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Nvidia gets $500bn from major banks to develop AI data centres
Nvidia has agreed deals with several of Wall Street’s biggest financial firms to help raise $500bn (£370bn) to fund the build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure, including data centres and chip factories. The move marks a shift in how banks view AI hardware, or “compute”, which is now being treated as a distinct investable asset class…
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3 Musicians Who Turned Their Songwriting Genius Into Award-Winning Musicals
American Songwriter highlights three musicians who stepped beyond recording careers to write acclaimed stage musicals, showing how their songwriting talents translated successfully to theatre. The piece looks at Sara Bareilles, Cyndi Lauper and Pete Townshend, each of whom adapted existing material—a film, a film again, and their own concept album—into stage productions that won over…
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3 Musicians Who Turned Their Songwriting Genius Into Award-Winning Musicals
Several well-known singer-songwriters have extended their careers beyond recorded music by writing scores for stage musicals, adapting films, albums or original stories into full theatrical productions. This showcases their versatility as composers and storytellers, with the resulting shows often achieving lasting popularity and critical acclaim in their own right, sometimes eclipsing the source material. Sara…
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Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement
Ars Technica has announced a live conversation with Ross Scott, founder of the Stop Killing Games campaign, taking place on 11 August at 2:30 pm ET as part of its Ars Live series. The discussion will address video game preservation, specifically the problem of games becoming unplayable when publishers shut down centralised servers or delist…
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Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl on SOULM8TE, AI Addiction, and Constructing the Perfect Woman: Podcast
Actors Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl discussed their new film SOULM8TE on Kyle Meredith’s podcast, exploring how the techno-thriller expands the M3GAN universe by examining humanity’s willingness to become dependent on artificial intelligence. The film follows Rysdahl’s grieving character David as he grows increasingly attached to Sullivan’s artificially created companion, Sarah, with the actors framing…
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Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl on SOULM8TE, AI Addiction, and Constructing the Perfect Woman: Podcast
Actors Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl discuss their new film SOULM8TE, an erotic techno-thriller that expands the M3GAN universe, in a podcast interview with Kyle Meredith. The film explores how grief and loneliness can drive dependency on artificial intelligence, with Rysdahl’s character David forming an increasingly obsessive attachment to Sullivan’s artificially created companion Sarah, raising…
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With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
Meta has announced a renewed push into open-weight AI models, releasing a new model called Muse Glimmer and pledging to publish the weights of its more capable Muse Spark 1.2 model within weeks. The move, accompanied by a lengthy essay from CEO Mark Zuckerberg on AI philosophy and governance, is Meta’s latest attempt to reposition…
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id Software dev says mass layoffs like Microsoft’s are weakening the games industry, because developers ‘don’t have the incentive to care anymore’
An id Software developer has argued that repeated mass lay-offs, including those at Microsoft, are damaging the games industry by undermining workers’ commitment and confidence. The developer’s point is that when staff believe their jobs may disappear regardless of performance, they have less reason to invest emotionally in studios, projects or long-term quality. The comments…
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Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto criticises a 6,500-word manifesto posted by Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg that attempts to paint a positive vision for the future of artificial intelligence. She argues the essay reads as damage control, coming as public sentiment towards AI sours over issues such as data centre expansion, rising electricity bills and warnings…
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Apple may introduce a photo authentication tool in iOS 27
Apple appears to be developing a new photo authentication feature called Reference Image, according to signals spotted in the latest iOS 27 beta by 9to5Mac. The tool would verify that a photo was genuinely captured on an iPhone, offering a way to establish provenance at a time when AI-generated images are increasingly difficult to distinguish…