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OpenAI and AWS agree to a seven year deal in which OpenAI will pay $38B for AI compute, including training its models on Amazon's servers and using its CPUs — Companies' first computing partnership is part of Amazon's efforts to grow its cloud business — OpenAI has agreed … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
As part of the AWS deal, OpenAI says it will immediately begin running workloads on AWS infrastructure, tapping hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs in the US — OpenAI has signed a deal to buy $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon Web Services, its first contract with the leader …
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Microsoft says the US now lets it ship the latest Nvidia chips to the UAE, the first company to get a license; Trump made a deal with UAE President MBZ in May — Commerce department approval paves way for huge new investment in AI and cloud infrastructure in Middle East
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Microsoft plans to spend $7.9B+ on data centers, cloud, and employees in the UAE over the next four years, taking its UAE investment to $15.2B from 2023 to 2029 — Microsoft Corp. said it will spend more than $7.9 billion on data centers, cloud-computing and employees in the United Arab Emirates … | Vince Dioquino / Decrypt: |
When asked on 60 Minutes about his pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao, President Trump said “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt” — In a rare interview, Trump said he was told Changpeng Zhao was the victim of the Biden administration's “witch hunt” against crypto.
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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Trump says Nvidia's Blackwell chips would not be available to “other people”; in August, Trump suggested he might allow sales of a scaled-down version to China — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) advanced Blackwell chip for artificial intelligence would not be available to “other people,” U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday.
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| Rocket Drew / The Information: |
Court docs: in a deposition, Ilya Sutskever discussed conflicts at OpenAI that he sent to board members before Sam Altman's firing, his OpenAI exit, and more — Anthropic initially expressed “excitement” about a possible merger with OpenAI two years ago, after OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman …
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| Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: |
In an interview, Satya Nadella says Microsoft faces a power shortage, but not a compute one, which could leave “chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in” — 'I don't have warm shells to plug into' — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings are capable of consciousness and “it would be absurd to pursue research” into AI consciousness — Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings are capable of consciousness, and that developers …
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| Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: |
Proofpoint says it has “high confidence” that hackers are working with organized crime groups to infiltrate trucking and freight companies to steal cargo — Hackers are infiltrating trucking and freight companies in a scheme to steal and sell cargo shipments …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts — Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition.
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| Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: |
Researchers: OpenAI's o1 analyzes languages as well as a human expert, including inferring the phonological rules of made-up languages without prior knowledge — If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Baidu says its Apollo Go robotaxi hit 250,000 weekly orders globally as of October 31, matching Waymo's 250,000 weekly paid US rides reported in April 2025 — BEIJING — As Baidu ramps up its robotaxi operations worldwide, fully driverless weekly rides as of Oct. 31 have now surpassed 250,000 orders … | Reggie Ugwu / New York Times: |
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