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Amazon is in early discussions to invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI in a deal that would see the AI lab using the e-commerce giant’s AI chips, CNBC reported. If it materializes, the deal would value OpenAI at more than $500 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing an anonymous source. Amazon has been looking to diversify its bets in the AI race, which has so far seen it partner up and invest $8 billion in Anthropic, a rival to OpenAI. The e-commerce giant earlier this month also unveiled the latest iteration in its Trainium series of chips, and outlined the…

2025-12-17T11:29:39.006Z 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. OpenAI has joined the Silicon Valley trend of hiring former British politicians. George Osborne, who previously ran the UK Treasury, said on Tuesday he was joining the ChatGPT maker. Osborne will lead OpenAI for Countries, the global arm of the startup’s $500 billion Stargate initiative. Tech companies are snapping…

2025-12-17T10:02:01.203Z 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. AI can do amazing things. It also fails at basic stuff, all the time. That’s not a temporary state of things. We’ll be dealing with that dichotomy for a long time. Which makes predictions about what AI is going to do to work, and everything else, very hard to…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella views AI as an existential threat, a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and a chance to cement his legacy at the top of the tech industry.The mission is both personal and professional for the Nadella, who is pushing the company to rethink how it operates at every level. That’s according to internal Microsoft documents obtained by Business Insider, and interviews with leaders, managers, and other employees at the software giant.Sweeping organizational shifts include high-profile executive changes and mandates for teams to work faster and leaner — all designed to consolidate power around AI leaders and radically reshape how the…

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was killed at his home near Boston earlier in the week.Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his apartment in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at a local hospital on Tuesday, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.The prosecutor’s office said the homicide investigation was ongoing and no suspects were in custody as of Wednesday morning.The investigation into the MIT professor’s killing comes as Brown University,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Mega billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, former news anchor Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are awarding $5 million to the founder of a neurodivergent student support network, a recognition that the lesser-known recipient credits to the students powering his fast-growing movement for more inclusive classrooms.“I feel like there’s a narrative sometimes that our little actions don’t matter,” Neurodiversity Alliance CEO David Flink said. “That’s just not true. And this proves it. Lots of little actions that happen every day in our work, collectively over time, reached the ears of folks like Lauren and Jeff.”Flink is…

ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — Volunteers gripping flashlights waved them high above their heads when the clock struck 8 p.m., shining beams through the frigid night sky — and into the hospital’s windows.Exactly 10 minutes later, the enthusiastic crowd, still holding their flashlights aloft, in unison hollered “sweet dreams” toward children in the hospital several stories above them.The nightly Moonbeams for Sweet Dreams tradition is again lighting up the night outside Corewell Health Children’s hospital in Royal Oak in suburban Detroit.For 10 minutes each evening, volunteers standing outside the hospital shine flashlights toward the pediatric rooms above, delivering a message…

UKHIYA, Bangladesh (AP) — In moments when she is alone, when there is a break in the beatings from her husband, the girl cries for the school that was once her place of peace in a world that has otherwise offered her none.Ever since the military in her homeland of Myanmar killed her father in 2017, forcing her to flee to neighboring Bangladesh with her mother and little sisters, the school had protected Hasina from the predators who prowl her refugee camp, home to 1.2 million members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority.It had also protected her from being forced into…

MoEngage, a customer engagement platform used by consumer brands across 75 countries, has raised $180 million in a Series F follow-on round just over a month after securing $100 million, with a majority of the latest funding providing liquidity to investors and employees through secondary transactions. In the latest raise, about $123 million was secondary, including a $15 million employee tender that provided liquidity to 259 current and former employees, while the remaining $57 million was raised as primary capital and went into the business. The round was led by ChrysCapital and Dragon Funds, with participation from Schroders Capital and…

Cate Blanchett, 56, says she loves a good icy plunge in the morning to “jolt” her awake.The actor also swears by Tai Chi and facial massages to give her a youthful glow.”If your skin is in good shape, there’s no need for a lot of cover-up,” she said.Cate Blanchett, 56, says she doesn’t skip her go-to wellness routine, even when traveling.”It’s so popular it’s almost a cliché, but I do get into cold water every morning. It’s a real leveler and brings me into the day with a fabulous jolt,” Blanchett told Byrdie in an interview published on Tuesday.To keep…