OpenAI Commits $1 Trillion While Admitting Its AI Could Fail
The frontier AI race just turned into a game of corporate chicken played with nine-figure data center bills.
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OpenAI's Co-Founder Claims We're 80% of the Way to AGI
The people building AGI just admitted their machines are already doing most of their work. AI coding tools now write 80% of OpenAI's code, according to co-founder Greg Brockman, marking a fundamental shift in how the world's leading AI lab builds AI.
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Pentagon Tells Anthropic to Keep Its Safety Theater—Picks Rivals Who Actually Deploy
The Department of Defense just told the AI safety movement exactly what it thinks of red lines: find someone else to draw them.
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Cerebras IPO Valued Higher Than Most AI Chipmakers Despite Zero Name Recognition
The chip company OpenAI can't stop talking about just priced its IPO at a valuation that dwarfs most of the AI infrastructure stack — and barely anyone outside the Valley knows what they make. Cerebras, an AI chip maker with deep OpenAI ties, is targeting a $26.6B+ valuation in its upcoming IPO
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GameStop Bids $56B for eBay as Meme Stock Makes Largest Acquisition Attempt
The meme stock that refused to die just made a bid that's either brilliant or delusional—and Wall Street can't tell which. GameStop offers $56 billion to acquire eBay, a company four times its market cap, in what would be the most audacious retail acquisition in tech history
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Nvidia Funds the Startup Trying to Crush Its Margins
Nvidia just wrote a check to the company betting it can beat Nvidia at margin. DeepInfra closed $107 million Series B led by Nvidia and Samsung, positioning itself as cloud inference infrastructure for AI workloads.
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Pentagon Gives Google and Nvidia Access to Classified War Networks
The Pentagon just handed the keys to its classified war networks to seven AI companies, including the ones building your chatbots.
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Data Centers Now Consume More Power Than Entire Countries—This $6B Startup Has the Fix
The AI compute boom is about to hit a wall made of transformers and transmission lines, unless someone figures out how to power data centers without breaking the grid.
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Blackstone Opens Its $55B Data Center Empire to Public Investors
The world's biggest landlord just decided AI infrastructure is interesting enough to let retail investors in on it. Blackstone is taking its data center REIT public, targeting $1.75 billion in what could be the largest real estate IPO since the AI compute boom began
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Asian Markets Hit Records While Middle East Oil Crisis Gets Ignored
Wall Street's AI fever is so hot right now that it's making traders ignore a literal oil chokepoint crisis. Asian markets hit all-time highs driven by AI optimism and strong megacap tech earnings, with US futures pointing higher
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Cerebras Bets $15 Billion That Nvidia Got Chips Wrong
The company that bet on wafer-scale chips while everyone else played it safe is now asking public markets to validate a $15 billion gambit. Cerebras Systems is seeking to raise $3.5 billion in a US IPO, positioning itself as an alternative to Nvidia in the AI chip and data center market
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Apple Names Next CEO as AI Strategy Stalls in China
Apple just told you its AI strategy isn't working. Apple names hardware chief John Ternus as next CEO, effective Sept. 1, 2026, with Tim Cook moving to executive chairman The choice signals Apple is doubling down on its hardware strengths while quietly admitting it's losing the AI platform race
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Google's "Dead" Search Business Just Hit Record Highs While AI Doomsayers Panicked
While everyone worried AI would kill Google's search business, people are searching more than ever — and now paying Google to search better. Google Search queries hit an all-time high in Q1 2026, with 19% revenue growth driven by AI-enhanced search experiences
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BNB Chain Now Trades $3.8B in Real Stocks While You Sleep
BNB Chain just became a 24/5 stock market, and most people still think crypto is just for speculation. xStocksFi launched on BNB Chain with 50+ tokenized U.S. equities trading 24/5, bypassing traditional market hours and settlement delays
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Nvidia on Track to Become World's Most Valuable Company in Six Months
The world's most valuable company title is up for grabs, and the race says more about who builds the picks and shovels versus who builds the mine.
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Nvidia Bets $90B on Asia While Silicon Valley Waits
Nvidia just placed a $90 billion bet that the future of AI isn't built in Silicon Valley boardrooms—it's assembled in Taiwanese factories and Korean clean rooms.
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OpenAI Just Lapped Every AI Lab With Years to Spare
The arms race just hit hyperdrive, and OpenAI's competitors are looking at a calendar they can't catch up to. OpenAI hit a major AI computing capacity milestone years early, accelerating data center expansion plans
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Nvidia's CEO Just Told AI Doomsday Prophets to Shut Up
The guy selling the shovels just told the gold rush prophets to shut up. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called out AI doomers, specifically targeting Dario Amodei's 50% white-collar job loss prediction and Elon Musk's "20% chance of annihilation" claim
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Amazon and Google Just Declared War on Their Biggest Supplier
The empire's best customers just announced they're building competing empires—and the market shrugged. Google and Amazon told investors they're moving to sell their custom AI chips (TPUs and Trainium) directly to customers, not just through their clouds
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Pentagon Bans the "Safety-First" AI Company It Needed Most
The company that markets itself as the safe choice in AI just got voted off the island by the people who actually need safety guarantees.
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