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Google Cloud announced Thursday it has added fast-rising AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf to its roster of customers. Both companies have chosen Google Cloud as their primary cloud computing provider, the latest sign of Google’s rising prominence against larger rivals AWS and Microsoft Azure. The deals also highlight Google’s efforts to make its cloud business more central to the company’s future. Today, Google Cloud is overshadowed by larger competitors like AWS and Microsoft, as well as Google’s much larger advertising business. But it is seeing upward momentum. Google Cloud is one of the company’s fastest-growing business lines. On its…
In a significant endorsement of Intel’s turnaround process, Nvidia is making a $5 billion investment in another chipmaker.Intel has faced years of dwindling market share and revenues despite the US government’s intervention to help it build chip factories. On Thursday, it got perhaps the most impactful endorsement in the world of semiconductors — that of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.”We’re delighted to have invested in Intel, and the return on that investment is going to be fantastic,” Huang said at a Thursday press conference.As part of this partnership, Intel will incorporate Nvidia graphics processing unit (GPU) technology, used for powering AI applications, into its coming…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved Thursday to shut down a Miami organ donation group, calling it “failing” because of underperformance, unsafe practices and paperwork errors.The Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency is one of 55 organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, nonprofit agencies around the country that coordinate the recovery of organs from deceased donors and help match them to patients on the nation’s transplant waiting list.The administration cited an investigation that found a 2024 case where an unspecified mistake led a surgeon to decline a donated heart for a patient awaiting surgery.In a news briefing, Dr. Mehmet Oz, who…
Top tech names were on the guest list for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his second state visit to the U.K. on Wednesday. The banquet seating chart included Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang; Apple CEO Tim Cook; venture capitalist and White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks; Alphabet and Google president Ruth Porat; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, according to the New York Times. On Thursday, the U.S. and U.K. signed a partnership called the Tech Prosperity Deal to focus on developing nuclear, AI, and quantum technologies. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and…
CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — An autopsy by the office of Mississippi’s state medical examiner concluded that a Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University died by suicide, police said Thursday. The police department in Cleveland, where the campus is located, announced the findings in a news release. It said the autopsy results were consistent with a preliminary examination of the body by the Bolivar County coroner, which found no evidence of foul play.The 21-year-old student’s death, discovered early Monday, immediately ignited strong emotions in a Southern state with a history of racist violence. Even before the…
This week, President Donald Trump is living out his “What a Girl Wants” fantasy and visiting the UK.He’s attended various events, the most glamorous of which — and likely his most anticipated — was a state dinner at Windsor Castle that included some of the richest and most powerful people in the world, as well as a couple of seemingly random athletes.While we’ll have to wait for the 2035 season of “The Crown” to know what really went down over cognac and watercress panna cotta, the seating chart left much to the imagination. Business Insider’s Katie Notopoulos and Maddie Berg discuss. Windsor…
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At the “Make with Notion” event on Thursday, the company announced the launch of its first AI agent. The agent will draw on all a user’s notion pages and database as context, automatically generating notes and analysis for meetings, competitor evaluation reports, and feedback landing pages. The productivity platform said that the agent can create pages and databases, or update them with new data, properties, or views. Users can also trigger Notion agents from outside platforms that are linked to the service. For instance, you can ask Notion agent to create a bug tracking dashboard from various sources, including Slack,…
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The chase is done. Is the farewell tour next?Alex Ovechkin remained reticent about his future Thursday when he spoke with reporters at the Washington Capitals’ media day. A day after his 40th birthday, the NHL’s career goal-scoring leader said he hasn’t been thinking much about what happens after this, his 21st season.“No, not yet,” Ovechkin said. “So, we’ll see what’s going to happen.”That wait-and-see approach seems fine with the Capitals as Ovechkin enters the last season of his contract. The Russian star scored 44 goals last season despite a broken leg that limited him to 65…
Google is making it possible to now share your Gemini Gems — custom AI assistants and experts designed for specific tasks — the company announced on Thursday. The feature launched last year, initially as part of the Gemini Advanced paid subscription, allowing users to write instructions to create an AI chatbot for different scenarios. For instance, Google launched with premade Gems like a learning coach, a brainstorming assistant, a career guide, a writing editor, and a coding partner. Now, Google says you’ll be able to share your Gems with friends, family, or coworkers as easily as you can share a…