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The UK government is putting ninety million pounds toward heat networks that capture waste energy from data centers and factories and pipe it into homes. More than seven hundred fifty thousand households are expected to benefit, with the promise of cheaper heating bills — a rare case where the energy appetite of big tech might actually warm something other than investor sentiment.
Meanwhile, OpenAI may be preparing to stretch its subscription ceiling considerably higher. Code surfacing in the company's API suggests a new tier called ProMax, priced at five hundred dollars a month. That would sit well above the current pro offering, and while details remain thin, it signals OpenAI is betting a certain class of power user will pay a premium for whatever comes next.
And in a story that blurs the line between compression and conjuration, a project called Astra has reportedly squeezed six hundred megabytes of audio down to just twenty kilobytes. That is a ratio that sounds almost implausible, and the technical community is understandably curious — and cautious — about what fidelity, if any, survives that kind of reduction.
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