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The Fed held rates steady Wednesday, but two dissenting officials wanted to raise them
The AI boom has a warehouse problem. Ross Perot Jr., the billionaire chairman of Texas developer Hillwood, said Tuesday that the U.S. has only 15 or 20 empty million-square-foot warehouses suited to assembling AI data center equipment. "The AI supply chain is staggering and it's…
Meta’s $25 billion stock sale was five times oversubscribed as it races to fund AI spending
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Anthropic files for an IPO on the Nasdaq, targeting a potential $2 trillion valuation
The people building AI now warn it could kill everyone by the end of the decade. A researcher who quit the AI company Anthropic said the people doing the work genuinely believe that. Ask them how, exactly, that would happen, and the answers tend to land on three things: a…
Ayano Swisher's business started as a joke about her own mood. During the pandemic, she did collage, printmaking, and eventually ceramics in a spare room of the apartment where she lived at the time. She called it the Sad Girl Lab, and the name stuck. Her roommate, who Swisher…
Meta struck a deal to keep Zuckerberg in California — and gave him a stock dividend to do it
Pennsylvania kicked one fracking company out of the area for more than a decade. It just couldn't keep it out for good. The Texas-based company, now named Coterra, came back in late 2023, and by the next year, it was running lines beneath dozens of homes in Dimock, Pa…
A judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion over the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal
Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX boards have formed committees to explore a merger
A little-known federal agency will decide how data centers get their electricity
Gellert Global Group, a family-run U.S. food importer, filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block the Trump administration’s 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, arguing the administration exceeded its authority under a 1930 law that no president had ever used to impose tariffs. The suit seeks…
People kept telling local resident Amanda Pollard that a developer would get its data center near her home in Barrington Hills, Ill., no matter what, and that politicians wouldn't listen. They were wrong. Residents of three towns turned out against Karis Critical's plan to…