Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world. He fought two of the world’s most valuable and powerful companies almost all the way to the US Supreme Court, insulting them again and again: “crooked,” “deceitful,” “insanely sneaky,” calling Android a “fake open platform,” calling both…
President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech – and now we’re learning that the deals he promised could land next week. Trump claimed that he’s negotiated a “rate payer protection pledge” with major tech companies, which would see them build out or pay…
President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech by claiming that he’s negotiated a “rate payer protection pledge” with major tech companies, which would see them build out or pay for new electricity generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft,…
Today on Decoder we’re going to talk about the war for AI talent. Right now, the hottest job market on the planet is for AI researchers. Image: Ryan Quintal / Unsplash The vast majority of these people are concentrated into a small number of hugely valuable, extremely fast-growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area….
Debt investors are worried that the biggest tech companies will keep borrowing until it hurts in the battle to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence. Image: Lesly Derksen / Unsplash Source: Bloomberg
The energy industry is pressing for laws that would ban climate liability lawsuits. Image: Richard Hedrick / Unsplash Source: Ars Technica
On Wall Street, rising fears about artificial intelligence keep pummeling the shares of companies at risk of being caught on the wrong side of it all, from small software companies to big wealth-management firms. Image: Pixabay / Pexels Source: Bloomberg
A new report claims the e-commerce giant is looking to create a pipeline of licensable content between media publishers and AI companies. Image: Sagar Soneji / Pexels Source: TechCrunch
New York state has required companies to disclose if “technological innovation or automation” was the cause of job loss for nearly a year. So far, none has. Image: Markus Winkler / Pexels Source: Wired
The Trump administration’s growing portfolio of direct investments is unprecedented outside an economic crisis or wartime. Image: Allen Beilschmidt sr. / Pexels Source: CNBC
