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2 months ago | 
afr.com | David Keohane |George Hammond |Arash Massoudi
David Keohane, George Hammond and Arash MassoudiFeb 7, 2025 – 5.02pm or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman first met each other in 2017 at SoftBank’s offices in Tokyo, the younger entrepreneur lacked a project large enough to tempt the tech billionaire to get his cheque book out.
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Arash Massoudi |David Keohane |George Hammond
Davos | San Francisco | SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $US25 billion ($40 billion) into OpenAI, in a deal which would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer, as the pair partner on a massive new artificial intelligence infrastructure project.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
technewstube.com | George Hammond |Madhumita Murgia
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
arstechnica.com | George Hammond |Madhumita Murgia |Arash Massoudi
AI group is closing in on a $60 billion valuation. Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1 billion into OpenAI rival Anthropic, boosting its position in the start-up as Silicon Valley titans rush to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems. The Alphabet-owned search behemoth had already committed about $2 billion to Anthropic and was now increasing its stake in the group, according to four people with knowledge of the situation.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
technewstube.com | George Hammond
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
arstechnica.com | George Hammond
Owner of Grok wants courts in California and Delaware to force sale. A lawyer for Elon Musk has called on the California and Delaware attorneys-general to force OpenAI to auction off a large stake in its business, intensifying a bitter fight with the company’s chief executive Sam Altman.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
afr.com | Stephen Morris |Tabby Kinder |George Hammond
Stephen Morris, Tabby Kinder and George HammondNov 12, 2024 – 7.29am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Elon Musk’s role in delivering the US presidency for Donald Trump has given the world’s richest man a unique opportunity to reshape the federal government by placing his acolytes and allies inside the incoming administration.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Michael Acton |George Hammond
Apple reported solid revenue growth in the past quarter as the tech group offered a bullish outlook on how new artificial intelligence features would drive an uptick in hardware sales into the holiday season. The iPhone-maker’s revenue rose 6% from a year ago to $94.9b (NZ$158.7b) for the quarter to September 28, slightly above consensus estimates of $94.4b.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
afr.com | Patrick Temple-West |Amelia Pollard |George Hammond
New York/San Francisco | Cleantech businesses that raised hundreds of millions of dollars from SoftBank, Amazon and other big investors are closing, while other green companies – including some touted by the Biden administration – are struggling to survive. Start-up cleantech businesses that easily raised money from venture firms just two or three years ago are now finding it harder to get hold of fresh cash. Loading... Financial Times
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
afr.com | George Hammond
San Francisco | Chief executive of ASX-listed freelance marketplace Freelancer.com Matt Barrie is among company leaders accusing $US18.4 billion ($28 billion) artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic of aggressively scraping data from websites to train its systems, potentially breaching publishers’ terms of service in the process, according to those affected.
