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View More NewsTeraWulf began as a bitcoin miner, running warehouses of specialized computers to earn newly issued coins, a business whose margins tightened after last year’s halving cut the mining reward in half. Like several of its peers, it has pointed its power capacity and sites at hosting AI computing instead, where a single tenant on a long lease offers steadier income than the volatile economics of mining. The company still runs a bitcoin operation, but the Anthropic lease and its wider pipeline may now define its value.Meanwhile, TeraWulf added it will sell its entire 50.1% stake in the Abernathy data-center joint…
Another woman has come forward to accuse Graham Platner, the Democratic Party’s Maine Senate hopeful, of serious wrongdoing. Jenny Racicot, a 41-year-old Maine woman who used to date Platner, says that he sexually assaulted her in 2021. Platner has denied the accusation; nevertheless, he is pausing his campaign. He has already lost the backing of two of his most ardent supporters, Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) and leftist commentator Hasan Piker. It seems likely he will drop out by July 13, giving Maine Democrats an opportunity find a new opponent for incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Racicot previously spoke with The New…
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I brought a 510-million-year-old trilobite I’d split out of Cambrian shale four hours north of Las Vegas to show a class of eighth graders. I passed it around the room and explained what it was: an ancient arthropod called Bristolia, from the same branch of the tree of life as every insect and crab alive today, that lived in a warm shallow sea that used to cover Nevada. It predated the dinosaurs by 250 million years. It was older than plants on land. It had what was probably the first real compound eyes that ever evolved on Earth—and when I…
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Bitmine Immersion (BMNR), the largest Ethereum (ETH) treasury company, stepped up its buying pace last week, purchasing 42,197 ether (ETH) as chairman Thomas Lee…
Bitcoin miner TeraWulf, moving deeper into AI infrastructure, signed a 20-year data center lease with Anthropic expected to generate about $19 billion in contract revenue.The…
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