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The numbers coming out of Silicon Valley are hard to wrap your mind around. The major hyperscalers — Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta — are on track to spend nearly seven hundred billion dollars on AI infrastructure in two thousand twenty six alone. What's striking isn't just the scale, it's the candor: by most accounts, nobody in the industry can say with confidence where the buildout stops, or whether the returns will justify it.
Shifting from infrastructure to culture, AI music platform Suno has acquired Songkick, the veteran concert discovery service that came out of Y Combinator back in two thousand seven. Suno built its name generating music from text prompts, and the move into live event data is an interesting signal — suggesting the company sees a future where AI-generated artists might eventually need somewhere to perform, or at least be discovered.
And on a quieter but genuinely useful note, there's a small project called the Myriad Project making the case for a dedicated separator symbol for ten-thousands. It sounds niche, but consider how often large numbers cause real confusion across languages and regions — where commas mean different things to different readers. A universal visual separator could matter more than it first appears.
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