This Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantage

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. OpenAI is making gains at the expense of its chief rivals. On Tuesday, the company announced the Stargate Project, a new joint venture involving Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, Oracle, and others to build AI infrastructure for OpenAI in […]
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Google agrees to new $1 billion investment in Anthropic

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Google has agreed to a new investment of more than $1 billion in generative AI startup Anthropic, a person familiar with the situation confirmed to CNBC.

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Samsung launches S25 smartphone with boosted AI as Apple battle heats up

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Samsung launched the S25 series which comes in three variants — the S25, S25+ and the S25 Ultra.

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US Government, Tech Giants Launch $500 Billion AI-Driven Infrastructure Initiative

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

The White House will ease the way for OpenAI, Oracle, MGX, and SoftBank to build a generative AI computing system.

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Streaming service Plex gets more social with public profiles and reviews

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Streaming service Plex has long since grown beyond its original focus of being a home for personal media to offer a more comprehensive solution for discovering, streaming, and sharing content across services, including Plex’s own ad-supported free TV and movies. More recently, the company added social networking features, which it’s today expanding with its rollout […]
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Zombie nuclear reactors could be revived thanks to AI data center demand

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Hoping to capitalize on the data center power boom, state-owned utility Santee Cooper is looking for partners to finish construction on two incomplete reactors.
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Singapore’s Likee Is an Unlikely Winner of the TikTok Ban

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

After a US law temporarily forced Americans to find a new home for their short-video habit, TikTok clone Likee saw a surge in usage.

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This New AI Search Engine Has a Gimmick: Humans Answering Questions

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

A new AI-powered search engine called Pearl is launching today, with an unusual pitch: It promises to connect you with an actual human expert if the AI answer sucks. WIRED gave it a spin.

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman take to social media to fight over Stargate

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the enormous infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI across the U.S. Stargate, announced Tuesday during a press conference at the White House, would funnel as much as $500 billion from investors including SoftBank and Middle East AI fund MGX […]
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Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in “horribly shortsighted” decision

Posted on January 22, 2025 by Techme101

The Department of Homeland security told members of the Cyber Safety Review Board that their membership was terminated.
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