TechCrunch

Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...
Pew Research Center

Most new data centers in the U.S. are coming to rural areas

The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, and that number is expected to grow substantially in the years ahead. More than 1,500 new data centers are in various stages of ...
VentureBeat

Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
SpaceNews

SpaceX offers details on orbital data center satellites

A SpaceX illustration showing the Starship V3 rocket on the same scale as its planned AI Sat Mini orbital data center spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk revealed ...
STAT

Structure Therapeutics reports significant weight loss from mid-stage GLP-1 pill

Jason is a general assignment reporter, with particular focus on genetic medicine and rare disease. Confidential tips can be sent on Signal at JasonMast.77. Structure Therapeutics said Monday that its ...
The New York Times

There’s a New American TikTok. What Does That Mean for You?

The popular short form video app has a new corporate structure in the United States, which could result in some changes for the 200 million Americans who use TikTok. By Emmett Lindner TikTok has new ...
TechCrunch

X open sources its algorithm while facing a transparency fine and Grok controversies

In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk had only recently acquired the platform, and he claimed ...
VentureBeat

X open sources its algorithm: 5 ways business analysts can benefit

Elon Musk's social network X (formerly known as Twitter) last night released some of the code and architecture of its overhauled social recommendation algorithm under a permissive, enterprise-friendly ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Data Centers Will Need $3 Trillion Through 2030, Moody’s Says

At least $3 trillion is set to flow into data-center-related investments over the next five years, capital that will rely on the might of multiple areas of the credit markets to provide, according to ...
Reuters

Musk's X to open source new algorithm in seven days

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days ...