How President Trump is leveraging the US' dominance in AI chips to secure strategic deals with Middle Eastern oil-rich countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE (New York Times)

New York Times:
How President Trump is leveraging the US' dominance in AI chips to secure strategic deals with Middle Eastern oil-rich countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE  —  As the president heads to the Middle East, America's dominance over A.I. chips has become a powerful source of leverage for the president.

How India aims to become a regional data center hub, leveraging its low energy pricing and AI-skilled workforce; power supply constraints pose a major challenge (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
How India aims to become a regional data center hub, leveraging its low energy pricing and AI-skilled workforce; power supply constraints pose a major challenge  —  Domestic demand is rising fast and international cloud providers are looking to expand footprints  —  Krishn Kaushik and Chris Kay in Chennai

Q&A with Whitney Wolfe Herd about returning as Bumble CEO, Tinder lawsuit, being bullish about using AI in dating apps, funding for female founders, and more (Lulu Garcia-Navarro/New York Times)

Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:
Q&A with Whitney Wolfe Herd about returning as Bumble CEO, Tinder lawsuit, being bullish about using AI in dating apps, funding for female founders, and more  —  Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times  —  It feels like a lifetime ago, but when Whitney Wolfe Herd co-founded her first company …

As the consumer metaverse falters, the World Economic Forum projects the industrial metaverse will reach $100B by 2030, led by platforms like Nvidia Omniverse (Nicole Kobie/Wired)

Nicole Kobie / Wired:
As the consumer metaverse falters, the World Economic Forum projects the industrial metaverse will reach $100B by 2030, led by platforms like Nvidia Omniverse  —  Forget Mark Zuckerberg's vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that's actually useful.

Sources: OpenAI is negotiating with Microsoft to enable a future IPO; Microsoft offers to cut its equity stake for continued access to OpenAI tech beyond 2030 (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is negotiating with Microsoft to enable a future IPO; Microsoft offers to cut its equity stake for continued access to OpenAI tech beyond 2030  —  High-stakes talks to revise terms of multibillion-dollar partnership are key to plans to adopt for-profit model

Q&A with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on the parts of the economy AGI will affect last, why he's relatively bearish on AI-fueled economic growth, and more (Tyler Cowen/Conversations with Tyler)

Tyler Cowen / Conversations with Tyler:
Q&A with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on the parts of the economy AGI will affect last, why he's relatively bearish on AI-fueled economic growth, and more  —  And the inevitable future of AI-enhanced parenting  — SUBSCRIBE - Apple - Google - Stitcher - Spotify - YouTube