🧠 Intel boss grabs the AI wheel after exec exits to OpenAI
Intel’s CEO is now directly steering the company’s AI push after a senior AI leader decamped to OpenAI-a symbolic move with a bit of political heat.
It reads like urgency mode at Intel, which is already juggling custom silicon, a foundry pivot, and leadership churn. Not a crisis, but definitely not nothing.
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🏢 C3 AI explores a sale as Siebel steps aside
Enterprise AI vendor C3 AI is weighing strategic options-including a sale-after founder Tom Siebel stepped out of the top job. That’s… abrupt.
With revenue pressure and a sliding share price in the backdrop, buyers may see both a distressed asset and a valuable book of AI contracts. Contradictory, yet true.
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🧰 CoreWeave hits a data center snag, stock wobbles
The Nvidia-backed AI cloud says a third-party data center delay will dent its outlook. Timing is everything, and this one landed awkwardly.
Demand remains hot, but supply chains for power, space, and gear keep tripping even the fast movers. It’s like sprinting through syrup.
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⚖️ Legal AI firm Clio bags $500m, hits $5b valuation
Clio raised a monster round to fuel its AI roadmap for legal workflows. The most old-school profession keeps getting very new-school.
Skeptics worry about hype cycles, yet clients keep paying for time saved and fewer admin headaches. Honestly, fair.
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🩺 OpenAI eyes consumer health tools
OpenAI is considering a personal health assistant and other consumer-facing health products. Ambitious-and also, fraught.
Health data, liability, regulation: a messy triangle. But if the UX sings, people will try it anyway, because everyone wants a calmer brain in their pocket.
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💎 Tsavorite claims $100m-plus in AI chip preorders
Chip startup Tsavorite says it secured over $100m in preorders to scale AI workflows. Early demand signals are loud-maybe louder than expected.
It’s a reminder that beyond Nvidia, a long tail of challengers is angling for niche workloads where they can out-specialize the giants.
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🛰️ Rumble moves to buy Northern Data for about $767m
Video platform Rumble wants German AI infrastructure player Northern Data. Content meets compute-an intriguing pairing.
If it closes, expect more crossovers where media companies buy the machines that make their AI ambitions real. Or at least cheaper.
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