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How OpenAI scrambled for compute as Stargate stalled amid clashes with SoftBank; sources say OpenAI building its own data centers is not its near-term priority — When President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion Stargate AI data center project in January 2025, the three companies charged …
More: Tom's Hardware, The Decoder, Times of India, and DigiTimes
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Sources: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what is likely to be a tense meeting over Claude usage — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what sources …
More: CNBC, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Asia Business Daily, and Türkiye Today
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A thought experiment imagines the AI-driven “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis”: S&P down, high unemployment, and economy failing, as AI exceeds every expectation — A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future — Preface — What if our AI bullishness continues …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning — Tech leaders are beginning to worry about the public's underwhelming enthusiasm for their plans to remake the world with artificial intelligence.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
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| Shira Ovide / Washington Post: |
Economists at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan report the AI boom contributed “basically zero” to US economic growth in 2025, challenging claims of up to 92% growth — Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers are working with Nvidia on laptops that use the Arm-based Nvidia-MediaTek SoC, which could launch in H1 2026 — AI leader and its partners hope to make PCs lighter and thinner while keeping long battery life — Nvidia chips for laptop computers … | Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Samsung plans to add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying “Hey Plex” or with a physical button — The wakeup phrase will be, ‘Hey Plex.’ — Samsung's next flagship devices will offer Perplexity as part of an expansion …
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| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may “remove support” — Google has restricted accounts of AI Ultra subscribers who accessed Gemini models through OpenClaw, a third-party OAuth client … | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Aalyria, a Google spinoff and a Starlink rival that helps satellite constellations fill network gaps during disasters, raised $100M at a $1.3B valuation — In 2022, Google spun out a project focused on high-speed communications networks into a startup called Aalyria.
More: FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, Tech Funding News, and Business Wire
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft was forced to announce Xbox leadership changes early on Friday because the news had begun to leak to IGN, causing a day of internal chaos — Microsoft has a new gaming CEO who wants to bring Xbox back from the brink. … Xbox fans had been anticipating the retirement … | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First Action begins running ads urging AI regulations in New Jersey; the PAC raised nearly $50M and now aims to raise $75M — The ads by Public First Action, which started airing on Monday, are part of an escalating political war over artificial intelligence before the midterm elections.| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Uber launches Uber Autonomous Solutions, offering services like insurance, roadside assistance, and “AV mission control” tools, and will offer fleet financing — App says new operation will boost commercialisation of AVs — Uber has set up a new initiative to serve a growing number …
More: Investor's Business Daily, The Verge, EV, and Uber
| Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg: |
HR app Humand, used by 1.5M+ “deskless” workers in construction, retail, hospitals, and more, raised a $66M Series A led by Goodwater and Kaszek — Startup Humand is betting the next wave of workplace software won't target office employees but the billions of workers who don't sit behind a computer.
More: Pulse 2.0 and SiliconANGLE
| David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: |
How Buddy Rizer, an official in Virginia's Loudoun County, helped build the world's largest data center market, with ~200 buildings spanning ~49M square feet — Virginia's Loudoun County is a giant data-center market thanks in part to a radio DJ-turned county executive director for economic developmentSponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
IDrive:
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