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OpenAI signs $38 billion compute deal with Amazon, partnering with cloud leader for first time
OpenAI has signed a deal to buy $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon Web Services, its first contract with the leader in cloud infrastructure and the latest sign that the $500 billion artificial intelligence startup is no longer reliant on Microsoft. Under the agreement announced on Monday, OpenAI will immediately begin running workloads on […]
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Why the ‘Mag 7 is too much of the market, get out’ is money-losing, false narrative
Investing is not just a game of giant Jenga. But the pessimistic hedge funds, or the ones who must have shorts on to justify their high fees, as well as their media acolytes who sound so painfully bearish even if they are just trying to sound like informed skeptics, sure make it seem that way […]
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Microsoft AI chief says only biological beings can be conscious
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings are capable of consciousness, and that developers and researchers should stop pursuing […]
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Musk teases Tesla Roadster demo by year-end. He’s been hyping a new one since 2017
Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda gets out of a Tesla Motor’s Roadster electric car with Tesla Motors Chief Exective Officer Elon Musk (behind car) upon their arrival at a news conference in Tokyo November 12, 2010. Issei Kato | Reuters Eight years ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk promoted a next-generation Roadster, basing the name of the […]
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SpaceX and Blue Origin both submitted plans to get astronauts back to the moon faster, NASA says
SpaceX’s Starship rocket 38 launches during the 11th test flight on October 13, 2025 as seen from South Padre Island in Texas. Gabriel V. Cardenas | Afp | Getty Images SpaceX said it has pitched NASA a “simplified mission” to put astronauts back on the moon following criticisms over delays by Sean Duffy, the space […]
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SF Mayor Lurie says city ‘on the rise’ after Trump reverses course on troop deployment
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference at San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 23, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who was recently thrust into a national debate about the safety of big cities, told CNBC on Thursday that he feels “pressure […]
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Amazon opens $11 billion AI data center in rural Indiana as rivals race to break ground
NEW CARLISLE, Indiana — A year ago, it was farmland. Now, the 1,200-acre site near Lake Michigan is home to one of the largest operational AI data centers in the world. It’s called Project Rainier, and it’s the spot where Amazon is training frontier artificial intelligence models entirely on its own chips. Amazon and its […]
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’
Elon Musk’s Wikipedia rival Grokipedia got off to a “rocky start” in its public debut, but Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales didn’t even have to take a look at the AI’s output to know what he expected. “I’m not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now,” Wales said at the CNBC Technology Executive Council […]
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Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch
The Grok AI logo is seen displayed on a smartphone with the Wikipedia logo in the background. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Elon Musk launched an early version of an AI-powered encyclopedia called ‘Grokipedia’ on Monday, with its website temporarily crashing before coming back online hours later. The new AI service, named after […]
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Cathie Wood says humanoid robots will be the ‘biggest of all’ AI opportunities
An Optimus bot from Tesla on display during the 2024 World AI Conference & High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center on July 7, 2024. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Ark Invest founder and Chief Executive Cathie Wood on Tuesday singled out the potential for artificial […]
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