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OpenAI’s People-First AI Fund: Financing AI Literacy, Community Innovation & Inclusive Impact

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OpenAI Foundation’s People-First AI Fund awar...

Eligible 501(c)(3)s have $500K–$10M annual bu...

Funding priorities include AI literacy, commu...

Arkansas recipients include TheatreSquared, a...

Meta’s Big Bet: Why Licenses for Real-Time News are Reshaping AI Strategy

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The linked primary article could not be acces...

Meta has signed multi-year licensing deals wi...

The shift reflects rising legal and competiti...

Implications include higher ongoing costs for...

How Google’s Workforce Strategy Is Evolving: Buyouts, Cuts & AI Focus

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Google has moved from the 2023 mass layoff to...

Buyouts and reductions have touched many majo...

Management layers have been thinned by roughl...

The strategy trades cost efficiency and sharp...

AI’s Role in 2026 Market Growth: Opportunities, Risks & Top Sector Picks

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AI is viewed as a structural, long-term drive...

Benefits are expected to extend beyond big te...

Key risks include hardware supply constraints...

Investors are encouraged to tilt toward AI be...

Ohio’s AI Boom: Risks & Rewards for Data Centers, Energy, and Economy

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Ohio is emerging as a major AI-driven data ce...

Google’s new $2.3 billion expansion across mu...

AWS, Vultr, SoftBank, and Cologix are layerin...

Rapid growth is straining the power grid and ...

Meta Acquires Manus for Over $2B to Power Its Autonomous AI Agent Push

Global M&A Scientific Research and Development Services

Meta is acquiring Manus, a Singapore-headquar...

Manus is commercially mature, generating over...

To address geopolitical and national security...

Meta plans to keep Manus as a subscription pr...

How AI Is Reshaping Corporate Strategy and Driving Record Data Center Investments

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Global tech and infrastructure investors are ...

The Stargate venture and related OpenAI deals...

Google, SoftBank, and investor consortia are ...

These massive capital commitments raise strat...

US AI Funding Hits $150B in 2025 as OpenAI and Anthropic Lead Frontier Surge

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U.S. AI startups raised a record US$150 billi...

Megadeals for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Scale AI...

Despite surging revenues, leading AI firms ar...

Startups and investors are racing to build “f...

SoftBank Acquires DigitalBridge for $4B to Bolster AI Infrastructure Ambitions

Global M&A Scientific Research and Development Services

SoftBank is acquiring DigitalBridge for about...

The deal gives SoftBank control of roughly $1...

The purchase is a core part of SoftBank’s pus...

SoftBank is funding these long-duration AI be...

SoftBank’s $4B DigitalBridge Deal Locks in AI Infrastructure—and Big Risks

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SoftBank agreed to acquire DigitalBridge for ...

DigitalBridge brings roughly $108 billion of ...

The deal is a strategic bet on owning core AI...

The acquisition, expected to close in the sec...