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The AI Boom Is Bound to Bust: What if big investments in AI models, data centers, and hot startups don't pay off?

Leading AI companies are spending mountains of cash in hopes that the technology will deliver outsize profits before investors lose patience. Are exuberant bets on big returns grounded in the quicksand of wishful thinking?

Infographic showing Google antitrust ruling: must share search index, syndicate results, and allow non-exclusive deals.

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Google Must Share Data With AI Rivals: Google must share its search index, but can keep Chrome and Android

AI companies that aspire to compete with Google in search and other information-retrieval applications got a boost from the United States government.

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OpenAI Turns to Oracle for Compute: A new $30 billion, 4.5 gigawatt data center offshoot of the Stargate Project

OpenAI is working with Oracle to build its next chunk of processing power, a $30 billion outgrowth of the partners’ $500 billion Stargate project and a sign of OpenAI’s ongoing thirst for computation.

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Tech & Society

White House Resets U.S. AI Policy: How the White House's Action Plan aims to build AI leadership, infrastructure, and innovation

President Trump set forth principles of an aggressive national AI policy, and he moved to implement them through an action plan and executive orders.

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Powers Realign in AI-Assisted Coding: Google, Cognition carve up Windsurf after OpenAI’s failed $3B acquisition bid

A $3 billion bid by OpenAI to acquire Windsurf, maker of the AI-assisted integrated development environment of the same name, collapsed at the 11th hour, setting off a tumultuous few days of corporate maneuvering.

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Meta Befriends Scale AI: Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, hires CEO Alexandr Wang

Meta hired the leadership of ScaleAI and put billions into the data-labeling startup to accelerate its AI efforts.

Charts from Mary Meeker’s “Trends — Artificial Intelligence” report show global AI user growth, rising AI job demand, and revenue lagging behind compute costs.

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AI Market Trends in Charts and Graphs: Venture Capitalist Mary Meeker Revives Her Trend Reports With a Deep Dive Into the AI Boom

Renowned investment analyst Mary Meeker is back with a report on the AI market, six years after publishing her last survey of the internet.

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Benchmarking Costs Climb: Reasoning LLMs Are Pricey to Test

An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.

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Tech & Society

AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom

AI’s thirst for energy is growing, but the technology also could help produce huge energy savings over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent report.

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Tech & Society

Scraping the Web? Beware the Maze: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth traps scrapers with decoy pages

Bots that scrape websites for AI training data often ignore do-not-crawl requests. Now web publishers can enforce such appeals by luring scrapers to AI-generated decoy pages.

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Tech & Society

World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance

The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.

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Tech & Society

White House Orders Muscular AI Policy: U.S. shifts AI strategy to remove regulations and reinforce global leadership

Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.