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Before we get into today’s column, OpenAI late Wednesday evening announced the hire of Fidji Simo, currently the Instacart CEO and a member of OpenAI’s board, in the newly created position of CEO of OpenAI Applications, to run “the product, business, and other company functions,” reporting to CEO Sam Altman. (My colleagues Jessica Lessin and Amir Efrati had early word of the appointment). The hire emphasizes the scope of Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI. Simo’s extensive experience running an e-commerce and ad
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Starbucks baristas told Business Insider that customers camped out and got aggressive over the launch of the viral Bearista holiday cup. Read more ›
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He also had strong opinions about people's "god-given" rights to eat a hotdog and flirt with someone who isn't their spouse. Read more ›
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In a Friday ruling, the Supreme Court blocked an order requiring the Trump administration to provide food stamps during the government shutdown. Read more ›
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Meta said on Friday that it's investing $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs by 2028. Although the announcement is light on specifics (and heavy on standard Big Tech self-congratulation), it sounds like much of it will go toward AI data centers."At Meta, we're focused on creating the next generation of AI products and building personal superintelligence for everyone," the company wrote. "Data centers are crucial to reaching these goals... Read more ›
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Elon Musk has spent the last few weeks outlining a future with Optimus — one that will "eliminate" poverty, work, and require a universal income. Read more ›
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WIRED obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees pressed leadership on plans for the agency. Read more ›
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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's salary increased from $1M to $2M, along with a performance-based stock option award that could be worth billions. Read more ›
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Due to age-verification laws, Pornhub has blocked itself in 22 U.S. states as of August 2025. Read more ›
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xAI CEO Elon Musk said there will be "a lot of trauma and disruption," but it is possible to have a future where work is optional. Read more ›
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Have you been caught up in the travel chaos? Business Insider wants to hear from you. Read more ›
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Catch up on the latest startup news — from major funding rounds and new partnerships to bold acquisitions. It’s been another busy week in the world of startups and innovation. From funding rounds to fresh partnerships and major acquisitions, businesses have been making moves to grow and adapt. Of course, with so many headlines arriving ... Read more Read more ›
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The week's top stories from GTA 6, IKEA, Samsung, Google and more for November 8, 2026. Read more ›
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Nvidia RTX 5000 Super series might be canceled due to AI-induced GDDR7 shortage, as rumors suggest that 3GB GDDR7 chips will be hard to come by. Read more ›
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The $600 billion US investment that Mark Zuckerberg previously floated at a White House dinner with Trump is set to become a reality. Read more ›
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Discover how you can negotiate your salary like Elon Musk by leveraging your value so you can get paid what you're worth. Read more ›
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AMD's Bulldozer-era FX-9590 CPU from 2013 managed to run Battlefield 6 at over 30 FPS at 1080p resolution, boosting to 40+ FPS at lower resolutions on smaller maps. FX-9590, despite being more than a decade old, does support SecureBoot, which was enough for BF6 launch, confirming TPM is not neccesary. Read more ›
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This clown is really dancing between the demon baby bat and pickled daddy before settling on its most familiar form. Read more ›
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My family has lived in several countries and US cities. When we moved to Jamestown, a coastal town in Rhode Island, we finally found our forever home. Read more ›
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Elon Musk said Tesla may need to build its own massive “TeraFab” chip plant to secure enough AI processors, a move that would make Tesla one of the world’s largest chipmakers, but experts like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang warn that creating a modern semiconductor process and fab is vastly more complex than Musk imagines. Read more ›
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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund plans to vote against Tesla’s proposed $1 trillion CEO compensation package for Elon Musk, the fund said on Tuesday. Norges Bank said in a disclosure that it was “concerned about the total size of the award, dilution, and lack of mitigation of key person risk.” The ... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, OpenAI is continuing its trend of diversifying its cloud compute providers away from Microsoft. Monday morning, the ChatGPT maker announced that it has signed a seven-year, $38 billion cloud deal with Amazon Web Services. OpenAI will immediately start using compute from AWS, with the goal to deploy all capacity before the end of next year, with the option to use even more compute into... Read more ›
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Decagon, which develops AI for automating customer service, is discussing raising equity funding from new investors at a valuation of $4 billion to $5 billion, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The discussions come just five months after the company announced financing at a $1.5 billion valuation. The deal discussions suggest investor interest is still high for one of the most promising and increasingly crowded fields... Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he doesn’t want the government to bail them out if the company fails. “If we screw up and can’t fix it, we should fail, and other companies will continue on doing good work and servicing customers,” Altman said in an X post on Thursday. Altman also said that OpenAI ... Read more ›
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I’ve been hearing a lot about how intense competition is for Series A investments lately. Investors that typically look to invest in more mature startups, say at the Series B or above rounds, are crowding into Series A rounds for fear of missing the next major winner.Like much else these days, artificial intelligence gets the credit (or blame) for this new dynamic. Venture capitalists are watching revenues triple or quadruple... Read more ›
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We’ve finally learned the result of a controversial, long-awaited vote that’s generated reams of punditry and put Wall Street on edge. No, I’m not talking about the mayoral election in New York City—I’m talking about the Tesla shareholder vote on Elon Musk’s gigantic compensation package. Musk won with over 75% of the vote, Tesla said at its annual meeting at the company’s Gigafactory in Texas on Thursday. The package will... Read more ›
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The White House has told others in the federal government it won’t allow Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China, despite President Donald Trump’s hints over the summer that he might allow the company to do so, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The decision is a major blow to the AI chip giant, which has seen its revenue from China shrivel this year... Read more ›
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said Wednesday that government guarantees for financing artificial intelligence chips could help the U.S. stay competitive globally. “We’re looking for an ecosystem of banks, private equity, maybe even governmental, the ways governments can come to bear,” she said at a ... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s revenue could reach $100 billion in 2027, Sam Altman said on a podcast published Friday with Altimeter Capital and OpenAI investor Brad Gerstner. Altman said the ChatGPT maker was already “doing well more revenue,” than $13 billion, an apparent reference to its annualized pace, which ... Read more ›
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One August morning, Kaarage woke up and took the train from the Japanese countryside into the city. She went to a restaurant and enjoyed a lunch of vegetables and soup, as well as an iced coffee. Afterward, she studied a musical score on her iPad, then went home to relax. Kaarage is not a person: She’s an internet-beloved Moflin, an AI-powered robopet made by Casio—yes, Casio—who shares a charming, bucolic... Read more ›
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