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Articles from www.wsj.com

With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-13 Trump Energy AI

Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-13 Morgan Stanley Equity SpaceX

Despite continued technological advances, US emergency alerts often fail to reach those in danger, as alert fatigue leads many people to disable notifications (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-10

Sources: Linda Yaccarino told close contacts that the return of some advertisers and X's merger with xAI, which reduced her role, made it a good time to depart (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-10

Private stock investment platform Linqto files for bankruptcy, citing SEC and DOJ probes and an internal probe that found users didn't own shares they bought (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-9

How the US government launched a revamped online system in September 2024 to simplify passport renewal, which is already handling nearly 50% of all renewals (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-7

The GSA says Oracle is giving the US government a 75% discount on its license-based software and a “substantial” discount on its cloud service through November (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-7 Oracle

Analysts estimate AI services within Microsoft Azure generated $11.5B in revenue in the just-ended fiscal year, up 100%+ YoY but only ~4% of Microsoft's revenue (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-6 Microsoft AI

How Clorox is using generative AI for ad creation, brainstorming new products, and analyzing consumer reviews, as part of a five-year, $580M digital overhaul (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-6 AI

Sources: TSMC delays construction of its second plant in Japan, originally planned for early 2025, to invest in US expansion ahead of potential Trump tariffs (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-4 Trump Japan

Tel Aviv-based Wonderful, which develops customer support AI agents for businesses in non-English speaking countries, raised a $34M seed led by Index Ventures (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-4 AI

Sources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-4

Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly cut white collar jobs, a shift from a reluctance to acknowledge losses (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-3 AI Ford

Ripple has applied for a national banking license, which would place Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, under the US OCC's regulatory remit (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-3

Sources: Netflix has held talks with Spotify about partnering on projects such as a music awards show, as it adds content that was core to the cable bundle (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-3 Netflix Spotify

Alibaba plans $7B in delivery and shopping subsidies over the next 12 months, opens Singapore AI hub, and plans new data centers in Malaysia and the Philippines (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-2 Alibaba AI Singapore Malaysia Philippines

Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and others are becoming more popular worldwide; Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has 910M global downloads compared with DeepSeek's 125M (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-2 China AI Sensor

Apple says it will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU set for later in 2025, like “visited places”, citing difficulties of complying with the DMA (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-1 IOS Apple

Amazon says it has deployed over 1M robots in its warehouses, its most ever and close to its human workforce, with 75% of global deliveries aided by robotics (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-1 Amazon Robot

Apple will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU later this year, including “visited places”, citing the difficulty of complying with the DMA (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-1 IOS Apple

Tel Aviv-based Cato Networks, whose tools help protect remote workforces, raised a $359M Series G at a $4.8B+ valuation, taking its total funding to $1B+ (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-30

A profile of OnlyFans' secretive founder Leo Radvinsky, as the platform's parent company is considering a sale for as much as $8B, according to sources (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-30

Sources: Menlo Ventures targets ~$1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures, including $650M for early-stage startups, and $850M for later-stage companies (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-30 Startup AI

A look at “The List”, a compilation of the most talented AI engineers and researchers that Mark Zuckerberg has put together in an effort to recruit them to Meta (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-28 AI Zuckerberg

Sources: CoreWeave is in talks to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific, which has a market value of ~$3.7B; Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's bid in 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-27 Bitcoin

Sources: Apple execs discussed starting their own theatrical distribution unit; Warner Bros. is distributing the F1 movie and getting a share of the box office (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-26 Apple

Sources: Microsoft is pushing to remove the AGI clause from its OpenAI contract, which lets OpenAI limit Microsoft's access to its IP once its systems reach AGI (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-26 Microsoft

Sources: Meta has poached three OpenAI researchers, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai, for its superintelligence efforts (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-26

OpenRouter, which directs AI prompts to various LLMs based on cost, speed, and other factors, raised $40M at a valuation of about $500M (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-25 AI

Abridge, which uses AI to automate doctors' note-taking, raised $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, after raising $250M at a $2.75B valuation in February (www.wsj.com)
2025-6-24 AI

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