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Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.

OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.

Mistral AI lands a partnership with Accenture, the consultant that has also recently announced partnerships with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.

Users who are part of the test can type "DM me" or "Message me" in a post or reply to automatically generate a hyperlink that invites others to start a private conversation with them.

Waymo this week will begin mapping and collecting data in Chicago and Charlotte. The move comes as Waymo announces it is currently operating its robotaxis fully autonomously in 10 US cities.

Spotify and Liquid Death launched what might be the wildest product of the year: a speaker shaped like a urn.

AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call "extensibility."

While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands.

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state.

On the latest episode of Equity, we debated what’s next for the creator economy, and whether there will be any room for the next generation of creators to stand out.

"The number one thing is to get out of your head this ideal that gets passed around in the self-help world: 'go get a mentor,' and everyone runs out and cold calls someone that's ridiculously too high and unachievable, and it doesn't work."

A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today. 

"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.

Is Microsoft's gaming division doubling down on AI?

Dueling pro-AI PACs have centered around backing or targeting one New York congressional bid: Alex Bores, whose RAISE Act requires AI developers to disclose safety protocols and report serious system misuse.

A new report from Business Insider reveals that high-level engineers at xAI were pulled off other projects to make sure Grok could answer detailed questions about the video game Baldur's Gate.

Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too.

A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links.

Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.

An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.

Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for its new fund-- nearly double the size of its last fund.

The new project, called Material Scale, will initially focus on climate tech startups in the apparel industry.

Under the partnership, Infosys plans to integrate Anthropic's Claude models into its Topaz AI platform to build so-called "agentic" systems.

Cohere's Tiny Aya models support over 70 langauges

According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might.

Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates.

OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.

The apparent issue: whether Claude can be used for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.

As much of Silicon Valley chases mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to venture capital's earlier days

Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for “blatant” copyright infringement.

The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, and correspondence, including order details and customer service inquiries.

CEO Chris Urmson called it a “superhuman” moment, adding that Aurora’s trucks can now carry freight 1,000 miles in 15 hours — faster than what a human driver can legally accomplish.

The former boss of the L3Harris-owned hacking and surveillance tools maker Trenchant faces nine years in prison for selling several exploits to a Russian broker, which counts the Russian government among its customers.

Out of the twelve-person founding team, only seven are still at the company (counting Elon).

Facebook's new AI features let users animate their profile pics, restyle their Stories and Memories, and add backgrounds to text posts.

The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.

Gather AI has closed funding from former Salesforce CEO's firm Smith Point Capital. Its warehouse AI system doesn't just scan. It seeks out specific data.

After a better-than-expected opening weekend in theaters, box office for Amazon’s “Melania”fell 67%.

But this is still a bad idea.

India is adjusting startup rules to help more of its deep tech startups with funding and long-term success.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is expected to be there. Apple's Tim Cook, too.

Antetokounmpo is the first NBA player to directly invest in Kalshi.

Although the bill’s prospects are uncertain, New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of new data centers.

This week's release of Opus 4.6 shook up the agentic AI leaderboards.

The company says it has continuous age-check systems running in the background to ensure age accuracy.

Get ready for some selfies that are out of this world. Crew-12 is expected to head to the International Space Station next week, while the highly anticipated Artemis II mission -- which will bring humans around the moon for the first time since the 1960s -- was delayed until March.

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ⁠ElevenLabs⁠, Ideogram, ⁠Fal⁠ and dozens of others.   A16z ⁠general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li⁠ (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – just valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis on where the team is looking […]

Watch Club will house microdramas and fan discussions in the same app, creating a fandom-focused social media experience.

The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.

TikTok says it finally solved all issues related to outages caused by last week's U.S. snowstorm.

For years, Tether's CEO avoided the United States, watching from offshore as regulators circled and prosecutors investigated. Those days are over.

While the documentary is exceeding box office expectations, it's unlikely to make a profit in theaters.

Elon Musk's reported merging of SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla harkens back to the heyday of General Electric — or maybe the robber barons of the Gilded Age.

From Belgium to Ukraine, five fresh European unicorns were minted this January.