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California Signs Data Center Rules on Power Costs, Water Use and Grid Upgrades
California has signed seven laws aimed at the power, water and local impacts of data centers. The legislation sets broad direction, but tariff design, infrastructure-cost rules and project-level requirements are still to be worked out.
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Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
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Can John Ternus find Apple’s next big thing?
Today, I’m talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world’s best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent and the host of the upcoming podcast Power On. Earlier this month, Apple hosted its annual iPhone hardware event, virtually every detail of which was reported ahead of time by Mark. But this event was special, for a number of reasons. It was new Apple CEO John Ternus’ first major…
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Why the Most Changed LLM Layers May Not Matter Most
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A practical explanation of why internal changes observed after LLM fine-tuning can diverge from the components that matter causally for task performance—and why that complicates interpretation and cross-task transfer assumptions.
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