2025-12-14
Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates. https://techcrunch.com/... #AIDataCenters #Infrastructure #TechNews #Construction #DataCenters
Bloomberg
The AI boom is delaying US municipal projects, as ~$4T in AI infra spending through 2030 shifts skilled construction workers to AI data centers
This is absolute madness. [embedded post] Danny Page / @danny.page : Opportunity Cost - noun: the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen. —...
2022-07-19
Instagram's new payments feature lets users buy products via DMs https://techcrunch.com/... #Apps #eCommerce #Payments #Facebook #Instagram
TechCrunch
Instagram launches a new “payments in chat” feature in the US that lets users buy products with Meta Pay and track orders from small businesses via DMs
Right in Chat Finextra : Instagram adds payments in chat Curioso Mercado : Cripto volta a valer US$ 1 trilhão The Economic Times : Instagram to let shoppers pay for products via DM...
2022-07-12
Meta launches Sphere, an AI knowledge tool based on open web content, used initially to verify citations on Wikipedia https://techcrunch.com/... #ArtificialIntelligence #Media #Social #TC #artificialintelligence
TechCrunch
Meta launches Sphere, an open-source AI knowledge tool based on 134M public webpages; Wikipedia, Sphere's first user, is using it to verify articles' citations
an order of magnitude larger and significantly more intricate than ever used for this sort of research. Read more: https://ai.facebook.com/... https://twitter.com/... @metaai : (1/...