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Today — 16 December 2025Main stream

How Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the A.I. Boom

15 December 2025 at 23:49
The data centers used for work on artificial intelligence can cost tens of billions to build. Tech giants are finding ways to avoid being on the hook for some of those costs.

© Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times

Meta is investing billions in new data centers, like one being constructed in Eagle Mountain, Utah.

In A.I. Boom, Venture Capital Firms Are Raising Loads More Money

15 December 2025 at 23:28
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.

© Gabriela Hasbun for The New York Times

Yesterday — 15 December 2025Main stream

Rural Fire Departments Squeezed By Software Prices As Investors Profit

14 December 2025 at 18:01
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.

© M. Scott Brauer for The New York Times

With industry upheaval, volunteer fire departments are losing access to software tools and scrambling to find affordable alternatives.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public

By: Ryan Mac
13 December 2025 at 08:55
A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, as it readies for a possible initial public offering next year.

© Meridith Kohut for The New York Times

The SpaceX launchpad in South Texas in June 2024. The company said in a letter to employees on Friday that it could go public in 2026.

Elon Musk Tests Europe’s Willingness to Enforce Its Online Laws

12 December 2025 at 22:00
Backed by White House officials, the tech billionaire has lashed out at the European Union after his social media platform X was fined last week.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Elon Musk has grown increasingly confrontational toward Europe over the past year.

Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI With a New Executive Order

12 December 2025 at 12:56
The order would create one federal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump, who has said it’s important for America to dominate in the race to develop A.I., has said that the various state A.I. laws have created a confusing patchwork of regulations.

I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

2 December 2025 at 03:12
Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his vision for an internet that puts people, not ad revenues, first.
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