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OpenAI and Anthropic face new AI reality as users shift from 'tokenmaxxing' to efficiency

Companies are tightening their AI budgets to focus on getting a return on their investment, and that could dampen growth rates at OpenAI and Anthropic.

Behold, the most realistic golf game ever

Normal Golf Game takes a tiresomely easy genre and makes it infernally difficult. Which deserves a round of applause

Micron sinks 6%, wrapping a wild week of trading that saw big swings

Micron Technology's shares tumbled on Friday amid a global sell-off in chip stocks.

'A beauty pageant in athletic form': how cheerleading show America’s Sweethearts became a Netflix megahit

The film-makers and stars of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders docu-series explain the sisterhood and fights for fair pay behind the pompoms

Candomblé: Sacred Rhythms in Brazil review

(Flee) A treasure trove of field recordings are reshaped into pulsating floor-fillers and sparse baile funk by a range of producers

Is the U.S.-Israel Bond Breaking?

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The World Cup Is Putting American Abundance on Display

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How much water does AI really use?

The heaviest demand on America's water isn't data centers or AI. It's from everyday uses such as growing food, watering lawns and flushing toilets.

‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con

City plans to triple system of underground pipes that distribute chilled river water, reducing need for individual cooling units

SoftBank sinks 12% as Asia tech rout tracks declines in the U.S.

SoftBank Group plunged, leading a broad selloff in Asian technology stocks amid mounting concerns over the rising cost of artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Why Hasn’t ‘Abundance’ Been More Influential?

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ON Semiconductor strikes $7 billion deal for Synaptics in physical AI push

ON Semiconductor said the deal bumps up its total addressable market by $30 billion, to $243 billion by 2030.