson, released on Wednesday, Bosworth spoke about why Meta paused the AI training program that involved tracking employee keystrokes. The interview was…
Jensen Huang says his software engineers love how AI is changing their role.”These agentic systems are new skills, and now we have a lot of software engineers building agents,” the Nvidia CEO said in an interview published by the company on Wednesday. “If you ask me, every one of my…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gu Yichen, a 31-year-old Chinese national who lives in California. After being laid off by Google, he returned to Amazon, where he works on an H-1B visa.His words have been edited for length and clarity.I spent my sophomore year of high…
Meta is bringing a data center to Canada.The company announced on Wednesday that it broke ground for a new AI computing center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, just outside Edmonton. The facility represents an investment of more than CAD $13 billion, or roughly $9 billion, and is planned as a 1-gigawatt…
“It’s Always Sunny’s” lack of awards recognition is so well known that a season nine episode called “The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award” remains as relevant in 2026 as it was in 2013.The other two co-stars of the show, Danny DeVito and Kaitlin Olson, have each been recognized.…
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to stop waiting for its turn.During a Wednesday livestream, the company unveiled GPT-Live, a new voice model powering ChatGPT Voice. OpenAI says the update is built to make talking with AI feel more like talking to a human.Instead of waiting for a clean pause at the end…
None of the retailers had the cheapest item in every category, but if it weren’t for my seemingly lucky week and Kroger card, Walmart would have.Walmart got me the lowest-priced basket this time — though the savings weren’t as big as I’d expected, given that I specifically shopped the chain’s…
Brakes are one of the most important features on your vehicle — so it’s important to keep them in good working condition. Most people don’t realize how many moving parts there are in modern braking systems until they face a large repair bill. “In the brake system, hydraulic pressure is…
