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How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws (Barbara Booth/CNBC)
Barbara Booth / CNBC:
How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws — New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content …
Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures (TrendForce)
TrendForce:
Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures — - For a mainstream notebook with an MSRP of US$900, surging memory prices alone could raise retail prices by more than 30%; …
Sources: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta and ex-Meta CRO John Hegeman seek to raise $1B+ for a holding company to acquire at least one firm and infuse it with new tech (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta and ex-Meta CRO John Hegeman seek to raise $1B+ for a holding company to acquire at least one firm and infuse it with new tech — Sequoia Capital partner Ravi Gupta and former Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman are looking to raise …
Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers — Elon Musk's xAI scored a victory in Mississippi, where regulators on Tuesday authorized the artificial intelligence company to build a power plant …
Polymarket says it is partnering with Palantir and TWG AI to identify, prevent, and report suspicious activity in Polymarket's sports contracts (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Polymarket says it is partnering with Palantir and TWG AI to identify, prevent, and report suspicious activity in Polymarket's sports contracts — Polymarket is enlisting firms including Palantir Technologies Inc. to help police its sports contracts as prediction markets face intense scrutiny over insider trading.