In May 2025, Prime Intellect unveiled INTELLECT-2, a 32B-parameter LLM trained on a globally distributed swarm of volunteer GPUs. INTELLECT-2 is the first model of its scale trained via fully asynchronous reinforcement learning across hundreds of heterogeneous, permissionless machines on chakra.dev. PRIME-RL coordinates the training loop by separating experience generation on inference workers from policy…
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NLWeb is an open protocol unveiled by Microsoft at Build 2025 to put ChatGPT-like conversational interfaces on websites. NLWeb works by indexing a site’s content using HTML, RSS feeds, and Schema.org metadata and exposing it to AI models via a standard JSON over REST API with a core ask method. The system is model-agnostic and…
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The HANTRU-1 cable is 2,917 km long with a 160 Gbps design capacity, extended to Majuro and Kwajalein/Ebeye in 2010, linking to a Pohnpei hub and onward to Guam. A 2017 HANTRU-1 cable fault caused a nationwide 3-week outage, forcing a 97% bandwidth cut as the islands relied on limited satellite links. The East Micronesia…
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Google scheduled its Made by Google event for August 20, 2025 in New York City, where four Pixel models—Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold—will debut alongside the Pixel Watch 4. The Pixel 10 family will run Android 16 with a redesigned UI and be powered by Google’s Tensor G5…
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TSMC posted a 60% year-on-year jump in quarterly profit, its highest ever, as AI chip demand surged, with Nvidia allowed to resume selling H20 AI chips to China and up to 40% sales growth forecast next quarter. Nvidia’s market value recently touched $4 trillion, making it the world’s most valuable semiconductor firm. Google is adding…
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The iPhone Fold is tipped to debut in the second half of 2026, with mass production of key components planned to begin by late 2025. UBS analysts estimate a launch price around $1,800, with a bill of materials about $759 and gross margins of 53–58%. The device is described as a book-style foldable with a…
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Google launched the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in May 2023, an AI-driven results format that places an AI-generated snapshot at the top of the page using PaLM-era models and later Gemini. Google introduced the Knowledge Graph in 2012, a semantic database powering knowledge panels with over 500 billion facts about more than 5 billion entities.…
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In Q4 2024, YouTube’s advertising sales reached $10.5 billion, up from $9.2 billion in Q4 2023, boosted by U.S. midterm spending. Analysts estimated YouTube’s 2024 ad revenues at $35–36 billion, about 13–14% of Alphabet’s total ad intake, with some valuing YouTube at roughly $550 billion as a standalone enterprise. As of 2025, YouTube Premium and…
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Samsung was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul as a trading company and later diversified into electronics in the late 1960s, becoming South Korea’s largest chaebol. After Lee Byung-chul’s death in 1987 the group was split among family branches, but the Lee family still controls via cross-shareholdings and Samsung Group accounts for about 20% of…
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By mid-2023, 99% of German households had access to fixed broadband, and 95.6% were covered by next-generation NGA networks (≥30 Mbps). As of the end of 2023, Germany had about 37.0 million fixed broadband lines in service. DSL remained the most prevalent technology, but only about 40% of households could get full FTTH/B fiber by…
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