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Sources: Oracle will spend ~$40B on ~400,000 Nvidia GB200 chips and lease them to OpenAI at its 1.2GW Texas data center, billed as the first US Stargate project — The 1.2 gigawatts infrastructure project will be one of the largest in the world — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT …
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President Trump says that the tariffs he has threatened against Apple would also be aimed at “Samsung and anybody that makes that product” — “It would be more,” Trump said when asked at the White House whether his tariff threat would only apply to Apple.
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Sources: Salesforce is in talks to acquire cloud data management company Informatica, reviving discussions that stalled in 2024; INFA closes up 17.45% — If a deal is reached, it could be announced as soon as next week, according to the people, who asked to not be identified because the discussions are private.
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Sources: Builder.ai collapsed after it revised its 2024 revenue estimate from $220M to ~$55M and restated its previously reported 2023 sales from $180M to ~$45M — Failed UK start-up revised down revenues to just a quarter of prior estimates — Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed …
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Polygon cofounder Mihailo Bjelic steps down from the project's development studio, Polygon Labs, and from the foundation board, marking the third founder exit — - Mihailo Bjelic is stepping back from his active role developing Polygon and from the foundation's board, according to an announcement on Friday.
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| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
A look at Anthropic's first developer conference, where CPO Mike Krieger said 70%+ of Anthropic's code pull requests are now written by their AI model Claude — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said everything human workers do now will eventually be done by AI systems.
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| Keith Broni / Emojipedia: |
Japanese carrier Docomo is discontinuing its emoji set, which was last updated in 2013 and became one of the most influential in history after its debut in 1999 — This week, it was announced that Docomo's emoji designs will no longer appear on any of the Japanese mobile network's devices.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tim Cook called Texas Governor Greg Abbott last week urging a veto or changes to a bill that would require Apple to verify users' ages on its devices — Apple's CEO called Greg Abbott after law passed requiring app stores to verify user ages — Apple stepped up efforts in recent weeks …
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the rise of “sovereign AI”, wherein countries invest directly in chip companies like Nvidia and AMD, making AI chips a highly politicized business — As Nvidia and others strike deals with sovereign nations, their business will become politicized as never before| Phoebe Liu / Forbes: |
Metaverse startup Infinite Reality, which claims a $15B+ valuation, told shareholders it is rebranding as Napster, an “AI-powered digital experiences” provider — Florida-based metaverse startup Infinite Reality, which claimed to have raised one of this year's largest funding rounds … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on the trade-offs with Route Share, Uber's business structure, autonomous vehicles, working with fleet operators, and more — Today, I'm talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. We recorded this conversation the day Uber announced a big set of product updates …
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| Ryan Barwick / Axios: |
Utah-based Awardco, which makes HR software that helps AT&T, Adobe, and other clients manage employee rewards, raised a $165M Series B at an over $1B valuation — Awardco announced Tuesday it has raised a $165 million Series B, valuing the employee rewards platform at more than $1 billion.| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Experts say some Trump officials' plans to amp up cyberattacks against China would risk retaliation the US is increasingly unprepared for amid budget cuts — Some Trump administration officials want to hit back at China for its hacks on U.S. infrastructure — a risky strategy, experts say, amid budget reductions.| New York Times: |
Q&A with Demis Hassabis about how Google I/O became the Gemini show, Google getting “AGI-pilled”, Project Astra, Sergey Brin's shorter AGI timelines, and more — A few years ago, most Google executives didn't talk about A.G.I. — artificial general intelligence, the industry term for a human-level A.I. system.
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