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Nothing plans to invest $100M to spin off budget brand CMF into an independent subsidiary, with India as its manufacturing and R&D headquarters (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/smartphone-maker-nothing-to-spin-off-…

Smartphone maker Nothing to spin off its affordable CMF brand | TechCrunch
Nothing is making its affordable devices brand CMF into a separate entity with headquarters in India.

130,000 Russians – and all for nothing! Ukraine breaks through the front line near Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/23/russians-and-all-for-nothing.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Billy Preston:
🎵 Nothing From Nothing
#BillyPreston
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/billy-preston-nothing-from-nothing-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/5n9QhVJS3XSjSc9kNJNEIU

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Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers will 'retire a Packer': 'I've got nothing but love for the organization' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-qb-aaron-rodgers-will-retire-a-packer-i-ve-got-nothing-but-love-for-the-or…

Oracle will pay for and oversee the construction of three of the new Stargate data centers, and OpenAI will then purchase computing power from Oracle (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/technology/openai-data-centers-united-state…

OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S.
Working with the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and the cloud company Oracle, the A.I. start-up will spend $400 billion over the next five years.

Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/trump-intel-stake.html

Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business
The deal is among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.

Microsoft plans to bring its Halo franchise to the PlayStation for the first time with the launch of a 25th‑anniversary remake of Halo: Combat Evolved in 2026 (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/arts/halo-playstation-microsoft-xbox.h…

With Halo: Campaign Evolved, Microsoft Brings Prized Xbox Game to PlayStation
As part of a strategic shift away from exclusivity, Microsoft is bringing Halo to Sony’s competing console for the first time.

A look at FoundHer House, an all-female hacker house in San Francisco that has become a hot spot for dinners and panel discussions sponsored by a16z and others (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/busines

The All-Female Hacker House Trying to Break A.I.’s Glass Ceiling
FoundHer House, a home in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood, is the rare all-female hacker house where residents are creating a supportive community to build their start-ups.

An interview with Alex Kachkine, who shook the art world in June with a research paper in Nature on restoring paintings using AI, as he works to refine the tech (Ephrat Livni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/…

The Hobbyist Restorer Who Rocked the Art World With an A.I. Innovation
Alex Kachkine spends his days working on microchip research — a skill set surprisingly similar to that needed for restoration.