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Meta Platforms Inc. said today it’s going to throw an additional $21 billion at the cloud artificial intelligence infrastructure provider CoreWeave Inc. as it strives to keep pace with rival AI developers. The deal expands the social media giant’s partnership with CoreWeave. In September, it revealed it was going to spend $14.2 billion on the cloud provider’s AI compute infrastructure. That original deal was set to run until 2031, but the new deal spans 2027 to 2032, Meta said, giving it access to CoreWeave’s much-needed resources for years to come. CoreWeave operates a network of data centers that are stacked…

What makes work valuable? Michal Masny, the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Department of Philosophy, investigates the role work plays in our lives and its impact on our well-being. Masny sees numerous benefits to work, beyond a paycheck. It’s a space for people to develop excellence at something, make a social contribution, gain social recognition, and create and sustain community. “Consider a future in which we shorten the work week, or one in which we eliminate work altogether,” Masny says. “I don’t believe either of these scenarios would be unambiguously good for everyone.”“Work is both necessary and positively valuable,”…

All it takes is two to three weddings to break even Two to three weddings. That’s all it takes for entrepreneurs Edmund Teo from Octopus Reels and Jessica Tay from Leave Your Message to fully recoup their startup costs—and everything after is profit. Their business? Renting out digital guestbooks that capture audio and video messages from wedding guests. As more couples seek personalised, interactive experiences, this niche service is quickly gaining popularity and turning into a profitable opportunity. Set up is simple, only requires two to three people, and the equipment is reusable, making margins compelling with limited costs.  Vulcan…

Stop settling for narrative dressed up as data in 2026. Closed-loop marketing is your fix, connecting every revenue outcome back to the marketing action that fueled it. Most B2B organizations are sitting on more data than they can act on. The problem was never collection. It is that the data sits in systems that were never designed to tell you whether your marketing actually drove revenue. Closed-loop marketing is the fix for that. It means connecting every downstream sales outcome back to the upstream marketing action that generated it. Which campaign sourced the lead? Which content piece moved a deal…

This blog post focuses on new features and improvements. For a comprehensive list, including bug fixes, please see the release notes. LLM inference at scale typically involves deploying multiple replicas of the same model behind a load balancer. The standard approach treats these replicas as interchangeable and routes requests randomly or round-robin across them. But LLM inference isn’t stateless. Each replica builds up a KV cache of previously computed attention states. When a request lands on a replica without the relevant context already cached, the model has to recompute everything from scratch. This wastes GPU cycles and increases latency. The…

Dairy cows at the Puyallup Fair, now called the Washington State Fair. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Wastewater treatment startup Sedron Technologies — a Washington company that once served Bill Gates a glass of water purified from sewage — announced it’s being acquired by Ara Partners. The global equity firm is investing up to $500 million in Sedron to facilitate the deployment of its sewage and manure cleaning technologies, which gives it a controlling stake in the business. “The Ara investment is largely designed to provide us with the equity on our own balance sheet to scale up production of…

The era of truly good budget phones is over, and you can blame AI for that. Due to the rising chip costs, even flagship phones are feeling the pinch. And that’s why, when TCL finally brought the NXTPAPER 70 Pro to the US, it came as a big surprise to me. The phone costs just $199, nearly half the price you’d pay in other markets.  Yes, the phone is exclusive to T-Mobile, but at $199, the NXTPAPER 70 Pro felt something else. A 6.9-inch 120Hz display, IP68 water resistance, 5,200mAh battery, 50MP camera, and TCL’s NXTPAPER 4.0 display technology, which…

Meta AI has unveiled Muse Spark, the first AI model from its newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This marks a significant overhaul of the company’s AI strategy. Designed as a foundation for personal superintelligence, Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model that combines tool use, visual chain-of-thought, and multi-agent orchestration. It aims to deliver advanced performance across perception, health, coding, and agentic tasks. Muse Spark emphasizes efficiency and scalability through improved pretraining techniques, reinforcement learning, and test-time reasoning. Pretraining enhancements allow the model to extract more capability per unit of compute, achieving performance comparable to previous larger models…

The Artemis II space mission is making history.Farthest humans have ever traveled in space? Check.First Black, woman, and Canadian astronauts to make it around the moon? Also check.First time a toilet has made this journey? Big, important check.Because while there are many significant questions about space — Is life out there? Could we settle Mars? How far does the universe stretch, really? — one question holds plenty of gravity: What happens when nature calls in space?This mission hopes to return with answers.After years of research, the Orion spacecraft used in the Artemis II mission has departed Earth with an actual…

Candace Owens spent years building a pro-MAGA audience by supporting President Donald Trump. Now, she’s calling for his removal from office.Over the past few months, right-wing media figures like Owens have broken with Trump on a number of issues, including the Epstein files and the administration’s intervention in Venezuela. But the fracturing among the MAGA media coalition appears to have reached the point of no return after the president’s threats to annihilate “a whole civilization” in Iran this week.“The 25th amendment needs to be invoked,” Owens wrote Tuesday on X. “He is a genocidal lunatic. Our Congress and military need…