The investor who blocked a $9 billion AI deal expects that bet to soon pay off

Tech Insider : Business, Crypto
Core Scientific's logo on a phone
Core Scientific was a crypto mining company before repurposing its business to focus on AI.

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AI boom threatens to push smartphone, PC prices higher in 2026

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
A man holding a smartphone.
Smartphone prices are expected to increase in 2026 due to RAM shortage caused by AI boom.

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A Groq investor said he's 'deeply concerned' about the data center market

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Prime Data Center in Vernon, CA on Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025.
A Grok investor said he's "deeply concerned" about the "speculative" data center market.

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Uber CEO says AI is turning his engineers into 'superhumans'

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at a conference while wearing a light grey suit, light blue dress shirt, and crossing his two pointer fingers.

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Mystery solved: Amazon is the prospective tenant in talks with data center developer rocked by stock plunge

Tech Insider : Business
Toby Neugebauer
Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer

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Bernie Sanders wants to temporarily halt AI data center construction nationwide

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Technology
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont
"This moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up with the transformative changes that we are witnessing," Sanders said.

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Sergey Brin says his commute involves talking to an unreleased Gemini AI model about building data centers

Tech Insider : Business
Google cofounder Sergey Brin is pictured.
What does Sergey Brin listen to while driving? "I do talk to Gemini Live in the car often," he said.

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Nvidia staffer called Microsoft's cooling system for Blackwell GPUs 'wasteful,' internal email shows

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Jensen Huang
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

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Blackstone, Apollo, and Blue Owl are all in on data center bets — but there's one thing making them wary

Tech Insider : Business
Doug Ostrover, Marc Rowan and Jon Gray
Blue Owl co-CEO Doug Ostrover, Apollo CEO Marc Rowan and Blackstone President Jon Gray

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IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is pictured.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna was skeptical of the "belief" that data center spending could be profitable.

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