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OpenAI Paid Hundreds of Millions for a Talk Show
OpenAI acquired TBPN, Technology Business Programming Network, on April 2 for a price the Wall Street Journal reported as 'low hundreds of millions.' Hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays built a daily streaming show that became required viewing for Silicon Valley executives. OpenAI's stated rationale is
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Microsoft Launches Three In-House AI Models in Challenge to OpenAI
Microsoft launched three in-house AI models on April 2, MAI-Transcribe-1 for speech-to-text, MAI-Voice-1 for expressive voice synthesis, and MAI-Image-2 for image generation, available through Microsoft Foundry. The release is less about the models themselves and more about what they mean for the co
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Meta Plans 20% Layoffs as AI Infrastructure Costs Mount
The Facebook parent is weighing cuts to offset spending on AI acquisitions and compute
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Starcloud hits $1.1B valuation building data centers that orbit Earth
Seattle startup raised $170M to launch GPU-powered satellites as terrestrial data center costs spiral
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SK hynix Files $14B US IPO to End the Memory Chip Crisis Choking AI
The world's HBM shortage has a name: RAMmageddon. South Korea's memory giant just filed for Wall Street's biggest tech listing in five years to fix it.
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Anthropic Signs AI Safety Deal With Australia, Opens Economic Tracking
The first agreement under the National AI Plan gives Canberra access to Anthropic's economic index data and commits both sides to joint safety evaluations.
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What Anthropic's Second Source Code Leak Reveals
Anthropic accidentally published a 59.8MB source map file. The contents reveal an ambitious product roadmap and a persistent supply chain vulnerability.
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Meta cuts 168 jobs as Reality Labs pivots to 'AI builders'
Virtual reality division restructured into AI-native pods as Zuckerberg doubles down on artificial intelligence
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Musk's $250B Bet: SpaceX Swallows xAI in History's Largest Acquisition
The rocket maker valued at $1 trillion absorbs the AI startup in a deal that reshapes Musk's empire ahead of a planned IPO
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China's Lobster Farming Frenzy: The OpenClaw Rush
As Chinese tech events overflow with lobster merchandise, security warnings mount over the autonomous AI agent sweeping the nation
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Microsoft Bets $1 Billion That Thailand Can Beat Singapore at AI
Cloud infrastructure deal signals ASEAN power shift as companies hunt alternatives to expensive city-state hubs
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Trump Names Zuckerberg, Huang, Ellison to White House AI Council
13 tech CEOs appointed to PCAST, Musk and Altman absent