Meta To Lay Off Hundreds Of Workers Today As AI Pivot Accelerates

World Cup: Where's The Beer? Authored by Noel Williams via AmericanThinker.com, So far, the World Cup is living up to Gianni Infantino’s (FIFA President) clarion call to “unite the world” (or at least the participating nations therein). Of course, that could quickly change when we get to the knockout stages of the tournament when they're more overwrought emotions and rivalries are more intense. In the meantime, soccer fans from far-flung places are reveling in America’s beauty and bounty. They appreciate America more than Dems, which is not surprising since most Dems are anti-American. There are three...

National Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent announced on Tuesday that he was resigning from the Trump administration over the US-Israeli war against Iran, saying he could not “in good conscience” support the conflict. “After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today,” Kent said in […]

Compute Costs More Than Talent In AI For leading AI companies, the biggest expense is not talent. It is compute. This chart from Visual Capitalist’s AI Week, sponsored by Terzo, uses Epoch AI data to compare spending at Anthropic, Minimax, and Z.ai across R&D compute, inference compute, and staff plus other costs. In every case, compute accounts for the majority of total spending, underscoring how capital-intensive it has become to build and serve frontier AI models. How AI Company Costs Break Down Despite differences in scale, all three companies allocate the largest share of their budgets to a...