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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as chairman of the board of Helion, the fusion startup he backs, amid reported negotiations between the two companies. The deal, reported by Axios, is in its early stages and could see OpenAI guaranteeing 12.5% of Helion’s production: 5 gigawatts by 2030 and 50 gigawatts by 2035. OpenAI partner Microsoft signed a similar agreement with Helion in 2023 to purchase power starting in 2028. If the numbers in the Axios report prove accurate, they suggest Helion expects to quickly scale up production of its fusion power plants. The company says each reactor will…
Things have always lined up against Microsoft, with all avenues leading back to the company’s taint as a leader in artificial intelligence and how that could impact the growth of its Azure cloud. We’ve known for some time that Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot is a disappointment. While Alphabet’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude are praised, Microsoft is roundly criticized. Last week, the cloud and software giant waved its flag and announced it was merging the teams working on the commercial and consumer versions of its flagship product. Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes said in a Monday note summarizing Microsoft’s…
Things have always lined up against Microsoft, with all avenues leading back to the company’s taint as a leader in artificial intelligence and how that could impact the growth of its Azure cloud. We’ve known for some time that Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot is a disappointment. While Alphabet’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Anthropic’s Claude are praised, Microsoft is roundly criticized. Last week, the cloud and software giant waved its flag and announced it was merging the teams working on the commercial and consumer versions of its flagship product. Melius Research analyst Ben Reitzes said in a Monday note summarizing Microsoft’s…
President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida.Marco Bello | ReutersEmily Gregory, a small business owner and first-time candidate, is aiming for an upset in Tuesday’s special election for a Mar-a-Lago seat in the Florida House of Representatives.Gregory is a Democrat running for the state’s 87th Congressional District, which stretches along the southeastern coast of Florida, including Palm Beach, President Donald Trump’s home and resort, as well as South Palm Beach and Juno Beach.”This is the kind of district that fits right outside the bubble of Democratic overperformance in targeted campaigns that we’ve seen in the past,” Heather Williams,…
jasmine trapnell sports journalist After winning the world indoor championship in Torun, Keeley Hodgkinson has her eyes firmly set on breaking track and field’s longest record. Hodgkinson’s ‘world domination’ is on track after he ran the 4x400m less than an hour after setting a winning record and taking gold in the 800m. Last updated: 23/03/26 1:31pm Keeley Hodgkinson wins gold in the women’s 800m at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń Keeley Hodgkinson has it all: world records, an Olympic gold medal, a world gold medal, and multiple gold medals in Europe, but next on her list is breaking…
There has been a lot of discussion about building context for AI systems. In consumer software, we’ve seen startups built around search, documents, and conferencing. They all want to capture context from your digital life, provide connectivity to other tools, and allow you to query all your data. Some tools have gone even further. For example, Rewind (which became Limitless and was sold to Meta) and Microsoft Recall aim to capture everything that’s happening on your screen and help you remember it all. A new startup called Littlebird is trying to do something similar with a slightly different approach. While…
International Energy Agency (IEA) Director-General Fatih Birol speaks at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia, Monday, March 23, 2026.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAt least 40 energy assets in nine Middle Eastern countries have suffered “severe or very severe” damage since the Iran war began, the head of the International Energy Agency said on Monday, raising concerns of long-term supply disruptions.IEA Director-General Fatih Birol, speaking at the National Press Club in the Australian capital, said damage to oil and gas fields, refineries and pipelines across the Middle East will take time to repair.His comments come as market participants are…
U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, testifies during his Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on March 18, 2026, at the Capitol in Washington, DC. Evan Vucci | ReutersThe Senate is scheduled to vote Monday night on the nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin to head the Department of Homeland Security.The Oklahoma Republican was chosen by President Donald Trump earlier this month to replace Kristi Noem, whose leadership at the department and its use of taxpayer dollars drew scrutiny from both Democrats and Republicans alike.”My goal in six months is that…
In his latest column, Sky Sports’ Paul Merson gives his thoughts on some of the Premier League’s less fortunate managers, including Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior.The Blues have lost four consecutive games in all competitions since Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at Everton, leaving Chelsea six points behind the top four and one point behind Liverpool, with a chasing group emerging behind them. Meanwhile, it was another difficult weekend for Tottenham’s Igor Tudor. They lost 3-0 to Nottingham Forest in the Premier League table. This means Spurs have dropped to 17th place and could be in the relegation zone by the time…
Zayn Asghar, an adjunct professor at Stanford University and successful founder, has raised $80 million in Series A for a startup that cleverly solves the bottleneck problem of AI inference. The round was led by Menlo Ventures. A company called Gimlet Labs has developed the first and only “multi-silicon inference cloud,” software that allows AI workloads to run on different types of hardware simultaneously. You can split the work of your AI apps across both traditional CPUs and AI-tuned GPUs, as well as high-memory systems. “We basically run into different hardware that is available,” Asghar told TechCrunch. A single agent…