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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9bcb83444a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CoreWeave says it has agreed to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a ~$9B all-stock deal, set to close in Q4 2025, to expand its AI data center capacity</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=74907ba0c5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">We are excited to share that we have signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by @CoreWeave in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $9 billion. Read more about the benefits of the proposed transaction here: ... [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6b8608aeb3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Many $corz shareholders are seemingly not happy with the buyout offer from @CoreWeave. Even Cantor saying its low. Interestingly, May 25' AGM the 66% majority needed to approve a merger was cut down to a simple 50% @_Adam_Sullivan1 less people approving an offer we don't want? [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=425ca323b9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">my weekend project to learn about bluetooth mesh networks, relays and store and forward models, message encryption models, and a few other things. bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat...IRC vibes. TestFlight: ... GitHub: [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7e7f54352b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tokyo-based Sakana AI details a new Monte Carlo Tree Search-based technique that lets multiple LLMs cooperate on a single task, outperforming individual LLMs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Dickson / </span><span class="pub_name">VentureBeat</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=53d4f6ad37&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI told investors stock compensation jumped over 5x last year to $4.4B, or 119% of total revenue for that period but expects it to drop to under 10% by 2030</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3d7020d447&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">On-the-job learning in fields like law and banking faces a double threat: hybrid work limiting juniors' time with seniors and Gen AI cutting many routine tasks</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5d2a76a0fe&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Gates Industrial, Generac, and other US industrial firms are seeking to share of the AI boom by increasing efforts to supply specialized data center equipment</a></span>
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