by Jeffrey Cooper | May 12, 2025 | AI, Technology
The online giant bought a mysterious chip startup 10 years ago. It now looks like one of the smartest deals in tech history. The $350 Million Bet That Powers Amazon’s AI Ten years ago, a discreet barroom meeting between Annapurna Labs co-founder Nafea Bshara and...
by Jeffrey Cooper | Apr 19, 2025 | AI, Business, Semiconductors
Intel’s new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, is flattening the company’s leadership structure in a sweeping move to revive the struggling semiconductor giant. Key chip groups will now report directly to Tan, while Sachin Katti, previously head of networking chips, has been named...
by Jeffrey Cooper | Mar 27, 2025 | AI
OpenAI is reportedly finalizing a record-breaking $40 billion funding round, led by SoftBank Group Corp., with participation from Magnetar Capital, Coatue Management, Founders Fund, and Altimeter Capital. This round could value OpenAI at $300 billion—nearly double its...
by Jeffrey Cooper | Feb 28, 2025 | AI
Stanford professor Stefano Ermon and his company, Inception, have developed a novel AI model that could redefine text generation. Unlike traditional large language models (LLMs), which generate words sequentially, Inception’s diffusion-based language model (DLM)...
by Jeffrey Cooper | Feb 28, 2025 | AI, Business, Economy, Personal, Technology
The rise of AI is ushering in a new era of work, shifting from the knowledge economy to what LinkedIn’s Aneesh Raman calls the “innovation economy.” As AI automates both physical and intellectual tasks, uniquely human abilities—creativity, curiosity,...
by Jeffrey Cooper | Feb 24, 2025 | AI, Technology
Apple’s Big Bet on U.S. AI Manufacturing Apple has announced a massive $500 billion investment in the U.S. over the next four years, including 20,000 new jobs and a state-of-the-art AI server facility in Houston, Texas, opening in 2026. This move comes after CEO Tim...
