Meta Looks to Power Trading to Support Its AI Energy Needs

Amazon.com Inc.'s Ring division has mandated that hundreds of customer service employees relocate to central hubs in the US and UK. This move is part of a broader initiative to streamline and automate operations within the company.

Meta Platforms Inc. is entering the electricity trading market to expedite the construction of new power plants in the United States, which are essential for supporting its artificial intelligence infrastructure. This strategic move aims to enhance Meta's operational capabilities as it expands its AI initiatives.

The CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has committed to expanding the company's presence in the United States to meet the rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This expansion is part of TSMC's broader strategy that also includes growth in Japan and Europe.

MajinBook is an open catalogue aimed at enhancing the use of shadow libraries like Library Genesis and Z-Library for computational social science and cultural analytics. It combines metadata from these archives with structured bibliographic data from Goodreads, resulting in a corpus of over 539,000 references to English-language books. The project emphasizes machine-readable quality and addresses biases in traditional corpora, while ensuring legal compliance for text and data mining in research.

Taiwan's minister Wu Cheng-wen announced that the US will not impose 'punishing' tariffs on Taiwan following a consensus that Taiwan will support the US chip industry. This statement reflects a commitment to collaboration in the semiconductor sector, which is crucial for both economies.

Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to a $190 million settlement regarding claims of privacy violations related to Facebook users. Court documents reveal that Mark Zuckerberg and other directors were accused of failing to address repeated breaches of user privacy and of creating an agreement that protected the CEO from personal liability.

Leading US stock markets experienced a decline shortly after a brief rally sparked by Nvidia's strong earnings report. Despite Nvidia's reassurances of robust demand for its advanced datacenter chips, investor concerns about a potential AI bubble resurfaced, leading to pressure on technology stocks central to the AI boom.

President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order that would largely bar US states from enacting their own artificial intelligence regulations.