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Alphabet is confident about plans to double capex spending to a possible $185 billion—but it’s keeping CEO Sundar Pichai up at night | Fortune
Capital expenditures—capex, meaning the big-ticket purchases that fund the data centers, servers, and power infrastructure undergirding the AI race—is fueling record-high, multi-trillion dollar tech valuations when investors think the spending is warranted. But companies get punished when investors worry...
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S&P rings up 5th loss in 6 days as tech stocks drag index down, led by AMD’s 17.3% drop | Fortune
More drops for technology stocks weighed on Wall Street Wednesday.The S&P 500 fell 0.5% for its fifth modest loss in the last six days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 260 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite sank...
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Peter Thiel warns the antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example |...
Peter Thiel has begun tying his warnings about “the Antichrist” and an impending apocalypse to what he describes as the “end of modernity,” casting climate activist (and Gen Z icon) Greta Thunberg as a central example of the forces...
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‘Let a thousand flowers bloom’: Jensen Huang says demanding ROI from AI is like forcing a child to make a business plan for a...
There’s a number haunting the artificial intelligence (AI) space: 95%. As in, 95% of generative AI pilots are failing, according to MIT’s influential, arguably overblown research study in August 2025. When Fortune‘s Diane Brady spoke with PwC Global Chairman...
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Former Cohere execs Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy secure $50 million seed round for their new startup Adaption Labs | Fortune
Sara Hooker, an AI researcher and advocate for cheaper AI systems that use less computing power, is hanging her own shingle.The former vice president of research at AI company Cohere and a veteran of Google DeepMind, has raised $50...
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Crypto crime-fighting startup TRM Labs notches $1 billion valuation with new $70 million funding round | Fortune
When TRM Labs cofounders Esteban Castaño and Rahul Raina moved to San Francisco in 2018 to create a startup, their mentors told them that great companies are built when you believe something about the world that others don’t. Along...
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Nevada legislators blast Elon Musk-owned Boring Company over safety and environmental violations | Fortune
Elon Musk’s Boring Company came under fire Tuesday during a more than three-hour Nevada legislative hearing about the Elon Musk-owned tunneling startup’s safety and environmental track record as it tries to dig an underground transit system below Las Vegas.State...
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Amazon AWS CEO Matt Garman pushes back against Elon Musk’s space data centers plan | Fortune
Speaking at a tech conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Garman threw some cold water on the notion of space-based data centers, which have been touted by Elon Musk and others as the future of AI. While putting AI data...
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Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie helped lure the Super Bowl when Levi’s Stadium was under construction. Now he’s mayor for the $440 million windfall...
Since taking office in 2025, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has been on a mission to shake the city out of a post-pandemic economic slump. A political outsider, Lurie was previously best known as the heir of the Levi Strauss...
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New Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro stands to make $45 million, but he’ll also get something priceless—a ‘clean break’ with Bob Iger | Fortune
Walt Disney’s new CEO, Josh D’Amaro, has been set up with a lucrative pay package for his first year, with a total grant-date value of roughly $45 million and a mandate to lead one of the most exciting and...