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Venture capitalists have long flaunted their ties with startup founders. Lately they have been touting a different relationship: their connections with the biggest providers of artificial intelligence chips.
VC partners competing to win sought-after investments in AI startups have been highlighting their relationships with Amazon, Microsoft and Google, which can give startups access to servers equipped with hard-to-get chips known as graphics processing units for developing AI software. Some firms, such as
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Musk made his first public appearance at the White House in months, and later thanked Trump on X for "all he has done for America and the world." Read more ›
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President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order as soon as Friday that would give the federal government unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence, including the creation of an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the Attorney General, "whose sole responsibility shall be to challenge State AI laws." According to a draft of the […] Read more ›
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Nvidia posts another record-breaking quarter with $57 billion in revenue, driven by surging demand for data-center GPUs. It now forecasts $65 billion next quarter and projects $0.5 trillion in Blackwell and Rubin sales by the end of 2026. Read more ›
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The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI. Read more ›
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While the chipmaker is the big winner from the booming technology, it is singularly exposed to changing expectations Read more ›
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Speaking at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum, Elon Musk predicted a future where money is "irrelevant" and work is "optional." Read more ›
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Boutique Android phone maker Nothing's first ‘true’ flagship handset just got its first major discount, placing it closer in price to its mid-range offerings, starting from AU$999 for the base 256GB model. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: When Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, unveiled the company's Superintelligence Lab in June, he named 11 artificial intelligence researchers who were joining his ambitious effort to build a machine more powerful than the human brain. All 11 were immigrants educated in other countries. Seven were born in China, according to a memo viewed by The New York Times. Although... Read more ›
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Can Brussels balance its desire to set the guardrails for tech with its need to attract investment? Read more ›
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The Lava Agni 4 has made its debut in India. It is powered by a MediaTek chipset, features a metal frame, and comes with the company’s new AI-assistant called Vayu AI. The handset is powered by the Dimensity 8350 SoC, which is paired with up to 8GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB of UFS 4.0 storage. It gets a vapor chamber cooling system as well. The Agni 4 comes with... Read more ›
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Record sales, a strong financial forecast, and CEO Jensen Huang’s impassioned arguments on his company's earnings call weren’t enough to push Nvidia shares back to their October high. Read more ›
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Nvidia's modular PCIe connector, used in some of its Blackwell-based graphics cards, is available individually. Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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Microsoft is preventing hilarity from ensuing by adding a new Digital Signage Mode in Windows 11. This recovery feature will force a BSOD or any error pop-up to disappear within 15 seconds so that the public can't enjoy the mundanity of life. Digital Signage Mode is different from the existing Kiosk mode for interactive screens. Read more ›
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At Tesla’s annual meeting earlier this month, shareholders showed little enthusiasm for a proposal that the electric vehicle maker invest in one of CEO Elon Musk’s other companies, xAI. But Musk’s revelation at the meeting that Tesla is considering building its own chip fabrication plant signaled another way his two companies could work together. Musk had already discussed plans for such a chip fab internally at Tesla months before the... Read more ›
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Microsoft will invest $5 billion in Anthropic, and Nvidia will invest $10 billion in the startup, the three companies announced on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Anthropic will spend at least $30 billion to rent servers from Microsoft’s Azure cloud equipped with Nvidia chips over an unspecified period, and ... Read more ›
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Apple’s succession plans for its next chief executive have accelerated, with its board and senior executives preparing for current CEO Tim Cook to step down potentially next year, according to the Financial Times. Any announcement of succession likely won’t happen until after late January when ... Read more ›
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Walt Disney Co. reported flat revenue and slightly lower operating income in the September quarter, as a sharp slump at most of its TV networks offset growth in its streaming business and theme parks operation. Disney stock was trading down 8% on Thursday. Disney’s entertainment ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Inside Grindr’s boardroom feud • Plus, our Recommendations: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “A Biography of a Mountain” and “Materialists”A bit of housekeeping: The Information’s Weekend section is looking for a reporter for a beat we’re calling “tech wealth and culture.” This person will cover how Silicon Valley’s moguls live large—their pursuits, their pastimes—and how they spend their money. Here’s a... Read more ›
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TeraWulf was limping along as a publicly traded bitcoin mining business until AI companies suddenly wanted access to its data centers. Now the cloud startup is at the center of one of the hottest meme-stock trades. Shares in TeraWulf and competing crypto miners have soared in recent months after they struck deals with tech companies desperate for data centers and energy resources to power their AI bets. Anthropic, maker of... Read more ›
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Thinking Machines Lab, the company co-founded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5 billion in the startup’s next round of funding, according to a person who spoke with Murati. That target would more than triple the capital the ... Read more ›
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Blockchain.com, a crypto brokerage and wallet provider, is planning to go public next year, the company’s newly named co-chief executive revealed, aiming to list after several volatile years. The company said it promoted its president Lane Kasselman to be co-CEO, alongside its founder and CEO Peter Smith, as part of its listing efforts. Kasselman is a former Uber executive who has worked for the crypto firm for five years. The... Read more ›
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Amazon has a new name for its satellite internet effort: Amazon Leo, a reference to its constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit. In a blog post, Rajeev Badyal, an Amazon Leo vice president, said that the satellite effort’s previous name, Project Kuiper, was a codename, which was inspired ... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, it’s worth pointing out that Google CEO Sundar Pichai strongly hinted on X that Gemini 3, the long-awaited next update to Google’s line of Gemini models, would be coming out this week. Google has done an impressive job of catching up to the other labs when it comes to conversational AI models, and Gemini 3 will be the company’s latest test to see whether... Read more ›
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