CNBC reported on Sat Oct 31, 3:12 PM CT, unconfirmed by other outlets so far: SpaceX loses bid to toss NAACP lawsuit over Memphis data center air pollution.
CNBC reported on Sat Oct 31, 2:56 PM CT, unconfirmed by other outlets so far: OpenAI pares fundraising goal, now seeking up to $20 billion in latest round.
Three 220K-GB300 training sites (one still coming) plus 200K for inference in an old Hormel building.
OpenAI now seeks about $20B at a $1.25T valuation, down from $30B at $1.4T, the FT reports.
CoinDesk reported on Fri Oct 30, 7:48 PM CT, unconfirmed by other outlets so far: OpenAI reportedly cuts fundraising and valuation targets amid AI jitters.
French lawmakers voted to charge Netflix, Google, Meta and Amazon €0.055 for every gigabyte of data they send to French users, a levy its backers say could raise about €10 billion a year.
CNBC reported on Fri Oct 30, 5:42 PM CT, unconfirmed by other outlets so far: Meta outlook revised downward by S&P on cash flow and capex concerns.
S&P Global revised Meta's outlook to negative, saying Meta is less able than peers to monetize its AI investments and that uncertainty over its multiyear AI spending casts doubt on expected capex cuts.
Google just unveiled Genie 4, a DeepMind world model that turns a text prompt into an interactive simulation you can hear and steer in real time.
The SEC's enforcement director says the agency is examining whether SI companies are giving investors the full picture of the risks as SI spending booms.
Sundar Pichai says the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite booted its TPU, took a prompt sent up from Earth and beamed back a complete answer from Gemma: a haiku.
Japan is asking Anthropic and OpenAI for more access to their most advanced AI models, Nikkei reports.
