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‘So LAZY this year’: The internet is furious that Spotify Wrapped embraced AI—and got boring

Before fully immersing yourself in the holiday spirit, there’s another yearly tradition to dive into: Spotify Wrapped day.

This annual event gives Spotify’s 640 million users a chance to celebrate, or cringe at, their music taste with friends, family, and strangers on the i

Bitcoin $100K party: Why the price is a psychological milestone for longtime crypto believers

Crypto enthusiasts are rallying over their new riches on social media after Bitcoin crossed the $100,000 threshold on Thursday.

“$100,000 is a psychological milestone,” entrepreneur and investor Anthony Pompliano wrote on X. “Every boomer is waking up to headlines tomorrow and then going to buy some bitcoin just in case they were wrong. Welcome to the next phase of the game.”

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Why the ‘one AI model to rule them all’ myth needs to die

Welcome to AI DecodedFast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.

The myth of scaling to reach AGI is wearing thin

The first two years of the AI boom were all about monolithic large language models (LL

Meta’s massive $10 billion AI data center is coming to this state

The largest artificial intelligence data center ever built by Facebook’s parent company Meta is coming to northeast Louisiana, the company said Wednesday, bringing hopes that the $10 billion

These satellites are on a mission to create the first fake solar eclipses. Here’s how

A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy formation flying in space.

Each fake eclipse should la

‘The 21st century equivalent of court jesters’: TikTok’s dark obsession with ‘LOLCows’

On the internet, people go viral for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes, for the wrong ones. 

LOLCows are one example of the internet’s darker sense of humor. While not a new term, an “LOLCow” is a “a person you get extensive laughs from, who doesn’t know they are being made fun of,” according to  Urban Dictionary. In other words, a person being milked for “lols” or laughs. “They can often think they are a

The White House reveals at least 8 U.S. telecom firms impacted by China’s Salt Typhoon cyberattack

A top White House official on Wednesday said at least eight U.S. telecom firms and dozens of nations have been impacted by a Chinese hacking campaign.

Deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger offered new details about the breadth of the

TSMC and Nvidia in talks to make AI chips in Arizona, sources reveal

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co is in discussions with Nvidia Corp to produce its Blackwell artificial intelligence chips at the contract manufacturer’s new plant in

Ubisoft’s problems compound with the sudden shutdown of ‘XDefiant’

In mid-October, rumors were swirling that Ubisoft was planning to shut down XDefiant, its struggling free-to-play first-person shooter game. Producer Mark Rubin took to social media to categorically deny that chatter. Tuesday afternoon, he was back on X.com—this time to announce the game was indeed ending.

Ubisoft has pulled the plug on

ASML’s Christophe Fouquet is leading the company quietly powering the AI boom

When it comes to producing state-of-the-art microchips for artificial intelligence, only one company produces the multimillion-dollar hardware necessary to draw the complex, microscopic designs on silicon needed for the chips to work: ASML. Big chipmakers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Intel, and Samsung all rely on the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that the Dutch company provides. No wonder it


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