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Intel is having a moment that few saw coming. A preliminary manufacturing deal with Apple, reportedly nudged along by the White House, sent Intel stock to an all-time high above one hundred thirty dollars Friday. That caps a stunning four hundred ninety percent rise over the past year — though analysts are asking whether Wall Street is getting ahead of the actual turnaround.
Meanwhile, the company pivoting fastest in tech right now might not be a chip giant at all. Bitcoin miner TeraWulf posted a net loss of four hundred twenty seven million dollars in the first quarter, yet the headline buried inside that number is striking — its AI compute revenue has now overtaken its Bitcoin mining revenue. That's a significant signal about where the economics of data centers are heading.
And in quieter but arguably more important news, the Internet Archive has established a presence in Switzerland, extending its mission to preserve the world's digital knowledge under a legal framework designed to protect it long-term. In an era of platform shutdowns and link rot, that kind of institutional redundancy matters more than it might first appear.
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