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Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.

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Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act

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Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.
Artificial Intelligence
Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.
Artificial Intelligence
Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act
Artificial Intelligence
FIFA World Cup 2026 is a cybercriminal’s dream, and the scams are already live
Data and security
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site
Artificial Intelligence
Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected
Artificial Intelligence
A Chinese startup just dethroned Nvidia on the benchmark Nvidia helped build
Artificial Intelligence
Japan risks becoming an ‘AI colony’, its digital minister warns
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Artificial Intelligence
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Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.

The Airbnb CEO plans to back a new AI research lab focused on user interaction and design, while remaining in charge of Airbnb. It marks the latest sign that Silicon Valley’s biggest founders no longer trust frontier labs to build what they need.

Investors and funding

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site

The Asia-Pacific hyperscaler wants to build 5GW of capacity by 2030, weeks after entering the Indian market through an acquisition.

Corporates and innovation

Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.

CORPORATES AND INNOVATION

Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.

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Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act

Jim Hagemann Snabe, Siemens’ chair and a former SAP CEO, will advise the Commission on industrial AI. Critics say the appointment hands the policy pen to the same lobby that weakened the rules.

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