| Pigeons can navigate hundreds of miles back home using Earth's magnetic field. Scientists spent decades assuming the compass was in the brain or the eyes. | It's in the liver. A pigeon has been getting home from 500 miles away using its liver while you've been standing in a car park unable to find your own car. | Embarrassing. | What’s in store: | Nvidia’s AI shopping list comes to $500bn. AI found a Zoom flaw in under 20 prompts. Mindstream Picks: Google is bringing the notification light back with the Pixel 11 Pro. Get 10 insane deep research prompts!
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| | | NVIDIA | | | Nvidia has partnered with some of Wall Street’s biggest investors to help raise $500bn for AI infrastructure. | The chipmaker is working with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to fund projects including data centres, chip factories and the systems needed to power and cool them. | Nvidia says investors are starting to treat AI computing power, known as “compute”, as its own type of infrastructure investment. | The money will support Nvidia projects and those built by its partners, as demand for AI chips continues to grow. | The key points: | Nvidia is working with major investors to raise up to $500bn for AI infrastructure. The funding will help build data centres, chip factories and other AI systems. Spending on AI keeps rising, but investors are watching closely to see whether it pays off.
| Please see attached: one enormous invoice | Companies including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic all use Nvidia GPUs to power AI products and services. | Tech companies have already spent more than $1tn on AI projects and infrastructure in the past three years, with more spending expected. | Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company is now helping build what he calls “AI factories”: large-scale infrastructure designed specifically to run AI. | The investment boom is also raising questions over whether all of these expensive projects will deliver strong enough returns in the future. | Imagine needing $500bn because everyone keeps asking Claude to rewrite an email. Also could be my fault, sorry guys. - MG | Is the AI infrastructure boom worth the huge price tag? | | Vote for live results and see results + opinions from yesterday at the bottom of the email. |
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| | | ZOOM | | | Zoom has fixed a major security flaw that could have let attackers take control of someone’s device during a meeting, without the victim clicking anything or seeing a warning. | Researchers at A Security said they found the flaw using fewer than 20 prompts with publicly available AI models. | The issue was linked to Zoom’s annotation feature, which lets people draw on a shared screen. | An attacker could potentially use it to run harmful code on another person’s device, access data, turn on their camera or microphone, or install malware. | In brief: | Attackers could potentially take control of a device through Zoom’s annotation tool. Researchers say AI helped them build the attack much faster. Zoom has now patched the issue across its main desktop and mobile apps.
| Quite a lot of power for a digital Sharpie | A Security said this type of attack would usually take expert teams months to build. | Its researchers claim they created a working version in one day using an AI agent and widely available models. | Zoom released a fix on Tuesday for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. | You dropped the ball hard, Zoom. - MV |
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| | Space: Space: China’s Long March 7A rocket exploded about 85 seconds after liftoff, destroying the ChinaSat-4B communications satellite in a rare setback for the country’s space programme.
Business: Scots are scrambling for eclipse glasses ahead of Wednesday’s dramatic partial solar eclipse, with up to 95% of the Sun set to disappear behind the Moon.
Music: Ed Sheeran says he once believed The A Team would be his only hit, reflecting on his journey from his first US show to filling Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. | Don’t Miss: Google appears to be bringing back the notification light with the Pixel 11 Pro, reviving a feature that disappeared from its phones nearly a decade ago. The multicolored light sits inside the camera bar and could be used for notifications, calls, and Gemini interactions. |
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