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Amazon is in talks to invest $10 billion or more in OpenAI, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The valuation would be higher than $500 billion, one of the people said.
The Amazon investment would help OpenAI afford some of the commitments it has made to rent servers from cloud providers, including from Amazon Web Services. OpenAI last month announced it would spend $38 billion renting servers from AWS over the next seven years, making AWS one of at least five cloud providers OpenAI us
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Govs. Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker demand Trump pay Americans $1,700 in tariff refunds after the Supreme Court ruling. Read more âș
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Justices Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas argued that Trump's tariffs were lawful and that reversing them could get messy. Read more âș
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The president insisted he'll find other ways to make the tariffs that have rocked the tech industry happen. Read more âș
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The landmark 6-3 ruling knocks down a load-bearing beam of Trump's economic agenda. Read more âș
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Donald Trumpâs tariffs are unlawful, the Supreme Court said on Friday.  What just happened? In a 6-3 decision, the Court struck down the sprawling tariffs [âŠ] Read more âș
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The process for IEEPA tariff refunds will likely go through the Court of International Trade. Already, over 1,000 lawsuits are pending. Read more âș
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Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security's proposal to build âmegaâ detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation. Read more âș
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Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft after nearly 40 years at the software giant. Xbox president Sarah Bond is also leaving Microsoft, in what is a major shakeup to the management of Xbox and Microsoft's gaming efforts. Asha Sharma, currently president of CoreAI product, is taking over as CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Microsoft CEO [âŠ] Read more âș
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Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platformâafter dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. Read more âș
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President Donald Trumpâs approach to foreign policy so far has been to speak loudly and carry a big stick. On Friday, the Supreme Court took away his favorite stick. From Cuba, to China, to Greenland, itâs not an exaggeration to say that tariffs are the default foreign policy tool of the second Trump administration. He [âŠ] Read more âș
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After the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trumpâs tariff regime, investment firms are in line for a whopping return on a niche trade. Read more âș
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The Supreme Court fast-tracked a case over whether President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs. Read more âș
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In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration's signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds. Read more âș
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Meta is pivoting Horizon Worlds away from its original VR-centric metaverse vision and toward a mobile-first strategy, "explicitly separating" its Quest VR platform from the virtual world. TechCrunch reports: By going mobile-first, Horizon Worlds is positioning itself to compete with popular platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. "We're in a strong position to deliver synchronous social games at scale, thanks to our unique ability to connect those games with billions of... Read more âș
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The Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in Learning Resources v. Trump on Friday, with a total of six justices concluding that a wide range of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump are illegal. Chief Justice John Roberts, a Republican, wrote the opinion. At least some of his opinion was joined by five other [âŠ] Read more âș
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Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has just announced he's leaving the company after 12 years leading Xbox and nearly 40 at Microsoft in total. His replacement: Asha Sharma, formerly head of development for Microsoft's AI enterprise teams. Before that, she was COO of Instacart for three years, and spent four at Meta in charge of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Users say Pinterest has become flooded with AI-generated images and heavy-handed automated moderation, with artists reporting wrongful takedowns and their hand-drawn work mislabeled as "AI modified." As the company doubles down on AI features and layoffs, longtime users argue the platform's creative ecosystem is being undermined. 404 Media reports: "I feel like, increasingly, it's impossible to talk to a single human [at Pinterest]," artist and Pinterest user Tiana Oreglia told... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Metaâs plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and intends to release it later this year with health-tracking features and a built-in Meta AI assistant.... Read more âș
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Alibaba Group on Monday unveiled Qwen3.5, the new generation of its large language models, adding to the recent flood of new AI model releases from Chinese companies ahead of the Lunar New Year, Chinaâs biggest holiday. Alibaba, a major global competitor in open-source AI models, said ... Read more âș
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Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion to run its Claude AI on their cloud servers through 2029, according to the startupâs most optimistic recent forecasts. Thatâs not the only way the tech giants can make money from Anthropic: They get a cut of the revenue Anthropic generates if their customers buy its AI. And thatâs a fast-growing source of revenue. Anthropic paid only about... Read more âș
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Perplexity is no longer offering ads, an executive told The Financial Times. The AI search startup is pulling back from this line of business as rival OpenAI started showing its users ads in ChatGPT conversations earlier this month. The company said it was worried ads would undermine usersâ ... Read more âș
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Etsy saw its profit dip in the fourth quarter, even as revenue grew slightly, the company said Thursday, a day after the online marketplace said it would sell the Gen Z-focused clothing resale app Depop to rival eBay for $1.2 billion. Etsy reported revenue of $881.6 million, a 6.6% increase from ... Read more âș
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A new holy grail has emerged in the AI industry in recent months: continual learning, or the promise of AI thatâs able to learn from real-world experience the way humans do, without having to undergo long formal training processes that require tons of computational power and data.And as youâd might expect with the rise of an ill-defined, buzzy term in the tech sector, investors are already telling me that theyâre... Read more âș
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The Department of Homeland Security has begun ramping up its use of administrative subpoenas to obtain identifying information from major tech companies on anonymous social-media accounts that criticize or track Immigration and Customs Enforcement or post about ICE agentsâ locations. The New ... Read more âș
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Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world, from developing robot hands to the AI models that train robots to software to train self-driving cars. Now one startup says it can solve a perennial problem for robots and other AI-powered systems: getting precise location data that helps the bots detect other people and things.ZaiNar, a Belmont, Calif.-based startup that... Read more âș
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The U.S. Department of War is considering ending its partnership with Anthropic over a dispute about how the startupâs AI model, Claude, can be used by the U.S. military, according to an Axios report. Defense officials have been pushing leading AI firms to allow military use of their tools for â ... Read more âș
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OpenAI is finalizing initial commitments from investors in a round that could raise $100 billion at a $830 billion valuation including the investment, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising. SoftBank is expected to anchor the round with a $30 billion investment, which it will spread in three installments of $10 billion each through the year, according to the two people. Amazon, which supplies cloud services to... Read more âș
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