Congratulations, your tax dollars now subsidise AI’s electricity bill
Here is a tidy piece of corporate socialism: privatise the profit, socialise the power bill. On 30 September the US […]
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Oracle borrowed $48bn for AI, then handed the bill to its own staff
Oracle did something most companies work hard to keep out of writing: it told the SEC, in a legally binding
Meta wants $199.99 a month for an AI that orders your DoorDash
According to documents reviewed by The Information, Meta is preparing a consumer AI agent codenamed Hatch that plugs into DoorDash,
AI’s chipmaker wants to build its own city in Texas, but we are definitely not in a bubble
This is mad, though not quite for the reason the headline suggests. TSMC, the Taiwanese company that makes the chips
Another $3.5bn for AI, and why your pension should be nervous
Here is why this should bother you even if you have never heard of Kleiner Perkins. The firm has raised
The AI cartel meets antitrust law, for whatever that is worth
Remember September’s sudden fit of conscience, when Anthropic’s Dario Amodei urged the industry to slow AI down and Altman, Musk
Nobody asked Google Search to be your friend
A blogger searched an old 76ers meme and Google’s AI decided he’d been dumped by a man named Dario. Funny, until you remember who else the search bar is guessing about.
Musk’s Texas escape hatch jammed in a San Jose courtroom
Musk’s AI company wanted the women suing over alleged Grok sexual deepfakes packed off to Fort Worth. A California judge called the Texas-only clause unconscionable and kept the case right where it is.
AMD pays $8.2bn for the godmother of AI, and Nvidia gets a cut
AMD is handing over $8.2bn in stock for Fei-Fei Li’s two-year-old world-model lab, and Nvidia, an early backer, gets paid in AMD shares for the privilege.
Your private AI chats have a surprisingly large audience
Hundreds of contractors are reading ChatGPT prompts, Copilot’s graders are drowning in upskirt photos, and Meta’s AI caller was sometimes a call centre. Your ‘private’ chatbot has a staff.