Intel's Downfall Underlines How Even Tech Giants Can Fade

The Silicon Valley chipmaker’s journey from icon to a government project, with the sale of a 10 percent stake to the Trump administration, underlines how even the mightiest in tech can fall.

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OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Would Value ChatGPT Maker at $500 Billion

At $500 billion, OpenAI would become the world’s most valuable privately held company.

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A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like NBA Stars.

A.I. technologists are approaching the job market as if they were Steph Curry or LeBron James, seeking advice from their entourages and playing hardball with the highest bidders.

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How a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics

Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.

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Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes

Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.

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Google Hires Top A.I. Leaders From Windsurf, Which OpenAI Was Courting

In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.

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A Prominent Investor Is Criticized Over Mamdani Comments

A partner at Sequoia, the venture capital giant drew criticism for calling the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York an “Islamist.”

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Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up

Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”

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Book Review: ‘Empire of AI,’ by Karen Hao; ‘The Optimist,’ by Keach Hagey

Two journalists explore the artificial intelligence company OpenAI and present complementary portraits of its notorious co-founder.

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San Jose Considers Arresting Homeless People Who Refuse Housing

The mayor of the Silicon Valley city has proposed arresting people who don’t accept offers of shelter. It’s the latest sign of frustrations over tent encampments in California.

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