Back to the days of the telephone, helping your friend with the computer was a bit like this: Human A – Hey, so, yes, wait, you need to close the window. Human B – What window? Human A – Well, how many windows you have? Human B – I have 20 tabs. Human A – … Read more
Nscale, a British neocloud, has secured $3.36 billion in financing ahead of its IPO later this year, the company announced on Friday. Structured as a convertible note, the massive funding round underscores the staggering capital required to build out AI data centers. Led by hedge fund Third Point, the new investment includes $2.36 billion available … Read more
Last month, we reported that defense attorneys representing prominent torrent trackers told a federal judge that the case may have been filed by an impostor. After they revealed their findings, Judge Andrea R. Wood put the case on a sanctions track and scheduled an in-person hearing. Since then, the case has taken some surprising turns … Read more
This past April, while attending his nephew’s bar mitzvah on Cape Cod, Eric Umansky woke up to an inbox full of emails from people from his past. They all wanted to know the same thing: Was he actually throwing a party Saturday night? The New York–based journalist wasn’t sure what party they were referring to, … Read more
A €19.99 price tag can make an indie game look deceptively profitable. In reality, platform fees, taxes, refunds, discounts and development costs all reduce the studio’s actual return. More importantly, the difficult part isn’t setting the price; it’s reaching enough people for that price to matter. For an indie studio, the economics of a game … Read more
Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. He broke out in 1997’s “Boogie Nights,” and in the nearly three decades since, he’s built one of the highest-wattage careers in Hollywood: two Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nod for “The Fighter,” multiple Emmy nominations as a … Read more
Dynamic site blocking orders that allow rightsholders to add new targets without returning to court have been common in Europe for years. In July, Spanish-language broadcaster TelevisaUnivision (TU) obtained a similar order from a federal court in Florida. This preliminary injunction, which started with five pirate IPTV services, expanded to cover hundreds of domains and … Read more
And lastly, for something with a larger screen, I’d recommend the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x. It’s a particularly good alternative to the 15-inch MacBook Air, at a much lower cost. These days, you can buy the upgraded model with the 2560 x 1600 OLED display (and 165-Hz refresh rate) for $1,000, on sale at Amazon. … Read more
An observability-first approach for building an AI agent, and what it bought me. A couple of weeks ago I started implementing Kept, a self-hostable post-purchase support agent for e-commerce, with reliability as its core offering. Besides the product itself, my objective in building it is to delve into the depths of agentic system design, and … Read more
Hospitals’ use of artificial intelligence tools as they submit insurance claims led to an additional $942 million in healthcare spending over a two-year period, according to an analysis by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. The BCBSA analysis found “a sharp increase in patients being documented as having complex conditions,” but argued there is a … Read more