This Is the Decision Founders Put Off Until It Costs Them. Are You Waiting, Too?

Do you build the operational backbone of your business before you need it, or do you wait until the cracks show and scramble to fix it?

SteelSeries Sensei Pro review: clever battery management meets high performance
SteelSeries Sensei Pro review: clever battery management meets high performance

SteelSeries’ new wireless gaming mouse ensures you’ll never need to go wired to charge — but how well does its unusual battery system actually work?

Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, October 22 (game #1732)
Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, October 22 (game #1732)

Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.

NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, October 22 (game #1229)
NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, October 22 (game #1229)

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, October 22 (game #963)
NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, October 22 (game #963)

Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, including the spangram.

Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown

Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn’t panicked by market jitters.

Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock

The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.

Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires’ Tax Ballot Measure

Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.

Rio Tinto eyes a giant hot-brick battery to cut fossil fuel use
Rio Tinto eyes a giant hot-brick battery to cut fossil fuel use

Rio Tinto wants to put Australia’s cheap midday electricity to work at its Yarwun alumina refinery – by storing it in hot bricks and using that heat battery to make steam after the sun sets.

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Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains
Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity. How developers and utilities meet that demand – with gas […]