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Blackstone Invests $5 Billion in New Neocloud Partnership with Google

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Blackstone, already the world’s largest private owner of data centers, will provide an initial $5 billion investment.

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Artificial Intelligence

In AI Chip Race, Nvidia’s Biggest Customers Become Competitors

The types of chips that will keep AI’s momentum up are different from those that trained it, creating an opening for rivals to Nvidia.

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Big Tech

Amazon Retires Shopping Chatbot Rufus, Handing Role to Alexa Instead

Amazon put Rufus to work in 2024 and said more than 300 million shoppers were consulting the AI bot on their buys in 2025.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Drug Designer Isomorphic Details Lofty Plans for $2.1B in New Funding

Isomorphic previously raised $600 million in external funding last year, which was also led by NYC’s Thrive Capital.

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Semiconductors

Cerebras Challenges Nvidia’s Chip Dominance with Highly Hyped IPO

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Cerebras says its chips can perform inference work faster than Nvidia’s GPUs, which are less specialized for inference work.

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Ties Up Loose Ends as Wall Street Awaits IPO

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On Monday, the ChatGPT-maker announced in a statement that it is seriously redefining the terms of its ongoing relationship with Microsoft.

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Industrials

Getting Physical: Jeff Bezos’s Billion-Dollar Quest to Fire Up Manufacturing with AI

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The aptly code-named startup Project Prometheus is close to scoring a new $10 billion fundraise at a cool $38 billion valuation.

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