Social Media’s Reckoning
Jury selection kicks off in Los Angeles tomorrow for a trial that both friends and foes of social media are saying could be existential for the social media industry—broadly defined to include Googl...
Khosla Partners Clash Over ICE Killing
The founder and partners of OpenAI-backer Khosla Partners made opposing statements on X about the killing of a Minneapolis resident by a federal agent, in a rare instance of partners at the same VC fi...
Five Takeaways From ‘Data Center Davos’
Last week, the data center industry migrated temporarily to Hawaii for the Pacific Telecommunications Council conference. The event—like Davos except warmer—is typically where deal talks in the da...
Why OpenAI Is Doubling Down on Enterprises
The circular funding party continues! This morning, Nvidia announced that it’s invested $2 billion into cloud provider CoreWeave, who said it’ll use that capital to build more than five gigawatts ...
EU Investigates Elon Musk’s X Over Grok Integration
The European Union has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X over how the social media service has integrated xAI’s Grok AI chatbot. The investigation comes amid an outcry after users w...
Nvidia Invests Another $2 Billion in CoreWeave in New Deal
Nvidia invested another $2 billion into AI cloud startup CoreWeave as part of a broader deal in which CoreWeave committed to adopt “multiple generations” of Nvidia chips including the upcoming Rub...
OpenAI Seeks Premium Prices in Early Ads Push
In its initial rollout of ads, OpenAI is charging prices that rival those for coveted video programs like the NFL, and well above what rivals such as Meta Platforms’ social media apps charge.
But u...
Nvidia CEO Tours China Amid Uncertainty Over Chip Sales
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Beijing on Sunday after spending two days in Shanghai over the weekend, according to various Chinese media reports. He is expected to attend the company’s Lunar Ne...
Anthropic Sought Billions for Apple Deal, Report Says
Anthropic had been in discussions with Apple to supply models to rebuild its Siri AI assistant and was seeking several billion dollars annually over multiple years, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. But n...
National Safety Agency to Investigate Waymo Over Austin Activity
The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday said it planned to open a safety investigation into the activity of Waymo vehicles around school buses in Austin, Tex. The investigation follows a re...
