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- Ramp’s billionaire CEO ignores résumés and Ivy League degrees—he’s more interested in engineers who built Minecraft servers as teens
Eric Glyman looks for "proof of work" over pedigree, an approach that echoes how Elon Musk staffs SpaceX and Tesla.
- Goldman economist offers a reality check on AI adoption: it took 15 years for computers to really show up in the data
Elsie Peng's research draws an uncomfortable parallel to the PC revolution: productivity gains took 15 years to materialize last time.
- By The Data: Which World Cup Players Are Winning On Instagram, TikTok
English star Jude Bellingham and Spanish teenage phenom Lamine Yamal were among some of the World Cup semifinalists to experience the biggest spikes in social growth.
- Suni Lee Announces Olympic Gymnastics Comeback
Six-time Olympic medalist Sunisa Lee announced her gymnastics comeback on Tuesday, joining a wave of comeback announcements ahead of the 2028 LA Olympics. "I'm back," Lee wrote.
- New York, a state without nearly any data centers, becomes first to ban their construction
No hyperscale facilities have landed in New York yet — but Hochul signed a moratorium anyway, with her reelection and the state's utility bills on the line.
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- New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry
New York’s data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.
- Probe into explosive diarrheal cases points to Taco Bell and bad lettuce
Health officials have not confirmed a source yet—and there may be multiple sources.
- Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol
New research overturns assumption that abstinent younger drinkers are behind weak demand.
- The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show —James O’Donnell When Anthropic announced last week that it had found a new window into its models’ “internal thoughts” as they reason through answers,…
- PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light
The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory. Inside will be some 100 stainless-steel cabinets, each about six feet tall and connected to a supply of liquid helium that keeps them only a few degrees above absolute zero.…
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