Topic: tech industry innovation
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Silicon Valley bets $200M on floating AI data centers
A startup called Panthalassa has raised $140 million to develop floating AI data centers powered by ocean wave energy, backed by investors like Peter Thiel. Each spherical "node" uses wave motion to generate renewable energy for onboard AI chips, while seawater provides natural cooling, eliminati...
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Facebook launches Creator Studio app with AI tools for creators
Facebook launched its Creator Studio app for iOS, featuring an AI creator assistant that provides personalized, conversational answers to questions about posting times and audience feedback, replacing dense analytics dashboards. The app includes an AI-powered comment tool that drafts replies in t...
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Slack Code lets teams and AI agents build together
Slack launched "Slack Code", a new product enabling teams and AI agents to build software collaboratively within chat, using project-specific channels for the entire coding lifecycle from writing to shipping. Users can tag a coding agent from any conversation, and Slack automatically creates a ...
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Wearables embrace minimalism for a cleaner future
A two-week test of a fully screenless wearable setup (Fitbit, Garmin, Oura Ring, Dexcom, and Meta Glasses) generated massive health data but only one false alert, highlighting the profound quietness compared to smartwatch notifications. The shift away from smartwatches toward minimal trackers is ...
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Apple’s Anti-Nausea Dots Helped Cure My Car Sickness
Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues, introduced in 2024, use a device's accelerometer and gyroscope to counteract motion sickness by aligning visual cues with the car's movement. The feature displays animated black dots on the screen's edges that move with the vehicle, resolving the sensory conflict betw...
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OpenAI adds AI safety layer that skips data retention
OpenAI launched Private Safety Processing, a pilot feature for enterprise clients that detects misuse patterns across linked AI interactions without storing prompts or responses, preserving Zero Data Retention commitments. This addresses a gap in conventional safety controls, which evaluate promp...
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Nvidia spends $6.5B to replace copper with light in AI data centres
Nvidia has invested at least $6.5 billion in photonics companies since March, betting the technology will replace copper as the primary backbone of AI data centres due to copper's performance limits with heat, distance, and energy efficiency. Photonics uses light pulses to carry far more data ove...
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Android app hints at direct WhatsApp sticker export
A recent APK teardown of ChatGPT's Android build revealed hidden code for an "Add to WhatsApp" feature, designed to send AI-generated images as proper stickers with transparency and formatting intact. If released, the feature would streamline sticker creation by letting users generate an image in...
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