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Moving, divorce and high rates fuel U.S. self-storage industry boom
Self-storage in the United States, where people store surplus belongings, has grown into a giant industry with annual revenue topping $40 billion. An analysis said the United States accounts for about 90 percent of global self-storage capacity and has more facilities than the combined U.S. store counts of major chains including Starbucks and McDonald’s. Demand has been driven by “four Ds” such as death, moving and divorce, as well as remote work and higher mortgage rates.
AI & Enterprise
Claude Code developer says detailed prompting is unnecessary
Boris Cherny, who built Anthropic\'s AI coding tool Claude Code, said the need to write complex and formalised prompts has eased with newer AI models. He urged users to talk to Claude as they would a co-worker, saying there is no secret to prompting and little need for overly structured instructions for most tasks. He said users should specify the goal, effort level and how to verify results.
AI & Enterprise
AI chip war enters new phase as Nvidia challengers step up offensive
Big cloud companies are stepping up attacks on the AI chip market dominated by Nvidia, extending efforts from inference into model training. Meta signs a multiyear deal to rent Google’s TPU and discusses bringing TPU into its data centres from next year. Amazon strengthens cooperation with OpenAI around AWS and its Trainium chip. Nvidia plans to unveil a new inference-focused chip in March and outlined an AI-native 6G vision using AI-RAN.
