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  1. The retail giant also has a similar deal with OpenAI's ChatGPT and has its own AI-powered chatbot, Sparky.
  2. As retailers create AI agents for shopping and customer service, Google wants to secure its place in the ecommerce market.
  3. Can Bloom Energy's high-flying stock, fueled by generating onsite power for AI data centers, steer clear of bubble risks?
  4. AI may not be responsible for most layoffs to date, but workers will increasingly need to defend their jobs in terms that directly relate to the technology.
  5. OpenAI and Nvidia have gone on a blitz of AI infrastructure deals while hyperscalers continue to spend billions in capex.
  6. Daniela Amodei has helped build Anthropic into a serious AI player by betting on safety and enterprise adoption.
  7. Three primary memory vendors — Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — make up nearly the entire RAM market, and they're benefitting from this shortage.
  8. Amazon has submitted plans for a large-format store near Chicago that would be larger than a Walmart Supercenter.
  9. George Conrades and Naomi Seligman, who are both in their 80s, have been on Oracle's board for over 15 years.
  10. Senators from Oregon, Massachusetts and New Mexico urged Apple and Google to suspend X and Grok until Elon Musk curbs AI-generated sexualized images of kids.