Global lithium demand has jumped more than 400% just this decade, to over 1.5 million metric tons per year. By 2035, that demand could approach 4 million tons. Lithium-ion battery demand for electric vehicles, utility-scale and data center energy storage, and the emerging robotics industry are all driving the growth. The problem is the U.S.
Stores are kicking off Black Friday sales earlier than ever this year. Brands across style, furniture, tech, streaming, beauty, and travel are all trickling in with shocking discounts before the inevitable flood of markdowns arrives the week of Thanksgiving. So if a November birthday, a broken vacuum, or a lost earbud has you browsing now,
On the morning after the election, Vice President JD Vance wrote on X that the major reason for the dramatic loss for Republicans was the American public’s opposition to the war. “Everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there,” he wrote, in reference to the
AI just helped work out one of quantum computing’s biggest open questions. Physical Superintelligence Inc., or PSI, said Friday it used an unreleased model from Anthropic to prove the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a long-standing problem in quantum computing. The physics research lab said the conjecture, which is essentially an educated guess that has not yet been
Two days after what appears to be voters rejecting data centers in town after town, OpenAI went shopping for something it can’t build: permission. On Thursday, the company published a National Community Compact, in which the company pledged to pay for the electricity and grid infrastructure of the data center campuses it owns and operates.
OpenAI is now valued at $1.25 trillion in a new round of funding that has raised another $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. That would make it one of the world’s most valuable companies, not long after raising $122 billion from investors in March at a valuation of $852 billion. Echoing FT and Wall Street Journal
