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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…
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…
The largest maritime gathering in US history offered an impressive display of ships and modern naval alliances. What surprised me, though, were the personal connections.On active-duty US Navy ships, older veterans regaled crew members with tales from their time at sea, comparing the advancements in technology and the patches on…
If your Instagram account is public, your photos — including your profile picture — may now be fair game for other people’s AI creations unless you change a setting buried in the app.Meta’s new Muse Image model, unveiled Tuesday, lets users generate AI images using public Instagram posts by tagging…
Noah Wyle, Taylor Dearden, Shawn Hatosy, Fiona Dourif, Patrick Ball, Katherine LaNasa, Gerran Howell, and Sepideh Moafi were all nominated for their performances in season two of “The Pitt” (and that’s not including guest stars).So is it a bit greedy to say that some of the cast were snubbed? Maybe,…
