CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator reframes the so-called “circular AI economy” as a necessary response to a historic supply chain crunch. He reveals the shortage goes “two levels deeper” than chips, down to raw metals like copper, forcing unprecedented cooperation.
The big story in payments and risk this year wasn’t a new feature, but a fundamental rewiring. Digital capabilities became the shared architecture, not just bolt-ons. This shift created clear winners and left laggards at a structural disadvantage.
Several engineers from Google’s secretive Tensor Processing Unit project have left to start their own company. The startup, called Groq Inc., has raised $10.3 million and is backed by prominent investor Chamath Palihapitiya.
A new legal analysis warns that AI’s antitrust risks go far beyond price-fixing. Regulators are now scrutinizing how algorithms can allocate markets, personalize pricing, and entrench dominance.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is changing how he gets AI updates. Instead of polished executive presentations, he’s meeting directly with frontline engineers working on Copilot projects. This hands-on approach aims to accelerate innovation and catch problems early.
Researchers have created a new aluminum alloy specifically for 3D printing. Using machine learning, they found a formula that yields parts five times stronger than traditionally cast aluminum, opening doors for lighter, more efficient components in aerospace and beyond.
Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that provides an API for scraping search engine results to train AI models. This legal move highlights the intensifying battle over data ownership in the AI era, with Google playing both offense and defense.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is openly dreading the idea of taking his company public. In a new interview, he called the prospect of being a public company CEO “zero percent” exciting, even as rumors point to a potential $1 trillion IPO.
The Department of Energy has signed agreements with 24 major tech organizations for its Genesis Mission, a Trump-era AI initiative for scientific discovery. The list includes AI developers, cloud giants, and chipmakers, though the deals are non-binding MOUs for now.
A new venture called Episteme, backed by Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son, is giving 15 scientists a lab and total freedom to explore. It’s a big bet that pure curiosity, free from grants and papers, will lead to profitable, world-changing ideas. But the history of private research funding is messy.
