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Amazon may launch a marketplace where media sites can sell their content to AI companies | TechCrunch
The AI industry’s pursuit of licensable content has been a messy affair, filled with lawsuits and accusations of copyright infringement. Now, as tech companies...
Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50 billion in OpenAI | TechCrunch
OpenAI, a company already valued at $500 billion, has made it known that it’s on the hunt for another $100 billion in investment. Such...
Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead Bengaluru expansion | TechCrunch
Anthropic has appointed Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its India business as the U.S. AI startup prepares to open...
Microsoft announces glut of new data centers but says it won’t let your electricity bill go up | TechCrunch
Although public backlash against data centers has been intense over the past twelve months, all of the tech industry’s biggest companies have promised additional...
Bill Gates donated record $8 billion to Melinda French Gates’ foundation as part of their divorce settlement | Fortune
Melinda French Gates has transformed her relatively young Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation into one of America’s largest private foundations almost overnight, in part due to...
Microsoft’s Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as ‘slop’ | TechCrunch
A couple of weeks after Merriam-Webster named “slop” as its word of the year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on what to expect...
The year data centers went from backend to center stage | TechCrunch
There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of...
Coreweave CEO defends AI circular deals as ‘working together’ | TechCrunch
It’s been quite the year for Coreweave. In March, the AI cloud infrastructure provider went public in one of the biggest and most anticipated...
Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot leaves WhatsApp on January 15 | TechCrunch
Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot will no longer be available on WhatsApp after January 15, the company has shared. After that date, users on WhatsApp...
Trump DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor | TechCrunch
The Trump administration announced Tuesday it would provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island.
The...
