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[ad_1] Karen Hao, the bestselling author of “Empire of AI,” has watched OpenAI go from a nonprofit “laughingstock” to a $90 billion powerhouse chasing artificial general intelligence at breakneck speeds. Hao, who first profiled the company back in 2020, says early visions of building AI “for humanity’s benefit” were quickly overtaken by a familiar Silicon Valley mindset: Move fast, break things, and let scale be the measure of success. This week, Hao joined TechCrunch’s Equity podcast to unpack the direction the AI boom is going and who’s paying the price. Hao argues that, like historical empires, today’s AI giants rely…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s attacks on renewable energy have prevented investors from seeing the strong underlying demand for solar power and the stocks that stand to benefit, UBS analysts told clients in a note on Wednesday. Solar equipment manufacturers First Solar and Nextracker , in particular, will benefit from sustained electricity demand from artificial intelligence data centers, the UBS analysts said. The tech sector wants clean energy to power AI, and solar is quicker and cheaper to build than other electricity sources, they said. “We view solar hardware equipment suppliers as key ‘picks & shovels’ plays on the ongoing AI…

[ad_1] Inspired by his grandparents, who were apple farmers in China, Charlie Wu got the idea to apply technology to agriculture while studying computer science at Cornell University, a top agriculture school. “I got to meet fruit professors who are the best in the world at what they do,” Wu told TechCrunch. “Through talking to them, I realized even the largest farms in the nation basically have no idea what is actually growing out in their fields.” He dropped out of Cornell, became a Thiel fellow, and in 2022 began building Orchard Robotics, a startup that uses cameras and AI…

[ad_1] Google’s AI note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM now lets users customize the tone of their Audio Overviews, which are podcasts with AI virtual hosts that summarize and discuss documents shared with NotebookLM, such as course readings or legal briefs. When generating an Audio Overview, users can now choose whether they want their AI podcasts to be formatted as a “Deep Dive,” “Brief,” “Critique,” or “Debate.” A Deep Dive features conversational dialogues where two AI hosts unpack the topic with depth and questions. A Brief is a bite-sized overview that’s designed to help you quickly grasp the core ideas from…

[ad_1] The Trump administration wants the United States to be the dominant force when it comes to artificial intelligence, and one way the administration hopes to achieve primacy is by bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to the U.S. To help with that transition, President Donald Trump has introduced potential chip tariffs and policies in recent months meant to bring more semiconductor manufacturing stateside. In late August, the Trump administration took an unprecedented step toward that goal when it converted an existing government grant, meant for domestic semiconductor manufacturing, into a 10% equity stake in Intel. This deal was structured to grant…

[ad_1] Letizia Alto and Kenji Asakura built a portfolio of cash-flowing rental properties to buy back time.The physician couple had spent their early careers working up to 80-hour workweeks in the hospital and wanted their future lifestyle to look different.In 2015, shortly after getting married, they set a specific cash flow goal.”We said, ‘We’re going to replace both our clinical incomes in seven years,'” Alto told Business Insider. “That’s what we were always working toward: To get to the space where we had time freedom. We wanted time with each other and we wanted time with our kids growing up,…

[ad_1] Right-wing cable news outlet Newsmax sued conservative media giant Fox Corp. on Wednesday, alleging that the Murdoch family-controlled conglomerate holds an illegal monopoly in the “right-leaning pay TV news market.”In the antitrust lawsuit, filed in a Florida federal court, Newsmax accuses Fox Corp. and its Fox News network of engaging in an “exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance” in that market.Newsmax alleges in the court papers that if not for Fox’s “anticompetitive behavior,” the rival cable news outlet would have “achieved greater pay TV distribution and grown into a more “valuable” media company.Earlier this year, Newsmax —…

[ad_1] Dollar Tree is seeing benefits from branching out into products that cost over $1.25 each.The dollar store chain has spent the last couple of years adding items that cost more than its standard $1.25 price point. Dollar Tree has added items that cost $3 and $5 each, for instance, and experimented with items that cost as much as $7.The strategy is paying off, executives said on Dollar Tree’s latest earnings call on Wednesday, especially when it comes to serving new customers at its stores.”Expanding our assortment to include items at a variety of price points is fast becoming the…

[ad_1] Macy’s is betting on high-earners to lead its comeback to retail dominance.The department store chain topped Wall Street’s estimates for the second quarter with net sales of $4.8 billion, the company reported Wednesday.CEO Tony Spring told investors on Macy’s earnings call that higher-income households are driving part of the recovery. Spring said that more than 50% of Macy’s customers come from households earning over $100,000.”While we have exposure to lower income levels, it’s not nearly what it was,” he said, adding that Macy’s also reaches more affluent consumers through its Bloomingdale’s brand. “I think as you go by income…

[ad_1] Updated 2025-09-03T16:25:48Z 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. Staatsburgh was the home of financier Ogden Mills and his wife, socialite Ruth Livingston Mills. The Gilded Age mansion, completed in Dutchess County, New York, in 1896, features 79 rooms. The Mills had tickets for the Titanic’s second trip, which never happened since it sank in 1912.…