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Meta has a subsea cable built with two light channels per glass fibre: twice as much data across the ocean
Meta is having a subsea cable laid between the United States and France that can carry 1 petabit per second, according to Meta twice as much as the best cables today. The secret: each glass fibre has two light channels instead of one. The cable is due to work in 2029.
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open: a large AI model for programming that also runs on your own computers
Meta has released Muse Spark Open, a large AI model for programming and independent agent tasks that anyone can download. According to Meta, it is the strongest American open model so far, and it even runs on two Mac Studios.
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Google and Meta help pay for extra power from existing nuclear plants
American nuclear plants will deliver more electricity without new reactors. Google is buying 890 megawatts extra from Constellation for twenty years, Meta 433 megawatts from Vistra. This quickly adds clean power for AI data centres, as a first step alongside new plants.
