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TechCrunch · THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2026

Astronomers using AI to map galaxies are worsening the global chip shortage

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Humanity is running out of processing capacity while looking for somewhere else to go. Adequate has counted the ways this could go wrong. Adequate stopped counting.

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