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First Google, now Meta? Big Tech may increasingly sell stock to bankroll $820 billion AI boom.
Stock investors may not love it โ but bond investors already heavily engaged in funding the AI buildout are pleased.
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Stock investors may not love it โ but bond investors already heavily engaged in funding the AI buildout are pleased.
Amazon's gaming strategy has never really been clear. It's been very active in the space: acquiring Twitch, launching its Luna cloud gaming service nearly six years ago, investing heavily in MMOs during the peak of live-service wave, and having access to a huge slate of franchises through Prime Video and the MGM Studios library. Late [โฆ]
Carvana was granted a warrant to buy shares in Slate last year, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch. Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter is heavily invested in both companies.
Iraq plans to triple within three months its exports of crude oil through Kurdistan to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan as OPECโs second-largest producer is one of the Middle Eastโs producers worst affected by the closed Strait of Hormuz. The Iraqi government has approved a plan to hike crude exports to Ceyhan and onto international markets from the Mediterranean as the blocked Strait of Hormuz has cut most of Iraqโs oil shipments. Iraq is seeing the worst of the Middle East crisis as its heavily oil-dependent economyโฆ
President Trump says that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is heavily involved in Iran's decision-making during peace talks and that he would like to meet with the supreme leader at some point.
The strength of Mattel's reboot is that it leans heavily into silliness rather than strenuously contorting it into a portentous, dark epic.
AI firms heavily use news and other creative content to provide answers โ but New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger says their resistance to pay for it amounts to a repackaging of โstolen goods.โ
The major-questions doctrine has received scant attention in prediction market cases nationwide. This controversy should not be one of them. The CFTCโs commandeering of sports gambling and ousting of traditional state authority to regulate that activity within state borders is tailor-made for the application of the major-questions doctrine. Doing so could shift the focus back to sports gambling, which, in turn, could bolster the Statesโ assertion of the presumptions against preemption and/or implied repeals that are heavily dependent on courts framing the case as being about sports gambling, not derivatives trading. If the relevant field is โsports gamblingโ (as courts in Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts and Nevada have already determined), the States should have a clearer path to victory.
As with most operas, the story was never the primary selling point of โCarmen,โ so to adapt it with the music heavily downplayed in favor of the narrative is an audacious move; refashioning this tale of murderous, hot-blooded amour fou as a childrenโs film, doubly so. But Georges Bizetโs 1875 opera has always been an [โฆ]
Cuba has been experiencing a worsening energy crisis for several years, which previously led it to rely heavily on Venezuela for its fuel. Following the United Statesโ intervention in Venezuela in February, the energy crisis has grown even worse, as Cubans face regular blackouts and the economy suffers. Cuba requires about 100,000 barrels a day to power its grid and meet the regular transportation demands. It fulfils just 40 percent of this demand domestically. In January, the Trump administration imposed a fuel blockade on Cuba, which ledโฆ
Morocco is rapidly becoming a renewable energy powerhouse thanks to its favourable weather conditions and proximity to Europe. The North African country has rapidly developed its solar energy sector and is now looking to become a major green hydrogen and sustainable shipping hub. Morocco has long been heavily dependent on fossil fuel imports and continues to use coal to produce around 60 percent of its electricity. However, in recent years, it has been working to develop its renewable energy sources, with high levels of private investment in theโฆ
On March 2, just days after the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran, Greek authorities arrested Samir G., a 35-year-old Georgian citizen, on suspicion of spying for Iranian intelligence at the Souda Bay naval base in Crete. The USS Gerald R. Ford had entered the bay on Feb. 6 and became heavily involved [โฆ]
A lot of San Antonio Spurs fans are praying the team can reach the NBA Finals this season, and some of those prayers are "professional." Tony Dokoupil has the story of four sisters from a San Antonio covenant who are heavily rooting for the Spurs.
For 88 days, millions of Iranians lived in digital darkness after the authorities imposed a nationwide Internet shutdown following the outbreak of war with the United States and Israel. But the end of one of the worldโs longest-ever Internet blackouts offered scant consolation for many Iranians who reconnected to the same heavily filtered and state-controlled network after nearly three months. Still, some Iranians were relieved to escape the near-complete isolation forced on the Middle Eastern country of some 90 million people. โTheโฆ
I have been an application-specific IC (ASIC) designer for almost three decades. Over that time, Iโve moved through the full academic trajectory, from graduate student to full professor; later, I transitioned to industry after an unsuccessful stint at entrepreneurship. When I made the switch to the private sector in 2019, I began focusing on a critically important aspect of the electronic industry: silicon intellectual property. As much as 80 percent of the physical area in todayโs most advanced chips is occupied by blocks that arenโt made for specific products or even designed by the consumer-facing companies that built them. Instead, chipmakers draw heavily on established silicon IP from companies like Arm, Cadence, Rambus, Synopsys, and the company I work for, Silicon Creations. Throughout my career, Iโve designed chips for very different purposes, including enabling the research program in my academic lab and expanding the IP portfolio of my company. When I joined Silicon Creations, I had no idea how differently the industry approaches IC design and encountered a steep learning curve. Initially, it seemed that much of my two decades of academic research and training did not directly translate to the role. I had to learn new skills and adopt a new mindset. Today, demand for ASICs is rapidly growing, driven by the need for specialized chips in the automotive sector, AI applications, and more. By one market estimate, the ASIC market is expected to grow from US $23.4 billion to $38.8 billion by 2033, and the semiconductor industry as a whole is projected to hit $1 trillion by 2030. The industry needs more chip designersโbut if youโre coming from an academic background as I did, there are a few things youโll need to know. Different goals lead to different strategies The differences between industry and academe begin with a divergence in purpose. In academia, my primary objective was to generate new knowledge: to propose a novel circuit technique, validate an unconventional architecture, or explore the limits of performance in a given domain. A successful chip is one that demonstrates a concept. In industry, it is not nearly enough to prove that something can work. The goal is to ensure that it works reliably, repeatedly, and at scale. Success is measured not by novelty but by whether the silicon meets specifications, yields as expected in production, and supports a competitive product delivered on schedule. This leads to a stark contrast in risk tolerance. Academic designs often deliberately push into unproven territory, where even partial success can yield valuable insight. In industry, however, we systematically minimize risk. The cost of failure makes first-time silicon success a central requirementโespecially at advanced technology nodes, where the lithography masks used to transfer circuit designs onto silicon wafers alone can cost tens of millions of dollars. As a result, industry design flows are built around eliminating uncertainty through conservative margins, extensive validation, and careful reuse of proven solutions. โAcademia explores the design space, asking what is possible, while industry exploits it, determining what is viable at scale.โ This paradigm has existed since the 1970s, when application-specific chip design was established. However, the gulf between academia and industry has expanded since the mid-2010s, when FinFET technology, a 3D architecture using vertical โfinsโ of silicon, was widely adopted in industry. System designs are also becoming increasingly modular with the advent of chiplets. This fundamentally altered the economics and complexity of ASIC development, with design costs rising by almost an order of magnitude. Initiatives like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.โs University FinFET Program and new government-funded chip-design hubs now let some well-resourced universities design for more advanced architectures, but the technology is still out of reach for many academics. What the industry-academia split means in practice Consider a startup developing an ASIC. Its engineering team may have deep expertise in a particular algorithm, sensor interface, or system architecture, the features that define its competitive advantage. But it is unlikely to possess world-class expertise in every supporting function. Developing each of these blocks internally would require significant time, capital, and specialized talent. Doing so could delay market entry beyond the startupโs viability. Even large semiconductor companies face similar constraints. Advanced-node development demands intense focus. Allocating a team to redesign a standard interface block that has already been implemented elsewhere may be difficult to justify when differentiation lies at the system level, such as an inference chipโs ability to speed up neural network computations. The time it takes to move a new chip from conception to market and risk mitigation, not self-sufficiency, govern most decisions about in-house development versus outsourcing. The economics of advanced IC manufacturing reinforce this reality. When the development cost of a leading-edge chip reaches hundreds of millions of dollars, minimizing risk becomes a central design imperative. In this context, silicon IP emerged as a practical solution. Similar to how software developers rely on preexisting libraries rather than writing every function from scratch, ASIC designers license predesigned, preverified silicon blocksโsuch as processor cores, memory interfaces, and security enginesโfrom highly specialized IP vendors. These blocks can then be integrated into larger, increasingly complex systems. Design scope, verification, and time horizons With the use of silicon IP, industry is able to widen the scope of its designs. Academic efforts tend to focus on block-level innovation: a new analog-to-digital converter architecture or an ultralow-noise amplifier, for instance. These designs typically abstract away many of the complexities of bringing a chip to market, such as packaging constraints, long-term reliability, and manufacturing yield. In industry, the focus shifts to system-level integration. Modern systems on chips, or SoCs, incorporate dozens or even hundreds of functional blocks. Managing signal integrity, timing, firmware interaction, and system-level validation becomes as critical as the design of any individual block. Verification philosophy also diverges sharply. In academia, the goal of verification is to demonstrate that the concept works under nominal conditions, which may not always reflect how it would perform in real applications. Even if only a fraction of fabricated chips from a multiproject wafer operates correctly, the design may still be considered a success if it validates the underlying idea. At my academic lab for instance, we used to receive 40 chips from a TSMC prototyping service and started testing them in batches of five. If the first five or 10 chips proved functional, we had already collected more than enough data for a publication. If some of them failed, we werenโt required to mention this when publishing the results. In industry, verification is exhaustive, critical, and often dominates the development schedule. Failures are measured in parts per million, and even rare anomalies are carefully analyzed and documented to identify root causes and prevent recurrence. When I started at Silicon Creations, I was surprised by the level of detail and scrutiny designs face. Differences in time horizons and economic constraints reinforce each of these contrasts. Academic projects operate on flexible timelines aligned with research and funding cycles. If I missed a deadline, I just had to wait for the next cycle. Industry projects are driven by fixed product schedules and market windows, frequently targeting costly leading-edge nodes to achieve competitive performance, power, and area efficiency. Missing a deadline can negate the value of an entire design and may have major financial consequences along the entire supply chain. In essence, academia explores the design space, asking what is possible, while industry exploits it, determining what is viable at scale. Both are indispensable, but they operate under fundamentally different definitions of success. As ASIC complexity continues to grow, understanding both perspectives will be essential for the next generation of engineers navigating the evolving semiconductor landscape. This article appears in the June 2026 print issue.
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt has received donations from some of Hollywoodโs most prominent Democrat supporters despite running on a platform that leans heavily on conservative talking points. It was revealed earlier this month that major Democrat donors Haim and Cheryl Saban, billionaires who have a major financial impact on the party, donated the ...
Iranians began to regain internet access after authorities ended a monthslong shutdown. Users said service was slow and spotty in some areas, with apps like YouTube and Instagram heavily restricted.
DuckDuckGo, which positions itself as a privacy-focused alternative to Google, has experienced a significant increase in user adoption following the search giant's announcement of major changes to its search platform that heavily incorporate AI. The post DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30% as Consumers Reject Google โForce-Feedingโ AI with Search Engine appeared first on Breitbart.
Mr. Allred beat the incumbent, Representative Julie Johnson, and is now favored to win the general election in a heavily Democratic Dallas-based district.
Mexican state oil giant Pemex was spared a rating downgrade at Moodyโs despite the agency slashing Mexicoโs sovereign rating to just one notch above junk status. Yet, the affirmation of Pemexโs ratings masks the struggles of the heavily indebted Mexican oil firm, which has failed to deliver profits even as oil prices surged to above $100 in recent months. Moodyโs Ratings on Friday affirmed the โcaโ standalone credit strength of Petroleos Mexicanos, as Pemex is officially known, as well as the B1 Corporate Familyโฆ