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The AI world has been abuzz recently with news and rumors that Google’s latest TPU, Ironwood, is powering the Gemini3 model, surpassing OpenAI in many metrics, including intelligence and performance. Now, The Informationas repeated by Bloomberg and CNBC, reports that Alphabet’s Google is preparing to market its TPUs beyond Google Cloud, with Meta Platforms as the main design win. Google is also rumored to be pitching the Ironwood Pod to other hyperscalers and large enterprises as an alternative to Nvidia. As a result, Alphabet is up nearly 50% over the past month, while Nvidia is down more than 7%. But…
“Competition leads to lower prices, better value and a more efficient, functioning market,” writes health expert Sally Pipes. “And it’s delivering those things much faster than the government could ever hope to do.”PA Images via Getty ImagesPrices for GLP-1 weight loss drugs are falling rapidly.Last week, Novo Nordisk—maker of Ozempic and Wegovy—announced that it would cut prices for monthly supplies of both drugs up to $349 for existing patients who purchase directly. For new customers, the price will drop to just $199 per month for the first two months. The move follows similar price cuts by the competitor Eli Lilly.These…
Strong Pink – Green aurora over a very unique tree in Perthshire.gettyThe Northern Lights may be visible in the northern sky in 15 northern US states and Canada after dark on Tuesday, November 25, according to forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The forecast includes a G1 rated geomagnetic storm.It comes not after a solar flare or coronal mass ejection, but as Earth is buffeted by an unusually turbulent solar wind. It means an increased chance of an aurora in high latitudes, but also further south if things intensify. Northern Lights Forecast: What to…
Current Climate brings you the latest sustainability business news every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox.Tthe Trump administration is making good on the president’s “drill, baby, drill” rhetoric with a new plan to open vast swathes of the US coastline to offshore oil drilling projects. And although it will be years before it becomes operational, there are signs that both red and blue states don’t want it because of the potential for environmental damage. “The Biden administration has put the brakes on offshore oil and gas leasing and crippled America’s long-term offshore production pipeline,” said Interior Secretary…
E297: Should I Use My Emergency Fund to Pay Off High Interest Debt? – Money Q&A In this episode of the Personal Finance …
A plume of steam and ash rises above Mount St Helens in Washington in the aftermath of the eruption on May 18, 1980. (Photo by UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)Getty ImagesHow and if a volcano erupts depends on how and when bubbles of water vapor and carbon dioxide form in the rising magma. This process can be likened to a bottle of champagne: while the bottle is closed and therefore under pressure (like molten rock in magma chamber), the carbon dioxide remains in solution. When the cork is removed from the bottle, the pressure drops and the carbon dioxide bubbles up. These…
One hundred US dollar bills are seen in this image taken in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 15, 2023. (Photo by Matias Baglietto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty ImagesEven beggars turned their noses up at the Deutsche Mark in the 1920s. It’s true. While wheelbarrows full of signs continue to enliven simplistic economic history, the reality is that wheelbarrow signs were trash and treated as such by traders and – yes – bums. The truth about the circulation of so-called “printed” money comes to mind when evaluating Kevin Warsh’s latest hearing for the Fed Chair. Warsh should withdraw his candidacy…
In today’s episode, we talk to Prasanna and Lalita — a couple who went from buying 300 shirts to living a simple, minimal life.
Jealousy can be thought of as emotional metadata. It’s its own emotion, yes, but also a message carrier for deeper and brighter feelings struggling to surface.gettyFeeling jealous in a romantic relationship is not a moral weakness. Thanks to the social baggage that jealousy carries, most of us are taught to push it down, dismiss it, or, on the hardest days, pretend it’s not happening at all and move on. But jealousy, when you see it through a scientific lensit is neither a defect nor a deficiency of any kind. It is a sophisticated signal that we receive from our nervous…
[Stock photograph] A schoolgirl’s name is written on a chair in a deserted classroom at the Government Girls High School, a day after gunmen kidnapped more than 300 schoolgirls in Jangebe, a village in Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria, on February 27, 2021. More than 300 schoolgirls grabbed medium weapons in the north. Zamfara state on February 26, in the third known mass kidnapping of students since December. (Photo: KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesIt has been more than a decade since Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a school in Chibok, Borno, in April 2014. The kidnapping received…