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 […]

Tesla wants to sell you a useless car with no steering wheel this year
Tesla wants to sell you a useless car with no steering wheel this year

Tesla said today it will sell Cybercab to consumers by the end of this year, raising questions of what end users would do with a vehicle with no steering wheel and no self-driving software.

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‘Data centers can be located in exhausted open pits’: Russia eyes 300-meter-deep coal mines to shield server infrastructure from Ukrainian drones
‘Data centers can be located in exhausted open pits’: Russia eyes 300-meter-deep coal mines to shield server infrastructure from Ukrainian drones

Russia is considering abandoned coal mines for data centers, citing potential security and cooling benefits amid drone attacks and infrastructure concerns.

Why Enterprise AI Agents Require More Than A Technology Strategy

How AI agents are changing enterprise operations and why leaders must rethink business strategy, productivity, human oversight, governance, and accountability.

Tesla pushes unsupervised FSD to Q2 2027, and only inside Robotaxi zones
Tesla pushes unsupervised FSD to Q2 2027, and only inside Robotaxi zones

Tesla now says unsupervised “Full Self-Driving” in customer-owned cars will arrive in Q2 2027. It’s the latest date on a promise Elon Musk has been making to FSD buyers for the better part of a decade.

But there’s a catch. On Tesla’s Q3 2026 earning…

Airbnb limits chores for guests, sparking backlash from hosts

Hosts are threatening to leave the platform after Airbnb says that they can no longer require guests to strip beds or do other time-consuming cleaning chores.

12 days of nerd-friendly Advent calendars — from rubber ducks to Funko Pops
12 days of nerd-friendly Advent calendars — from rubber ducks to Funko Pops

Gloriously geeky countdown calendars with doors you’ll actually be excited to open.