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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: France and the UAE agree to build an up to 1GW data center in France, representing €30B to €50B in investments in French and Emirati AI, chips, talent, and more  —  France and the UAE have announced a partnership to build a 1GW AI data center, representing up to €50bn in investments Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: France and the UAE agree to build an up to 1GW data center in France, representing €30B to €50B in investments in French and Emirati AI, chips, talent, and more  —  France and the UAE have announced a partnership to build a 1GW AI data center, representing up to €50bn in investments Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: Kadrey v. Meta: unsealed emails show Meta allegedly torrented 81.7TB+ of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive for AI training  —  Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the “most damning evidence” yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Cerebras says it worked with Mistral to help its Le Chat app respond to user questions with 1,000 words per second, making it the world’s fastest AI assistant  —  Cerebras Systems, an artificial intelligence chip firm backed by UAE tech conglomerate G42, said on Thursday it has partnered … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI updates o3-mini’s chain of thought to make it easier for users “to understand how the model thinks”, available to both free and paid ChatGPT users  —  In response to pressure from rivals including Chinese AI company DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its newest AI model … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: France and the UAE agree to build an up to 1GW data center in France, representing €30B to €50B in investments in French and Emirati AI, chips, talent, and more  —  France and the UAE have announced a partnership to build a 1GW AI data center, representing up to €50bn in investments Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: In a meeting with GOP lawmakers, Donald Trump proposed taxing carried interest as ordinary income, a policy that could sharply increase the tax bill for VCs  —  On Thursday, President Trump asked Republican lawmakers to end tax breaks on carried interest.  —  The tax break allows private equity … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: Sources: DOGE is pushing rapidly to develop GSAi, a custom generative AI chatbot for the US GSA to boost productivity, analyze procurement data, and more  —  The chatbot is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katherine Long / Wall Street Journal: DOGE staff member Marko Elez resigns after being linked to racist X posts; the 25-year-old was embedded in the US Treasury and previously worked at SpaceX and X  —  A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Winklevoss’ crypto exchange Gemini is considering an IPO as soon as in 2025; cryptoasset exchange operator Bullish is also considering an IPO in 2025  —  Gemini, the cryptocurrency firm backed by the billionaire Winklevoss twins, is considering an initial public offering as soon as this year … Lees verder op Tech Meme