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Marc Benioff’s call for troops in SF leads tech investor Ron Conway to leave Salesforce Foundation board
Ron Conway, founder of SV Angel, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2015 conference in New York on May 4, 2015. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Days after suggesting that President Donald Trump should send federal troops to San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is facing some consequences. Prominent startup investor Ron Conway, […]
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The Abu Dhabi investor that’s funding AI while trying to save TikTok — with help from Trump
UAE National Security Advisor, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House on March 18, 2025. Courtesy: Donald J. Trump | Via Truth Social As artificial intelligence startups raise increasingly large sums of cash to fund their swelling infrastructure needs, they’re turning to strategic partners like Nvidia […]
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Tesla demand in focus after Trump policies lead GM, Ford to retreat from EV ambitions
President Donald Trump holds a news conference with Elon Musk to mark the end of the Tesla CEO’s tenure as a special government employee overseeing the U.S. DOGE Service on Friday May 30, 2025 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Tom Brenner | The Washington Post | Getty Images General Motors’ […]
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Nvidia, Microsoft, xAI and BlackRock part of $40 billion deal for Aligned Data Centers
An Aligned data center in Northlake, Illinois, US, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia, Microsoft, BlackRock and Elon Musk’s xAI are part of a consortium of investors that has agreed to purchase Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. Aligned designs and operates data centers […]
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Musk calls for federal troops in San Francisco even as Benioff softens stance
Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce, speaks during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2024. Halil Sagirkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images As Salesforce welcomes tens of thousands of people to San Francisco for its annual Dreamforce conference, CEO Marc Benioff has found himself in the center of local controversy on […]
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OpenAI’s dominance is unlike anything Silicon Valley has ever seen
OpenAI DevDay Ashley Capoot | CNBC Virtually every successful tech startup throughout history has faced the reality that it could get swallowed up or run over by a large incumbent at any moment. It’s part of daily life for an entrepreneur. But the company at the center of the current boom is a different kind […]
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Rocket Lab’s stock set for 20% gain this week after flurry of new launch deals
Rocket Lab shares have added more than a quarter in value this week as the aerospace company inked new launch deals in the burgeoning space tech industry. The stock was flat on Friday, but has surged over 20% this week. Shares were up nearly 50% over the last two weeks and traded near fresh highs […]
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Tesla faces U.S. auto safety probe after reports FSD ran red lights, caused collisions
The tablet of the new Tesla Model 3. Matteo Della Torre | Nurphoto | Getty Images Tesla is facing a federal investigation into possible safety defects with FSD, its partially automated driving system that is also known as Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Media, vehicle owner and other incident reports to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration […]
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Trump meets with Jared Isaacman about top NASA job after pulling nomination
Commander Jared Isaacman of Polaris Dawn, a private human spaceflight mission, speaks at a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. August 19, 2024. Joe Skipper | Reuters President Donald Trump has met with Jared Isaacman to discuss another nomination to lead NASA, a source familiar with the talks confirmed […]
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OpenAI’s Sora hit 1 million downloads in less than five days
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images OpenAI’s short-form artificial intelligence video app Sora hit 1 million downloads less than five days after its launch in late September, according to an executive. Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, shared the milestone in a post on X late Wednesday. He said Sora reached 1 million […]
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