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Microsoft takes $3.1 billion hit from OpenAI investment
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella (L), speaks with OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, who joined by video during the Microsoft Build 2025, conference in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft took a $3.1 billion hit to its net income in the first quarter […]
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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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AI spending is boosting the economy, but many businesses are in survival mode
Cameron Pappas, owner of Norton’s Florist Norton’s For Cameron Pappas, owner of Norton’s Florist in Birmingham, Alabama, the artificial intelligence boom is a world away. While companies like Nvidia, Alphabet and Broadcom are lifting the stock market to fresh highs and bolstering GDP, Pappas is experiencing what’s happening in the real economy, one that’s far removed […]
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s annual pay jumps to $96.5 million
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is getting a big bump in his compensation, as the company’s stock price has continued to rally, propelled by the boom in artificial intelligence. Nadella’s […]
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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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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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AMD’s deal with OpenAI gives Nvidia much-needed challenger in market it dominates
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, left, and Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia Benoit Tessier | Ritzau Scanpix | Mads Claus Rasmussen | Reuters In the 1990s, when Intel dominated the PC chip market, the semiconductor maker needed Advanced Micro Devices to exist as a viable No. 2 to help avoid being charged with monopolistic behavior. […]
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 must stop allowing copyright infringement, Motion Picture Association says
Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images The Motion Picture Association on Monday urged OpenAI to “take immediate and decisive action” against its new video creation model Sora 2, which is being used to produce content that it says is infringing on copyrighted media. Following the Sora app’s rollout last week, users have been swarming […]
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This Meta alum has spent 10 months leading OpenAI’s nationwide hunt for its Stargate data centers
Keith Heyde stands on site in Abilene, Texas, where OpenAI’s Stargate infrastructure buildout is underway. Heyde, a former head of AI compute at Meta, is now leading OpenAI’s physical expansion push. OpenAI It wasn’t how Keith Heyde envisioned celebrating the holidays. Rather than hanging out with his wife back home in Oregon, Heyde spent late […]
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AI Sam Altman and the Sora copyright gamble: ‘I hope Nintendo doesn’t sue us’
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI launched short-form video app Sora this week, and users have flooded the platform with artificial intelligence-generated clips of popular brands and animated characters. The startup could soon face a deluge of copyright lawsuits, experts told CNBC. “A lot of the videos that people are going to generate […]
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