Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
On Wednesday, Alphabet said it expects 2026 capital expenditures of $175 billion to $185 billion, a figure that would be more than double what the company spent in 2025.
Sara Montes de Oca · 174 DAYS AGO
Musk announced the transaction Monday in a blog post, describing the merged company as “the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth,” uniting AI, launch services, space-based internet, and the X social platform. Public filings with Nevada list Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
Sara Montes de Oca · 176 DAYS AGO
Nvidia purchased CoreWeave Class A common stock at $87.20 per share, according to the companies, a discount to Friday’s close of $92.98. The deal values the investment as a strategic vote of confidence and sent CoreWeave shares up as much as 12% in early trading.
Jay Goldberg · 183 DAYS AGO
The model uses a mix of account-level and behavioral signals, including usage patterns over time, account age, typical activity hours, and a user’s stated age, according to the company. OpenAI said the system is designed to flag accounts likely belonging to minors without requiring users to self-report.
Jay Goldberg · 189 DAYS AGO
The new capabilities, announced Thursday, are designed to help users write more effectively, surface information buried across years of email, and proactively generate daily to-do lists.
Jay Goldberg · 201 DAYS AGO
“NOAA’s strategic application of AI is a significant leap forward in American weather model innovation,” said NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs. “These models represent a new paradigm, delivering improved large-scale and tropical track forecasts faster and at far lower computational cost.”
Sara Montes de Oca · 223 DAYS AGO
In a post on X, the company said its GPUs remain “a generation ahead of the industry” and emphasized that Nvidia is the only platform that runs every major AI model across all computing environments.
TechEchelon Staff · 245 DAYS AGO
Jeff Bezos is getting back into the startup trenches. According to a report from _The New York Times_, the Amazon founder is taking on a hands-on role as co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a newly launched AI startup that has already secured an eye-popping $6.2 billion in funding.
TechEchelon Staff · 253 DAYS AGO
GUDEA, the AI-powered narrative intelligence company, has unveiled _The ABCs of Influence_, a new behavioral analytics feature that classifies audience behavior to show who (and how) users shape online narratives in real time.
Jay Goldberg · 265 DAYS AGO
Shares of Amazon jumped roughly 5% Monday after the announcement, underscoring the significance of the partnership for both companies. The deal immediately allows OpenAI to run workloads on AWS infrastructure while Amazon builds additional dedicated capacity for the ChatGPT maker.
Jay Goldberg · 267 DAYS AGO
“I don’t think that is work that people should be doing,” Suleyman told CNBC at the AfroTech Conference in Houston, where he was a keynote speaker. “If you ask the wrong question, you end up with the wrong answer. I think it’s totally the wrong question.”
Sara Montes de Oca · 268 DAYS AGO
The stock is now up more than 340% year to date, underscoring investor enthusiasm for the companies powering the AI buildout.
Sara Montes de Oca · 291 DAYS AGO
The disclosure, made in a regulatory filing, outlined that Nvidia will be obligated to purchase CoreWeave’s residual unsold GPU capacity through April 2032. A copy of the agreement will be released with the company’s third-quarter financial results.
TechEchelon Staff · 316 DAYS AGO
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s chief executive of AI, argues that it should not. In a blog post this week, he dismissed ongoing research into “AI welfare”—the idea that machines might one day develop subjective experiences and deserve rights—as both premature and dangerous.
Jay Goldberg · 340 DAYS AGO
These models, referred to as "open-weight," allow developers full access to their trained parameters. While they stop short of being fully open-source — meaning the original training data and codebase are not included — they offer a high degree of flexibility for users who want to fine-tune the models or run them on private infrastructure.
Jay Goldberg · 357 DAYS AGO
Roughly 200 employees remain, and they’ve been given until August 10 to decide whether to accept a voluntary buyout, which reportedly includes nine months of severance pay.
TechEchelon Staff · 357 DAYS AGO
Speaking at the Federal Reserve’s Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference, Altman emphasized the extraordinary pace at which AI capabilities and adoption have evolved since the debut of ChatGPT in late 2022.
Jay Goldberg · 370 DAYS AGO
In their latest report, _Where Cloud Meets Cement: A Case Study Analysis of Data Center Development_, The Maybe—working in collaboration with public interest firm Computer Says Maybe—has pulled back the curtain on the accelerating global footprint of hyperscale data centers.
Sara Montes de Oca · 391 DAYS AGO
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