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CPU-Refresh: AMDs Ryzen AI 400 werden teilweise schlechter
AMDs neu aufgelegte Prozessoren takten teilweise niedriger mit gleichzeitig weniger Performance-Kernen. Der Ryzen 7 9850X3D bekommt dagegen mehr Takt.
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Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-early-talks-trade-desk-sell-ad…

OpenAI Held Early Talks With The Trade Desk to Sell Ads
OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The talks indicate that OpenAI, which launched ads in ChatGPT in early February, will initially lean on ...

Okay, my "Democracy instead of just “Open Source”" talk proposal for #rp26 was rejected. Maybe I'll find another home for it.
https://tante.cc/2026/01/19/republica-2026-ta…

Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x from mid-2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-cloud-ally-…

Nvidia Cloud Ally Together AI in Talks to Raise at $7.5 Billion Valuation
Together AI, one of several up-and-coming cloud providers renting out Nvidia chip servers to AI developers, is in talks with investors to raise around $1 billion in funding at a $7.5 billion valuation before the investment, according to two people with knowledge of the fundraise. The funding ...

from my link log —
What we’re talking about, when we talk about data destruction.
https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2019/01/what-were-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-data-destruction/
saved 2026-01-0…

What We’re Talking About, When We Talk About Data Destruction
When I wrote my post back in May of last year about Apple’s recycled hardware reuse policy, I found myself frustrated by how hard it was to talk about how well a storage device had been destr…

2026 Super Bowl coin toss odds: Has heads won more than tails? Is tails on a run? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7021478/2026/02/05/super-bowl-coin-toss-betting-odds-heads-tails/

My notebooks these days are filled with strange wanderings and shards of tales both short and long.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/sea-of-ice-and-other-portable-tales

Sea of Ice & Other Portable Tales
Some strange wanderings in the form of several very short stories.

Sources: London-based 9fin, a data provider for debt markets, is in talks to raise as much as $150M at a pre-money valuation of $1B, about 20x its ARR of ~$50M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/cred…

Credit Data Firm 9fin Seeks $1 Billion Valuation in Fund Talks
Debt intelligence provider 9fin Ltd. is in talks to raise fresh capital at a valuation of as much as $1 billion as it seeks to gain a stronger foothold in the highly competitive market for credit research.

Huawei dominated MWC as the largest exhibitor, illustrating the challenge facing the EU as it pushes to outlaw the Chinese supplier from European networks (Mathieu Pollet/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/china-huawei-dominates-telco-jambo…

China’s Huawei dominates telco jamboree despite European bans
Chinese supplier thrives at Mobile World Congress in Spain even as Brussels pushes to outlaw.

Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-early-talks-trade-desk-sell-ad…

OpenAI Held Early Talks With The Trade Desk to Sell Ads
OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The talks indicate that OpenAI, which launched ads in ChatGPT in early February, will initially lean on ...