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The Energy Carve-OutThe story of the AI build-out is simple: you need more chips, which need more data centers, which need more power. An almost comical amount of power. The obvious solution, if you have infinite money, is to just go out and buy a power company.And so,

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Rakuten Group Inc. is expanding its AI team under the stewardship of a Google veteran and building models with a focus on cost efficiency.

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses Larry Ellison’s personal guarantee to back Paramount Skydance’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Plus, Google agrees to buy power provider Intersect Power for $4.75 billion, as the tech giant makes a push to grow its data center presence. And New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a bill regulating advanced artificial intelligence into law. (Source: Bloomberg)

Alphabet can no longer be ignored.

Alphabet said the acquisition will help bring more data center and generation capacity online faster.

Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant to dramatically expand its data center footprint for AI.

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HarmonyOS, Huawei Technologies’ self-developed operating system, has crossed the threshold of 27 million users, a sign that the company’s efforts to take on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android are paying off. In announcing the user numbers for its latest iterations – HarmonyOS 5 and HarmonyOS 6 – the Shenzhen-based tech giant referred to the milestone as a “survival line” for the company. The platform also boasted an ecosystem of over 10 million developers. User engagement crossed milestones, too,...

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Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.

As competition heats up for AI talent, Google turned to hiring more so-called boomerang employees in 2025.

Two dozen top artificial intelligence companies have signed on to join the federal government’s “Genesis Mission,” an effort by the Trump administration to boost the use of the emerging technology for scientific discovery and energy projects.

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The announcement confirms details reported by CNBC on Tuesday.

A startup building artificial intelligence software to speed up and automate scientific research has raised $70 million in a new funding round, the latest sign of investor enthusiasm for using AI in the sciences. The financing for Edison Scientific, announced Thursday, was co-led by Spark Capital, Triatomic Capital and a US-based biotech investor that the company declined to name. Other participants included Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch. The fund

Developers of a data center linked to Alphabet Inc.’s Google are tapping the junk-bond market to finance the project in a deal led by Morgan Stanley, extending a borrowing spree powering the artificial-intelligence boom.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is rolling out a more efficient and affordable version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model across its products, building on the company’s momentum after the successful launch of Gemini 3.

A data center firm co-founded by ex-Google chief Eric Schmidt has partnered with a major Texas landowner to develop large-scale data hubs.

The funding round would give Waymo a valuation as high as $110 billion, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.

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OpenAI is rolling out an update to ChatGPT that’s intended to generate images better and faster, the latest move by the artificial intelligence developer to bolster its flagship chatbot amid heated competition from Alphabet Inc.’s Google.  The new version of ChatGPT Images, announced on Thursday, is designed to make and edit images more precisely, as well as to spit out pictures as much as four times faster than its previous AI image-generation model. The company is also creating a new section w