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The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.

The Mall lets shoppers build a personalized feed of brands, track sales and drops, and discover products across thousands of retailers.

Hackers stole usernames, hashed passwords, and other data from a service that allowed players to cheat in Grand Theft Auto V.

Mike Schroepfer's Gigascale Capital has raised a large fund to back founders building climate-friendly solutions for the world's energy and material shortages.

Anthropic, now an AI powerhouse that has landed top-tier enterprise customers, was once considered an underdog in the emerging world of large language models.

The company added a warning to prospective investors that a major dilution could be in the cards after it goes public.

WindBorne benefits from its unique combination of model-building and data collection. The company now has about 400 balloons in flight gathering sensor readings at any given time, launched from 15 sites around the globe. The advances in its current model come from improvements in how the data collected by the balloons is fed into the models.

Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.

The British fintech has built a waitlist of about 450,000 users in India as it prepares for a broader launch.

To stop scraping, the company is increasing security around its website and will now only allow authenticated users to view certain data. Earlier, users were able to see details like public profiles and fitness club listings without logging in. The company is putting all that data behind authentication to protect it from unauthorized AI scraping.

The Seoul-based rocket startup is developing its own launch vehicles and engines.

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.

The YouTube-to-prestige-horror pipeline is looking very strong.

The startup has apparently taken down the ads using KC Green's "This is fine" meme.

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