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Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle and OpenAI backing UAE Stargate project
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends an event, "Investing in America," held by President Donald Trump in Washington, April 30, 2025.Leah Millis | ReutersU.S. tech giants Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle and OpenAI are supporting the "UAE Stargate"…
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts
While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he might not actually be listening to them anymore.
That tidbit comes towards the end of a longer Bloomberg profile of Nadella, with a focus on Microsoft’s AI strategy and its…
Challenges face Elon Musk and NASA in sending people to Mars
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world's richest man, want to make living on Mars a reality. Musk has said that his company, SpaceX, can get humans to Mars as early as 2029. Meanwhile, NASA officials have said that sending…
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees
Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an AI worth hiring.
But it’s now placed three new ads on YC’s job board for “AI agents…
Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show gen AI tampered with ‘at will’
Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty ImagesIn the two-plus years since generative artificial intelligence took the the world by storm following the public release of ChatGPT, trust has been a perpetual problem.Hallucinations, bad…
Tesla limits investors’ ability to sue over breach of fiduciary duties
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at an opening ceremony for Tesla China-made Model Y program in Shanghai on Jan. 7.Aly Song | ReutersIn a regulatory filing out Friday, Elon Musk-led automaker Tesla announced a change to its corporate bylaws…
OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
OpenAI is poised to help develop a staggering 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi, positioning the company as a primary anchor tenant in what could become one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure projects, according to a new…
Tech IPO market is finally showing signs of life
Yoni Assia, co-founder and chief executive officer of EToro Group Ltd., center, and Ronen Assia, co-founder of EToro Group Ltd., center left, ring the opening bell during the company's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in…
xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’
xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts on X.
On Wednesday, Grok began replying to…
U.S., UAE agree on path for Emirates to buy top American AI chips, Trump says
U.S. President Donald Trump signs a guest book next to United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at Qasr Al Watan, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersABU DHABI, United Arab…
Cerebras CEO says chipmaker’s ‘aspiration’ is to hold IPO in 2025
Toronto , Canada - 20 June 2024; Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024.Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty ImagesCerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said…
Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month.
When asked by one attendee about how ChatGPT can become more personalized, Altman replied that he…
Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok posting about ‘white genocide,’ South Africa
The Grok chatbot from Elon Musk's xAI startup is responding to user queries with unrelated comments about the controversial topic of "white genocide" and South Africa.CNBC on Wednesday found numerous instances of Grok discussing the…
South Korea delays decision on letting Google move hi-res map data overseas
South Korea has once again postponed a decision on whether to approve Google’s request to transfer high-precision map data on the country’s geography to its international servers.
In February, Google had requested approval from the…
Amazon lays off about 100 employees in devices and services unit
An Amazon device is displayed at an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City on Feb. 26, 2025.Brendan McDermid | ReutersAmazon is laying off roughly 100 employees in its devices and services division, the company confirmed…
YouTube viewers will start seeing ads after ‘peak’ moments in videos
Imagine you’re watching a highly anticipated video from your favorite YouTube creator — perhaps the moment a famous couple finally gets engaged — when an ad pops up immediately after the clip. This is part of YouTube’s new ad format…
CoreWeave (CRWV) Q1 2025 earnings report
Mike Intrator, co-founder and CEO of CoreWeave, testifies during a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing on artificial intelligence in Washington on May 8, 2025.Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty ImagesShares of artificial intelligence…
Perplexity partners with PayPal for in-chat AI shopping
Perplexity is extending its bet on chat-powered shopping, aiming to stand out in the crowded generative artificial intelligence market against OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.The company said on Wednesday that it's partnering with PayPal…