OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking trillions of dollars in investments to overhaul the global semiconductor industry, The Wall Street Journal reported. Altman has long talked of the supply-and-demand problem with AI chips — many AI giants want them, but there aren’t enough to go around — and that it limits OpenAI’s growth. He’s considering … Read more
The DAS program echoes multiple dragnet surveillance programs dating back decades, including a Drug Enforcement Agency program launched in 1992 that forced phone companies to surrender records of virtually all calls going to and from over 100 other countries; the National Security Agency’s bulk metadata collection program, which the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals … Read more
Whereas the results of El Niño are extra concentrated within the tropics, different areas will really feel the warmth as properly. The southwestern United States tends to get extra rain, whereas the northern components of the nation heat up. One upside: El Niño sometimes reduces hurricane exercise within the Atlantic Ocean. Courtesy of Christopher Callahan Tropical … Read more