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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Careens Toward Messy Divorce From Microsoft

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Relations between Microsoft and its financially and technologically intertwined partner OpenAI are on the rocks.

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Industries

Drones Steal the Paris Air Show

A record number of drones are on display at the world’s largest aerospace event in Paris this week, marking a major industry milestone.

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CIO Upside

Why is the Quantum Race Moving Faster?

“I don’t think we can think of this as business as usual.”

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Semiconductors

Magnificent 7 May Need to Make Room for Broadcom

Broadcom joined the trillion-dollar club late last year, and its market cap has only continued to climb since.

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Artificial Intelligence

Musk’s xAI Holds Talks for Another Massive Fundraising Round

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To catch up in the AI race, Elon Musk’s xAI is going to have to burn some proverbial rubber — and lots and lots of literal cash.

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Technology

Can Blue Origin Fill NASA’s SpaceX Void?

NASA is looking to decrease its dependency on key contractor SpaceX, but Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is going nowhere at exactly the wrong time.

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Artificial Intelligence

Gecko’s AI Robots Represent the ‘Boring’ Future of Bots

More than 70% of the $2.3 billion raised by robotics companies in Q1 2025 was directed towards task-centric tech like Gecko’s.

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CIO Upside

Nvidia Safety Patent Signals Physical AI Push

The goal of Nvidia’s tech is to help give autonomous systems more reliable memory, hazard detection and depth perception.

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Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s Scoping Out a Superintelligence Lab

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As ChatGPT’s partial outage yesterday goes to show, AI companies are still struggling to scale up to artificial general intelligence.

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Big Tech

Apple Still Won’t Ride the AI Hype Train

At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple announced a slew of incremental updates to its AI offerings.

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Blockchain

Circle Spirals Upward in $1 Billion IPO

This is Circle’s second attempt at going public, after its reverse SPAC in 2022 sputtered under regulatory scrutiny.

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CIO Upside

Google Patent Helps You Fix Your Prompts

Making the most of large language models requires some guidance.

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Artificial Intelligence

Palantir Becomes Trump Trade’s Big Winner

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Palantir’s share price has soared some 77% year-to-date on the backs of key federal government contracts, to hit a record valuation on Monday.

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