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Elon Musk made the remarks during SpaceX's earnings call. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Elon Musk said AI rivals are clamoring to rent SpaceX's compute. SpaceX plans to split compute between its internal uses and outside customers. The company could rent out its compute "several times over if we said yes to everyone," Musk said. SpaceX's AI rivals are clamoring to rent computing power from the artificial intelligence and rocket company, CEO Elon Musk said. "We are also, frankly, hounded relentlessly by every hyperscaler and by dozens of smaller companies to rent more of our compute," Musk said during SpaceX's third-quarter earnings call Tuesday. Musk said SpaceX could rent out the company's compute "several times over if we said yes to everyone." SpaceX, however, is reserving a chunk of that capacity for its own AI ambitions, including scaling its AI chatbot Grok and Cursor , the coding startup it recently acquired. Musk said SpaceX i...

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : A New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $25B in penalties after a jury found Meta misled residents about its data practices in the Cambridge Analytica scandal   —  Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy case that stemmed … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Og8NnsF

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Sensor Tower: Muse had 10.9M downloads since its September debut, 10.2M of those in the US, becoming the 12th app to hit 10M US downloads in its first 40 days   —  Meta's AI companion, Muse, is now one of only a dozen mobile apps to have reached 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days on the market. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/5eGwHRg

Ryan Lawler / Axios : Prism Data, which provides credit-scoring data and analytics that help lenders assess borrowers, raised a $20M Series A led by Story Ventures   —  Prism Data, which helps lenders assess credit risk using bank transaction data, raised $20 million in Series A funding, CEO Jason Rosen tells Axios Pro exclusively. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/7NqIl4R

A wine store in Paris was emptied of all its products during riots on Saturday. Nathan Rennolds/Business Insider Paris erupted as protests turned to riots and masked looters ransacked stores on Saturday. Small business owners took stock of what they'd lost on Sunday. "When I got back, they'd taken everything," one store owner told Business Insider. "When I got back, they'd taken everything." That's what one shopkeeper in Paris told me as she cleared debris from her store after major cost-of-living protests turned violent across parts of France. Chaotic scenes unfolded on Saturday as rioters clashed with police and set vehicles and trash bins alight before masked marchers began to ransack businesses, including in the trendy Marais shopping district. After hundreds of arrests and a tense, momentary calm on Sunday morning, more violence broke out Sunday evening as black-clad rioters dragged debris into streets and set it aflame. Employees at a boutique...

Kyu-Seok Shim / Reuters : Sources: Nvidia asked Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron to make base dies for its custom NVHBM memory on TSMC's 3nm process; Samsung agreed, its first use of TSMC   —  Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) will use TSMC's (2330.TW) 3-nanometre process to produce base dies for Nvidia's (NVDA.O) … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/t3rwHSX