How AI labs are deploying on-site gas generators for power as the US electric grid struggles to keep pace with the growing demands of AI infrastructure (SemiAnalysis)
How AI Labs Are Solving the Power Crisis: The Onsite Gas Deep Dive
Bring Your Own Generation, Sayonara Electric Grid, Turbines vs. Recips. vs. Fuel Cells, Why Not Build More CCGTs?, Onsite Power TCO
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How AI labs are deploying on-site gas generators for power, as the US electric grid struggles with demand, estimated to grow from ~3GW in 2023 to 28GW+ by 2026
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Elon Musk says Neuralink plans to start "high-volume production" of brain-computer interface devices and move to a fully automated surgical procedure in 2026 (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/musk-says-neuralink-start-high-volume-production-interface-devices-by-2026-2026-01-01/
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Elon Musk says that Neuralink plans to start “high-volume production” of its BCI devices and move to an “almost entirely automated surgical procedure in 2026”
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Adam Mosseri details trends shaping Instagram and says it'll be more practical to authenticate real media than label AI, as AI gets better at imitating reality (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
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Instagram chief: AI is so ubiquitous 'it will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media'
Adam Mosseri offered a notably candid assessment on how AI is upending Instagram.
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Adam Mosseri details trends shaping Instagram and says it
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The FBI says fraudsters bilked Americans out of $333.5M via bitcoin ATM scams from January through November 2025, up from roughly $250M in 2024 (Lucien Bruggeman/ABC News)
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Scammers notched $333 million from bitcoin ATM scams in 2025, FBI says
The FBI says fraudsters in 2025 bilked Americans out of more than $333 million with ruses perpetrated using bitcoin ATM machines.
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The FBI says that fraudsters bilked Americans out of $333.5M via bitcoin ATM scams from January through November 2025, up from $247M in 2024 and $189M in 2023
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Thiel Capital opens an office in Miami, as Peter Thiel and others reportedly look to cut ties with California over a proposed ballot measure to tax billionaires (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)
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Peter Thiel Opens Miami Office as California Weighs Billionaires Tax
Peter Thiel’s private investment firm opened an office in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, expanding the billionaire’s presence in Florida, Thie...
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Thiel Capital opens an office in Miami, as Peter Thiel and others reportedly look to cut ties with California over a proposed ballot measure to tax billionaires
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TSMC says the US government has granted the company an annual license to import US chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-grants-annual-approval-tsmc-chipmaking-tool-exports-china-2025-12-31/
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TSMC says the US government has granted the company an annual license to import US chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China
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Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads "not findable" for regulators and others (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-created-playbook-fend-off-pressure-crack-down-scammers-documents-show-2025-12-31/
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Internal docs reveal Meta
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Filing: Chinese AI chip startup Biren raises ~$717M in its Hong Kong IPO; institutional and retail tranches were oversubscribed ~26x and ~2,348x, respectively (Himanshi Akhand/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-ai-chip-firm-biren-raises-717-million-hong-kong-ipo-2025-12-31/
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Filing: Chinese AI chip startup Biren raises ~$717M in its Hong Kong IPO; institutional and retail tranches were oversubscribed ~26x and ~2,348x, respectively
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Unsealed documents detail a US operation that stopped the alleged smuggling of $160M worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China between Oct. 2024 and May 2025 (CNBC)
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How $160 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia chips were allegedly smuggled into China
The scheme involved falsifying shipping documents to misclassify the GPUs and hide their true destinations, including China and other prohibited lo...
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Unsealed documents detail a US operation that stopped the alleged smuggling of $160M worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China between Oct. 2024 and May 2025
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Sources: Uber is in talks to acquire the parking space reservation app SpotHero; the parking app was last valued at $290M (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/uber-considers-deal-parking-app-spothero
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Sources: Uber is in talks to acquire the parking space reservation app SpotHero; the parking app was last valued at $290M
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