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13.03.26 - 17:18
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British politics is hooked on flashy fake numbers – and the AI investment debacle proves it | Jonathan Portes (The Guardian)
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A claim that the UK is attracting billions of pounds in AI investment has been debunked. That's no surprise when our establishment runs on dubious 'good news'One trillion dollars. That's the amount of financial aid Gordon Brown triumphantly announced at the 2009 London G20 summit. (I contributed my own two cents here.) Except it wasn't exactly real: the number was a mixture of already promised apples and aspirational future oranges.So it should hardly be a surprise that when ministers proclaimed last year that the UK was attracting billions of pounds of new investment in AI, they were being more than a little economical with the truth. As a Guardian investigation revealed, much of it turns out not to be new at all: existing datacentres rented rather than built, a supercomputer site not yet even started, promised investments that might never arrive and claims of job creation that have little or no connection to reality. The headline numbers are impressive. The underlying reality rather less so.Jonatha...
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13.03.26 - 16:33
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Apple senkt App-Store-Gebühren in China (Spiegel)
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Der US-Konzern übt sich in vorauseilendem Gehorsam: Um dem Befehl chinesischer Regulierungsbehörden zu entgehen, senkt Apple die Provisionssätze im App Store. Aber nur um ein paar Prozent....
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13.03.26 - 16:06
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Memory Inflation Is Real—and Apple Is the Only One Turning It Into an Opportunity (24/7 Wall St.)
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If you're in the market for a new laptop, smartphone, tablet, or even a gaming console, things could get a whole lot pricier as inflation on memory and storage products heats up, thanks to unprecedented demand from AI data centers. Micron (NASDAQ:MU) moved on from the consumer RAM market at the end of last year, ... Memory Inflation Is Real—and Apple Is the Only One Turning It Into an Opportunity
The post Memory Inflation Is Real—and Apple Is the Only One Turning It Into an Opportunity appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.....
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13.03.26 - 15:00
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Apple′s Mac Mini selling out across China as OpenClaw fever rages (SCMP)
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The OpenClaw craze is rapidly driving up prices and depleting stock of Apple's Mac Mini compact computer across China, according to local sellers, as consumers scramble to secure machines capable of safely running the open-source artificial intelligence agent amid a nationwide rush to “raise a lobster”.
Beijing electronics seller Frank Chai said he was asking for a mark-up of at least 500 yuan (US$73) for a basic Mac Mini model, which comes with 16 gigabytes (GB) of memory and 256GB storage and......
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