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Amazon pays Trump, Intel's new CEO, and China's AI agent: Tech news roundup

Amazon pays Trump, Intel's new CEO, and China's AI agent: Tech news roundup

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The 2022 World Robot Conference at Beijing Etrong International Exhibition on August 18, 2022 in Beijing, China.
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In the past year, artificial intelligence leaders have talked about the advent of agents that can do work autonomously. Now, China says it has developed the world’s first.

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Amazon (AMZN) said Monday that its Prime Video will be the sole streaming service to show ‘The Apprentice,” the reality TV series that helped skyrocket its host Donald Trump to political stardom — and to the the presidency.

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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna at the 2016 Wired Business Conference
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Quantum computing has the potential to greatly accelerate breakthroughs in everything from pharmaceuticals to predicting stock market behavior — and these advances could be right around the corner, according to IBM (IBM) CEO Arvind Krishna.

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The Huangpu River and skyline, including the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and the Shanghai Tower, on August 28, 2020 in Shanghai, China.
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street earlier this year — but it’s not part of an elite set of AI startups in China known as the “Six Tigers.”

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Intel (INTC) stock jumped more than 12% in after hours trading on Wednesday after the chip manufacturer announced that tech executive and former board member Lip-Bu Tan will be the company’s new chief executive officer, effective March 18.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Technical University of Berlin on February 7, 2025 in Berlin, Germany.
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Despite growing concerns over future demand for artificial intelligence chips, both Meta (META) and OpenAI can’t seem to get enough right now.

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Both companies are seeing “significant capacity constraints” for graphics processing units, or GPUs, which are essential for training and inferencing generative AI models, analysts at Morgan Stanley (MS) said in a note highlighting takeaways from the firm’s Tech, Media & Telecom 2025 conference.

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Meta (META) is rolling out community notes on March 18, taking a page from the playbook of Elon Musk’s X.

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The incoming feature will ask users to fact-check or clarify claims in popular posts, marking a departure from Meta’s former fact-checking system, which relied on fact-checking experts.

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In lieu of a chattier Siri, Apple (AAPL) is seemingly back to leaning on its design bonafides to push its next big software updates.

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The iPhone maker is preparing significant design revamps for iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources. The shakeups are reportedly due sometime later this year, and they could help bridge some gaps between Apple’s devices. Across Apple laptops and phones operating systems remain quite different, despite steps taken in recent years to connect and homogenize its screened gadgets, such as by adding mirroring and iPhone-app support to Macs.

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After a slate of nuclear energy deals late last year, Big Tech is throwing more support behind efforts to boost nuclear capacity around the world.

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Google (GOOGL), Meta (META), and Amazon (AMZN) signed a pledge on Tuesday to triple nuclear energy capacity worldwide by 2050 during CERAWeek, an annual energy conference in Houston, Texas.

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As the 25th anniversary of the dot-com bubble burst approaches, it’s not crypto bros or meme stock enthusiasts keeping Wall Street veterans up at night. It’s the AI gold rush that has them experiencing déjà vu in technicolor. While Bitcoin’s wild ride and GameStop’s revenge of the retail traders have provided plenty of speculative drama, it’s generative AI that’s triggering the most visceral flashbacks to 2000's tech implosion.

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