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Star Wars went from scrappy popcorn-movie gamble to the most merchandised story ever told in 12 parsecs. It’s easy to forget that toy distributors and tie-in retailers had zero clue what George Lucas had cooking in 1977 - but a lack of merch supply only exacerbated demand for the movie.
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Anthropic announced a major deal with Google and Broadcom for significant next-generation TPU capacity, expected to come online starting in 2027. This expansion, primarily in the US, will power advanced Claude models to meet rapidly growing customer demand. The agreement deepens Anthropic's existing collaboration with Google Cloud and Broadcom, supporting its commitment to American computing infrastructure.
Broadcom has expanded its collaboration with Google and Anthropic, agreeing to supply AI chips to Google and significant computing capacity to Anthropic. This move solidifies Broadcom's role in the burgeoning AI hardware market, providing crucial infrastructure for two major AI developers. The deals aim to bolster the capabilities of both companies in the competitive AI landscape.
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When a delivery robot asked a man to push the crosswalk button for it so it could cross the street, the man filmed the bot, told it to fuck off, and bullied the dumb thing for replacing a human yet still relying on them to do its job.