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Q&A with Sam Altman and Satya Nadella about the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership, OpenAI's restructuring and $100B revenue target for 2027, $3T AI buildout, more — BG2. All things AI w @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥@bg2pod @altcap — (00:00) Intro (02:28) Microsoft's Investment in OpenAI (03:19) The Nonprofit Structure and Its Impact (05:46) Health, AI Security, and Resilience (07:50) Models, Exclusivity, and [video]
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A profile of Aaron Greenspan, who has spent years on a crusade to expose what he believes are financial problems at Tesla and at big tech companies — In 2018, Aaron Greenspan was a 30-something tech entrepreneur wondering what he should do with the several million dollars in his pocket.
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How Google Cloud has become one of Alphabet's fastest-growing businesses under Thomas Kurian, driven by investments in AI, data centers, custom chips, and more — - Google Cloud grew 34% in the third quarter on AI demand — Cloud is now challenging YouTube as Alphabet's No. 2 cash generator
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Nexperia's China unit says it has “sufficient inventories” to sustain order fulfillment “through year-end and beyond”, after the parent suspended wafer supplies — Dutch chipmaker Nexperia's China unit said on Sunday that it had established “sufficient inventories … | Anatoly Kurmanaev / New York Times: |
How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto — President Nicolás Maduro's opponents hope a new period of economic pain will finally topple his government.
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| Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: |
The White House says China has agreed to effectively end rare earth export controls issued in 2025 and 2022, and will also close probes of US chip companies — China will effectively suspend implementation of additional export controls on rare earth metals and terminate investigations targeting US companies …
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| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80+ countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech — The company supports thousands of SMEs in efficiently maintaining compliance with EU regulations and responding to regulatory changes.
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Analysis: sports volumes on Kalshi approach $1B a week, with open interest in sports contracts regularly above $100M, significantly higher than other categories — Open interest in Kalshi sports contracts has surged past any other category as lawsuits threaten operations
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| George Steer / Financial Times: |
Big Tech's dominance on the S&P 500 is becoming more extreme; the eight biggest tech stocks account for 60% of the gains since the market bottomed in April 2025 — In a week when Nvidia's value reached $5tn, investors in even the broadest index of global companies are now heavily exposed to the AI boom
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| David Jeans / Reuters: |
Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned drone, flying it “semi-autonomously”, as the US Air Force plans swarms of unmanned jet drones — Anduril's jet-powered drone flew for the first time on Friday, the company and the U.S. Air Force said … | Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: |
Grokipedia content often closely mirrors Wikipedia except for some political topics but its use of AI makes it better than Wikipedia on obscure entries — - A lot of the non-political entries are just direct copies of Wikipedia. — But in certain cases, Grokipedia improved the Wikipedia page … | Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft's AI tools still lag behind OpenAI's, as Microsoft struggles to create a cohesive AI experience and add new features by integrating OpenAI models — Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world.| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake — Mercor founders (left to right): Adarsh Hiremath, Brendan Foody and Surya Midha. — ULY INC. FOR MERCOR
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Oxford Economics: the AI boom is lifting global trade, with ~60% of US data center capex spent on imported IT gear, mainly from Taiwan, South Korea, and Vietnam — - AI reshapes industries, boosts productivity across sectors — Nvidia surpasses $5 trillion market value, leading AI boom
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