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Microsoft, Google and Meta are using more water to cool down data centres that power artificial intelligence products
...For that reason, it can often spark another situation with a slightly less fancy moniker: “creditor-on-creditor violence”....
...If last week’s comedy Dumb Money made sport of funds like Citadel LLC, here we get a fictional insider view, defined by ambient hyper-stress....
...He has also acknowledged that some of Disney’s movie studios need to regain their creative spark. Disney and Comcast declined to comment....
...investors call on tobacco group’s new chief to restart share buybacks (FT) SoftBank’s long-term debt rating cut deeper into junk status by S&P Global (FT) AI start-up Anthropic raises $450mn from Google and Spark...
...Very few of those we spoke to were prepared to acknowledge the risk that competition for lunar resources could spark new tensions in already strained relationships back here on Earth....
Big Tech companies have been slower to call staff back over concerns it could trigger exodus of top talent
...by billions (The Information) Tech investor Baillie Gifford warns of 2023 reckoning for private companies (FT) Meta cuts 11,000 staff in largest cull in company’s history (FT) SoftBank buyback spree sparks...
...Laws on data sovereignty and arbitrary blocks on websites chased out tech bright sparks well before the latest exodus....
...To this, the older generation would retort that conversation is never a waste of time; it fosters teamwork and leads to the unplanned encounters that spark creativity, not to mention the personal contact...
...Battle of the streamers sparks real estate frenzy The pandemic supercharged streaming services, but also created production problems for content producers....
...The continent has been slow to develop tech unicorns, but can Silicon Valley’s creativity and cash spark a winning streak?...
A survey of first-year analysts at Goldman Sachs sparks conversations about work/life balance and mental health in finance
...Foundem, the British comparison shopping site whose complaint helped spark the first European case against Google more than a decade ago, sued in 2013, followed by a group of European websites in 2018....
NYSE’s flip-flops on guidance reflect confusion on avoiding fines from January 11
...Griffin highlighted how an oblique tweet of a McDonald’s ice cream cone and a frog emoji from Ryan Cohen, a big GameStop shareholder, appeared to be the spark for a doubling of the stock’s price in one afternoon...
...decades of pressure (FT + Lex) BT chief under pressure from board after resignation threat (FT) German businesses rush to appoint female board members (FT) Demand for fee to use password app LastPass sparks...
...Alphaville was recently flipping through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) data dump from the US Treasury and came across loans for two entities called Delight Holdco I LLC and Delight Holdco II LLC....
...Though he himself helped spark China’s casino boom, the gambling pioneer’s casinos were notably absent from the industry’s biggest windfall in recent history: sports betting....
Move to ditch homegrown technology for Google/Apple-supported app attracts criticism
...This creates resiliency and also sparks innovation. Research shows that industries with a mix of firm sizes produce new inventions and processes at a faster clip....
....” — Sue Sparks, London, UK “Very thoughtful and timely column. Query, is there some obscure Constitutional right to harbour and spread contagious diseases? Let’s hope not . . ....
...One thing to start: SoftBank has pulled out of a planned $3bn purchase of WeWork stock, a move that is expected to spark litigation from the lossmaking property group’s co-founder and one of Silicon Valley...
After Uber crash, FT investigation reveals wide variations in training and disclosure
...Mr Bauernfreund — whose UK-based fund has $505m invested in 30 Japanese companies — says sometimes the intention is to spark a reaction. “We’re not coming in and asking for radical changes....
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