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The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments, crimping a potential source of funding for power-hungry tech companies.
Countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia have become big destinations for data centers. Local firms are developing the projects, along with U.S. companies such as xAI, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and Google, which are drawn to the region for its cheap energy.
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Anthropic’s Claude on Saturday hit the top spot on Apple’s U.S. App Store among downloaded free apps, overtaking OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Anthropic’s jump followed the Trump administration’s decision to ban federal agencies from using its technology after Anthropic said it didn’t agree to have its AI ... Read more ›
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Could fighting with the Pentagon be the best thing that ever happened to Anthropic? On Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” looked like it could pose an existential threat to the AI firm. Not only could it lose customers, but, depending on how broadly the designation is interpreted, it could force Anthropic’s cloud providers Amazon and Google to cut ties with the firm,... Read more ›
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An investor consortium led by BlackRock and EQT said Monday it has agreed to acquire energy provider AES in a roughly $33.4 billion deal, including the company’s debt, continuing a streak of private equity buyouts of large utility companies. The consortium, which also included the California ... Read more ›
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OpenAI said Monday it had amended a recently hashed out agreement with the Pentagon to specify that its models may not be used to conduct domestic surveillance via commercially obtained data. The change followed criticism that OpenAI’s original deal contained that loophole. The new language is “ ... Read more ›
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The U.S. government is considering capping Nvidia’s sale of H200 chips to China at 75,000 units per customer, a move that would sharply curtail how much AI computing power China’s biggest tech firms can acquire, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Alibaba Group and ... Read more ›
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Amazon is exploring offering technology to help other apps and sites sell ads in AI chatbots, according to two people who have talked to the company about its plans. Such an offering could potentially buttress its $68.6 billion ads business as people increasingly use AI chats to search for information. In recent months, Amazon Publisher Services, a part of Amazon’s ad business that helps websites run ad auctions, has had... Read more ›
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OpenAI was on the backfoot on Monday. Current and former OpenAI employees took to social media to share concerns about their employer signing an agreement with the Pentagon that seemed to accept at least some terms Anthropic had rejected. A surge in people uninstalling the ChatGPT app from their phones over the weekend, according to TechCrunch, suggested consumers were also responding. The ChatGPT creator responded quickly. On Monday night, OpenAI... Read more ›
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Pinterest said Tuesday that investment firm Elliott Management would invest $1 billion in the online scrapbooking app to help fund its efforts to buy back shares. The investment is part of a new $3.5 billion share repurchase program that the company also announced Tuesday. In addition to the $1 ... Read more ›
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Apple announced a new MacBook Pro powered by the M5 Pro and M5 Max chipsets. The company said that the new chips inside the computers will run artificial intelligence models four times faster than the previous generation of chips. Apple also announced on Tuesday a new MacBook Air with the M5 ... Read more ›
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