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Capital One is concerned about AI costs rising via its cloud-computing relationship with Amazon and may be looking for alternatives, according to an internal Nvidia document obtained by Business Insider.In the document, an Nvidia employee wrote that the chip giant talked with Capital One about AI infrastructure alternatives to Amazon Web Services, as the bank was “looking to control costs.”The Nvidia staffer was recapping discussions with Capital One in an internal email after meeting representatives from the bank at a recent tech conference.”They see their need for GPUs and reasoning models growing and the costs in AWS will soon get…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in funding cuts to Harvard University, extending a standoff over the White House’s demands for reforms at the Ivy League school.The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal late on Thursday in a pair of consolidated lawsuits brought by Harvard and the American Association of University Professors. The case has tested the government’s power to sway the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, which has resisted a pressure campaign targeting elite colleges around the country.U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled in September that the Trump…
The cofounder of Wikipedia isn’t so sure people trust Elon Musk’s AI-powered rival, Grokipedia.Musk launched Grokipedia in October after years of accusing Wikipedia of left-wing bias. In an interview with The Verge, Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales said that he had only looked at Grokipedia “a little.”Asked for his thoughts, Wales referenced some of the backlash to Musk’s AI-based encyclopedia.”I think a lot of the criticism that it’s getting is not surprising to me,” Wales said. “I also think in terms of the question of trust, I’m not sure anybody’s going to trust an encyclopedia that has a thumb on the…
A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief. Investigators believe he is responsible for fatally shooting two students and wounding nine other people in a Brown lecture hall last Saturday, then killing MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Lake Tahoe school district is caught between California and Nevada’s competing policies on transgender student athletes, a dispute that’s poised to reorder where the district’s students compete.High schools in California’s Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District, set in a mountainous, snow-prone area near the border with Nevada, have for decades competed in the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, or NIAA. That has allowed sports teams to avoid making frequent and potentially hazardous trips in poor winter weather to competitions farther to the west, district officials say.But the Nevada association voted in April to require students in sex-segregated sports…
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images 2025-12-18T23:42:48.953Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. TikTok told employees it signed a deal with investors for a US joint venture, per an internal memo. The move will allow TikTok to operate as an independent entity in the US, the memo said. The Trump administration earlier said it had blessed a…
Erebor Bank, Palmer Luckey’s finance startup backed by some of the biggest names in tech, got one step closer to launching after it cleared another key federal hurdle this week.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. approved Erebor on December 16 with conditions: The bank is subject to a strict capitalization requirement and must have investors ready to provide more funding if called upon.The bank still requires final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. It received preliminary approval from the OCC in October.Todd Baker, a senior fellow at Columbia University and a consultant to fintech companies who isn’t…
Go ahead, have that hunk of cheddar or slice of Brie – it may protect you from dementia, new research suggests.The findings are from a study published Dec. 17 in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers in Sweden analyzed dietary data from about 27,600 participants in the Malmö Diet and Cancer study, who were followed for an average of 25 years.People in the study who consumed 50 grams or more of high-fat cheese daily had a 13% lower risk of developing dementia, compared to those who ate less than 15 grams daily, researchers found. Those…
I still feel bad about watching the Coldplay “kiss cam” video.After the woman who was caught in the embarrassing moment spoke this week about harassment she endured when the video went viral over the summer … well, I think we should all feel bad.This wasn’t any of our business. And our reaction to the video says a lot more about us, and about online culture, than it could ever say about the people who were filmed embracing.I think we can agree that a potential romance between a CEO and an underling isn’t appropriate. But the extreme reactions to the video…
The U.S. childhood immunization schedule, the grid of colored bars pediatricians share with parents, recommends a set of vaccines given from birth through adolescence to prevent a range of serious infections. The basic structure has been in place since 1995, when federal health officials and medical organizations first issued a unified national standard, though new vaccines have been added regularly as science advanced.Vaccines on the childhood schedule have been tested in controlled trials involving millions of participants, and they are continuously monitored for safety after being rolled out. The schedule represents the accumulated knowledge of decades of research. It has…