Ellison’s Paramount In Striking Distance of Winning WBD
Netflix would have four days to renegotiate its deal if WBD walks away.
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xAI Trade Theft Suit Against OpenAI Dismissed
xAI's lawsuit “does not allege any facts indicating that OpenAI induced xAI's former employees to steal xAI's trade secrets," a federal judge said.
Stripe Reportedly Expressed Interest in Acquiring PayPal
Payments fintech Stripe is considering a whole or partial acquisition of struggling rival PayPal, according to Bloomberg.
Amazon Says It Will Spend $12 billion On Louisiana Data Centers
The cloud company said it would pay for all the costs associated with the data centers amidst growing political backlash
Intuit Partners With Anthropic on Agents
Anthropic will integrate its Claude agent software directly into Intuit’s platform, allowing Intuit’s business customers to build and deploy AI agents.
Meta Strikes Six-Gigawatt Compute Deal with AMD
The deal illustrates how the tech industry’s appetite for chips has been a boon to firms like Nvidia and AMD, neither of which can supply enough chips for AI.
Oracle Shares Dip After Stargate Report
The Stargate joint venture floundered after its flashy announcement at the White House in January 2025.
Dario Amodei to Meet with Pete Hegseth Amid Anthropic-Pentagon Clash
Anthropic is asking the government for restrictions on its model being used for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons use without humans involved.
Anthropic Employee Share Sale Said to Reach $6 Billion
Investors recently valued Anthropic at $380 billion after the financing
IBM Stock Tanks After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Modernize Legacy Code
Claude Code can update COBOL, which is still used by many banks and government agencies.
Exclusive: Cerebras Files Confidentially For a U.S. IPO
The re-filing follows a large sales agreement with OpenAI.
Trump-Linked Stablecoin Briefly Dipped Below $1
Trump family-backed World Liberty said it suffered from a coordinated attack.
Shopify Shows Ads on Behalf of Its Merchants in ChatGPT
Other big advertisers like Target have arranged to show ChatGPT ads on behalf of smaller brands.
Uber to Buy Park App SpotHero
The Information first reported in December that Uber was considering an acquisition of SpotHero.
Anthropic Says Chinese Firms Used Claude Data to Improve Models
Anthropic accused Chinese model developers DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax of using data from Anthropic’s Claude models to train and improve their own AI.
Elon Musk Says SpaceX is Cutting Starlink Prices
He made the comments in response to an article in The Information on the topic.
OpenAI Strikes Partnership With Consultants to Promote Agent Software
The offering will compete with similar tools from Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Snowflake, and other tech giants fighting to control the agent management software layer.
Nvidia, MediaTek to Launch Chip for Consumer PCs This Year
The consumer-focused chips come after Nvidia and MediaTek built a similar chip together for AI developers and researchers last year.
Altman Says Data Centers in Space Idea is ‘Ridiculous'
Altman pointed out that AI chips break a lot and it was unclear how they could be fixed in space.
Trump Calls on Netflix to Fire Director Susan Rice
Trump's threat could complicate Netflix's hopes of winning regulatory approval for its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming operations and film studio.
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