A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B+ (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
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The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana
$10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values. And enough tax breaks...
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A look at Meta
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OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system (OpenAI)
Evaluating chain-of-thought monitorability
We introduce evaluations for chain-of-thought monitorability and study how it scales with test-time compute, reinforcement learning, and pretraining.
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OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system
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YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
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People Watched 700 Million Hours of YouTube Podcasts on TV in October
That’s up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.
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Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
Client Challenge
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Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives
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Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by "several quarters" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
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TSMC to install cutting-edge 3-nm chip tools in Arizona next summer
Advanced chip production on track to start by 2027, ahead of the original schedule
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Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by “several quarters”
By Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia. View the full context on Techmeme.
China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years (Bloomberg)
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China Tightens Oversight of Internet Platform Pricing Practices
China issued rules for governing pricing-related practices of internet platform operators to safeguard the interests of consumers and merchants, te...
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China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years
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Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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Ex-Splunk execs' startup Resolve AI hits $1B valuation with Series A | TechCrunch
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to people familiar with the deal.
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Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B
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Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install
Epic claims it’ll fight the fees.
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Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours
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OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is
OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too.
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OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT
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Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October (Echo Wang/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-chip-firm-cerebras-set-file-us-ipo-after-delay-sources-say-2025-12-19/
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Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October
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