Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: TheMinerMag: median cost to mine a bitcoin is expected to rise 9.4% QoQ in Q2 2025 to $70K, up from $52K in Q4 2024, squeezing margins for less efficient miners — The median cost of mining a single Bitcoin was only $52,000 in Q4, but jumped 23% in the first quarter […]
Amazon will start showing limited advertisements to Prime Video users in India later this month. Subscribers can choose to pay an extra amount to continue enjoying an ad-free experience. However, in some regions, Amazon has already started showing ads between content with a new report now claiming that the company has also increased the number of
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Alphabet’s Google said on Thursday it had resolved a brief global service disruption on its platforms that affected multiple services such as music streamer Spotify and instant messaging provider Discord.”The issue with Google Chat, Google Meet, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Cloud Search, Google Tasks, Google Voice has been resolved for all affected users,”
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Matt O’Brien / Associated Press: Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages — Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Source link
OpenAI’s o3, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, and DeepSeek-R1 were among the 18 artificial intelligence (AI) models that played the popular strategy game Diplomacy. An AI researcher modified the game so that popular large language models (LLMs) can play the game that requires high-level reasoning and multi-step thinking, alongside other social skills.
Bloomberg: A senior Trump administration official projects that Huawei’s Ascend AI chip output will be at or below 200,000 for 2025, in a hearing with US lawmakers — The Chinese technology giant will be able to make just 200,000 of its Ascend AI chips in 2025, Commerce Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler said Thursday at a
OpenAI is reportedly planning to use Google Cloud’s services to fuel its computational requirements. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm and the Mountain View-based tech giant have been discussing this partnership for several months. With this move, OpenAI could shift some of the server requirements for ChatGPT and Sora to
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Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Nintendo says it sold 3.5M Switch 2 consoles globally in its first four days, a record for any of its hardware; Nintendo aims to sell 15M units by March 2026 — The numbers, released by the company Wednesday, bode well for its target to sell 15 million units by March next
WWDC 2025 began at 10:30pm IST on Monday, and Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage along with other senior executives to make several announcements related to the company’s software updates and features for the upcoming year, along with a new Liquid Glass UI. The company also unveiled the next versions of its operating systems