For the first time, the U.S. has granted Microsoft a license to export Nvidia chips to the UAE — a move that positions the country as both a proving ground for U.S. export-control diplomacy and a regional anchor of American AI influence.
The deal will give Microsoft access to compute infrastructure built with Nvidia's GB300 GPUs, which will be deployed over phases through 2026.
"As an investor, you kind of have to not only say, okay, cool tech, sure, but emotionally, how does it make me feel? And how does it make others feel around me?"
Despite the emphasis on detachment from ideas, X employees do have significant skin in the game when projects spin out.
At Disrupt, Botha had advice for founders who are swimming in terms sheets right now.
Senator Martha Blackburn argued Gemma’s fabrications are “not a harmless ‘hallucination,’" but rather “an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that the company is doing “well more” than $13 billion in annual revenue — and he sounded a little testy when pressed on how it will pay for its massive spending commitments.
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The White House released more details Saturday about a trade deal reached between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Meta's AI spending is starting to make Wall Street nervous.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still taking swipes at each other on Musk’s social media platform X.
While Armstrong may have helped some Kalshi and Polymarket users make a little money, he was also illustrating how easily these markets can be manipulated.
A majority of consumers say they’re worried about data centers driving up electricity costs. Is the industry prepared for a possible backlash?
AI researchers at Andon Labs embedded various LLMs in a vacuum robot to test how ready they were to be embodied. And hilarity ensued.
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.
The social media company inked three deals in the U.S. to power its data centers and offset its carbon footprint.
CoreWeave's failed buy of Core Scientific is another sign of an AI bubble. But it's still shopping.
Tattd, a marketplace for tattoo-seekers and artists, set up a mini tattoo parlor in the Expo Hall at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.
As the hackers plainly stated in their message ("Please stop giving us money"), this breach appears motivated to suppress alumni donations.
AWS continues to see strong demand as companies gobble up its cloud infrastructure services in the age of AI.
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