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Q&A with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster, who says AMD is the first customer for TSMC's 2nm process, on AMD's rise since he joined in 2011, AI in chip design, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)

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The Game, David Fincher's Criterion-approved Michael Douglas thriller, is now streaming on Peacock

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Spider-Man 2 is the best PS5 open-world game

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Cassette Boy forces you to see its world in a whole new way

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Shelter and Greenland 2 hail from the same action-thriller guru

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ChatGPT isn’t the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

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A nice upgrade for Apple’s simplest gadget

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Inside Wildlight Entertainment, the studio behind the polarizing Highguard

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Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 (Molly Taft/Wired)

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3 movie masterpieces hidden away on Tubi right now

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The latest Instax printer is a pricey but worthy upgrade

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Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader at Google, Meta, and others, on AI changing product development, building ad businesses, and more (Patrick O'Shaughnessy/Invest Like The Best on YouTube)

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Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

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Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth (Fumie Yaku/Nikkei Asia)

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TechCreate's shares surged ~1,995% in the past week; the payment software company says it is not aware of any info that would account for the trading activity (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

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Sandisk and Kioxia announce a five-year extension of their JV manufacturing contract from 2029 to 2034; the new deal involves SanDisk paying Kioxia $1.165B (Ryo Mukano/Nikkei Asia)

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Taiwan's GDP rose 12.68% in Q4 2025, its fastest quarterly growth since 1987; full-year GDP grew 8.63%, topping the 7.5% forecast on AI demand for tech products (Bloomberg)

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OpenAI details its custom internal-only GPT‑5.2-powered AI data agent that allows its employees to do natural language data analysis across 600+ PB of data (OpenAI)

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Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

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A look at South Park Commons, the VC firm behind a startup community focusing on idea exploration over immediate business plans, as it aims to raise $500M (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

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