At a White House event, Apple commits to spending another $100B on US manufacturing and aims to bring more of its supply chain to the US to avoid iPhone tariffs
Made In USA iPhone Still Off The Table Snaggy / The Joy of Tech : The Joy of Tech comic... Tim and Trump! MarketWatch : Dow Jones Top Markets Headlines at 11 PM ET: U.S. Trading Partners Race to Secur...
Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems
An AI-Powered Combat Headset That Can Detect Drones Vaughn Cockayne / Washington Times : Meta, Anduril team up to bring high-tech perception to U.S. warfighters Bloomberg : Meta Teams Up With Anduril ...
How President Trump is leveraging the US' dominance in AI chips for strategic deals with countries flush with oil wealth, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE
As the president heads to the Middle East, America's dominance over A.I. chips has become a powerful source of leverage for the president.
Nvidia starts making its Blackwell chips at TSMC's Phoenix plant and says it aims to make up to $500B of AI infrastructure in the US in the next four years
Nvidia opens first US factories Reuters : Nvidia to produce AI servers worth up to $500 billion in US over four years Taiwan News : Nvidia to invest NT$16 trillion in US AI infrastructure with Taiwane...
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”
But Can It Really Pull It Off? Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : TikTok could be owned by an AI company The News International : Perplexity joins race to buy TikTok and reshape its algorithm Sean Bur...
Sources: Stargate lacks a fully developed plan, hasn't yet secured funding, will get no government financing, and will exclusively serve OpenAI once operational
Donald Trump has called the SoftBank-backed venture a 'resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential'
A look at The Stargate Project: unanswered questions, PR wins, SoftBank only has ~$30B cash, many projects are old news, and Elon Musk trolled the announcement
$500B in CapEx for AI in the US feels like a good thing for US security and for AI's continued progress in capabilities. Google's entire capex in 2024 was $50B. This is a hard amount of money to actua...
Microsoft says it is on track to invest ~$80B in FY 2025 to build out datacenters to train AI and deploy AI and cloud apps, with 50%+ of the spending in the US
plans to spend tens of billions of dollars to build out AI data center … Rounak Jain / Benzinga : Microsoft To Invest $80 Billion In AI Data Centers For Fiscal 2025 Minh Le / Tech in Asia : Microsoft ...
Nvidia will replace Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on November 8, after Amazon replaced Walgreens in February 2024; Intel joined the index in 1999
Intel's 25-year reign has come to an end Varsha Agarwal / DNA India : Nvidia to replace rival Intel in Dow Jones indices by November 8 Kara Greenberg / Investopedia : Nvidia To Take Intel's Place in t...
Many outlets have increased reliance on Apple News+; The Daily Beast is set to make $3M-$4M from it in 2024, and Time says it delivers a 7-figure annual revenue
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