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EngadgetJan 04, 2025
Microsoft is spending $80 billion on data centers this year
Microsoft has published a lengthy piece talking about its vision for artificial intelligence development over the next four years, under the incoming Trump administration. In the piece, the company has revealed that it's spending a total of $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in 2025. Microsoft said it's building out the data centers to be able to train and deploy AI models, as well as to power its cloud-based applications. While that's the entirety of its budget for projects around the world, more than half of it will go towards building data centers in the United States.

The company explained that none of the progress on AI the industry has achieved thus far would be possible "without new partnerships founded on large-scale infrastructure investments." It's now calling for the incoming Trump administration to expand the government's support for the advancement of AI wi


EngadgetJan 03, 2025
Utah lawsuit alleges TikTok knew minors were being exploited on livestreams
Streams on TikTok Live were used to exploit children, according to a newly unredacted lawsuit filed by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. The lawsuit says that TikTok was not only aware that TikTok Lives were exposing minors to concerning messages from adults, but the company also directly profited off of some of the exchanges through TikTok Live's virtual gifting system.

Following an investigation by Forbes into TikTok Live, TikTok conducted its own review called "Project Meramec," according to the suit. The company found that "hundreds of thousands of children" were getting around TikTok's age restrictions, hosting livestreams and interacting with adults. 

Because TikTok pockets a portion of the sale of digital gifts in livestreams, the company was technically making money on "transactional gifting" over "nudity and sexual activity" that happened during streams. And since TikTok's algorithm favors livestreams where virtual gifts are being exchanged, the lawsuit says, some of these sexually exploitative streams were also distributed more widely than they wo


Yahoo TechnologyJan 03, 2025
Microsoft to Spend $80 Billion on AI Data Centers This Year


PC World Latest NewsJan 03, 2025
Samsung's 500Hz OLED gaming monitor has a need for speed

Like MSI and Asus previously announced, Samsung has new offerings that can hit as much as 500Hz of refresh. There's also a new 27-inch 4K panel, if you're more interested in high-res gameplay.

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