Reeves to face £18bn spending shortfall if bet on productivity gains fails Summary The Financial Times reports that Labour’s fiscal plan relies heavily on future productivity improvements. If those gains do not materialise, the party would confront an estimated £18bn shortfall relative to its planned spending commitments. The piece outlines the potential fiscal gap, the […]
Jensen Huang Wants You to Know He’s Getting a Lot Out of the ‘Fantastic’ Nvidia-Intel Deal Summary Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel and the two companies announced a product collaboration to link Intel CPUs and the x86 ecosystem with Nvidia’s AI and accelerated computing via NVLink. Jensen Huang framed the move as strategic: […]
Move Aside, Chatbots: AI Humanoids Are Here Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley episode and reporting outline a renewed push into humanoid robots, with OpenAI hiring robotics researchers and other AI labs doubling down on physical systems. Humanoids—robots shaped like humans and built to operate in human spaces—are benefiting from advances in hardware (better motors, actuators) and […]
TikTok Deal Won’t End Enterprise Risks Summary A proposed deal would create a new US-based entity to run TikTok in the United States, with a consortium (including Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz and Silver Lake) taking roughly 80% ownership of US operations and Oracle continuing to host US user data in Texas. The structure calls for a […]
The World’s Most Popular Porn Site Is a Government Agent Now. Does It Matter? Summary The FTC reached a settlement with Aylo (parent company of Pornhub) that requires the company to scan every uploaded file for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual intimate images (NCII) and to notify uploaders with a notice-and-consent flow. Legal […]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains his $5 billion investment in Intel Summary Nvidia is taking a $5 billion stake in Intel and entering a multi-faceted partnership that pairs Nvidia GPUs with Intel’s upcoming AI-capable PCs while Nvidia will use Intel x86 CPUs in its data centres. Jensen Huang called the move an enthusiastic endorsement of […]
Friday’s high school football games to watch include top-10 showdown Summary Bishop Gorman hosts Mater Dei (California) in a nationally significant clash Friday at 7 p.m., pitting two blue‑blood programmes against one another. Gorman (4-0) climbed to No. 1 in USA Today after Mater Dei’s recent loss; historically the Gaels are 0-4 all time against […]
Jensen Huang Wants You to Know He’s Getting a Lot Out of the ‘Fantastic’ Nvidia-Intel Deal Summary Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel and the two firms are announcing a product collaboration to link Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs with NVLink. Jensen Huang says the move will let Nvidia scale rack architectures and push […]
How much can Las Vegas homeowners get for replacing grass? Summary The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) has raised its Water Smart Landscape Rebate Programme to £/ $5 per square foot for single-family homeowners who replace grass with drip-irrigated, water-efficient plants and trees. For an average 1,000 sq ft conversion that means about $5,000 — […]
‘Unprecedented’: Data centres want to triple Nevada’s energy grid capacity Summary Nevada utilities and industry leaders warned at a Las Vegas panel that incoming data centre demand could require roughly three times the state’s current peak grid capacity. NV Energy’s peak sits at about 9,000 MW during heat waves, and tech firms have requested an […]
