Sherwood News — Jon Keegan

We interviewed the CEO of Andon Market, who is not a real person at all Most AI benchmarks are kind of boring. There are some that can test for coding ability , general knowledge , medical diagnoses , and even how well they can solve puzzles. Jun. 15, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/andon-ceo-is-ai-model

Report: US Treasury wants to get a look at Anthropic’s Mythos model Anthropic’s relationship with the US government is complicated — and the Treasury Department is reportedly looking to make it even more so. The Pentagon has officially deemed the startup a national security supply chain risk after it refused to allow its Claude AI to be used for any and all national security applications, including domestic surveillance and autonomous killing. Apr. 13, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-us-treasury-wants-to-get-a-look-at-anthropics-mythos-model

Stanford AI report: Model capability accelerating, China has closed the gap with the US China has closed the gap with the US in the global competition for AI model superiority, and any talk of an AI performance plateau is just flat-out wrong. Those are two big takeaways from this year’s AI Index Report from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Apr. 12, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/stanford-ai-report-model-capability-accelerating-china-has-closed-the-gap

What does delicious Asian food seasoning have to do with a potential bottleneck for AI chips? Deep within the supply chain for advanced AI chips sits an unlikely company that may be the source of a looming global bottleneck. It’s already the source of some really delicious food. Apr. 12, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/what-does-delicious-asian-food-seasoning-have-to-do-with-a-potential

Report: Microsoft looks to remake Copilot in the image of OpenClaw is feeling the heat from all corners of the tech world as it tries to infuse its productivity apps with useful AI tools. OpenAI, Anthropic, and now open-source OpenClaw are enabling powerful agentic AI that can do work on your computer for you — including productivity functions like managing emails, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Apr. 12, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-microsoft-looks-to-remake-copilot-in-the-image-of-openclaw

Report: SpaceX posted $18.5 billion in revenue and a $5 billion loss last year All eyes on are SpaceX as it prepares for a blockbuster IPO as soon as this summer , and everyone is eager to get a look at the company’s official numbers for the first time. The Information is reporting that last year, SpaceX posted $18.5 billion in revenue with a $5 billion loss. Apr. 9, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-spacex-posted-usd18-5-billion-in-revenue-and-a-usd5-billion-loss-last

Report: Amazon hopes its Project Houdini modular data center plan is the trick to speed up construction is looking for a magic trick that can help it get past data center construction bottlenecks so it can work through the $244 billion worth of cloud computing backlogs it wants to deliver. It may have just pulled a rabbit out of its hat. (I know, groan.). Apr. 9, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-amazon-hopes-its-project-houdini-modular-data-center-plan-is-the

Creator of popular, mysterious “HappyHorse” text-to-video model is Alibaba AI benchmark leaderboards are often where mysterious new models make their debut, stoking speculation about the unnamed companies behind them. That was the case with an impressive new text-to-video model named HappyHorse-1.0 that shot to the top of public leaderboards. Apr. 9, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/mysterious-happyhorse-text-to-video-model-creator-revealed-alibaba

OpenAI: Our new AI tool is too dangerous to release, too! This week, Anthropic warned that it had developed a new model that was too dangerous to cybersecurity to be released to the public. According to a new report, OpenAI is saying similar things about a new cybersecurity tool it is working on (separate from its rumored forthcoming Spud model). Apr. 8, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-our-new-ai-tool-spud-is-too-dangerous-to-release

OpenAI’s Stargate shrinks further as UK data center “paused” OpenAI’s ambitious Stargate global data center project just got smaller. First announced at the White House alongside President Trump at the start of his second term, the OpenAI partnership with and sought to build massive data centers around the world, including sites in the UAE, the UK, and Norway. Apr. 8, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openais-stargate-shrinks-further-as-uk-data-center-paused

Meta jumps after it releases Superintelligence Labs’ first model: Muse Spark The first big release from Superintelligence Labs is here — a new multimodal reasoning model called Muse Spark. Shares of Meta spiked on the news, extending gains it had made earlier in the day on optimism over the ceasefire with Iran. Apr. 7, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/meta-jumps-after-it-releases-superintelligence-labs-first-model-muse-spark

Anthropic: Our new Mythos model is so powerful, we can’t release it Anthropic announced its latest foundational AI model in a most unusual way: with a warning about its potential for exploiting vulnerabilities in code. According to Anthropic, its new Mythos Preview model is so adept at finding bugs in code that they decided it was too dangerous to release. Apr. 6, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-our-new-mythos-model-is-so-powerful-we-cant-release-it

Bloomberg: Apple’s foldable iPhone is on track for September after all Scratch that... Actually, foldable iPhone may be on track to debut later this year after all. Apr. 6, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/bloomberg-apples-foldable-iphone-is-on-track-for-september-after-all

Bezos poaches xAI cofounder from OpenAI for his Project Prometheus startup The competition among AI startups for poaching top talent has a new contender. The Financial Times reports that xAI cofounder Kyle Kosic has been poached from OpenAI by founder Jeff Bezos for his new AI industrial manufacturing startup, Project Prometheus. Apr. 6, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/bezos-poaches-xai-cofounder-from-openai-for-his-project-prometheus-startup

Report: Apple’s foldable iPhone may be delayed by engineering troubles One of key product launches for 2026 might be facing delays. The company’s planned foldable iPhone has run into engineering problems during testing, and mass production could be delayed as a result, according to a report from Nikkei Asia. Apr. 6, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-apples-foldable-iphone-may-be-delayed-by-engineering-troubles

Report: Some of Meta’s new AI models will eventually be open-source Axios reports that is close to releasing its first new AI models after setting up its “superintelligence” team led by former Scale.AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and some of the models will eventually be released with an open-source license. Per the report, Meta sees an opportunity to focus on consumers, rather than the lucrative enterprise market that both OpenAI and Anthropic have been focusing on. Apr. 5, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-some-of-metas-new-ai-models-will-eventually-be-open-source

OpenAI’s plan for an AGI world: AI for all and a 4-day workweek OpenAI has published a policy paper titled “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,” which lays out a list of proposals that would radically shift how our economy works. It also calls for mitigations to help protect against some of the “dangerous systems” that may come about with the advent of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Apr. 5, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-agi-world-plan-ai-center-benefits-risks-4-day-workweek

Median house price in San Francisco hits $2.15 million The AI boom is pushing San Francisco housing prices to dizzying heights Apr. 5, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/median-house-price-in-san-francisco-hits-usd2-15-million

Report: OpenAI on track to burn $85 billion in 2028, expects profitability by 2030 Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to go public this year, and all eyes are on how long they can sustain burning billions in cash before they achieve something that looks like a viable business. Investors have seen both companies’ projections, and there’s no sign of slowing down, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Apr. 5, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-openai-on-track-to-burn-usd85-billion-in-2028-expects-profitability

Judge blocks Pentagon’s move to blacklist Anthropic A federal judge in Northern California has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk. The ruling temporarily prevents the Defense Department from restricting the AI company’s access to federal contracts amid a dispute over its refusal to allow certain military and surveillance uses of its technology. Mar. 26, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/judge-blocks-pentagons-move-to-blacklist-anthropic

The toughest AI benchmark just got a whole lot tougher The flood of new AI models with increasingly advanced “reasoning” capabilities is forcing the AI industry to abandon early benchmark tests and invent new ones to test for many skills. To watch the evolution of one such test — ARC-AGI — is to witness the huge technical leaps that today’s generative-AI models have made in a few short years. Mar. 25, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/the-toughest-ai-benchmark-just-got-a-whole-lot-tougher

Sen. Sanders and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez introduce data center moratorium bill Tapping into the growing public pushback surrounding the data center construction boom, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Mar. 25, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/sen-sanders-and-rep-ocasio-cortez-introduce-data-center-moratorium-bill

OpenAI drops ChatGPT “adult mode” plans OpenAI has shelved its planned ChatGPT “adult mode” indefinitely, according to a report from the Financial Times. The startup is in the midst of an internal effort to eliminate many of its “ side quests ” to focus on enterprise features like coding and productivity tools. Mar. 25, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-drops-chatgpt-erotic-adult-mode-plans

Trump pulls tech execs even closer, adding Zuckerberg, Huang, Ellison, and others to tech council President Trump has had a close relationship with America’s biggest tech leaders. They have flown across the world for investment announcements, attended intimate dinners at the White House, donned tuxedos and white ties for royal banquets , and have been known to bring golden gifts to him in the Oval Office. Mar. 24, 2026 sherwood.news/power/trump-pulls-tech-execs-even-closer-adding-zuckerberg-huang-ellison-and

Sora lasted less than one Quibi Sora, we hardly knew ya. Yesterday, OpenAI announced that it will be shutting down its AI-generated text-to-video app, Sora. Mar. 24, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/sora-lasted-less-than-one-quibi

New Mexico jury orders Meta to pay $375 million in child sexual exploitation trial has been ordered to pay $375 million in civil penalties by a New Mexico jury after the company was found to have violated state consumer protection laws by enabling child sexual exploitation. Meta was accused of failing to protect underage users from adults seeking to harm them, which led to real-world abuse. Mar. 23, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/new-mexico-meta-lawsuit-375m-civil-penalty

Reports: OpenAI winding down Sora as Altman focuses on data centers The Wall Street Journal and The Information report that OpenAI is discontinuing its once viral Sora text-to-video generation app. Sora debuted late last year and started off scorching hot, but quickly lost steam . Mar. 23, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/reports-openai-winding-down-sora-as-altman-focuses-on-data-centers

Meta and Arm team up to build a new class of data center chips The AI boom was powered by companies training models using GPUs. But now as the field enters the age of inference, the humble CPU may be reclaiming its place in the spotlight. Mar. 23, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/meta-and-arm-team-up-to-build-a-new-class-of-data-center-chips

FCC bans foreign-made routers over national security concerns One of the most boring and ubiquitous pieces of modern consumer technology is suddenly in the crosshairs of the Trump administration as an urgent national security threat: that dusty internet router on your shelf that broadcasts Wi-Fi around your home. The FCC has ruled that foreign-made routers “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons.” Chinese firm TP-Link currently dominates the US market. Mar. 23, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/fcc-bans-foreign-made-routers-over-national-security-concerns

Anthropic’s Claude can now control your computer through prompts from your phone Anthropic has added a new feature to let Claude control your computer and accept prompts from your phone — and investors think this is extremely bad news for traditional software companies. The ability to remotely control your AI agent (which has full access to your computer) is one of the key features of OpenClaw (aka MoltBot) that AI enthusiasts are currently obsessing over . Mar. 23, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/anthropics-claude-can-now-control-your-computer-through-prompts-from-your

Jensen Huang: We have achieved AGI now... sort of Lots of AI leaders are thinking about a big moment looming over the current AI boom: when will we have achieved artificial general intelligence? There’s no shortage of predictions , but we haven’t yet seen a full-throated declaration that this slippery milestone has been achieved. Until now. Mar. 22, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/jensen-huang-lex-friedman-podcast-agi-timeline

OpenAI woos private equity investors with 17.5% return OpenAI promised private equity investors a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% on their investment, according to a report from Reuters Mar. 22, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-woos-private-equity-investors-with-17-5-return

Musk’s Terafab might be his most technically difficult challenge yet Elon Musk likes to do hard things. Electric cars, reusable rockets, massive data centers, robots — all considered insanely difficult challenges that his businesses have (at least partially) pulled off. Mar. 22, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/musks-terafab-might-be-his-most-technically-difficult-challenge-yet

White House releases AI legislative framework The White House has released its policy wish list for AI legislation — and what it wants excluded. Still, the odds of any actual AI regulation getting passed in Congress right now are very slim. Mar. 19, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/white-house-releases-ai-legislative-framework

WSJ: OpenAI rolling everything into one desktop “superapp” OpenAI is trying to eliminate distractions and focus on building AI that helps with enterprise productivity tasks like coding and organizing spreadsheets. As part of that effort, the startup is consolidating some of its “side quests” into one “superapp,” according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Mar. 19, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/wsj-openai-rolling-everything-into-one-desktop-superapp

Google testing Gemini app for Mac, aims to compete with Claude Cowork and Codex Bloomberg reports that is testing a new version of its Gemini AI app that runs on Mac computers. Currently both OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude have Mac apps, which allow for deeper AI automation with files on the computer. Mar. 18, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/google-testing-gemini-app-for-mac-aims-to-compete-with-claude-cowork-and

Bezos seeks $100 billion for AI-enhanced manufacturing fund, WSJ reports founder Jeff Bezos is seeking to raise a $100 billion fund that would purchase manufacturing companies and use AI to automate their work processes, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The fund would use technology from Project Prometheus, where Bezos was recently named co-CEO. Mar. 18, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/bezos-seeks-usd100-billion-for-ai-enhanced-manufacturing-fund-wsj-reports

OpenAI acquires Astral, adding talent to Codex team OpenAI has acquired open-source Python tool developer Astral, bringing aboard additional coding talent for its Codex team. The company said the acquisition will help Codex “expand beyond coding” by helping address a wider range of development tasks, such as planning, testing, and code maintenance. Mar. 18, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-acquires-astral-adding-talent-to-codex-team

OpenAI is shipping everything. Anthropic is perfecting one thing. OpenAI and Anthropic are locked in a fierce battle to secure substantial new revenue streams to help realize their AI dreams of unlocking AGI. The rival startups are cut from a different cloth: Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI researchers who left to realize their alternative vision for safe AI. Mar. 17, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-is-shipping-everything-anthropic-is-perfecting-one-thing

OpenAI snags Amazon AWS deal for classified government work with Anthropic pushed aside Following Anthropic being deemed a “supply chain risk” to national security, the field is clear for OpenAI. The Information is reporting that OpenAI just landed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to government employees for both classified and unclassified work. Mar. 16, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-snags-amazon-aws-deal-for-classified-government-work-with-anthropic

Report: Amid safety failures, ChatGPT’s planned “adult mode” caused concern within OpenAI, with minors misclassified as adults 12% of the time Despite a series of alarming mental health safety failures that resulted in ChatGPT users allegedly using the product to plan suicides and murder , OpenAI decided to double down on its plan to roll out an “ adult mode ,” allowing the AI chatbot to produce erotic content. Mar. 15, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/safety-failures-chatgpts-planned-adult-mode-caused-concern-misclassified-12-percent-minors-adults

Most Americans have heard about data centers — the more they learn, the more negative their views Americans are paying attention as Big Tech continues its unprecedented data center build-out in communities large and small across the US. The more people know about data centers, the more negative their views of their potential effects. Mar. 12, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/most-americans-have-heard-about-data-centers-the-more-they-learn-the-more

War in the Middle East halts Meta’s undersea fiber project massive undersea cable project connecting Africa and the Middle East to Europe has run into an unexpected obstacle — not under the sea, but in the sky and land above: the war in the Middle East. According to a report from Bloomberg, France’s Alcatel Submarine Networks, the company that is laying the cable, notified customers that it can no longer safely operate in the area. Mar. 12, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/war-in-the-middle-east-halts-metas-undersea-fiber-project

Nvidia plans to spend $26 billion training its own open-weight AI models Nvidia is planning on spending $26 billion to train its own AI open-weight models, according to a 2025 financial filing first reported by Wired Mar. 10, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/nvidia-plans-to-spend-usd26-billion-trainging-its-own-open-weight-ai-models

Group of retired senior military officers and Microsoft file briefs supporting Anthropic in lawsuit and a group of 22 retired senior military officers have filed amicus briefs in support of Anthropic in its lawsuit against the US government. The group of military officers includes two former secretaries of the Navy, two former secretaries of the Air Force, and a former secretary of the Army. Mar. 10, 2026 sherwood.news/power/group-of-retired-senior-military-officers-and-microsoft-file-briefs

How Oracle is de-risking its AI boom is the best performer in the S&P 500 on Wednesday after releasing strong third-quarter results after the close the prior day. The database giant’s ambitious plans for AI infrastructure growth has been giving investors some anxiety lately, as it takes on worrying debt levels with reliance upon one jumbo-sized customer: OpenAI. Mar. 10, 2026 sherwood.news/markets/how-oracle-is-de-risking-its-ai-boom

Oracle jumps after Q3 results exceed expectations, boost to sales guidance Oracle released its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday Mar. 9, 2026 sherwood.news/markets/oracle-third-quarter-q3-2025-earnings-ai-boom-bubble-hyperscaler

Yann LeCun raises $1 billion for his Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, breaking European records One of the esteemed pioneers of generative AI, Yann LeCun, has raised $1.03 billion in a seed funding round for his company Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs, the largest seed round for a European company. This give AMI Labs a pre-money valuation of $3.5 billion. Mar. 9, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/yann-lecun-raises-usd1-billion-for-his-advanced-machine-intelligence-labs

Nvidia partners with Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab for 1 gigawatt of Rubin GPUs announced a “long-term” partnership with AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati. The deal involves an investment from Nvidia and a commitment to provide 1 gigawatt’s worth of the company’s next-gen Vera Rubin processors to the startup. Mar. 9, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/nvidia-partners-with-mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-for-1-gigawatt-of

Report: Meta has acquired Moltbook, the AI-only social network has acquired the startup Moltbook, which is a viral social network where humans are allowed to read, but only AI agents are allowed to post, according to a report by Axios. Moltbook’s founders, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join the Meta Superintelligence Lab, which is run by Alexandr Wang, formerly of ScaleAI. Mar. 9, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-meta-has-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-only-social-network

What to look for in Oracle’s Q3 earnings On Tuesday, will announce its third-quarter earnings, and all eyes are on the company’s massive AI data center build-out. Last month, the company told investors that it plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion to fund its ambitious capex plans. Mar. 8, 2026 sherwood.news/markets/what-to-look-for-in-oracles-q3-earnings

Anthropic sues the US government In response to the Pentagon’s declaration that Anthropic’s Claude is a national security supply chain risk , the AI company has filed suit in Northern California federal court. Anthropic is asking the court to declare President Trump’s directive unconstitutional, and for federal agencies to be enjoined from enforcing punishment against the company. Mar. 8, 2026 sherwood.news/power/anthropic-sues-the-us-government

Microsoft will use Anthropic’s Claude to power “Copilot Cowork” is partnering with Anthropic to power its new agentic offering, Copilot Cowork. The AI world is abuzz with agents that can do your busywork for you, and Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is one of the most prominent and capable offerings in the field. Mar. 8, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-will-use-anthropics-claude-to-power-copilot-cowork

OpenAI reportedly delaying “adult mode” to focus on “gains in intelligence” OpenAI is delaying its planned “adult mode,” as it seeks to shore up ChatGPT’s core capabilities before the chatbot can generate erotic content. A source within OpenAI told tech news site Sources that the company will miss its Q1 target for launching the feature:. Mar. 5, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-reportedly-delaying-adult-mode-to-focus-on-gains-in-intelligence

Anthropic will sue the Pentagon over supply chain risk designation, Amodei says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a public post that the company will sue the Pentagon after receiving a letter from the Department of Defense officially designating Anthropic as “a supply chain risk to America’s national security.” Amodei says that the effect of the unprecedented designation. Mar. 5, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-will-sue-the-pentagon-over-supply-chain-risk-designation-amodei

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 with more “professional work” skills Feeling the heat from Anthropic’s success with enterprise customers, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a new model that excels at “professional work.” OpenAI says the new model has improved capabilities for “professional tasks involving spreadsheets, presentations, and documents. The result is a model that gets complex real work done accurately, effectively, and efficiently — delivering what you asked for with less back and forth.”. Mar. 4, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-releases-gpt-5-4-with-more-professional-work-skills

Report: Amodei told staff that Anthropic was targeted for lack of “dictator-style praise” for Trump More details are leaking out from Anthropic about how CEO Dario Amodei explained the company’s dramatic schism with the Pentagon over its AI terms of use. The Information shared details from a leaked 1,600-word memo to employees that Amodei reportedly sent on Friday after the Trump administration attacked the startup. Mar. 3, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-amodei-told-staff-that-anthropic-was-targeted-for-lack-of-dictator

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3 Instant: Less “cringe” tone, no more “over-caveating” responses OpenAI has released GPT-5.3 Instant, a conversational model that the company says will have smoother conversations more to the point. It seems OpenAI is walking back from its cautious guardrails, allowing a more permissive AI chatbot. Mar. 2, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openais-new-gpt-5-3-instant-less-cringe-tone-no-more-over-caveating

OpenAI’s Altman: Our rushed deal with the Pentagon “looked opportunistic and sloppy” The fallout from Anthropic’s messy breakup with the US government, and OpenAI’s hasty deal to take its place, is still settling across the AI industry. Last night, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared an internal post on X in which he expressed some regrets about how the deal came to be as well as some new additions to the agreement. Mar. 2, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openais-altman-our-rushed-deal-with-the-pentagon-looked-opportunistic-and

After tussle with Pentagon, Anthropic’s $60 billion worth of recent investments might be at risk The fallout from Anthropic’s dramatic split from the Pentagon is still being measured. For a domestic company to be labeled a “supply-chain risk to national security” by the US defense secretary is unprecedented , as Anthropic noted in a post responding to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s tweet . Mar. 1, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/after-tussle-with-pentagon-anthropics-usd60-billion-worth-of-recent

A blow-by-blow catch-up on how Trump vs. Anthropic has unfolded Last week’s tense standoff between Anthropic and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the issue of how the startup’s AI could be hypothetically used to surveil Americans or kill people. By the weekend, that hypothetical scenario became very real. Mar. 1, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/a-blow-by-blow-catch-up-on-how-trump-vs-anthropic-has-unfolded

Delays in permitting, power, and zoning cause first drop in data center construction since 2020 Despite incredible demand, the number of data centers under construction in North America fell for the first time since 2020, according to new research from CBRE. Total data center capacity under construction dropped about 5.6% year on year from 6.35 megawatts in 2024 to 5.99 megawatts by the end of 2025. Feb. 25, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/delays-in-permitting-power-and-zoning-cause-first-drop-in-data-center

Google drops new Nano Banana is hoping to recapture the viral boost it received when it released its Nano Banana image generation model. Nano Banana 2 arrives today, which Google has rolled into its Gemini app. Feb. 25, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/google-drops-new-nano-banana

OpenAI may need to IPO or achieve AGI to get all of Amazon’s $50 billion investment A month ago, word got out that was planning to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI as part of a larger $100 billion funding round. Now, it seems that money might be dependent on OpenAI pulling off one of two massive goals: a successful IPO, or achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Feb. 25, 2026 sherwood.news/business/openai-may-need-to-ipo-or-achieve-agi-to-get-all-of-amazons-usd50-billion

Anthropic doesn’t want Claude controlling autonomous weapons. The Pentagon may not give them a choice. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Anthropic faces a difficult decision by Friday after a tense meeting this week between CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon. Feb. 24, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-doesnt-want-claude-controlling-autonomous-weapons-the-pentagon-may

xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI dismissed In September, xAI sued rival OpenAI, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets by hiring away key employees. After a key employee was poached by OpenAI, xAI filed its lawsuit in Northern California federal court, alleging that the company was after its “secret sauce” — the methods by which xAI was able to build data centers so quickly. Feb. 23, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/xais-trade-secrets-lawsuit-against-openai-dismissed

Chinese drone maker DJI sues to overturn FCC foreign drone ban Chinese drone maker DJI has filed a lawsuit against the FCC challenging the December 2025 decision that effectively bans all foreign drones and components from the US market. DJI and all other foreign drone makers were added to the FCC’s “ covered list ” of equipment and services that the agency says “pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States.” In a lawsuit filed with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, DJI argues that the company is “severely harmed” by the ruling, and seeks review of the decision: “The FCC exceeded its statutory authority, failed to observe statutorily required procedures, and violated the Fifth Amendment when it purported to add DJI’s products to the Covered List.” In a statement to Sherwood News, a DJI spokesperson said: “The FCC can add products to the Covered List only when they present a national security threat, yet it has never identified any threat associated with DJI or its products. Feb. 23, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/drone-maker-dji-sues-to-overturn-fcc-ban

Anthropic follows OpenAI in rolling out agentic tools for enterprise Just a day after OpenAI rolled out its agentic platform for enterprise, Anthropic has announced its own. Built from existing pieces of Anthropic tech that have already been previewed, the new platform essentially ties together plug-ins that can be tailored by enterprise customers into Claude Cowork. Feb. 23, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-follows-openai-in-rolling-out-agentic-tools-for-enterprise

24,000 fake Claude accounts Anthropic says that it disrupted “industrial-scale” distillation attacks conducted by Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax, which Feb. 22, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/24-000-fake-claude-accounts

Report: OpenAI’s Stargate has been a chaotic mess Just over a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stood alongside President Trump, Larry Ellison, and CEO Masayoshi Son to announce an ambitious $500 billion plan to build massive data centers in the US — Project Stargate. While today an actual Stargate 1-gigawatt data center is certainly well under construction in Abilene, Texas, it turns out there wasn’t much of a plan in place at the time of the announcement, according to a new report from The Information. Feb. 22, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-openais-stargate-has-been-a-chaotic-mess

Report: Anthropic CEO Amodei meeting with Hegseth at the Pentagon as tensions mount Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been summoned to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon on Tuesday, according to a report from Axios. Tensions are running high between the Trump administration and Anthropic, as the startup’s surveillance restrictions on the use of its AI are reportedly causing outrage within the Pentagon. Feb. 22, 2026 sherwood.news/power/report-anthropic-ceo-amodei-meeting-with-hegseth-at-the-pentagon-as-tensions

OpenAI teams up with consulting giants to boost its enterprise business This alliances come amid an industrywide love affair with Anthropic’s Claude Code, which has juiced the startup’s revenue projections Feb. 22, 2026 sherwood.news/markets/openai-teams-up-with-consulting-giants-to-boost-its-enterprise-business

Ahead of IPO, Anthropic adds veteran executive and former Trump administration official to board Anthropic is moving to put the pieces in place for a successful IPO this year. Today, the company announced that Chris Liddel would join its board of directors. Feb. 12, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/ahead-of-ipo-anthropic-adds-veteran-executive-and-former-trump

Anthropic raises $30 billion, now valued at $380 billion Anthropic is now valued at $380 billion, after closing on its latest round of fundraising, taking in $30 billion from a wide range of investors. The Series G round was co-led by D. Feb. 11, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-raises-usd30-billion-now-valued-at-usd380-billion

Anthropic donates $20 million to pro-AI regulation PAC The war to build a better AI model may be mostly happening in Silicon Valley, but now another important front has opened: Washington, DC. Anthropic announced a $20 million donation to Public First Action , a new super PAC that advocates for AI policies and regulations that prioritize public safety. Feb. 11, 2026 sherwood.news/power/anthropic-donates-usd20-million-to-pro-ai-regulation-pac

Fresh off an IPO, SOLV Energy’s CEO sees a bright future with burgeoning demand, despite Trump’s distaste for solar Driven by hundreds of billions of spending by Big Tech on AI infrastructure, demand for electricity has never been higher. One of the few constraints on companies racing to build ever-larger data centers is the availability of reliable power. Feb. 11, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/fresh-off-an-ipo-solv-energys-ceo-sees-a-bright-future-with-burgeoning

Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raises $520 million Apptronik, an Austin, Texas-based robot manufacturer, said it has closed out its Series A fundraising round, raising $520 million. The fundraising is an extension of a $415 million round raised last February, and included investments from , , , and. Feb. 10, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/humanoid-robot-maker-apptronik-raises-usd520-million

Meta reportedly expands Hyperion data center site, purchasing an additional 1,400 acres Construction is humming along on at gargantuan Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana. And Meta is seemingly already moving ahead with plans to greatly expand the site. Feb. 9, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/meta-reportedly-expands-hyperion-data-center-site-purchasing-an-additional-1

Report: OpenAI shuttering 4o model due to sycophancy that was hard to control This week, OpenAI plans to permanently remove its 4o model from ChatGPT. The model has developed an unusually devoted group of users. Feb. 9, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-openai-shuttering-4o-model-due-to-sycophancy-that-was-hard-to-control

New study finds AI doesn’t reduce work — it intensifies it The rapid adoption of AI by businesses was fueled by the promise of huge productivity boosts that could supercharge workers. A new study has found that while it did indeed boost workers’ productivity, the use of generative AI at work also made work more intense and creep into workers’ downtime. Feb. 8, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/new-study-finds-ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it

Report: Anthropic staffing up to build as much as 10 gigawatts’ worth of data centers Anthropic has been hiring a team of executives with a very particular set of skills: building huge data centers. The Information is reporting that Anthropic may be planning to build up to 10 gigawatts of AI computing capacity over several years. Feb. 8, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-anthropic-staffing-up-to-build-as-much-as-10-gigawatts-worth-of-data

Report: OpenAI tells employees it is growing again, with Codex eating into Claude Code’s market share The competition between OpenAI and Anthropic continues to intensify. Last night during the Super Bowl, a comedic Anthropic ad poked fun at OpenAI’s plans to add advertisements to ChatGPT, something it says it will not do to its Claude chatbot. Feb. 8, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-openai-tells-employees-it-is-growing-again-with-codex-eating-into

Report: OpenAI may tailor a version of ChatGPT for UAE that prohibits LGBTQ+ content In June of last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared in Abu Dhabi, UAE, alongside CEO Jensen Huang to announce “ Stargate UAE ,” a project that includes a 1-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi, and a commitment to invest in the Stargate USA project. Feb. 5, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-openai-may-tailor-a-version-of-chatgpt-for-uae-that-prohibits-lgbtq

Big Tech’s $1.1 trillion cloud computing backlog Now that the big dogs of cloud computing have all reported their quarterly earnings, we can step back and get a sense of the searing demand that AI is driving toward their businesses. , , and each reported hundreds of billions in RPO (remaining performance obligations) — signed contracts for cloud computing services that can’t yet be filled and haven’t yet hit the books. Collectively, the big three cloud providers reported a $1.1 TRILLION backlog of revenue. Feb. 5, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/big-techs-usd1-1-trillion-cloud-computing-backlog

Amazon slides as it misses on Q4 earnings, gives downbeat profit guidance shares slid after the company missed Wall Street’s expectations for fourth-quarter earnings, gave downbeat first-quarter profit guidance, and forecast a whopping $200 billion of capital expenditure this year. The stock was down 9% in recent after-hours trading. Feb. 4, 2026 sherwood.news/markets/amazon-misses-on-q4-earnings

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 gains financial research, improved coding features It’s a model-for-model battle between OpenAI and Anthropic, as the startups vie for dominance in AI coding tools. Not to be outdone by OpenAI’s release today of GPT-5.2-Codex, Anthropic has released a new model that also improves its coding skills: Claude Opus 4.6. Feb. 4, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/anthropics-claude-opus-4-6-gains-financial-research-improved-coding-features

OpenAI releases its answer to Claude Code, first AI model with “high capability” risk for cybersecurity AI agents that can write code have quickly become one of the most profitable, and competitive, applications coming from the current crop of AI startups. Anthropic’s Claude Code is enjoying a moment of popularity among software engineers, and it’s shoring up the startup’s revenue projections as it aims for an IPO this year. Feb. 4, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-releases-its-answer-to-claude-code-first-ai-model-with-high

OpenAI’s Altman calls Anthropic an “authoritarian company” and says its Super Bowl ad is “deceptive” Yesterday, Anthropic announced that it intends (for now) to keep its Claude chatbot free of ads. Competitors OpenAI, xAI, , and all have expressed plans for ads in some form for their respective AI chatbots. Feb. 4, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openais-altman-calls-anthropic-an-authoritarian-company-and-says-its-super

Part of the reason for Google’s huge capex plans: It has a $240 billion revenue backlog reported strong earnings yesterday that beat analysts’ expectations. But the thing that caught investors’ attention was Google’s capex plans. Feb. 4, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/part-of-the-reason-for-googles-huge-capex-plans-it-has-a-usd240-billion

Anthropic pledges no ads for Claude AI services are popping up everywhere. Pretty much every software product has crammed AI features into its apps, and soon most phones will offer quick access to an AI chat. Feb. 3, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-pledges-no-ads-for-claude

With China boxed out, Unusual Machines’ CEO sees clear skies for his drone supply company In December, the US government effectively banned all drones and drone components from foreign companies. A ruling by the Federal Communications Commission said that foreign-made drones and related components created an “unacceptable national security risk.” The leading drone maker is Chinese firm DJI, which enjoys a worldwide market share of more than 90% of nonmilitary small drones. Feb. 3, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/with-china-boxed-out-unusual-machines-ceo-sees-clear-skies-for-his-drone

Report: Meta pouring $65 million into PACs backing pro-AI state candidates With a pro-tech, pro-AI administration in Washington, DC, has decided the next battlegrounds that it needs to flood with cash are in individual states. Feb. 1, 2026 sherwood.news/power/report-meta-pouring-usd65-million-into-pacs-backing-pro-ai-state-candidates

Analyst: Investors should brace for Europe’s breakup with US Big Tech The signs are there: the French government has restricted the use of for its employees. In Germany, the state of Schleswig-Holstein is ending the use of Teams among its workers. Feb. 1, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/analyst-investors-should-brace-for-europes-break-up-with-us-big-tech

WSJ: OpenAI plans Q4 IPO in race to be the first AI startup to enter public markets OpenAI was the first to the generative AI market with ChatGPT, and now it hopes to be the first of its AI startup cohort to pull off an initial public offering, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The $500 billion startup is in a race against its $350 billion competitor Anthropic to IPO, who has also been exploring one. Jan. 28, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/wsj-openai-plans-q4-ipo-in-race-to-be-the-first-ai-startup-to-enter-public

Microsoft shares have biggest single-day drop since March 2020 Yesterday, reported strong earnings and revenue for its second quarter, but the stock plunged after-hours. Investors seem to have been concerned about so much of Microsoft’s booked contracts coming from one company — OpenAI — as well as its slowing cloud growth. Jan. 28, 2026 sherwood.news/markets/microsoft-shares-have-biggest-single-day-drop-since-march-2020

Translating Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella On yesterday’s second-quarter earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella laid out the company’s strategy for growing its AI infrastructure to meet the intense demand it’s seeing while still keeping costs under control. But sometimes tech CEOs can be a little too jargony, so we helped explain some of his lingo in plain English. (Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/Getty Images). Jan. 28, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/translating-microsofts-ceo-satya-nadella

Digging into Microsoft’s cloud backlog Azure cloud computing unit is seeing huge demand. In yesterday’s second-quarter earnings call, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood said the company’s commercial bookings increased 230% thanks to large commitments from OpenAI and Anthropic and healthy demand for its Azure cloud computing platform. Jan. 28, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/digging-into-microsofts-cloud-backlog

Microsoft beats Q2 earnings and revenue, but stock falls on ballooning capex beat on second-quarter earnings and revenue, but shares fell in after-hours trading as its capex soared. The company posted $81.3 billion in revenue for the quarter, topping analysts’ expectations of $80.31 billion. Jan. 27, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-q2-earnings-and-revenue-beat-but-stock-falls

Here’s what to look for in today’s Microsoft earnings report Today after market close, will report its second-quarter earnings. Demand for the company’s Azure AI cloud computing is white-hot, and the company can’t keep up. Jan. 27, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/heres-what-to-look-for-in-todays-microsoft-earnings-report

Anthropic reportedly doubles current fundraising round to $20 billion Anthropic has doubled its current fundraising round to $20 billion on strong investor demand, according reporting from the Financial Times. The new fundraising round would value the company at a staggering $350 billion. Jan. 26, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-reportedly-doubles-current-fundraising-round-to-usd20-billion

One year after the DeepSeek freak, the AI industry has adjusted and roared back A year ago this week, Chinese startup DeepSeek shook the AI world with the release of its DeepSeek-R1 model. Since then, everything has changed. Jan. 26, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/one-year-after-the-deepseek-freak-the-ai-industry-has-adjusted-and-roared

Georgia lawmakers introduce data center construction moratorium amid statewide pushback More and more communities across the US are wrestling with the pros and cons of having a data center come to town. Georgia has become a hotspot of resistance to the data centers planned by Big Tech, according to a new report from The Guardian. Jan. 26, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/georgia-lawmakers-introduce-data-center-construction-moratorium-amid

Europe wants to break up with US tech. Here’s how it plans on doing that. Last year, President Trump’s erratic trade policies served as a wake-up call for European leaders. As US Big Tech companies aligned themselves close to President Trump and an ongoing global AI race stoked fear of entire economies falling behind, the EU decided it needed a strategy to ensure its own “ digital sovereignty .” The recent tensions between the Trump administration and EU member states related to Trump’s desire to annex Greenland only underscore how vulnerable Europe is to potential threats and intimidation from the US. Jan. 25, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/europe-wants-to-break-up-with-us-tech-heres-how-it-plans-on-doing-that

Meta shares rally as Jefferies says it’s a bargain relative to Mag 7 peers Shares of rallied over 5% on Thursday, as Jefferies analyst Brent Thill doubled down on his “buy” rating for the company, calling the stock a relative bargain compared to its Magnificent 7 peers. The analyst set a price target of $910, well above the $645 where the stock is trading today. Jan. 21, 2026 sherwood.news/markets/meta-shares-rally-on-jefferies-buy-rating

Survey: CEOs and workers have wildly different thoughts on AI productivity gains One of the main reasons companies are rushing to adopt AI is to give their workers the miraculous productivity boost that AI companies have been promising — and believe will quickly earn back their investment. But now that companies have been using AI for a while, a growing perception gap is emerging between the C-suite and their employees. Jan. 21, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/survey-ceos-and-workers-have-wildly-different-thoughts-on-ai-productivity

OpenAI shares how it will charge for ChatGPT ads Last week, OpenAI announced that ads were going to be rolling out in ChatGPT in the coming weeks. Now we have more details about what OpenAI is telling advertisers. Jan. 20, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-shares-how-it-will-charge-for-chatgpt-ads

As public pushback against data centers grows, AI companies promise they’ll be good neighbors Small towns all across the US have been adjusting to the reality that some of the biggest companies in the world have just become their neighbors. Big Tech’s unprecedented race to build AI data centers in rural, often poor areas has raised local concerns about pollution, water usage, and electricity supplies. Jan. 20, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/as-public-pushback-against-data-centers-grows-ai-companies-promise-theyll-be

See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is It’s hard to overstate just how massive Meta’s Richland Parish, Louisiana, data center site is. Use this tool to compare it to where you live Jan. 20, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/see-for-yourself-just-how-massive-metas-hyperion-data-center-is

OpenAI rolls out age prediction system ahead of allowing adult content OpenAI is rolling out a new “age prediction” feature for ChatGPT users. The company will look at various signals from users to predict if a user is underage. Jan. 19, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-rolls-out-age-prediction-system-ahead-of-allowing-adult-content

FTC will appeal Meta antitrust case Only a few months after successfully defending itself from an FTC antitrust lawsuit, may be heading back to court. Today, the FTC announced that it would appeal the decision, reopening a yearslong suit. Jan. 19, 2026 sherwood.news/power/ftc-will-appeal-meta-antitrust-case

OpenAI set to start rolling out ads to free and ChatGPT Go users It was bound to happen at some point. OpenAI has finally disclosed the details of how it plans to roll out ads for users of ChatGPT. Jan. 15, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-set-to-start-rolling-out-ads-to-free-and-chatgpt-go-users

EPA: xAI’s Colossus data center illegally used gas turbines without permits The Environmental Protection Agency has ruled that xAI violated the law when it used dozens of portable gas generators for its Colossus 1 data center without air quality permits. When xAI set out to build Colossus 1 in Memphis, Tennessee, CEO Elon Musk wanted to move with unprecedented speed, avoiding all of the red tape that could slow such a big project down. Jan. 15, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/epa-xais-colossus-data-center-illegally-used-gas-turbines-without-permits

OpenAI working to build a US supply chain for its hardware plans, including robots When OpenAI purchased Jony Ive’s I/O, it entered the hardware business. The company is currently ramping up to produce a mysterious AI-powered gadget. Jan. 14, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/openai-working-to-build-a-us-supply-chain-for-its-hardware-plans-including

ICE agents arrest workers from Meta’s Hyperion data center site Yesterday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stopped and arrested two workers from massive Hyperion data center construction site in Richland Parish, Louisiana. According to the Richland Parish Sheriff’s Office, two dump truck drivers were stopped and arrested as part of a traffic stop as they headed to the construction site where thousands of people are working. Jan. 14, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/ice-agents-arrest-workers-from-metas-hyperion-data-center-site

Two cofounders leave Thinking Machines Lab to return to OpenAI A group of researchers have left Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab to go back to OpenAI. Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s head of apps, posted on X that Thinking Machines cofounders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, along with Sam Schoenholz, will be returning to the company. Jan. 14, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/two-cofounders-leave-thinking-machines-lab-to-return-to-openai

RIP the metaverse Today confirmed that it’s laying off more than 1,000 people in its Reality Labs division — the latest in a series of nails in the coffin for the company’s virtual reality and metaverse ambitions as it pivots to AI. Considering the company changed its name from Facebook to Meta in 2021 to reflect its new goals, we thought we’d take a look back at what exactly the company and its CEO were going for way back when, and what’s happened since. (If Mark Zuckerberg happens to be reading this, perhaps he should consider renaming the company once again to something more like Met.ai.) “In the metaverse, you’ll be able to do almost anything you can imagine — get together with friends and family, work, learn, play, shop, create — as well as completely new experiences that don’t really fit how we think about computers or phones today,” Zuckerberg wrote in the heady days of 2021. “In this future, you will be able to teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the office without a commute, at a concert with friends, or in your parents’ living room to catch up.” Fast-forward a few years and... that hasn’t happened. Jan. 13, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/rip-the-metaverse

Here’s a rundown of the AI-powered humanoid robots that tech companies want to be your new roommates The biggest tech companies in the world are convinced that humanoid robots are the next big thing. Elon Musk says yet to be released Optimus humanoid robot could boost the company’s valuation to $25 trillion. Jan. 13, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/heres-a-rundown-of-the-ai-powered-humanoid-robots-that-tech-companies-want

Report: Microsoft on track to spend $500 million per year on Anthropic AI Last fall, and OpenAI’s $13 billion partnership seemed to finally be on solid ground. OpenAI’s restructuring was completed on time, and the companies hammered out an updated agreement that secured OpenAI’s status as Microsoft’s AI provider of choice, but also allowed for Microsoft to work with other companies. Jan. 13, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-microsoft-on-track-to-spend-usd500-million-per-year-on-anthropic-ai

Meta reportedly plans to cut about 10% of employees in Reality Labs metaverse business is planning to cut roughly 10% of its Reality Labs employees, according to a report from The New York Times. The division is home to products related to the namesake of the company — the metaverse — which includes virtual and augmented reality glasses and headsets. Jan. 11, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/meta-reportedly-plans-to-cut-about-10-of-employees-in-reality-labs-metaverse

Apple selects Google’s Gemini to power Siri, CNBC reports has selected Gemini model as part of a multiyear partnership to power its revamped, AI-powered Siri, set to launch this year. Per a statement seen by CNBC, Apple said: “After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and we’re excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for our users.”. Jan. 11, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/apple-selects-googles-gemini-to-power-siri-cnbc-reports

Anthropic rolls out health features, following OpenAI Healthcare is turning out to be a key battleground as AI companies race to roll out new features in their quest to lure new users to their platforms. Last week, OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT Health, in response to the 40 million health-related queries per day that the chatbot answers. Jan. 11, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-claude-rolls-out-health-features-following-openai-chatgpt

Report: Anthropic cuts off xAI’s access to its models for coding Competition between the top AI companies is fierce. Top employees are being poached , and companies are training their AI on competitors’ models to stay ahead of the pack. Jan. 8, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-anthropic-cuts-off-xais-access-to-its-models-for-coding

AI leaderboard maker LMArena hits $1.7 billion valuation If you want to know who’s up and who’s down in the AI model world, look no further than LMArena’s leaderboard. The startup has just raised a $150 million series A fundraising round, with a valuation of $1.7 billion. Jan. 5, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/ai-leaderboard-maker-lmarena-hits-usd1-7-billion-valuation

Report: Returns on Nvidia’s Omniverse business are underwhelming Today in Las Vegas, Jensen Huang will be taking the stage at the CES conference to show off his company’s latest innovations. If you’ve watched any of Huang’s impressive jargon-filled keynote speeches, you’ll notice that he gets extra animated when talking about “digital twins.” Nvidia’s “ Omniverse ” platform allows companies to use Nvidia software and hardware to run large-scale simulations of factories and assembly lines. Jan. 4, 2026 sherwood.news/tech/report-returns-on-nvidias-omniverse-business-are-underwhelming

Looking back at 2025 in charts 2025 was a busy year for news. What with whipsawing tariffs , booming AI data centers , driverless taxis , flying cars , weight-loss drugs , and billionaire beefs ... it was a lot. Dec. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/looking-back-at-2025-in-charts

Chinese AI chatbots reportedly must answer 2,000 questions, prove censorship compliance For American companies building AI today, it is basically a free-for-all, a self-regulation zone with zero federal restrictions. But for Chinese AI companies, the Chinese Communist Party exerts strict control over what models get released, and what questions they cannot answer. Dec. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/chinese-ai-chatbots-reportedly-must-answer-2-000-questions-prove-censorship

Report: OpenAI has started mocking up what ads in ChatGPT could look like 2025 saw OpenAI ink a flurry of massive deals. To pay for it all, the company has realized that it can’t get there on $20 per month subscriptions alone. Dec. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-openai-has-started-mocking-up-what-ads-in-chatgpt-could-look-like

FCC bans new Chinese drones and components from DJI and Autel Robotics Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned new drones and critical components from the market-leading Chinese drone manufacturer DJI, and smaller firm Autel Robotics, calling the foreign made drones “an unacceptable national security risk.” Dec. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/fcc-bans-new-chinese-drones-and-components-from-dji-and-autel-robotics

Pentagon adds xAI’s Grok to its AI platform Grok is going to war. Today the Pentagon announced that xAI’s controversial Grok chatbot will be added to GenAI.mil, the Department of Defense’s “bespoke AI platform.”. Dec. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/pentagon-adds-xais-grok-to-its-ai-platform

Alphabet acquires data center company Intersect for $4.75 billion Google parent announced a deal to acquire data center and energy infrastructure builder Intersect. Alphabet already held a minority stake and a partnership with the company. Dec. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/alphabet-acquires-data-center-company-intersect-for-usd4-75-billion

Activists claim to have scraped most of Spotify, planning release An activist archiving group claims they have scraped a large part of library of music. Anna’s Archive, a self-described “open source search engine for shadow libraries” announced in a blog post that the pirated Spotify files will be a “preservation archive,” meant to archive the snapshot of music for future generations. Dec. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/activists-claim-to-have-scraped-most-of-spotify-planning-release

OpenAI’s reported fundraising valuation keeps jumping by hundreds of billions of dollars OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise as much as $100 billion, with a valuation of....$500 billion...$750 billion $830 billion? This is getting ridiculous. This week we have read multiple reports that OpenAI is in early discussions with potential investors about a significant fundraising round of up to $100 billion, to help cover its cloud computing costs. Dec. 18, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-reported-fundraising-valuation-keeps-jumping-by-hundreds-of-billions

Report: OpenAI in early talks for new fundraising round with $750 billion valuation Just yesterday , we were reading about how was in talks to invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI, with an eye-popping valuation of more than $500 billion. But those numbers might already be old. Dec. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-openai-in-early-talks-for-new-fundraising-round-with-usd750-billion

Report: China’s “Manhattan Project” built an advanced EUV chip fab prototype The most advanced chipmaking process in the world is currently owned by one company : Dutch chipmaker. The process, known as extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV), allows for the smallest, most complex semiconductors to be etched onto silicon chips. Dec. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-chinas-manhattan-project-built-an-advanced-euv-chip-fab-prototype

Google is reportedly working with Meta to expand software support for its AI chips dominates the market for AI chips. But its advantage is not limited to hardware. Dec. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/google-is-reportedly-working-with-meta-to-expand-software-support-for-its-ai

Senators open investigation into data centers’ effect on consumer utility bills As Big Tech builds more and more massive data centers in small towns around the country, the public is starting to ask questions about whether they are to blame for rising utility bills. Today Sens. Dec. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/power/senators-open-investigation-into-data-centers-effect-on-consumer-utility

Report: OpenAI and Mattel hit pause on AI toys This summer, OpenAI and announced a deal to bring AI-powered toys and games to market. According to a new report from Axios, those plans are currently on hold. Dec. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-openai-and-mattel-hit-pause-on-ai-toys

Corporate sales aren’t going well for xAI’s Grok The race for AI is not just about who has the highest-scoring model, the biggest data center, or the most GPUs. AI companies are trying to build viable businesses with enough annual revenue to someday help offset today’s massive capital expenditures as they build out AI infrastructure. Dec. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/corporate-sales-arent-going-well-for-xais-grok

Trump administration recruiting a “US Tech Force” for 2-year stints in government Months after the dismantling of DOGE and shedding hundreds of thousands of federal workers, the Trump administration is looking to Big Tech for some expert help to “solve the federal government’s most critical technological challenges.” Dec. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/trump-administration-recruiting-a-us-tech-force-for-two-year-stints-in

The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana In July of last year, community leaders in rural Richland Parish, Louisiana — population 20,043 — approved financing terms for a new project tied to billions of dollars in tax breaks. A Delaware company called Laidley LLC wanted to build “a multi-billion-dollar datacenter campus in the Parish resulting in several hundred new good paying jobs,” according to the text of the resolution, published later in the local newspaper. Dec. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/hyperion

Report: AI-powered toys tell kids where to find matches, parrot Chinese government propaganda You may want to think twice before buying your kids a fancy AI-powered plush toy. A new report from NBC News found that several AI-powered kids toys could easily be steered to dangerous as well as sexually explicit conversations in a shocking demonstration of the loose safety guardrails in this novel category of consumer electronics. Dec. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-ai-powered-toys-tell-kids-where-to-find-matches-parrot-chinese

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2, the “best model yet for real-world, professional use” After feeling the heat from recent launch of its powerful Gemini 3 model, OpenAI’s response to its “ code red ” has been released, reportedly on an accelerated schedule to keep up with the competition. The company’s new flagship model, GPT-5.2, is out, and the company is calling it “the most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work.”. Dec. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-releases-gpt-5-2-the-best-model-yet-for-real-world-professional-use

Altman: Gemini 3 had less of an impact than we had feared There have been a lot “ code reds ” flying around the AI world recently. But it turns out that the latest, declared by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, may not be as dire as expected. Dec. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/altman-gemini-3-had-less-of-an-impact-than-we-had-feared

Oracle sinks after-hours as cloud division misses and company plans $15 billion more capex Shares of fell over 6% in postmarket trading, after beating earnings expectations for its second quarter while coming in slightly below analyst estimates for revenue. Adjusted earnings per share were $2.26, up 54% year on year, blowing past analyst expectations of $1.64 per share. Dec. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/oracle-slides-after-hours-after-beating-on-earnings-missing-on-revenue

Reports: Meta training its new AI using rival models; switching to closed models in quest for profits A pair of new reports about internal struggles at add new information to how Mark Zuckerberg’s hard pivot to AI is going. The New York Times details some of the friction between the company’s old guard and Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old upstart who now leads Meta’s AI division. Dec. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/reports-meta-training-its-new-ai-using-rival-models-switching-to-closed

OpenAI races to release updated ChatGPT in response to Gemini, the WSJ reports OpenAI could release an updated GPT-5.2 as soon as this week as it races to respond to Gemini 3 chatbot. Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared a “ code red ” in response to the threat, as Google appeared to leap to the front of the pack with its high-scoring AI model. Dec. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-races-to-release-updated-chatgpt-in-response-to-gemini-the-wsj

Falling behind its rivals and facing internal tension, Meta reportedly preps new “Avocado” AI model 2025 turned out to be quite a chaotic year for big AI dreams. This year was supposed to be all about Llama 4, Meta’s open-source AI model that never fully launched. Dec. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/falling-behind-its-rivals-and-facing-internal-tension-meta-reportedly-preps

The AI bubble may be constrained by energy supply Big Tech companies like OpenAI, xAI, , , , and are racing each other to spend tens of billions of dollars on massive AI data centers. But no matter how many GPUs you acquire through a complex partnership , there is one factor that may limit the industry’s AI dreams: energy. Dec. 7, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/the-ai-bubble-may-be-constrained-by-energy-supply

Report: SpaceX planning for IPO late next year SpaceX has told investors that it is planning for an IPO in late 2026, according to a report from The Information. Elon Musk’s rocket company is in talks for a share sale for employees and investors that would put the company’s valuation at $800 billion, making it the world’s most valuable private company, recapturing that crown from OpenAI . Dec. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-spacex-planning-for-ipo-late-next-year

The New York Times, Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity is suing the AI search engine startup Perplexity, alleging repeated copyright violations. In the complaint , the Times accuses Perplexity of scraping the company’s content and generating outputs that are “identical or substantially similar” to Times content:. Dec. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/power/the-new-york-times-chicago-tribune-sue-perplexity

Apple poaches Meta’s chief legal officer Just a day after announced that it had hired away user interface design lead, Apple has announced that it’s poached Jennifer Newstead, Meta’s chief legal officer, to become Apple’s new general counsel. Kate Adams, Apple’s general counsel since 2017, will be retiring late next year. Dec. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apple-poaches-metas-chief-legal-officer

EU calls for bids to build “AI gigafactories” in 2026 The European Union wants to shore up its domestic AI infrastructure and reduce its dependence on American tech companies. To further this goal, the bloc is planning on accepting bids to build EU-based “AI gigafactories,” according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Dec. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/eu-calls-for-bids-to-build-ai-gigafactories-in-2026

Google’s AI chip business could be a $900 billion boon for the company may be sitting on a massive new business that it has yet to fully exploit. Google’s custom tensor processing unit (TPU) AI chips have been getting a lot of attention recently , making the tech world wonder if there are other ways to power its AI dreams rather than just by using GPUs. Dec. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/googles-ai-chip-business-could-be-a-usd900-billion-boon-for-the-company

Report: Meta to slash metaverse, VR spending by up to 30% Four years after changing its name to reflect its focus on the loosely defined “metaverse,” is planning deep cuts to the company’s money-losing virtual reality efforts, according to a report from Bloomberg. Dec. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-meta-to-slash-metaverse-vr-spending-by-up-to-30

Report: Meta poaches Apple design chief Alan Dye has poached Alan Dye, the head of ’s user interface design team since 2015, according to a report from Bloomberg. The hire follows several major leadership changes at Apple as it struggles to catch up after a slow start to the AI explosion. Dec. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-meta-poaches-apple-design-chief-alan-dye

Report: Anthropic hires law firm to prepare for possible IPO in 2026 Anthropic has taken the first steps toward a possible initial public offering next year, according to a new report from the Financial Times. Anthropic has hired West Coast law firm Wilson Sonsini to begin work on the IPO, per the report. Dec. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-anthropic-hires-law-firm-to-prepare-for-possible-ipo-in-2026

CrowdStrike beats on Q3 revenue and earnings eked out beats on both earnings and revenue for the third quarter, while also raising its full-year guidance. The cybersecurity company reported earnings of $0.96 per share, beating analysts’ consensus estimate of $0.94 per share. Dec. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/crowdstrike-beats-on-3q-revenue-and-earnings

Amazon rolls out updated Trainium chip, new AI models at re:Invent conference Today in Las Vegas, at its annual re:Invent developer conference, AWS made a bunch of product announcements that reveal its plan to continue capitalizing on the AI boom. AWS currently enjoys a substantial lead in the cloud computing market, serving up AI infrastructure in the cloud to customers large and small using the models of their choice. Dec. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/amazon-rolls-out-updated-trainium-chip-new-ai-models-at-re-invent-conference

Amazon AWS and Google set up rare partnership as rivals try to prevent massive network outages In October, AWS suffered a major outage , disrupting services for Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox, Venmo, and United Airlines, among others. As more and more businesses move their cloud computing to AWS or Cloud, the risks of such large outages increase. Dec. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/amazon-aws-and-google-set-up-rare-partnership-as-rivals-to-try-to-prevent

More AI startups are reportedly turning to free Chinese AI models The biggest tech companies in the world, like OpenAI, , and , are racing to build dozens of gigawatts of AI computing infrastructure to meet what they say is incredibly high demand. But free, open-weight Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen have been rapidly catching up to the leading frontier models. Nov. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/more-ai-startups-are-reportedly-turning-to-free-chinese-ai-models

Amazon AWS due to roll out its own updated AI models this week This week in Las Vegas, AWS is sure to make some news at its re:Invent developer conference. AWS is the current undisputed cloud computing leader, serving up AI computing services for many of the top players, but most importantly enterprise darling Anthropic. Nov. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/amazon-aws-due-to-roll-out-its-own-updated-ai-models-this-week

WSJ: Anduril’s weapons systems have failed during several tests Autonomous drones by sea, land, and air. Futuristic AI-powered support fighter jets, and swarms of networked drones controlled by sophisticated software. Nov. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/wsj-andurils-weapons-systems-have-failed-during-several-tests

European regulators will examine if Apple’s maps and ads businesses require stricter oversight has notified European regulators that its Apple Maps and Apple Ads platforms meet the threshold to be called “gatekeepers” under the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act, the European Commission said. Nov. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/power/european-regulators-will-examine-if-apples-maps-and-ads-businesses-require

OpenAI’s partners shouldering $100 billion of debt, taking on all the risk OpenAI’s ambitious plans for global AI infrastructure projects — like its series of massive Stargate AI data centers — will require tens of billions of dollars funded by debt, but you won’t find much of that on OpenAI’s balance sheet. According to a new analysis by the Financial Times, OpenAI has somehow convinced its many partners to shoulder at least $100 billion in debt on its behalf, as well as the risks that come with it. Nov. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-partners-shouldering-usd100-billion-of-debt-taking-on-all-the-risk

Delhi High Court says Apple could face $38 billion penalty in Indian antitrust case India’s Delhi High Court says that could face a penalty as high as $38 billion for what its investigators describe as "abusive conduct” related to the tech giant's app store, according to Reuters. Apple is challenging the constitutionality of country's new antitrust law, taking specific issue with the fact that penalties are calculated based on companies’ total annual global revenue, rather than just revenue derived from India. Nov. 25, 2025 sherwood.news/power/delhi-high-court-says-apple-could-face-usd38-billion-penalty-in-indian

Musk: Tesla’s Austin Robotaxi fleet to “roughly double” next month, but falls well short of earlier goals Yesterday, Elon Musk jumped onto a frustrated user’s post on X, who was complaining that they were unable to book a Robotaxi ride in Austin. Musk aimed to reassure the would-be customer that the company was expanding service in the city:. Nov. 25, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/musk-teslas-austin-robotaxi-fleet-to-roughly-double-next-month-but-falls

Anthropic CEO Amodei asked to testify before Congress about Claude-powered Chinese cyberattack, Axios reports Earlier this month, Anthropic revealed that Chinese state actors had used its Claude chatbot to orchestrate and execute a cyber espionage campaign for the first time. The company said that after it detected its product was being used in that manner, it was able to respond and disrupt malicious behavior. Nov. 25, 2025 sherwood.news/power/anthropic-ceo-amodei-asked-to-testify-before-congress-about-claude-powered

Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years Thanks to popular iPhone 17, the company is on track to ship more smartphones than rival Samsung for the first time in 14 years, according to a report from CNBC. Counterpoint Research projects that Apple will ship about 243 million phones to retailers this year, capturing 19.4% of the global market. Nov. 25, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apple-to-beat-samsung-in-smartphone-shipments-for-first-time-in-14-years

OpenAI eyes 220 million paid subscribers by 2030, The Information reports OpenAI is scrambling to figure out how to generate enough steady revenue to turn the expensive AI services it offers into profits, as it spends dizzying sums on the infrastructure needed to scale its business to the expected demand. It appears that for now, the company's solution comes straight from the old, reliable Big Tech playbook: turn free users into paying subscribers. Nov. 25, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-eyes-220-million-paid-subscribers-by-2030-the-information-reports

Apple cuts sales jobs in rare layoff is cutting “dozens” of roles from its sales team in a rare layoff, according to a report from Bloomberg. The reductions are aimed at streamlining the company’s sales to businesses, schools, and government accounts, per the report. Nov. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apple-cuts-sales-jobs-in-rare-layoff

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 as AI war heats up The past few weeks have seen new, impressive AI models debut from OpenAI and. Today it’s Anthropic’s turn to flex, as it releases Claude Opus 4.5, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model. Nov. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-releases-claude-opus-4-5-as-ai-war-heats-up

Altman: OpenAI’s AI gadget now has a prototype Remember the mysterious AI gadget that OpenAI is cooking up in its labs under the direction of former design guru Jony Ive? According to CEO Sam Altman, the product is now in the prototype phase, and he vaguely disclosed some of the details. At the Emerson Collective’s Demo Day conference with Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs , sitting alongside Jony Ive, Altman reflected on the progress the company has made since buying Ive’s company. Nov. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/altman-openais-ai-gadget-now-has-a-prototype

Amazon plans to invest up to $50 billion for “AI and supercomputing infrastructure” for the US government said it will invest up to $50 billion to build out its AI computing infrastructure for the US government. Based on the company’s AWS cloud platform, Amazon will help build up to 1.3 gigawatts of dedicated AI high-performance computing infrastructure, according to a press release announcing the plans. Nov. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/amazon-plans-to-invest-up-to-usd50-billion-for-ai-and-supercomputing

Amazon now has 900 data centers spread across 50 countries, report says The exact size and shape of AWS global network of data centers has always been a closely guarded secret. A new report from Bloomberg and SourceMaterial sheds some light on AWS’s global reach. Nov. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/amazon-now-has-900-data-centers-spread-across-50-countries-report-says

Musk: We will build AI chips at higher volumes “than all other AI chips combined” In a late-night post on X, Elon Musk boasted about custom AI chip plans. Musk said the current version of Tesla’s AI chip, the A14, is in cars and data centers today, while work is underway on the A15 and A16. Nov. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/musk-we-will-build-ai-chips-at-higher-volumes-than-all-other-ai-chips

Musk: xAI to build 500-megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with Humain using Nvidia GPUs Today in Washington, DC, Elon Musk announced that xAI is developing a 500-megawatt AI data center in Saudi Arabia in partnership with Humain — the country’s state-owned AI company — using chips. Competitors OpenAI and Anthropic are also turning to access the vast stores of capital available from Middle East investors to fund their colossal data center plans. Nov. 18, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/musk-xai-to-build-500-megawatt-data-center-in-saudi-arabia-with-humain-using

Report: xAI raising $15 billion for a $230 billion valuation xAI is looking to raise $15 billion at a $230 billion valuation, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. xAI is still burning through cash as it races to build its Colossus 2 data center in Tennessee. Last month, it was reported that the company needs to spend $18 billion to purchase another 300,000 GPUs. Nov. 18, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-xai-raising-usd15-billion-for-a-usd230-billion-valuation

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board Former Harvard President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board, according to The Wall Street Journal. Summers’ email exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein surfaced last week when a House committee released a cache of 20,000 documents from the Epstein estate. Nov. 18, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/larry-summers-resigns-from-openai-board

Report: Anthropic valuation shoots up to $350 billion This week’s huge, if circular , $30 billion deal between , , and Anthropic adds some rocket fuel to the AI startup’s valuation. CNBC reports that the additional $5 billion investment from Microsoft and Nvidia’s $10 billion investment places Anthropic’s valuation “in the $350 billion range.” That’s more than OpenAI’s valuation back in March of this year — No. 2 is gunning for the top spot. Nov. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-anthropic-valuation-shoots-up-to-usd350-billion

Meta wins in FTC antitrust trial has successfully defended itself from a five-year-long Federal Trade Commission antitrust lawsuit that alleged the company’s acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp gave it a monopoly on social media. The fast-moving tech product development cycle was an issue in the case. Nov. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/power/meta-wins-in-ftc-antitrust-trial

Google releases Gemini 3 AI model Today released Gemini 3, a major update to its flagship AI model. The new model comes with a number of new features that aim to leap ahead of competitors OpenAI and Anthropic. Nov. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/google-releases-gemini-3-ai-model

Intuit strikes $100 million partnership with OpenAI We are starting to see the appification of ChatGPT. Last month, OpenAI announced its refreshed vision for app integration within ChatGPT, announcing deals with , , and to allow those companies’ customers to use the apps right within the chatbot. Nov. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/intuit-strikes-usd100-million-partnership-with-openai

OpenAI releases GPT 5.1, which can be “Professional,” “Candid,” or “Quirky” Today OpenAI released GPT 5.1 , an update that aims to make ChatGPT “more conversational.” The model comes in two versions: GPT-5.1 Instant (“now warmer, more intelligent, and better at following your instructions”) and GPT-5.1 Thinking (“now easier to understand and faster on simple tasks, more persistent on complex ones”). Despite an earlier update this year that was rolled back due to being overly sycophantic, the new model responds in more chummy conversation that the company says “surprises people with its playfulness” in testing. Nov. 11, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-releases-gpt-5-1-which-can-be-professional-candid-or-quirky

AI agent fatigue may be hitting enterprise customers You may have noticed that recently, every piece of business or productivity software seems to have an “AI agent” feature that keeps getting pushed in front of you, whether you want it or not. That’s leading to AI agent fatigue among enterprise customers, according to The Information. Nov. 11, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/ai-agent-fatigue-may-be-hitting-enterprise-customers

Anthropic gets into the data center business, pledging $50 billion After watching , , xAI, and OpenAI spend billions on massive AI data centers , Anthropic is getting into the game. Today the company announced a partnership with AI infrastructure specialist Fluidstack to build its first two data centers, one in New York and one in Texas, “with more sites to come.” The move to build its own, costly data centers comes after engaging in several large cloud computing partnerships. Nov. 11, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-gets-into-the-data-center-business-pledging-usd50-billion

OpenAI: The New York Times is forcing us to turn over 20 million ChatGPT conversations A judge in the copyright lawsuit against OpenAI (and ) has ordered that the ChatGPT maker hand over the conversations of 20 million users to the Times’ lawyers, in an effort to find examples of copyright violations. Nov. 11, 2025 sherwood.news/power/openai-the-new-york-times-is-forcing-us-to-turn-over-20-million-chatgpt

Google rolls out Private AI Compute matching Apple’s AI privacy scheme One of the barriers to people embracing AI in their daily lives is trust — making sure that the company that built the AI isn’t going to just spill your most sensitive info to advertisers and data brokers. is announcing a new feature called Private AI Compute that takes a page from to help. Nov. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/google-rolls-out-private-ai-compute-matching-apples-ai-privacy-scheme

Anthropic’s move to diversify from Nvidia chips may give it an edge against OpenAI Anthropic has reportedly been upping its revenue forecasts , and appears to be catching up to market leader OpenAI. Anthropic’s thriving API business is juicing its revenues, and it has made some strategic moves that are boosting its margins. Nov. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/anthropics-move-to-diversify-from-nvidia-chips-may-give-it-an-edge-against

Big Tech’s most important infrastructure is at the bottom of the sea This week, announced plans for “Fastnet,” a new undersea transatlantic fiber-optic cable running from Maryland to County Cork, Ireland. The new, high-capacity cable will carry Amazon Web Services data at a rate of over 320 terabits per second — which Amazon says is enough to transmit “the entire digitized Library of Congress three times every second” or stream “12.5 million HD films simultaneously.” Amazon’s latest cable joins a crowded sea of submarine pathways linking Big Tech’s data centers and customers around the world. Nov. 6, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/big-techs-most-important-infrastructure-is-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea

Report: US Army will buy 1 million drones Drone warfare in Ukraine and threats from China’s drone dominance are pushing the US to ramp up from its place as a laggard in the industry Nov. 6, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-us-army-will-buy-1-million-drones

Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams and banned goods, Reuters reports has been making billions of dollars per year from scam ads and sales of banned goods, according internal Meta documents seen by Reuters. The new report quantifies the scale of fraud taking place on Meta’s platforms, and how much the company profited from them. Nov. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-projected-10-of-2024-revenue-came-from-scams-and-banned-goods-reuters

Snap soars after announcing $400 million deal with Perplexity, strong earnings shares shot up as much as 25% in after-hours trading on the release of third-quarter earnings that beat estimates, as well as the announcement of a big deal with AI startup Perplexity to integrate its “conversational AI search” into Snap products. Nov. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/snap-shoots-up-25-on-usd400-million-deal-with-perplexity-strong-earnings

Motion Picture Association to Meta: Stop saying Instagram teen content is “PG-13” In October, announced that its updated Instagram Teen Accounts would by default limit content to the “PG-13” rating. The Motion Picture Association, which created the film rating standard, was not happy about Meta’s use of the rating, and sent the company a cease and desist letter, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Nov. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/motion-picture-association-to-meta-stop-saying-instagram-teen-content-is-pg

Anthropic projections for 2028: Up to $70 billion in revenue, could be profitable by 2027 Anthropic’s Claude API business is doing so well with enterprise customers, the company is upping its revenue forecasts significantly. According to a report from The Information, the company’s robust corporate sales have caused it to revise its most optimistic forecast up to $70 billion in sales by 2028. Nov. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-projects-up-to-usd70-billion-in-revenue-2028

Apple to challenge Google Chromebooks with low-cost Mac laptop, Bloomberg reports is designing a new sub-$1,000 Mac laptop aimed at the education market, Bloomberg reports. low-cost Chromebooks currently dominate the K-12 education market, and Apple’s reentry into the education market that it once owned could disrupt the sector’s status quo. Nov. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apple-to-challenge-google-chromebooks-with-low-cost-mac-laptop-bloomberg

Getty Images suffers partial defeat in UK lawsuit against Stability AI Stability AI, the creator of image generation tool Stable Diffusion, largely defended itself from a copyright violation lawsuit filed by , which alleged the company illegally trained its AI models on Getty’s image library. Lacking strong enough evidence, Getty dropped the part of the case alleging illegal training mid-trial, according to Reuters reporting. Nov. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/getty-images-suffers-partial-defeat-in-uk-lawsuit-against-stability-ai

Trump’s deal offering top Nvidia chips to China was nixed at last minute, the WSJ reports CEO, Jensen Huang, really wants to sell the chipmaker’s most powerful Blackwell GPUs to China. He almost had his way. Nov. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/power/trumps-deal-offering-top-nvidia-chips-to-china-was-nixed-at-last-minute-the

Microsoft pledges $8 billion for data centers, cloud computing in UAE announced another large AI-related investment in the United Arab Emirates today, pledging $7.9 billion for data centers and cloud computing. The deal adds to the $7.3 billion it has already poured into the Gulf state, including a $1.5 billion equity stake in G24, the country’s sovereign AI company. Nov. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-pledges-usd8-billion-for-data-centers-cloud-computing-in-uae

OpenAI inks $38 billion deal with Amazon for compute managed to pull off its monster quarter without any of those juicy OpenAI deals on its books that many of its competitors had. But now it too has one. Nov. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-38-billion-deal-amazon-for-compute

Amazon closes at all-time high Fresh off strong earnings Thursday, saw its stock price end the week at a record closing high of $244.22. The stock is up 10% so far this year. Oct. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/amazon-closes-at-all-time-high

Microsoft, Amazon, and Google all have cumulonimbus-sized cloud backlogs Now that , , and have reported their earnings, we can get a deeper look at just how much demand for AI computing is fueling their record revenues. The big three cloud companies all saw double-digit revenue growth (year on year) for their cloud businesses, and are pledging huge capital expenditure spending to meet the white-hot demand. Oct. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-amazon-and-google-all-have-cumulonimbus-sized-cloud-backlogs

Amazon pulled off its monster quarter despite being left out of OpenAI’s tangle of deals may not be found in the tangled web of massive deals that are passing billions between OpenAI, , , , and , but that doesn’t mean it isn’t making bank from the AI race. Last night, Amazon reported strong third-quarter earnings , beating Wall Street’s expectations on earnings and revenue. Oct. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/amazon-pulled-off-its-monster-quarter-despite-being-left-out-of-openais

Amazon soars as Q3 earnings, sales beat Wall Street expectations shares soared after the company beat Wall Street’s expectations for third-quarter sales and profit, as revenue from its AWS business jumped. The stock shot up 13% in recent after-hours trading. Oct. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/amazon-3q-2025-earnings-sales-beat-wall-street-expectations

Microsoft: Forget what we said, we are going to keep spending on capex Yesterday, beat earnings and revenue expectations for its first-quarter fiscal year 2026 results. The company delivered another strong quarter, largely in line with last quarter’s results. Oct. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-capex-spending-2026

Microsoft beats on earnings and revenue posted fiscal first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, powered by growth in its Azure cloud business. For the quarter ended September 30, the software giant reported adjusted earnings per share of $4.13, beating analyst estimates of $3.67. Oct. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/microsoft-q1-2026-earnings-revenue-beats

Google earnings and revenue blow past Wall Street’s expectations posted fiscal third-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, helped by big growth in its Google Cloud business. Shares soared 5.3% after-hours. Oct. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/google-earnings-and-revenue-blow-past-wall-streets-expectations

What to watch for in Microsoft’s earnings report today After the bell today, will announce its first-quarter fiscal year 2026 earnings. Last quarter was a banger by all measures, with revenue from its Azure cloud business growing at a brisk 39% year on year, making it the envy of the industry. Oct. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/what-to-watch-for-in-microsofts-earnings-report-today

This earnings season, all eyes are on cloud revenue growth This week, we’ll get an update on how many billions the cloud giants pulled in last quarter. AI has created an insatiable hunger for more cloud computing, and , , and are racing to serve up computing capacity as fast as they can build the massive new data centers needed to catch up with demand. Oct. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/this-earnings-season-all-eyes-are-on-cloud-revenue-growth

Nokia surges as Nvidia invests $1 billion in company, a 2.9% stake is taking a 2.9% stake in , as the Finnish mobile networking company has successfully pivoted to AI and data center technology. In a press release announcing the deal, Nokia said:. Oct. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nokia-surges-as-nvidia-invests-usd1-billion-in-company-a-2-9-stake

OpenAI completes its restructuring, now controlled by a $130 billion nonprofit OpenAI has completed its long-awaited corporate restructuring, emerging as a for-profit public benefit corporation (valued at $500 billion ) controlled by a smaller nonprofit that instantly became one of the most well-funded philanthropies in the world. The nonprofit (OpenAI Foundation) now holds $130 billion in equity in the for-profit company (OpenAI Group PBC), and that could grow further after a “valuation milestone,” according to the announcement. Oct. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-completes-its-restructuring-now-controlled-by-a-usd130-billion

Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center is “MACROHARD” You can’t say Elon Musk doesn’t follow through on his weirdest side quests. In August, Musk posted on X that xAI was going to build software to compete with ubiquitous productivity apps. Oct. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/elon-musks-colossus-2-data-center-is-macrohard

Meta reorganizes its AI teams yet again, this time slashing 600 positions As it scrambles to catch up to rivals, is yet again restructuring its AI teams, and will be laying off 600 researchers, according to Axios. This is the fifth reorg in the past eight months, based on news reports. Oct. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-reorganizes-its-ai-teams-yet-again-this-time-laying-off-600-researchers

OpenAI has an army of ex-investment bankers making financial models to train ChatGPT OpenAI is looking for its killer app for the business world. After all, you can only sell so many $20 monthly subscriptions to consumers — which currently accounts for 70% of its $13 billion annually recurring revenue. Oct. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-has-an-army-of-ex-investment-bankers-making-financial-models-to-train

OpenAI releases Chrome competitor browser “ChatGPT Atlas,” sending Google shares down OpenAI took aim at today with its own AI-powered web browser called “ ChatGPT Atlas .” The new browser, which is currently only available for Macs, aims to merge ChatGPT with a modern web browser. An OpenAI team member on the livestream called it “a new kind of browser for the next era of the web.” The newly-unveiled browser could help OpenAI further insert itself into users’ interactions with their computers, and prompt users to more extensively incorporate OpenAI tools in their daily lives. Oct. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/google-drops-after-openai-teases-chrome-competitor-browser

Alibaba researchers devise efficient GPU pooling system, reducing GPU use 82% Researchers at Peking University and have announced a new system that can drastically reduce GPU demand, by efficiently “pooling” computing across multiple models rather than assigning each model its own GPU. Named “Aegaeon,” the system addresses a problem with assigning computing resources to the many AI models on the market: dedicating a set of GPUs to a specific model leaves precious processing cycles underutilized when the model is not receiving a lot of requests. Oct. 19, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/alibaba-researchers-devise-efficient-gpu-pooling-system-reducing-gpu-use-82

Data center frenzy taxes natural resources, sparks anger around the globe The race to build ever-larger power-hungry data centers isn’t limited to the US. In Ireland, more than 20% (!!!) of the country’s electricity is consumed by data centers. Oct. 19, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/data-center-frenzy-taxes-natural-resources-sparks-anger-around-the-globe

OpenAI claimed a math breakthrough this weekend, only to be smacked down In an embarrassing episode this weekend, OpenAI was forced to walk back a claim of a major math breakthrough. Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s VP of science, posted on X that “GPT-5 just found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems, and made progress on 11 others. Oct. 19, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-claimed-a-math-breakthrough-this-weekend-only-to-be-smacked-down

Google’s Gemini 3.0 reportedly due to be released in December is aiming to release the latest version of its flagship AI model, Gemini 3.0, in December, according to a report from Sources.news. The updated model is expected to make significant gains that should boost it to the top of the leaderboards, according to the report. Oct. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/googles-gemini-3-0-reportedly-due-to-be-released-in-december

Meta strikes $30 billion deal with Blue Owl to finance Hyperion data center Hyperion mega data center site in Richland Parish, Louisiana, is currently under construction. The city-sized development will be the home to one of the largest data centers in the world, housing around 2 million pricey GPUs, and will scale up to an eventual 5.5 gigawatts. Oct. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-strikes-usd30-billion-deal-with-blue-owl-to-finance-hyperion-data

Analysts generally like what they heard from Oracle, but shares are down The big news out from the AI World conference was broadly positive: that margins on cloud infrastructure can be as high as 35% , and that the company predicts $166 billion in infrastructure revenue by 2030. And in the wake of that news, today UBS raised its price target for Oracle shares to $380 from $360, saying they are undervalued. Oct. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/analysts-generally-like-what-they-heard-from-oracle-but-shares-are-down

Report: Apple’s next MacBook Pro will have a touch screen, a decade after everyone else Steve Jobs would NEVER! next iteration of the MacBook Pro could have a touch screen, according to a report from Bloomberg. Apple will be late to the party, as the rest of the industry adopted touch screens years ago. Oct. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-apples-next-macbook-pro-will-have-on-a-touchscreen-a-decade-after

Oracle jumps as it says AI cloud gross margins can reach 35%, predicts $166 billion in infrastructure revenue by 2030 shares jumped as executives said the company expects 35% gross margins on large AI infrastructure projects, while speaking at the Oracle AI World conference in Las Vegas, according to Bloomberg. Oct. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/oracle-jumps-as-it-says-ai-cloud-gross-margins-can-reach-35-predicts-usd166

Report: Hollywood talent agencies were blindsided by OpenAI’s Sora and its hazy opt-out scheme Just before OpenAI unleashed its Sora app on the world, reports emerged that the company was taking a novel approach to dealing with intellectual property rights: rights holders would have to opt out of the service to prevent their likeness or characters from being featured in objectionable or. Oct. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-hollywood-talent-agencies-were-blindsided-by-openais-sora-and-its

Apple suffers another AI setback as it loses key AI search leader to Meta efforts to get back into the AI race took another hit with news from Bloomberg that the head of AI search for a revamped Siri is leaving for. According to the report, Ke Yang took charge of Apple’s “Answers, Knowledge and Information” team just weeks ago. Oct. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apple-suffers-another-ai-setback-as-it-loses-key-ai-search-leader-to-meta

Report: Anthropic is catching up to OpenAI, on track for $9 billion annual run rate by the end of 2025 Strong demand for its enterprise AI tools like Claude Code has pushed Anthropic’s annual revenue run rate to $7 billion this month, according to a report from Reuters, with the Amazon-backed company on track to hit $9 billion ARR by the end of 2025. The company was targeting a $5 billion annual run rate as recently as September. Oct. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-anthropic-is-catching-up-to-openai-on-track-for-usd9-billion-annual

Pew: Americans, Italians are the most concerned about AI, while Israelis are the most excited A new Pew Research Center survey looked at attitudes towards AI in 25 countries. The results show a widespread concern about AI, with more respondents worried about the technology’s use in daily life than excited about the prospect of AI. 50% of both American and Italian survey respondents responded that they were “more concerned than excited” about the increased use of AI in daily life, while only 16% of South Koreans felt that way, for the lowest surveyed. Oct. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/pew-americans-italians-are-the-most-concerned-about-ai-while-israelis-are

Report: OpenAI scrambles to find new revenue in its 5-year business plan After a flurry of enormous (and confusing ) deals, OpenAI has committed to spending more than $1 trillion with various partners in the AI ecosystem. Now it has to figure out how to pay for it all. Oct. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-openai-scrambles-to-find-new-revenue-in-its-5-year-business-plan

Salesforce: AI customer service saves us $100 million per year Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff said the company saves $100 million per year by using AI for customer service, and 12,000 customers use its “Agentforce” Oct. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/salesforce-ai-customer-service-saves-us-usd100-million-per-year

Sam Altman says OpenAI fixed ChatGPT’s serious mental health issues in just a month; others aren’t so sure Well that was quick. Just over a month ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a 120-day plan to roll out new protections for identifying and helping ChatGPT users who are suffering a mental health crisis, after a series of reports brought attention to such users harming themselves and others after using the company’s AI chatbot. Oct. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/sam-altman-says-openai-fixed-chatgpts-serious-mental-health-issues-in-just-a

Meta says Instagram teen accounts will default to a PG-13 content limit is introducing new guidelines for the content on Instagram teen accounts. The company is turning to the well-known PG-13 standard from the Motion Picture Association , used by the film industry. Oct. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-says-instagram-teen-accounts-will-default-to-a-pg-13-content-limit

Sora’s ghoulish reanimation of dead celebrities raises alarms OpenAI’s video generation app Sora has spent its first two weeks at the top of the charts. The startup’s fast-and-loose approach to enforcing intellectual property rights has seen the app flooded with videos of trademarked characters in all sorts of ugly scenarios . Oct. 12, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/soras-ghoulish-re-animation-of-dead-celebrities-raises-alarms

OpenAI’s internal Slack messages could cost it billions in copyright suit Among the many copyright infringement cases that AI companies are defending themselves against, one piece of evidence keeps popping up: their use of pirated book databases like LibGen to train AI models. The plaintiffs didn’t have to look far to discover this information, as early AI company research papers often freely mentioned the use of them. Oct. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/power/openais-internal-slack-messages-could-cost-them-billions-in-copyright-suit

OpenAI commits up to $25 billion for 500-megawatt “Stargate Argentina” data center OpenAI has reportedly signed a letter of intent to invest up to $25 billion on “Stargate Argentina,” a new 500-megawatt AI data center. Reuters reports that the deal would involve tax incentives. Oct. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-reportedly-commits-up-to-usd25-billion-for-a-data-center-in-argentina

Meta considering a stand-alone TV app as it leans into Instagram videos is considering building a dedicated TV app to expand the reach of Instagram’s video content, according to comments by Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, at a Bloomberg conference. Instagram has 3 billion monthly users and is leaning into its Reels vertical videos, which puts it head-to-head with TikTok. Oct. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-considering-a-stand-alone-tv-app-as-it-leans-into-instagram-videos

Nvidia backs Reflection AI in $2 billion fundraising round When DeepSeek R1 was released at the end of last year, it shook the AI world to its core. The scrappy Chinese startup developed a competitive open-weights reasoning model that bested several state-of-the-art models from OpenAI and Google in several benchmarks. Oct. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nvidia-backs-reflection-ai-in-usd2-billion-fundraising-round

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang throws shade at OpenAI-AMD deal In an interview on CNBC yesterday, CEO Jensen Huang threw some shade at the recently announced megadeal between competitor and its partner, OpenAI. The unusual deal calls for AMD to sell multiple generations of its GPUs to OpenAI, totaling 6 gigawatts of computing power, in exchange for stock warrants for OpenAI to buy about 10% of the company. Oct. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nvidias-jensen-huang-throws-shade-at-openai-amd-deal

Tempus AI shares surge to all-time high Shares of jumped over 7% Wednesday to reach an all-time high of $99.90. Shares of the AI medical diagnostics company are up over 191% for the year so far. Oct. 7, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/tempus-ai-shares-surge-to-all-time-high

OpenAI has signed up to $1 trillion worth of deals A spate of blockbuster deals adds urgency to the question of how OpenAI is going to pay for all of this Oct. 6, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-has-signed-up-to-usd1-trillion-worth-of-deals

OpenAI’s Altman: Sora will let copyright holders control how their characters appear OpenAI is moving fast and breaking things. Its new invite-only generative-AI video app, Sora, spent the weekend at the top of the App Store charts , letting users generate videos of copyrighted characters in situations that would make a brand manager blush. Oct. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-altman-sora-will-let-copyright-holders-control-how-their-characters

Musk’s xAI spending $18 billion for another 300,000 Nvidia GPUs for “Colossus 2” Elon Musk’s xAI is racing to finish its “Colossus 2” AI data center in Tennessee, and will need to spend at least $18 billion for the remaining 300,000 GPUs, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Musk is spending billions to keep the company’s Grok AI model at the front of the pack in the AI race , and he’s taking any shortcuts he can to get there. Oct. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/musks-xai-spending-usd18-billion-for-another-300-000-nvidia-gpus-for

OpenAI’s hot Sora video app is a copyright lawsuit waiting to happen OpenAI has generated some serious buzz surrounding its new Sora video generation app. The app is currently No. 3 on the iOS free app leaderboards, even though it’s invitation-only for the time being. Oct. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-hot-sora-video-app-is-a-copyright-lawsuit-waiting-to-happen

Tension emerges between Meta’s AI teams Long before Mark Zuckerberg pivoted away from its quest for virtual reality to “bring personal superintelligence to everyone,” Meta’s research group FAIR was a powerhouse of important AI research, in addition to working on earlier iterations of the company’s Llama AI models. The group is headed by OG AI legend Yann LeCun, who is a pioneer in neural networks and computer vision. Oct. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/tension-emerges-between-metas-ai-teams

ChargePoint jumps as EV sales soar Riding along with some other EV stocks, shares of jumped 4.1% in recent trading. The last rush to take advantage of Biden-era federal EV incentives has put a bunch of new electric vehicles on the road, sending ChargePoint up along with , , and. Sep. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/chargepoint-jumps-as-ev-sales-soar

Tempus AI shares rise following executive order promoting AI to produce solutions for pediatric cancer Shares of AI medical diagnostics company have shot up over 5% today. The stock is up over 150% for the year. Sep. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/tempus-ai-shares-rise-following-executive-order-promoting-ai-to-produce

Meta will begin using your AI chats to target you with ads When rolls out a new product, the company usually waits until that product has a billion users before turning on the ads. In May, Meta announced that Meta AI has crossed that threshold , saying that more than 1 billion people are using the product every month. Sep. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-will-begin-using-your-ai-chats-to-target-you-with-ads

Rising ambitions and skyrocketing costs: Here’s what we know about Project Stargate As tech giants like , xAI, , and race to build colossal AI data centers , one massive undertaking stands apart from the rest in its ambitious goals: Project Stargate. In the eight months since Stargate was announced — backed by partners OpenAI, , , and , which have pledged hundreds of billions toward it — the scale and ambition of the project have grown. Sep. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/rising-ambitions-and-skyrocketing-costs-heres-what-we-know-about-project

Electricity prices surge up to 267% in markets near data centers in the past five years A Bloomberg analysis reveals wholesale electricity prices have shot up as much as 267% in the past five years in areas near data centers Sep. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/electricity-prices-surge-up-to-267-in-markets-near-data-centers-in-the-past

How well can top AI models do these jobs? One of the biggest fears fueling the public’s apprehension toward AI is that the technology will eventually take their jobs. We’ve already seen evidence that some roles like entry-level software development, customer service, and marketing are feeling the effects of automation powered by generative AI. Sep. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/how-well-can-top-ai-models-do-these-jobs

Musk’s xAI sues OpenAI, alleging theft of trade secrets Elon Musk’s xAI has sued OpenAI in Northern California federal court, alleging the company stole trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees. In August, xAI filed suit against Xuechen Li, a former employee who abruptly sold his equity and left for a role at rival OpenAI, though it is not clear if Li ever actually started working there. Sep. 24, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/musks-xai-sues-openai-alleging-theft-of-trade-secrets

Report: Nvidia may lease its chips to OpenAI as part of deal Why buy when you can rent for cheaper? That’s the thinking behind a new report from The Information that says as part of its blockbuster $100 billion investment , is in discussions with OpenAI to lease GPUs to the company as it races to build massive data centers as part of its Stargate plan. According to The Information, leasing GPUs from Nvidia would effectively lower the cost by 10% to 15% and protect OpenAI from owning technology infrastructure that could soon become obsolete. Sep. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-nvidia-may-lease-its-chips-to-openai-as-part-of-deal

Clash of the titans: Here are the biggest AI data center projects Nvidia’s $100 billion megadeal with OpenAI to build massive AI data centers filled with Nvidia GPUs sets a new threshold for unprecedented computing power: the plan describes a partnership to build a staggering 10 gigawatts of computing power. Gigawatts — a million kilowatts — is a metric increasingly used as a yardstick to measure the size of AI infrastructure projects like these. Sep. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/clash-of-the-titans-here-are-the-biggest-ai-data-center-projects

Nvidia jumps on plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of data center expansion Shares of Nvidia vaulted on the news, as CEO Jensen Huang says the new project would involve 4 million to 5 million GPUs Sep. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/nvidia-plans-to-invest-up-to-usd100-billion-in-openai-as-part-of-data-center

Tempus AI jumps on FDA clearance of RNA-based testing tech Shares of , an AI-powered medical diagnostics company, jumped on news that the FDA has granted 501(k) clearance for its Tempus xR IVD device. The RNA sequencing tool allows doctors to tailor therapies for cancer patients. “As new therapeutics tied to RNA biomarkers enter the market, we believe that this assay will become even more critical for personalized treatments for patients with cancer,” Tempus Chief Scientific Officer Kate Sasser, Ph.D., said in a press release. Sep. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/tempus-ai-jumps-on-fda-clearance-of-rna-based-testing-tech

OpenAI reportedly poaching key Apple designers, using Apple manufacturing partners for AI gadgets New details are emerging about the mysterious AI gadgets being designed by former Apple design chief Jony Ive since OpenAI purchased his startup “io” in May. According to a report by The Information , Ive’s team has recruited several key design and hardware employees to work on the gadgets. Sep. 18, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-reportedly-poaching-key-apple-designers-using-apple-manufacturing

Are Ray-Ban Meta glasses really a hit? At this week’s Connect conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced new Ray-Ban Meta Display glasses with the “Meta Neural Band” (that you wear on your wrist), wraparound Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses, and the second iteration of Ray-Ban Meta glasses. During a glitch-filled keynote presentation, Zuckerberg gave an update on the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which the company does not disclose sales figures for: “This is now our third year shipping AI glasses with our great partner, EssilorLuxottica. Sep. 18, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/are-ray-ban-meta-glasses-really-a-hit

Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI, CoreWeave pledge $42 billion investment in UK AI projects during Trump’s visit , , and announced pledges to invest tens of billions to build out the UK’s AI infrastructure. Coinciding with President Trump’s visit to the UK, the companies announced new data centers, hundreds of thousands of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs , and support for the UK’s sovereign AI programs. Sep. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nvidia-microsoft-openai-coreweave-pledge-usd42-billion-investment-in-uk-ai

Report: Anthropic’s refusal to allow Claude to be used for surveillance irks White House The Trump administration’s warm embrace of AI companies has led to many federal agencies using chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for many different applications. Like its competitors, Anthropic is offering the government version of its chatbot — Claude for Government — for $1 per year to any agency that requests it, through the General Services Administration. Sep. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-anthropics-refusal-to-allow-claude-to-be-used-for-surveillance-irks

Senator Mark Kelly wants AI companies to pay into a fund to offset AI’s negative impacts The list of AI’s potential effects on society are growing by the week. Skyrocketing demand for new energy generation needed to power massive data centers are raising utility bills , and generators are spewing methane into the atmosphere. Sep. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/power/senator-mark-kelly-wants-ai-companies-to-pay-into-a-fund-to-offset-ais

This is bananas! Google’s Gemini has booted ChatGPT from the top of the iOS App Store Gemini chatbot has rocketed to the top of Apple’s app store, claiming the No. 1 spot on the Top Apps leaderboard and dethroning OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has enjoyed a solid run as the most popular app for months. Two new popular features have provided the rocket fuel to take Google’s humble app to such heights: the Veo 3 video generator and Nano Banana, a powerful new image generation model. Sep. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/this-is-bananas-google-gemini-has-booted-chatgpt-from-the-top-of-the-ios-app

OpenAI building a teen mode that will guess a user’s age and restrict flirtatious and self-harm-related chats After a series of alarming safety failures in which ChatGPT encouraged self-harm, OpenAI has announced a 120-day plan to roll out new protections for young users and those that may be experiencing a mental health crisis. In a blog post today, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gave an update on the plan, saying that the company was building an “under-18 experience” for teens that won’t engage in “flirtatious talk” or engage in any discussions of self-harm. Sep. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-building-a-teen-mode-that-will-guess-a-users-age-and-restrict

Anthropic data: Businesses are using Claude to automate rather than collaborate Fresh on the heels of a revealing ChatGPT usage research paper from OpenAI, rival AI startup Anthropic released its own detailed look at how consumers and businesses are using its Claude AI chatbot. While OpenAI’s study analyzed only end users of its ChatGPT chatbot, the Anthropic Economic Index report includes how businesses are using Claude via its API (application programming interface). Sep. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-data-businesses-are-using-claude-to-automate-rather-than

Here’s how people are actually using ChatGPT OpenAI has released its largest report yet on how real people are actually using ChatGPT. The fascinating working research paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, describes a wide-ranging study that used AI to analyze 1 million chat transcripts (no humans read any of the chats). Sep. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/heres-how-people-are-are-actually-using-chatgpt

Apple is packing a growing number of self-built custom chips into its gadgets The sleek industrial design of iPhones and watches was the obvious the star of last week’s product release event. But beneath the ceramic shields, proprietary alloys, and aluminum unibodies, you’ll find more and more chips that are custom designed by Apple. Sep. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-packing-a-growing-number-of-self-built-custom-chips-into-its

OpenAI and Microsoft reach agreement that moves OpenAI closer to for-profit status In a joint statement, OpenAI and announced a “non-binding memorandum of understanding” for their renegotiated $13 billion partnership, which was a source of recent tension between the two companies. Sep. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-and-microsoft-reach-agreement-that-moves-openai-closer-to-for-profit

Apple AI was MIA at iPhone event Yesterday’s “Awe Dropping” launch event, which rolled out the refreshed iPhone, the new iPhone Air, and Apple Watch lineup, included plenty of the usual hallmarks of an slickly produced Apple launch. That included leaps in performance, increased “NITS,” and cool-sounding features like “fusion cameras” and “vapor chambers.” But compared to last year’s iPhone 16 event, there was a whole lot less talk about Apple’s grand plan for AI: Apple Intelligence. Sep. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apple-ai-was-m-i-a-at-iphone-event

Oracle’s massive sales backlog is thanks to a $300 billion deal with OpenAI, WSJ reports OpenAI has signed a massive deal to purchase $300 billion worth of cloud computing capacity from , according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The report notes that the five-year deal would be one of the largest cloud computing contracts ever signed, requiring 4.5 gigawatts of capacity. Sep. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/oracle-sales-backlog-300-billion-deal-openai-wsj-report

Census data shows drop in large companies using AI Though more public companies than ever are talking about AI — a whopping 58% of the S&P 500 Index mentioned the technology in the most recent earnings season, per a report from Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research — how many large firms are actually using it is slightly different. The latest update from the US Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey of 1.2 million firms suggests that large companies, having experimented with the tools over the last year, might be starting to touch the brakes on their actual AI utilization. Sep. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/census-data-shows-drop-in-large-companies-using-ai

Draft Senate bill gives AI companies a two-year pass on federal regulation, Bloomberg reports Bloomberg reports that a draft bill from Senator Ted Cruz would give AI companies a two-year pass from any federal regulation when they apply to be part of a White House-controlled “regulatory sandbox.” Such a regulatory framework frees participating companies from federal agency oversight while simultaneously handing President Trump broad powers to shape a still nascent and increasingly powerful industry. The draft bill allows companies approved for the waiver to request renewals for up to eight years, according to the report. Sep. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/power/draft-senate-bill-gives-ai-companies-a-two-year-pass-on-federal-regulation

Apple announces extra slim iPhone Air, iPhone Pro with longer battery life, updated AirPods Pro 3 with live language translation, and refreshed Apple Watch line At today’s “Awe Dropping” event, the company announced its yearly refresh of the iPhone lineup. The new iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max were joined by a brand-new addition: the iPhone Air, a superthin model with tougher glass and faster processors. Sep. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apple-announces-slim-iphone-air-iphone-pro-airpods3-apple-watch

Nebius soars after signing a 5-year deal with Microsoft to supply nearly $20 billion worth of AI computing power Artificial intelligence infrastructure group jumped more than 50% in early trading on Tuesday after the company announced after the close on Monday a major deal to supply computing power for AI operations. Sep. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nebius-soars-signing-five-year-deal-microsoft-supply-ai-computing-power-20-billion

Here are the Trump ties among the tech leaders who had dinner at the White House If an asteroid had hit the White House last Thursday night, the American tech industry would have practically vaporized. The glitzy dinner of “tech leaders” at the White House was a star-studded event, and an extremely high concentration of high-net-worth individuals. Sep. 7, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/here-are-the-trump-ties-among-the-tech-leaders-who-had-dinner-at-the-white

Which tech execs attended Trump’s White House dinner? A who’s-who of tech executives and AI power players sat side-by-side at a long table in the White House on Thursday evening to lather President Trump with praise for his leadership on AI. Billed by White House spokesperson Davis Ingle as “the hottest place to be in Washington, or perhaps the world,” the exclusive dinner was packed with “the most brilliant people,” according to Trump, who said “this is a high IQ group.” Proximity is power, and none of the tech figures was closer to Trump than CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Sep. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/which-tech-execs-attended-trumps-white-house-dinner

OpenAI is working on a “jobs platform” for people who lose their jobs to AI OpenAI has some good news and bad news for workers. The bad news? AI will probably take your job. Sep. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-is-working-on-a-jobs-platform-for-people-who-lose-their-jobs-to-ai

Threads goes to 10,000 characters In response to users posting screenshots of text, Threads will offer a way to post up to 10,000 characters in posts via “text attachments.” Sep. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/threads-goes-to-10-000-characters

Switzerland launches “Apertus,” an open-source AI model trained on public data True to its tradition of neutrality and independence, Switzerland is moving closer to securing its own “sovereign AI.” Wary of reliance on American and Chinese startups for access to cutting-edge AI, countries are taking steps to develop domestic AI infrastructure. That includes the AI models that run on the data centers inside a country’s borders. Sep. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/switzerland-launches-apertus-an-open-source-ai-model-trained-on-public-data

Amazon is reportedly testing an enterprise agentic AI tool called “Quick Suite” Shares of are rallying as the tech titan readies itself to take another stab at the enterprise software market with a new “agentic AI” tool, according to a report from Business Insider. “Quick Suite” is a tool that Amazon documents say helps “every business user to make better decisions,. Sep. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/amazon-is-reportedly-testing-an-enterprise-agentic-ai-tool-called-quick

Google is reportedly pitching its AI chips to data centers unquestionably dominates the current AI chip market, making the most popular GPUs to train and run today’s AI models. Sep. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/google-is-reportedly-pitching-its-ai-chips-to-data-centers

Anthropic raises $13 billion, now valued at $183 billion Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude AI chatbot, said it has completed a $13 billion round of fundraising. Sep. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-raises-usd13-billion-now-valued-at-usd183-billion

Musk’s xAI sues former employee, alleging theft of trade secrets Elon Musk’s xAI has filed suit in Northern California federal court against a former engineer, alleging that he stole trade secrets from the company just before leaving for a job at OpenAI. Xuechen Li started working for xAI in February 2024 after receiving his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. Aug. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/musks-xai-sues-former-employee-alleging-theft-of-trade-secrets

More details emerge of rocky start to Meta Superintelligence Labs This week, Wired reported that things weren’t exactly humming along in Mark Zuckerberg’s AI all-star-packed Superintelligence Labs, with some recent hires leaving the company after just weeks. Aug. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/more-details-emerge-of-rocky-start-to-meta-superintelligence-labs

Over half of Nvidia’s AI direct hardware sales revenue comes from just three customers solid second-quarter earnings report showed how good it is to be the seller of the best pickax in the town with the big gold mine. All of the big AI players are racing to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into ever-larger data centers to out-gigawatt their competitors in the space. Aug. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/business/over-half-of-nvidias-ai-direct-hardware-sales-revenue-comes-from-just-three

Facing a key year-end deadline, OpenAI negotiations with Microsoft might drag into 2026 If OpenAI doesn’t complete its conversion to a for-profit public benefit corporation by the end of the year, it may lose out on a $10 billion investment. With that crucial deadline racing toward us, OpenAI’s contentious negotiations to restructure its $13 billion deal with look like they might drag into next year. Aug. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/facing-a-key-year-end-deadline-openai-negotiations-with-microsoft-might-drag

Three recent Meta Superintelligence Labs hires have already reportedly left At least three AI researchers hired to join Superintelligence Labs have already left, according to a report from Wired. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on an unprecedented hiring spree seeking to lure top AI researchers to his new team after stumbles with its latest Llama 4 models. Aug. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/three-recent-meta-superintelligence-labs-hires-have-already-reportedly-left

Big Tech is turning into Big Energy The race to build bigger and bigger AI data centers is creating huge demand for new power infrastructure. So much so that the biggest names in tech are getting into the energy business themselves. Aug. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/big-tech-is-turning-into-big-energy

Meta AI chatbot docs allowed shocking “sensual” conversations with children, Reuters reports An internal content moderation document for the company’s AI chatbots allowed “sensual” conversations with minors, a Reuters investigation found. The “GenAI: Content Risk Standards” document, which Meta confirmed was authentic, included shocking conversations that were allowed, including commenting on an 8-year-old’s naked body and romantic sexual conversations with children, according to the report. Aug. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-ai-chatbot-docs-allowed-shocking-sensual-conversations-with-children

US reportedly placed location trackers in AI chip shipments diverted to China Reuters is reporting that the US has been using location trackers to trace shipments of AI chips illegally diverted to China. Aug. 12, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/us-reportedly-placed-location-trackers-in-ai-chip-shipments-diverted-to

In a gambit, Perplexity offers $34.5 billion to Google for Chrome browser AI startup Perplexity is making an improbable offer to buy the Chrome browser from. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Perplexity, the AI search and browser startup, is making the unsolicited offer for $34.5 billion, which is roughly double its current $18 billion valuation. Aug. 11, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/perplexity34-5-billion-offer-for-google-chrome-browser

Anthropic offers Claude AI to federal agencies for $1 Earlier this month, OpenAI announced that it was offering ChatGPT Enterprise to US federal agencies for $1 in a yearlong deal with the General Services Administration. Today, Anthropic is following suit with a similar deal. Aug. 11, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-offers-claude-ai-to-federal-agencies-for-usd1

OpenAI backtracks on plan to mothball old AI models after user outcry After a splashy (but rocky) rollout last week of OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-5, users pushed back loudly on the company’s plan to deprecate older models in place of the new release. CEO Sam Altman’s weekend was a little hectic. Aug. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-backtracks-on-plan-to-mothball-old-ai-models-after-user-outcry

America’s high-stakes drone problem There is a new sense of urgency in the US government: America needs to be a leader in drones, and it needs to happen fast. A number of major obstacles lie in the way of this ambitious goal , and most of them originate in China. Aug. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/americas-high-stakes-drone-problem

GPT-5: “A legitimate PhD level expert in anything” that sucks at spelling and geography Yesterday, OpenAI spent a lot of time talking about how “smart” its new GPT-5 model was. OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman said of GPT-5: “It’s like talking to an expert, a legitimate PhD level expert in anything,” and called it “the most powerful, the most smart, the fastest, the most reliable and the most robust reasoning model that we’ve shipped to date.” Demos showed GPT-5 effortlessly creating an interactive simulation to explain the Bernoulli effect, diagnosing and fixing complex code errors, planning personalized running schedules, and “vibecoding” a cartoony 3D castle game. Aug. 7, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/gpt-5-a-legitimate-phd-level-expert-in-anything-that-sucks-at-spelling-and

OpenAI releases its long-awaited flagship model, GPT-5 Looking back to November 2022, when ChatGPT was released to the world as a technical preview, it’s dizzying to think of the incredible progress — and the hundreds of billions of dollars — that AI startups and Big Tech companies have spent to rapidly train and improve their ever-larger language models in a furious race to the top of benchmark leaderboards. Today, OpenAI released its latest flagship large language model, GPT-5 , and it might mark the end of the first explosive wave of generative AI and the start of a new era where gains are measured in different ways. Aug. 6, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-releases-its-long-awaited-flagship-model-gpt-5

OpenAI offering ChatGPT to federal agencies for a buck OpenAI’s new partnership with the General Services Administration will grant any federal agency access to the chatbot for $1 per year Aug. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-offering-chatgpt-to-federal-agencies-for-a-buck

OpenAI releases open-weight “gpt-oss” models to compete with DeepSeek, Meta Today, OpenAI released “ gpt-oss ,” its first “open-weight” large language model since 2019’s GPT-2. The new “reasoning” model comes in two sizes, 120b and 20b, and can be run locally on a laptop — and the smaller one can even run on a phone, according to the company. Aug. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-releases-open-weight-gpt-oss-models-to-compete-with-deepseek-meta

Amazon’s overwhelming AI demand is just a bronze medal compared to its rivals has so much demand for AI in its AWS services that it has a $195 billion backlog. Its earnings and revenue for the second quarter beat analysts’ expectations. Jul. 31, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/amazons-overwhelming-ai-demand-is-just-a-bronze-medal-compared-to-its-rivals

Amazon beats on Q2 earnings, but Q3 profit forecast comes in light; capex goes sky-high blew past Wall Street’s expectations for second-quarter sales and profit, and the tech giant smashed the accelerator pedal on capex spending. Still, shares were down 3.5% in recent after-hours trading, as its forecast for third-quarter operating profit came in light. Jul. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/amazon-beats-on-q2-earnings-as-capex-goes-sky-high

Microsoft joins the $4 trillion club, plans to spend over $30 billion on capex this quarter had a blowout fiscal fourth quarter, beating estimates for earnings and revenue. In premarket trading, shares surged over 8%, pushing the valuation above $4 trillion, an elite club only shared with. Jul. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/microsoft-joins-the-usd4-trillion-club-plans-to-spend-over-usd30-billion-on

Microsoft powers past Q4 earnings and revenue expectations Shares of surged after the company blew past fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue expectations. Shares were up 7.3% in recent after-hours trading. Jul. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/microsoft-q4-earnings-and-revenue-beat-expectations

AI startups’ high-velocity valuations are shooting sky-high Investors are pouring billions into AI startups at a feverish pace, and valuations are shooting sky-high. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Anthropic is closing in on a $5 billion fundraising round, with an eye-popping valuation of $170 billion. Jul. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/ai-startups-high-velocity-valuations-are-shooting-sky-high

JPMorgan Chase reportedly close to deal for Apple’s credit card business The Wall Street Journal is reporting that is in advanced talks with to take over its credit card business from , in what would be one of the biggest credit card deals ever. Jul. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/business/jpmorgan-chase-reportedly-close-to-deal-for-apples-credit-card-business

Apple to open “Manufacturing Academy” with Michigan State University next month Perhaps in response to pressure from President Trump to make its products in the US, will open its “Apple Manufacturing Academy” in downtown Detroit next month. The academy, which is set to open Aug. 19, is a partnership with Michigan State University that the company says will help American companies “innovate and grow.” Apple’s senior VP of operations, Sabih Khan, said in the press release :. Jul. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apple-to-open-manufacturing-academy-with-michigan-state-university-next

ChatGPT cocreator named chief AI scientist of Meta’s “superintelligence” team “superintelligence” team is taking shape. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has successfully wooed at least 10 AI all-stars from archrival OpenAI (with pay packages reported to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars), and now he’s named OpenAI’s Shengjia Zhao, the cocreator of ChatGPT, as the head of research. Jul. 24, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/chatgpt-co-creator-named-chief-ai-scientist-of-metas-superintelligence-team

Tesla’s mission-critical Optimus project is reportedly falling behind schedule. Traders are buying the stock anyway. Elon Musk says Optimus robots will be the “biggest product of all time.” But, as is so often the case, the company seems to be falling behind on the CEO’s timeline for producing them. As is also often the case , investors don’t seem to think that’s a problem. Jul. 24, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/teslas-mission-critical-optimus-project-is-reportedly-falling-behind

Musk thinks Tesla has some “rough quarters” ahead, as it waits (and waits) for autonomy Maybe Elon Musk should say less sometimes. The news wasn’t great. Jul. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/musk-thinks-tesla-has-some-rough-quarters-ahead-as-it-waits-and-waits-for

Tesla Q2 sales fall 12%; company says 2025 vehicle launches remain on track and more affordable model still coming posted second-quarter earnings in line with analysts’ expectations despite a year-on-year drop in sales, and the company said its plans for new models this year and a more affordable model next year remain “on track.” Shares were up 0.1% after hours. The company posted adjusted earnings per share of $0.40, matching FactSet’s consensus estimate. Jul. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/tesla-q2-sales-fall-12-company-says-2025-vehicle-launches-remain-on-track

Alphabet rises after reporting solid Q2 earnings and plans to increase capex spend to $85 billion stock rose slightly after the tech giant posted second-quarter results just above Wall Street’s expectations. Shares were up a little more than 1% in after-hours trading. Jul. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/alphabet-q2-2025-earnings-revenue

White House unveils “America’s AI Action Plan” The Trump administration wants to usher in “a new golden age of human flourishing” powered by AI that the government ensures will be folded into every part of our lives. “ AI will enable Americans to discover new materials, synthesize new chemicals, manufacture new drugs, and develop new methods to harness energy—an industrial revolution. It will enable radically new forms of education, media, and communication—an information revolution. Jul. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/power/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan

Apple’s new “AppleCare One” covers up to three devices for $20 per month has found a new way to squeeze some juice from its customers. After forking over $800 for a shiny new iPhone 16, you might immediately start worrying about the inevitable phone drop that could crack or scratch the flawless glass and metal in your hand. Jul. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apples-new-applecare-one-covers-up-to-three-devices-for-usd20-per-month

AT&T slips despite solid Q2 results as full-year profit outlook disappoints posted solid second-quarter earnings, beating estimates, and plans to use $6.5 billion to $8 billion in tax savings from President Trump’s tax bill to build out its fiber business. However, the stock is slumping in premarket trading, as the company’s full-year profit guidance failed to impress. Jul. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/at-and-t-slips-despite-solid-q2-results-as-full-year-profit-outlook

Report: Weeks after raising $10 billion, Musk seeking another $12 billion for xAI to buy Nvidia GPUs Fresh off a $10 billion funding round and an embarrassing episode involving its Grok model declaring itself “MechaHitler,” Elon Musk’s xAI needs even more cash for GPUs for its massive data center expansion plans. Jul. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-weeks-after-raising-usd10-billion-musk-seeking-another-usd12-billion

OpenAI and SoftBank’s $500 billion AI data center “Stargate” stumbles On the second day of his second term, President Trump stood alongside CEO Masayoshi Son, founder Larry Ellison, and OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman to announce the $500 billion “Project Stargate,” which Trump said included “the construction of colossal data centers, very, very massive. Jul. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-and-softbanks-usd500-billion-ai-data-center-stargate-stumbles

What would it take to lure OpenAI’s head of research to Meta? A billion dollars? Mark Zuckerberg approached OpenAI’s chief research officer to see what it would take to lure him away. Maybe a billion dollars? Jul. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/what-would-it-take-to-lure-openais-head-of-research-to-meta-a-billion

Hackers exploit Microsoft SharePoint “zero day” vulnerability A widespread security vulnerability in ubiquitous SharePoint file hosting software let hackers have deep access to customers’ files around the world for several days, including US government agencies and state governments, businesses, and universities. Jul. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/hackers-exploit-microsoft-sharepoint-zero-day-vulnerability

Verizon rises on strong Q2 earnings, boost to guidance rose almost 4% in Monday morning trading on strong second-quarter earnings and improved guidance for the full year. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.22, beating analysts’ consensus of $1.19, according to Bloomberg, while total operating revenues of $34.5 billion were also well ahead of the expected $33.8 billion. Jul. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/verizon-rises-on-strong-q2-earnings-boost-to-guidance

White House’s “hands-off” approach to AI includes restricting “woke AI” The Trump administration is dead set on America dominating AI, and it’s close to releasing its plan. Axios reports that a forthcoming 20-page document will frame the administration’s “hands-off approach” to AI, clearing the way for companies to get faster permitting for AI data centers, eliminating regulatory hurdles, and “promoting innovation.”. Jul. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/power/white-houses-hands-off-approach-to-ai-includes-restricting-woke-ai

OpenAI’s new “agent” is here to help you buy tuxedos, book luxury hotels, and order batches of cupcakes excruciatingly slowly “Agentic AI” is the latest buzzword in tech, as the industry furiously races to monetize the costly technology. Yesterday OpenAI announced its second offering in the emerging category: “ ChatGPT Agent ,” which comes on the heels of January’s browser-controlling “Operator” tool. Jul. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-new-agent-is-here-to-help-you-buy-tuxedos-book-luxury-hotels-and

Last-minute settlement keeps Zuckerberg, Andreessen, Thiel, Sandberg, and other Meta board members from taking the stand in $8 billion privacy suit It would have been quite a trial. Next week was supposed to feature several titans of tech taking the stand in the Delaware Court of Chancery to defend themselves against an $8 billion privacy lawsuit brought by Meta investors. Jul. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/power/last-minute-settlement-keeps-zuckerberg-andreessen-thiel-sandberg-and-other

Two more top OpenAI researchers defect to Meta hiring spree for its new “superintelligence” team has bagged two new high-profile defectors from OpenAI. Wired reports that Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung have left their roles at OpenAI for Mark Zuckerberg’s new team of AI all-stars. Jul. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/two-more-top-openai-researchers-defect-to-meta

US scoping out drone and solar panel supply chains ahead of potential tariffs The Trump administration may be planning to impose tariffs on drones and their components, as well as solar panels. Bloomberg reports that the US Department of Commerce has initiated investigations into two categories of imports: “ imports of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and their parts and components” and “ imports of polysilicon and its derivatives .”. Jul. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/power/trump-administration-scoping-out-drone-and-solar-panel-supply-chains-ahead

Google, xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI each receive $200 million contracts from Department of Defense The Department of Defense is spending $800 million on “agentic AI workflows” and most of the big players are getting a slice of the pie. , OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI all received awards capping out at $200 million each to help deploy AI in national security applications. Jul. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/google-xai-anthropic-and-openai-each-receive-usd200-million-contracts-from

Nvidia-backed Nebius shoots up on Goldman initiating coverage as a “buy” AI data center startup shot up over 16% today on news that Goldman Sachs has initiated coverage of the stock with a “buy” rating and a price target of $68. recently revealed a $33 million stake in the Amsterdam-based company, which has roughly doubled in value since the end of last year. Nebius says that it has “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia’s latest GPUs, which it rents to customers via cloud-based services. Jul. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nvidia-backed-nebius-shoots-up-on-goldman-initiating-coverage-as-a-buy

Zuckerberg: Meta is building “several multi-GW clusters” and spending “hundreds of billions of dollars” on AI data centers CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to Threads today to promote his new all-star “superintelligence” team and announce that the company is investing “hundreds of billions of dollars” on AI data centers. Jul. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/zuckerberg-meta-is-building-several-multi-gw-clusters-and-spending-hundreds

The Oval Office is getting even more shiny and gold Back in April, shortly after President Trump declared his “Liberation Day” tariffs, which imposed 145% levies on goods imported from China, we noticed some decorative gold “cartouches” slapped on the walls of the Oval Office, highly concentrated around the fireplace, which Trump is increasingly using as a backdrop for his interactions with world leaders. Intrigued by origins of these arbitrary decorative flourishes, we located some “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” on Alibaba that looked very similar, though they’re not a perfect match. Jul. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/power/the-oval-office-is-getting-even-more-shiny-and-gold

Trump’s tax bill gives Anduril a monopoly on “autonomous” border surveillance towers Tucked into President Trump’s tax bill , which was singed into law last week, is $6 billion allocated for “border security, technology and screening,” a key piece of his administration’s plan to restrict immigration to the US. Jul. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/trumps-tax-bill-gives-anduril-a-monopoly-on-autonomous-border-surveillance

Meta lured Apple AI exec with $200 million pay package Meta’s “superintelligence” team is filling out, and former Apple AI executive Ruoming Pang reportedly received a pay package worth more than Jul. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-lured-apple-ai-exec-with-usd200-million-pay-package

xAI launches Grok 4, Grok 4 Heavy, SuperGrok Heavy The launch of a major new version of the Grok AI model should be a triumphant moment for Elon Musk’s xAI, but a week of self-induced chaos has overshadowed the release. During a midnight livestream on X, Elon Musk was joined by xAI researchers in an awkward product launch for Grok 4, the latest version of the company’s “reasoning” foundational AI model, which Musk called “the smartest AI in the world.”. Jul. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/xai-launches-grok-4-grok-4-heavy-supergrok-heavy

Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of X Linda Yaccarino had one of the toughest jobs in tech. She was brought over from by Elon Musk to offer some stable leadership after his chaotic acquisition of Twitter, and to convince fleeing advertisers to stay on the troubled platform (as Musk was swearing at them ). Jul. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/linda-yaccarino-steps-down-as-ceo-of-x

Ives: Apple needs to buy Perplexity Dan Ives has a short message for leadership: time’s up. The Wedbush Securities analyst released a note today saying that Apple CEO Tim Cook needs to “rip the band-aid off” and make a big move to shake up the AI race. Jul. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/ives-apple-needs-to-buy-perplexity

Musk’s Grok spews antisemitic posts after “improvement” A few weeks ago, after expressing his displeasure that his Grok chatbot was “parroting legacy media” when it wrote that data showed “right-wing political violence has been more frequent and deadly,” an accurate response, Elon Musk vowed to make some changes to fix the problem. Major fail, as this is objectively false. Jul. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/musks-grok-spews-antisemitic-posts-after-improvement

Tech companies pledge $23 million to train teachers to use AI Big Tech wants to get AI into every classroom, and now it’s trying to make sure that teachers do, too. , Anthropic, and OpenAI are pledging $23 million to help the American Federation of Teachers set up a “National Academy for A.I. Instruction” in New York to help train teachers on how to use AI and help weave the technology into their curricula. Jul. 7, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/tech-companies-pledge-usd23-million-to-train-teachers-to-use-ai

Behold! Another “Lord of the Rings”-inspired company is revealed When it comes to tech startups, what’s in a name? Today, a lot of them end with “AI.” Sometimes, you pivot and change the name to reflect your company’s new focus. And sometimes you just want to evoke a mythic power and flex your nerdy bona fides. Jul. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/behold-another-lord-of-the-rings-inspired-company-is-revealed

Here’s all the AI stuff in Trump’s tax bill Yesterday the Senate passed President Trump’s massive tax bill, and today it heads to the House, where it faces an uncertain future. The text of the bill is loooong — it spans 870 pages as a PDF and is full of allocations of federal dollars for Trump’s priorities, including over $2 billion for AI programs for defense, energy, and homeland security. Jul. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/heres-all-the-ai-stuff-in-trumps-tax-bill

Report: Microsoft plans to cut 9,000 jobs plans to kick off its new fiscal year by laying off 9,000 workers, according to a report from CNBC. The report said that the cuts will be spread across multiple regions, teams, and experience levels. Jul. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/business/report-microsoft-plans-to-cut-9-000-jobs

Nvidia backs new data center power management startup Emerald AI The amount of energy needed to power the massive data centers being built for the next wave of AI is staggering. But it isn’t flexible. “Traditionally, the power grid has treated data centers as inflexible — energy system operators assume that a 500-megawatt AI factory will always require access to that full amount of power,” said Varun Sivaram, the CEO and founder of Emerald AI, a startup that just emerged from stealth. Jun. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nvidia-backs-new-data-center-power-management-startup-emerald-ai

Could Cloudflare’s “pay per crawl” save news from AI? AI is eating the news. Publishers large and small are bracing for a grim reality that is starting to reveal itself: as readers increasingly turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for their queries, or skim over AI overviews, news publishers are seeing visits from search engines drop off a cliff. Jun. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/could-cloudflares-pay-per-crawl-save-news-from-ai

Senate kills proposed 10-year ban on state AI regulations In the wee hours of the morning, the US Senate came together in a rare show of bipartisan consensus around an important issue: AI regulation. In a 99-1 vote, lawmakers killed a piece of President Trump’s massive tax bill, which would have blocked states from passing any AI regulations for a decade. Jun. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/power/senate-kills-proposed-10-year-ban-on-state-ai-regulations

Zuckerberg announces new AI hires for “Meta Superintelligence Labs” CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially announced the initial roster of AI researchers that he recruited away from his competitors. In an internal memo to employees, Zuckerberg said the new team will be called “Meta Superintelligence Labs,” headed by Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, per Bloomberg. Jun. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/zuckerberg-announces-new-ai-hires-for-meta-superintelligence-labs

White House announces plans to push AI in schools Like it or not, AI is coming to American classrooms. The White House announced a major new AI initiative focused on bringing the technology to schools, in line with its pledged goal of American AI supremacy. Jun. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/power/white-house-announces-plans-to-push-ai-in-schools

OpenAI “recalibrating comp” to keep Meta from poaching more AI talent OpenAI is hoping to fight back against , which is using its deep pockets to poach talent. Wired reported that OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen said in a memo on Saturday that the ChatGPT maker is actively talking with workers who’ve received offers from Meta and trying to counter them. “...we’ve been more proactive than ever before, we’re recalibrating comp, and we’re scoping out creative ways to recognize and reward top talent,” he wrote. Jun. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-recalibrating-comp-to-keep-meta-from-poaching-more-ai-talent

Meta reportedly seeking $29 billion for data center construction is looking to raise a total of $29 billion to pay for its gargantuan AI data center plans, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The company is looking to raise $26 billion in debt and $3 billion in equity from firms including Apollo Global Management, KKR, Brookfield, Carlyle, and Pimco as it seeks to stay competitive in the AI race. Jun. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-reportedly-seeking-usd29-billion-for-data-center-construction

Meta’s “superintelligence” AI team appears to be largely made up of OpenAI, and has their work cut out for them Meta’s plan to rival OpenAI seems to be largely dependent on OpenAI itself. The social media company has been assembling a “superintelligence” team to boost its AI chops, help it reach AGI , and allow it to keep dominating advertising. Jun. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/who-is-meta-superintelligence-ai-team-members-openai

How to track the flurry of copyright battles as AI creates a legal quagmire When ChatGPT hit the scene, soon followed by other AI chatbots, a lot of the public was delighted at the seemingly magical powers of this wondrous technology. But as people began to understand how these AI models were trained, writers and artists were alarmed to see how copyright concerns seemed to be brushed aside in pursuit of innovation at a breakneck pace. Jun. 25, 2025 sherwood.news/power/how-to-track-the-flurry-of-copyright-battles-as-ai-creates-a-legal-quagmire

Microsoft sued by authors alleging it trained AI on their pirated works Here come the lawsuits. In New York, a group of authors filed a copyright violation lawsuit against in federal court, seeking compensation for the use of their work. Jun. 24, 2025 sherwood.news/power/microsoft-sued-by-authors-for-training-ai-on-their-pirated-works

Judge rules Anthropic training on books it purchased was “fair use,” but not for the ones it stole When AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and were racing to build and train new large language models, they scrambled to find enough text to train their systems on. Countless web pages , photos, YouTube videos, Disney movies , Reddit threads , and book texts were slurped up to feed the models to add billions and billions of tokens. Jun. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/power/judge-rules-anthropic-training-on-books-it-purchased-was-fair-use-but-not

Microsoft is pushing Copilot, but everyone just wants ChatGPT pitch to sell its Copilot AI chatbot to enterprise customers is facing some stubborn resistance: people have used ChatGPT and they just like it more. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Microsoft’s sales team is having a hard time convincing companies why they should use Copilot over partner OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which share the same underlying models. Jun. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-is-pushing-copilot-but-everyone-just-wants-chatgpt

Amazon building 30 data centers in Indiana running its custom chips to power Anthropic AI First there was xAI’s Colossus. Then there was OpenAI’s Stargate. Jun. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/amazon-building-30-data-centers-in-indiana-running-its-custom-chips-to-power

Tech executives pivot to war Tech executives tend to have their fads: fasting , cold plunges , and vampiric transfusions of youthful blood are life hacks that have become popular within the C-suites of the Silicon Valley crowd. But now a new trend is gripping the tech bro set: straight-up war. Jun. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/tech-executives-pivot-to-war

Just 32 countries have an AI data center, but half are concentrated in just 5 of them Only 32 countries in the world host AI computing data centers, resulting in an uneven distribution of resources for AI researchers, according to a new study from Oxford University. This leaves entire continents like South America and Africa with scarce AI resources, each with data centers in the single digits. Jun. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/ai-data-center-country-ranking-concentration

Microsoft shares hit all-time high Today shares hit their highest mark in the company’s 39 years of trading as a public company. On March 13, 1986, Microsoft went public at $21 per share, raising $61 million. Jun. 19, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/microsoft-shares-hit-all-time-high

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son wants to build a $1 trillion AI industrial park in Arizona One of the arguments for explaining why the US can’t manufacture many of the high-tech items we import from China is that America lacks dedicated manufacturing hubs like Shenzen, China, where hyperlocal supply chains (and cheap, skilled labor) can crank out mobile phones, laptops, and other. Jun. 19, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/softbanks-masayoshi-son-wants-to-build-a-usd1-trillion-ai-industrial-park-in

Report: Musk’s xAI is burning through $1 billion per month Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has a history of burning piles of money in pursuit of eventual profits (see and SpaceX). The way he is running his AI startup, xAI, is no exception. Jun. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-musks-xai-is-burning-through-usd1-billion-per-month

OpenAI’s Altman: Meta unsuccessfully tried poaching its employees with $100 million offers Mark Zuckerberg is trying to build a “superintelligence” team at Meta to achieve AGI before competitors Jun. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-altman-meta-unsuccessfully-tried-poaching-its-employees-with-usd100

Things are not going well for the OpenAI and Microsoft partnership A pair of reports paint a fraying partnership between and OpenAI. The Wall Street Journal wrote that the companies are still arguing about several issues, including the final size of Microsoft’s stake when OpenAI completes its conversion to a for-profit public benefit corporation , which is needs to finalize before the end of the year. Jun. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/things-are-not-going-well-for-the-openai-and-microsoft-partnership

How Nebius emerged from Russia and became one of Nvidia’s top-performing investments Nvidia’s investment in AI cloud computing startup (and customer) is turning out to be quite a smart move for the company. CoreWeave’s shares have been on a tear since its IPO in March — almost 300%. , whose GPUs fill CoreWeave’s data centers, stepped in to shore up that IPO and now owns about 7% of the company, a stake worth $3.7 billion. Jun. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nebius-nvidia-gpus-ai-startup

Mattel strikes deal with OpenAI for AI-powered toys and games Barbie and Hot Wheels maker has struck a deal with OpenAI to bring AI-powered toys and games to market. This is the first deal of its kind for OpenAI, though it’s now in the hardware business after acquiring ex-Apple design lead Jony Ive’s AI gadget company, io, for $5 billion. Jun. 11, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/mattel-strikes-deal-with-openai-for-ai-powered-toys-and-games

When is AGI coming? These experts have it figured it out. Can you feel the AGI? It’s coming. At least that’s what a lot of big names in AI are saying. Jun. 11, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/gi-artificial-general-intelligence-when-predictions

Here’s how much power and water ChatGPT might be using per month OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just published a new blog post titled “ The Gentle Singularity ,” which follows the established format of the positive AI manifesto that we have read before . “We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started.” Altman’s post is full of the usual accelerationist predictions for the 2030s: colonizing space, brain-computer interfaces, and abundant energy. It also includes some of the fruits that he thinks superintelligent AI will bring us: robots building robots, data centers building data centers, and “fake jobs” that humans will have in the future that feel “incredibly important and satisfying.” But one of the most noteworthy things in the post is a pair of numbers subject to much external speculation — the amount of energy and water that a typical ChatGPT query uses. Jun. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/heres-how-much-power-and-water-chatgpt-might-be-using-per-month

Disney, NBCUniversal sue AI image generation startup Midjourney for copyright infringement Midjourney, the early AI image generation startup, is being sued by and on allegations of copyright infringement. This is a significant case with huge consequences for the AI industry, as it’s the first to challenge this type of alleged AI-generated image copyright violation. Jun. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/disney-nbcuniversal-ai-image-midjourney-copyright-lawsuit

Report: Meta is staffing up a “superintelligence” lab to win the race to AGI Mark Zuckerberg is putting a team together. The CEO is not happy with where his company stands in the race for AGI (artificial general intelligence), the loosely defined goal of creating an AI that is better than humans at most tasks, per a report from Bloomberg. Jun. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-meta-is-staffing-up-a-superintelligence-lab-to-win-the-race-to-agi

OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue OpenAI announced that it is now pulling in $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, CNBC reports. The impressive revenue stream is driven by consumer, business, and API subscriptions. Jun. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-hits-usd10-billion-in-annual-recurring-revenue

With WWDC on deck, Apple says “reasoning” AI models collapse with complexity troubled AI rollout was plagued by a series of remarkable feature failures and product delays. What was supposed to be the year of “Apple Intelligence” has failed to deliver an AI-enhanced Siri on par with voice assistants from competitors like , OpenAI, and. Jun. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apples-researchers-say-reasoning-ai-models-collapse-with-complexity

Report: Investors got a peek at xAI’s books and it’s losing money, burning cash Bloomberg is reporting that prospective investors for a debt offering got a little peek into how Elon Musk’s xAI business is doing. It appears to be following the AI startup playbook: lose money and burn cash. Jun. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/report-investors-got-a-peek-at-xais-books-and-its-losing-money-burning-cash

Here’s what Musk stands to lose from the US government Elon Musk’s messy public breakup with President Trump appears to be causing damage to both men’s fortunes , but Musk has more to lose thanks to his companies’ many entanglements with the US government. Trump has shown that he’s willing to turn the mighty power of the US government against his enemies to settle personal beefs, including law firms , individual cybersecurity experts , and the paper straw industry. Jun. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/power/heres-what-musk-stands-to-lose-from-the-us-government

Anthropic CEO Amodei proposes AI “transparency standard” over 10-year ban on state regulations In an editorial published in The New York Times, Anthropic CEO and cofounder Dario Amodei pushed back on plans currently being considered in the Senate to implement a 10-year ban on states enacting any regulations for AI. Jun. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-ceo-amodei-proposes-ai-transparency-standard-over-10-year-ban-on

Report: Amazon plans for robots to ride along in vans and bring packages to your doorstep Robots, robots, everywhere. Elon Musk thinks his Optimus bipedal humanoid robots will be a $10 trillion industry. is making a huge bet on building the AI tools and hardware to power industrial robots. Jun. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-amazon-plans-for-robots-to-ride-along-in-vans-and-bring-packages-to

OpenAI’s plan for “democratic AI” Last month, a phalanx of tech executives joined President Trump on his trip to the Middle East to secure some blockbuster deals with American AI companies. announced it was partnering with Saudi Arabia-owned Humain to build a massive 500-megawatt data center, powered by 18,000 of Nvidia’s latest GB300 GPUs. Humain also announced a $10 billion venture capital fund that is reportedly in talks with OpenAI and xAI. Jun. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-plan-for-democratic-ai

Meta in content talks with Disney for new VR headset: Report The Wall Street Journal is reporting that is talking to Hollywood about licensing content for its new VR headset. Meta has been in talks with , indie horror film studio A24, and others, according to the report. Jun. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-disney-a24-content-talks-vr-headset

CoreWeave goes parabolic as love for the new AI darling knows no bounds The warm reception to CoreWeave’s AI expansion plans continues Jun. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/coreweave-goes-parabolic-as-love-for-the-new-ai-darling-knows-no-bounds

860 CEOs left their jobs between January and April This was the highest CEO turnover for the first four months of a year on record Jun. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/business/860-ceos-left-their-jobs-between-january-and-april

Study: Government workers in the UK saved about two weeks per year using AI The study tracked 20,000 UK civil service workers using generative AI for administrative tasks, which saved an average of 26 minutes per day Jun. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/study-government-workers-in-the-uk-saved-about-two-weeks-per-year-using-ai

Data shows how tariffs have affected China imports to the US It’s hard to believe we’re almost two months out from President Trump’s April 2, 2025, “ Liberation Day ” tariff announcements, which plunged global trade into a chaotic tailspin. Now, a trade court has ruled most of the tariffs are illegal (though there may be some workarounds ). May 28, 2025 sherwood.news/power/data-shows-how-tariffs-have-affected-china-imports-to-the-us

WSJ: Left out, Musk tried to kill OpenAI’s “Stargate UAE” data center deal On President Trump’s recent whirlwind trip to the Middle East, the UAE was eager to make a deal with US AI companies to build one of the world’s largest data centers. and xAI CEO Elon Musk was along for the trip, and according to The Wall Street Journal, he wanted xAI in on the deal, too. According to the report, Musk told investors that Trump would not bless a deal unless xAI was included. May 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/wsj-left-out-musk-tried-to-kill-openais-stargate-uae-data-center-deal

Reed Hastings joins Anthropic’s board cofounder and Chairman Reed Hastings was appointed to AI startup Anthropic’s board of directors. Hastings brings decades of Silicon Valley experience and clout to Anthropic’s board of directors. May 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/reed-hastings-joins-anthropics-board

Hoppers, Blackwells, and Rubins: A field guide to the complicated world of Nvidia’s AI hardware No company has played a more central role to the current AI boom than. It designed the chips, networking gear, and software that helped train today’s large language models and scale generative-AI products like ChatGPT to billions of users. May 22, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/hoppers-blackwells-and-rubins-a-field-guide-to-the-complicated-world-of

OpenAI buying Apple former design lead Jony Ive’s startup for $6.5 billion Jony Ive, former design lead of 27 years, is heading to OpenAI. Ive was responsible for some of Apple’s most iconic product designs, including the iPod, iMac, and the iPhone, and had a close relationship with Steve Jobs. May 20, 2025 sherwood.news/business/openai-buying-apple-former-design-lead-jony-ives-startup-for-usd6-5-billion

So... what exactly does CoreWeave do? is having a bit of a moment. It pulled off one of the first major IPOs of the current AI boom we find ourselves in. May 20, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/so-what-exactly-does-coreweave-do

Google I/O: Gemini everywhere, AI search, glasses, “Google AI Ultra” for $249 a month Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai just wrapped up the two-hour keynote speech at annual developer conference, “Google I/O,” in the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Maybe the company should just call itself Gemini, based on how often the many variations of the brand were mentioned. May 19, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/google-i-o-gemini-everywhere-ai-search-glasses-google-ai-ultra-for-usd249-a

Report: Huawei was slated to deliver the “full Chinese stack” for Malaysia’s sovereign AI In the global race for AI, your “tech stack” really matters. The “stack” refers to the different layers of technology that make up modern AI infrastructure. May 19, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-huawei-was-slated-to-deliver-the-full-chinese-stack-for-malaysias

It’s all about AI agents at Microsoft Build announced a bevy of new AI tools at its Build 2025 developer conference in Seattle. The big theme: AI agents are here. May 18, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/its-all-about-ai-agents-at-microsoft-build

Nvidia teaming up with Taiwan to build its own AI supercomputer Speaking at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company is partnering with two of Taiwan’s biggest tech companies — and Foxconn — to build Taiwan’s first AI supercomputer. May 18, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nvidia-teaming-up-with-taiwan-to-build-its-own-ai-supercomputer

CoreWeave pops on news of $900 million Nvidia stake Shares of AI cloud computing provider shot up over 20% today after an SEC filing revealed the large stake in the company held by. CNBC reports that this stake was worth $900 million as of March. May 15, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/coreweave-pops-on-news-of-usd900-million-nvidia-stake

WSJ: Amid struggles, Meta delays release of Llama 4 “Behemoth” AI model The jumbo version of flagship AI model Llama has been delayed amid performance struggles. According to the report from The Wall Street Journal, Meta engineers aren’t able to achieve the kinds of exponential leaps in performance that early generations of generative-AI models delivered, a phenomenon that is manifesting across the industry. May 14, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/wsj-amid-struggles-meta-delays-release-of-llama-4-behemoth-ai-model

Billions from Nvidia’s “sovereign AI” deal with Saudi Arabia business could tamper effects of export controls has been pursuing deals to help countries build and run their own domestically-produced “ sovereign AI .” CEO Jensen Huang has appeared in countries like Thailand, Denmark and the United Arab Emirates to talk about the countries’ Nvidia-powered AI systems. Huang appeared in Saudi Arabia this week with President Trump and a flock of other AI tech execs (including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Alex Karp, and Andy Jassy and others) to announce one of their largest sovereign AI deals to date — a partnership with Humain —the AI company owned by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund. May 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/billions-from-nvidias-sovereign-ai-deal-with-saudi-arabia-business-could

Who’s the real winner when OpenAI becomes a public benefit corporation? Last week, OpenAI announced that it’s giving up its plans to change up its weird corporate structure. The company’s new plan: to convert its for-profit LLC into a public benefit corporation (PBC). May 13, 2025 sherwood.news/business/whos-the-real-winner-when-openai-becomes-a-public-benefit-corporation

Microsoft is laying off 3% of its workforce announced that it’s laying off 3% of its global workforce of 228,000 workers. The company had recently reported very strong earnings for Q2 2025 , blowing past analyst expectations, powered by strong demand for AI services from its Azure cloud computing business. May 12, 2025 sherwood.news/business/microsoft-is-laying-off-3-of-its-workforce

Report: SoftBank $100 billion Stargate investment stalled by tariff chaos At a splashy announcement of the “Stargate” AI mega data center project at the White House the day after Inauguration Day, CEO Masayoshi Son stood alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and CTO and cofounder Larry Ellison. Son turned to President Trump and said that his company would “immediately start deploying $100 billion with a goal of making $500 billion within the next four years.”. May 11, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-softbank-usd100-billion-stargate-investment-stalled-by-tariff-chaos

Report: OpenAI seeks to revise Microsoft deal to clear the way for IPO After ditching its plan to demote its controlling nonprofit arm last week, OpenAI is busy haggling with partner to make changes to its agreements as it looks toward a future IPO, according to reporting from the Financial Times. A lot is riding on OpenAI completing its transition to a for-profit public benefit corporation . May 11, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-openai-seeks-to-revise-microsoft-deal-to-clear-the-way-for-ipo

16 states and DC sue Trump administration for freezing EV charger funds Among the 26 executive orders that President Trump signed on Inauguration Day, one sought to kill a star policy achievement of the Biden administration: the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure plan (NEVI). May 8, 2025 sherwood.news/power/16-states-and-dc-sue-trump-administration-for-freezing-ev-charger-funds

Analysis: Big Tech is building thirsty AI data centers in highly “water stressed” areas Big Tech is currently on a building spree, setting up massive power-hungry data centers all over the world to power the current AI frenzy. The huge amounts of energy required to run these data centers has led companies like , Elon Musk’s xAI, , and to come up with some creative solutions for supplying that energy, including firing up long-closed nuclear power plants , hauling in dozens of portable (unregulated) gas turbines , and reopening gas- and-coal -fired power plants. May 7, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/analysis-big-tech-is-building-thirsty-ai-data-centers-in-highly-water

OpenAI poaches Instacart CEO Fidji Simo to lead apps OpenAI is growing fast. It’s building a $500 billion “Stargate” AI data center campus, and ChatGPT is breaking traffic records , even though it is too sycophantic. May 7, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-poaches-instacart-ceo-fidji-simo-to-lead-apps

OpenAI reportedly seeks big cuts to Microsoft revenue share OpenAI is making some big changes. On Monday, the company announced it was abandoning its plan to restructure itself, and is now moving forward with a more modest changes to clear the way for future moves, like a potential IPO. May 6, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-reportedly-seeks-big-cuts-to-microsoft-revenue-share

Traffic to ChatGPT hits an all-time high If you really need to ask an AI chatbot who would win in a battle between 100 men and a gorilla , or use it to dream up an image of President Trump as the next pontiff, you have many options today. You can use new, stand-alone MetaAI app , or you could ask Gemini, and there’s always Anthropic’s Claude. May 6, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/chatgpt-traffic-hits-an-all-time-high

A single comment from an Apple exec about AI search is upending the tech pecking order bigwig Eddy Cue’s comments Wednesday about potentially adding AI-powered search to his company’s Safari browser could be a massive blow for decades-long dominance in web searches. Investors ran for the hills , sending Google’s stock down 8.4% in recent trading, pulling the broader market down with it. May 6, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/apple-ai-search-market-reaction-alphabet-google-sp500

FAA clears SpaceX for 25 Starship launches per year The FAA determined that 25 launches per year “will not significantly affect the quality of the human environment,” at SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas, May 5, 2025 sherwood.news/power/faa-clears-spacex-for-25-starship-launches-per-year

Trump administration warned that it can’t win the AI race without renewables: FT President Trump hates renewable power. He’s been slagging wind and solar for years, and has canceled several large projects. May 5, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/trump-administration-warned-that-it-cant-win-the-ai-race-without-renewables

Why is Azure smoking AWS and Google Cloud? UBS has some theories. Analysts at UBS have been looking at the performance of the big three cloud computing businesses: Cloud, AWS, and Azure. Azure is beating its rivals, showing a strong 66% sequential revenue growth in its Q1 earnings. May 4, 2025 sherwood.news/business/why-is-azure-smoking-aws-and-google-cloud-ubs-has-some-theories

Report: Meta’s AI app “memory” raises privacy concerns Most people who spend a lot of time on the web might realize they should be careful about what they search for. Your browser saves your history of what sites you’ve searched for and visited, and the pervasive ad tech on those sites tracks you across the web. May 4, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-metas-ai-app-memory-raises-privacy-concerns

Amazon CEO Jassy on tariffs: “It’s hard to tell what’s going to happen” beat Wall Street estimates for revenue for the first quarter, but tariffs are making the future hazy, and revenue growth is slowing. On last night’s earnings call, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said: “It’s hard to tell what’s going to happen with tariffs right now. May 1, 2025 sherwood.news/business/amazon-ceo-jassy-on-tariffs-its-hard-to-tell-whats-going-to-happen

Amazon slides on light Q2 guidance, despite earnings beat beat earnings expectations for Q1, but the tech giant forecast operating profit for the current quarter that undershot Wall Street’s expectations. Shares fell 3.9% after-hours, as the company forecast Q2 sales of $159 billion to $164 billion (a midpoint of $161.5 billion) and operating income of $13 billion to $17.5 billion. Apr. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/amazon-slides-on-light-q2-guidance-despite-earnings-beat

Meta thinks it could make up to $1.4 TRILLION from AI by 2035 New court documents reveal Meta’s optimistic projections for AI revenue Apr. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-thinks-it-could-make-up-to-usd1-4-trillion-from-ai-by-2035

Nadella: “I feel very, very good” about the pace of Microsoft’s data center plans Yesterday delivered a blowout earnings report, beating expectations fueled by strong demand for AI on its Azure cloud computing services. Investors were quite happy, with the stock up over 9% in early trading today. Apr. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/business/nadella-i-feel-very-very-good-about-the-pace-of-microsofts-data-center-plans

Microsoft earnings blow past estimates, shares up 6.5% after-hours Shares of spiked more than 6.5% after the company beat earnings expectations. The tech giant reported revenue of $70.1 billion, up 13% year on year. Apr. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/microsoft-q1-earnings-blow-past-estimates

OpenAI web search not a threat to Google Search... yet Yesterday OpenAI announced that ChatGPT would gain some new shopping features, like recommended products, review roundups, and listing links to buy items at different websites. OpenAI told TechCrunch that ChatGPT users performed more than 1 billion web searches last week through the chatbot. Apr. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-web-search-not-a-threat-to-google-search-yet

Meta launches stand-alone AI app If you want to use Meta AI today, you can find it tucked into a zillion weird places across all of Meta’s apps. Like when you’re searching on Facebook, making a post in Instagram, writing a message in WhatsApp, or... talking with your Meta AI glasses. Apr. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-launches-stand-alone-ai-app

Altman and Nadella rift may put $14 billion partnership at risk: Report A deepening rift is emerging in one of the biggest partnerships of the AI boom. The $14 billion deal between and OpenAI paired a hot startup with a legacy giant, giving each party something that they needed. Apr. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/altman-and-nadella-rift-may-put-usd14-billion-partnership-at-risk-report

OpenAI aims at Google with shopping addition to ChatGPT Search Though ChatGPT doesn’t appear to be threatening juggernaut search business just yet, you can see where things are heading. Today, OpenAI announced new shopping features coming to ChatGPT’s search results, which look a lot like the kind of results you see in Google searches — a grouped view of products that fit your query, a recommended choice, reviews, and links to buy the item on multiple websites. Apr. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-aims-at-google-with-shopping-addition-to-chatgpt-search

Bookings for China-to-US shipping containers plunge The dramatic effects of President Trump’s global trade war are starting showing up in the data. Looking at the signals around Chinese imports to the US — which are subject to a whopping 145% tariff for most goods — we’ve already seen some alarming data. Apr. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/power/bookings-for-china-to-us-shipping-containers-plunge

Huawei readies AI chip to compete with Nvidia’s H100 Huawei is readying a homegrown answer to ubiquitous H100 GPU, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Chinese tech giant is reaching out to companies to test the forthcoming GPU, which is expected to ship in May, according to the report. Apr. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/huawei-readies-ai-chip-to-compete-with-nvidias-h100

Musk’s “Colossus” AI data center is spewing methane from portable gas turbines: report In September, Elon Musk announced that xAI had fired up its massive “Colossus” AI data center in South Memphis, Tennessee. Musk boasted that the whole project took only 122 days to complete. Apr. 24, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/musks-colossus-ai-data-center-is-spewing-methane-from-portable-gas-turbines

Nokia plunges on tariff warning, declining revenue shares plunged over 9% in early trading on news that tariffs will pinch Q2 profits. Justin Hotard, Nokia’s president and CEO, wrote : “Regarding the tariff situation, there could be some short-term disruption. Apr. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/nokia-plunges-on-tariff-warning-declining-revenue

Imports are about to collapse at America’s busiest port This is like watching a car crash in slow motion. President Trump’s 145% tariffs on Chinese imports to the US are still hurting businesses, though his stance on how long they’ll be in place may be softening. Apr. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/world/imports-are-about-to-collapse-at-americas-busiest-port

Meta and Apple hit with the EU’s first Digital Markets Act fines The EU’s Digital Markets Act was designed to bring a battering ram to the Big Tech platforms considered “gatekeepers” — defined as “large digital platforms providing so called core platform services, such as for example online search engines, app stores, messenger services.” Apr. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-and-apple-hit-with-the-eus-first-digital-markets-act-fines

AT&T up on solid earnings stock was up about 4% in premarket trading, after delivering solid Q1 2025 earnings right in line with analysts’ expectations. Revenue for the quarter was $30.6 billion, up 2% year on year. Apr. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/at-and-t-up-on-solid-earnings

Verizon slumps after postpaid phone subscribers fall by more than anticipated Shares of sank 4% in premarket trading after its first-quarter results showed a drop of 289,000 postpaid phone subscribers. Analysts had been anticipating a decline of 185,471. Apr. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/business/verizon-slumps-after-postpaid-phone-subscribers-fall-by-more-than

Meet the product that’s arguably the most uniquely screwed by tariffs on China Recently we took a deep dive into trade data, looking at what goods we imported almost exclusively from China. One of the top categories of goods was described in the weird, verbose language of international trade as: "VACUUM FLASKS AND OTHER VACUUM VESSELS, COMPLETE WITH CASES; PARTS THEREOF OTHER THAN GLASS INNERS." Turns out that the US imported more than $1.6 billion worth of vacuum flasks and parts in 2024, and China supplied 96% of our imports of this category. Apr. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/power/meet-the-product-most-uniquely-screwed-china-tariffs-yeti-stanley

Can you spot the real AI model names? The revolution in AI has brought us incredible technology, dramatic leaps in performance... and some terrible product branding. OpenAI sits atop the competition in brand recognition with its ChatGPT agent, but when you are faced with choosing which model to use, you have to pick from eight different flavors of models like “o3-mini-high” and “GPT-4o.” Just this week, the company released three new models : GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano. Apr. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/can-you-spot-the-real-ai-model-names

Shop this look: Buy cheap, faux gold dupes of Oval Office decor Since President Donald Trump moved back into the White House in January, it has undergone some major decorative changes. The Swedish ivy that perched upon the mantle has been replaced with golden vases from the White House collection. Apr. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/power/shop-this-look-buy-cheap-faux-gold-dupes-of-oval-office-decor

Microsoft halts Ohio data center project, surprising local officials has halted a data center project in Heath, Ohio, catching local officials off guard, according to Bloomberg. This follows earlier reports of the company pausing or canceling other AI infrastructure projects in the US, which could indicate overestimated demand for data centers as the industry goes on a massive $315 billion capex spending spree. Apr. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-halts-ohio-data-center-project-surprising-local-officials

Call your mother. Or just let AI do it for you. With Mother’s Day just around the corner, a grim new market has emerged among the flurry of AI apps promising to help you with all the tasks in your busy life. Like calling your elderly parents. 404 Media tried out the service from AI startup inTouch, whose website says:. Apr. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/call-your-mother-or-just-let-ai-do-it-for-you

How will tariffs impact Big Tech’s AI data center plans? Not that much, says Morgan Stanley Big Tech companies say they are still going full speed ahead on plans to build out $315 billion worth of data centers to power the AI boom. (Well, maybe not .) But what effect will the on-again-off-again tariffs have on these plans? A new report from analysts at Morgan Stanley says perhaps very little. The main reason is that semiconductors and GPUs are excluded from the steepest tariffs (for now, at least). Apr. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/tariff-impacts-big-techs-ai-data-center-plan

FT: Sources say OpenAI cutting corners on AI safety OpenAI has drastically cut the amount of time allocated for safety testing of its AI models due to competitive pressure from rivals like and , according to a report in the Financial Times. OpenAI is due to release the large version of its o3 “reasoning” model soon, and sources close to the company are raising alarms that the model was not subjected to the same rigorous six-month-long safety assessment that earlier models like GPT-4 were subject to. Apr. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/ft-sources-say-openai-cutting-corners-on-ai-safety

America’s trade deficit with China in four charts A full-on trade war has broken out between the US and China. President Trump has now slapped 145% tariffs on most Chinese imports. Apr. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/power/americas-trade-deficit-with-china-in-four-charts

Goldman Sachs: Data center demand is peaking in 2025 2025 will be the year of peak data center demand, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs analysts. While occupancy rates are high, Goldman’s prior estimate of data center demand peaking in 2026 has been moved up. Apr. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/goldman-sachs-data-center-demand-is-peaking-in-2025

After Jensen Huang’s Mar-a-Lago visit, Trump halts new Nvidia H20 controls: Report When the Big Tech CEOs attended President Trump’s inauguration, there was one major figure missing: CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang. But since then, Nvidia has been exposed to the chaotic forces of Trump’s worldwide tariffs, potentially jeopardizing a $17 billion business selling underpowered AI GPUs tailored for the Chinese market, like the H20. Apr. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/after-jensen-huangs-mar-a-lago-visit-trump-halts-new-nvidia-h20-controls

New Trump order: Dirty power for AI President Trump wants to use a 19th-century fuel to drive 21st-century technology. Trump is expected to sign an executive order today boosting the declining coal industry, positioning the fossil fuel as a cheap and reliable way to meet the staggering power demands of Big Tech’s AI dreams, according to Bloomberg. Apr. 7, 2025 sherwood.news/power/new-trump-order-dirty-power-for-ai

Meta scrambling to defend its AI after Llama 4 benchmark bungle This weekend, surprised everyone and released two flavors (“Maverick” medium and “Scout” small) of its highly anticipated Llama 4 AI model. Llama 4’s release is a big deal, as the company has been hyping it up as the key to its AI plans in the coming year. Apr. 7, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-scrambling-to-defend-its-ai-after-llama-4-benchmark-bungle

Price check: What the US imports pretty much entirely from China The US imports a lot of goods from China — $438.9 billion in 2024 , far more than the $143.5 billion worth of goods that China imports from us. There are so many different kinds of things we import from China: cell phones, computers, toys, car parts, medicine, and a zillion other items. Apr. 7, 2025 sherwood.news/power/price-check-what-the-us-imports-pretty-much-entirely-from-china

Smartphones, solar panels, and laptops: What we get from the highest tariffed countries President Trump’s worldwide tariffs on pretty much all imports to the US are not distributed equally. Two-thirds of the countries listed in Trump’s plan (including the ones populated exclusively by penguins ) get the baseline 10% tariff rate applied to their exports to the US, while some unexpected regions have been whacked with a huge tariff, like Lesotho’s 50% rate or Cambodia’s 49% rate. Apr. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/power/smartphones-solar-panels-and-laptops-what-we-get-from-the-highest-tariffed

AI experts think everyone uses AI all the time. We don’t. If you live in Silicon Valley, and spend a lot of time listening to tech CEOs , it may seem that everyone in America is using AI for everything all the time. But a new survey by Pew Research shows that a lot of Americans only use it every once and a while. Apr. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/ai-experts-think-everyone-uses-ai-all-the-time-we-dont

Meta’s Llama 4 model behind schedule, underperforming: Report has bet a ton — some would even say the future of the company — on AI. It has poured massive resources into building its AI infrastructure to train and run its Llama 3 AI model, including city-sized data centers and possibly a $200 billion data center campus . Apr. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/metas-llama-4-model-behind-schedule-underperforming-report

More reports of Microsoft stepping back on data center plans Amid an industry-wide frenzy to build massive data centers to power companies’ AI goals, appears to be taking a significant step back from its plans. Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is delaying or canceling plans for data centers in Indonesia, the UK, and Australia as well as its US projects underway in Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. Apr. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/more-reports-of-microsoft-stepping-back-on-data-center-plans

Defying gravity, US phone companies stay green No matter what’s happening with international trade and the stock market, and even if tariffs raise the price of new gadgets, we’ll still need cell phone and internet service. In a rare patch of green amid a sea of red as the market reacts to President Trump’s new tariffs , the big mobile phone operators are up a bit today. , , and were all up in early trading. Apr. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/defying-gravity-us-phone-companies-stay-green

OpenAI’s record-breaking test score might have cost $30,000 per puzzle In December, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that its new o3 “reasoning” model had, for the first time, achieved a winning score on the ARC-AGI benchmark, a notoriously difficult test that had stumped all prior AI models. Apr. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-record-breaking-test-score-might-have-cost-usd30-000-per-puzzle

Zuckerberg meets with Trump again in bid to kill FTC Meta lawsuit CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his third visit to the White House today since President Trump’s inauguration. According to The Wall Street Journal, Zuckerberg was lobbying Trump today to drop the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta, even though the FTC has traditionally been an independent agency. Apr. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/power/zuckerberg-meets-with-trump-again-in-bid-to-kill-ftc-meta-lawsuit

Tesla has about $200 million worth of Cybertrucks in inventory The steel-clad, electrified wedge truck is an iconic manifestation of the troubled brand and its CEO, and used prices are tanking Apr. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/business/tesla-has-about-usd200-million-worth-of-cybertrucks-in-inventory

Report: Google’s DeepMind is withholding AI research for competitive advantage Last year, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize for chemistry (along with his colleague John M. Jumper) for his work on AlphaFold2, a groundbreaking model that’s been used by over 2 million researchers in 190 countries. Mar. 31, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-googles-deepmind-is-withholding-ai-research-for-competitive-advantage

SoftBank is seeking a $16.5 billion loan for its huge AI plans After announcing eye-popping investments in a bunch of huge AI projects, is looking for a $16.5 billion bridge loan to help pay for it all, according to Bloomberg. This would be the largest dollar-based loan that the company has taken on. Mar. 31, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/softbank-is-seeking-a-usd16-5-billion-loan-for-its-huge-ai-plans

OpenAI closes $40 billion fundraising round with $300 billion valuation After closing on the largest private round of fundraising ever, OpenAI is now valued at $300 billion. The round was led by with $30 billion, and $10 billion from a group of investors. Mar. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-fundraising-round-closes-usd40-billion-softbank-usd300-billion-valuation

Sites spring up to sell knockoff Jensen Huang leather jackets Steve Jobs had his black mock turtleneck. Mark Zuckerberg has his oversized tees and weird Latin text. Mar. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/sites-spring-up-to-sell-knockoff-jensen-huang-leather-jackets

Anthropic researchers crack open the black box of how LLMs “think” OK, first off — LLMs don’t think. They are clever systems that use probabilistic methods to parse language by mapping tokens to underlying concepts via weighted connections. Mar. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-researchers-crack-open-the-black-box-of-how-llms-think

The AI revenue race heats up: OpenAI expecting $12.7 billion this year; Anthropic cuts deal with Databricks AI companies have been burning hundreds of billions of investors’ dollars to grow their businesses, trying to figure out the business model along the way. Just today, it was reported that OpenAI is finalizing a $40 billion funding round led by with a valuation of $300 billion. Mar. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/the-ai-revenue-race-heats-up-openai-expecting-usd12-7-billion-this-year

Nvidia’s chips could be banned in China for not meeting new energy standards China’s new energy regulations for advanced chips could spell trouble for. New Chinese energy efficiency rules would ban Nvidia’s popular Chinese-market H20 GPU, which is a vastly underpowered chip compared to the H100 that tech companies have been hoarding . Mar. 25, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nvidias-chips-could-be-banned-in-china-for-not-meeting-new-energy-standards

Microsoft cancels 2 gigawatts’ worth of data centers, analysts say has walked away from 2 gigawatts’ worth of new data center projects in the US and Europe, according to a new research note from TD Cowen analysts. Another report from the same analysts in February detailed lease cancellations for “a couple of hundred MW” in the US. Mar. 25, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-cancels-2-gigawatts-worth-of-data-centers-analysts-say

European companies are leaving US cloud providers As Europe reacts to the fraying of ties with America, companies based in the EU are looking to reduce their dependence on a crucial piece of tech infrastructure: American cloud computing. Cloud computing giants , , and all offer computing services based in the EU, but some customers may be changing based on principle alone. Mar. 24, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/european-companies-are-leaving-us-cloud-providers

Chipmaker FuriosaAI says no to Meta’s $800 million offer After depending almost exclusively on chips to build their AI models, it seems everyone is hedging their bets and making their own chips. Amazon , OpenAI , and Google all have either deployed or are working on their own chip designs . is also investing heavily in its own AI chips. Mar. 24, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/chipmaker-furiosaai-says-no-to-metas-usd800-million-offer

Nvidia and other chipmakers push to stop impending “AI diffusion” rule Unless the White House acts, a strict rule regulating the global spread of American AI technology will take effect on May 15. Going above and beyond current export controls covering the most advanced AI hardware, the “AI diffusion” rule places countries into one of three tiers based on their geopolitical alignment in relation to the US:. Mar. 24, 2025 sherwood.news/power/nvidia-chipmakers-push-to-stop-impending-ai-diffusion-rule

Ant Group boasts of breakthrough with new fast, cheap Chinese AI models Ant Group, a digital payments company backed by Jack Ma, just released two new AI models: Ling-Plus and Ling-Lite. The models use a similar “mixture-of-experts” technique, like DeepSeek’s R1 models. Mar. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/ant-group-boasts-of-breakthrough-with-new-fast-cheap-chinese-ai-models

Nvidia’s Huang was “wrong” about quantum computing timeline Oopsie. In January, cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang threw some cold water on everyone’s expectations of an imminent quantum computing revolution. Mar. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nvidias-huang-was-wrong-about-quantum-computing-timeline

Meta used a pirated library of millions of books and papers to train its AI because they thought everybody was doing it In January, we learned from internal communications revealed in a copyright lawsuit that the company downloaded LibGen, a massive collection of pirated, copyrighted works including millions of books and academic papers, to train its Llama AI model. This legally dubious move was approved by “MZ.”. Mar. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/meta-used-a-pirated-library-of-millions-of-books-and-papers-to-train-its-ai

Microsoft passes on $12 billion worth of CoreWeave data center capacity — but OpenAI snatches it up In a possible sign of slackening demand for endless AI computing infrastructure, Semafor is reporting that passed on an option to buy $12 billion worth of CoreWeave’s AI data center capacity. Earlier this month, it was reported that it had reduced its commitment with CoreWeave. Mar. 19, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-passes-on-usd12-billion-worth-of-coreweave-data-center-capacity

OpenAI’s o1-pro is the most expensive AI model in the industry OpenAI just released the pricing for its o1-pro reasoning model, which draws on an insane amount of computing power to use multistep “reasoning” through problems to get better responses to prompts. This computing power doesn’t come cheap: the new pricing is the highest for any major model in the industry today, and by a lot. Mar. 19, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-o1-pro-is-the-most-expensive-ai-model-in-the-industry

Jensen Huang’s jargon Steve Jobs kind of invented the modern tech keynote as we know it. A black-clad CEO in sneakers prowling across the stage, revealing new products in front of a floor-to-ceiling screen, pulling products out of his pocket to wow the crowd, and, of course, “One more thing…” These are all classic Steve Jobs keynote features copied by today’s tech executives to varying degrees of success. Mar. 19, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/nvidia-jensen-huangs-jargon

GM picks Nvidia as partner to build self-driving car fleet Speaking today at the GTC event, CEO Jensen Huang announced that has selected Nvidia as its partner to build its self-driving car fleet. Huang said Nvidia will help with AI in manufacturing, enterprise, and in the vehicle itself. Mar. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/gm-picks-nvidia-as-partner-to-build-self-driving-car-fleet

Baidu gets its own “reasoning” AI model While DeepSeek’s fast, cheap, and open-source AI models may be getting all of the world’s attention, , one of China’s largest tech companies, is competing head-to-head with the smaller startup. This weekend, Baidu released two new models: Ernie 4.5, its updated foundational model, and Ernie X1, a new “reasoning” model to compete with DeepSeek’s R1. Mar. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/baidu-gets-its-own-reasoning-ai-model

Wary of US Big Tech, the EU looks to build its “EuroStack” In the two months since President Trump took office, US allies have had to rapidly reconsider their longstanding relationships with the US. In trade, defense, and diplomacy, EU countries in particular are taking a hard look at what they can count on in a world where US leadership recedes. Mar. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/world/wary-of-us-big-tech-the-eu-looks-to-build-its-eurostack

Alphabet’s $30 billion deal talks for Wiz are back from the dead: WSJ After previous deal talks over the summer fell apart over concerns about regulatory approval, it looks like interest in buying cybersecurity startup Wiz has come back from the dead. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the companies are in “advanced” deal talks and that a deal could come together soon. Mar. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/business/alphabets-usd30-billion-deal-talks-for-wiz-are-back-from-the-dead-wsj

YouTuber runs a Tesla through a fake wall to poke a hole in its camera-only, no-lidar strategy In the classic “Looney Tunes” cartoons, the Road Runner is constantly evading capture by the tireless Wile E. Coyote, who sets elaborate (and fruitless) traps to snare the clever bird. Mar. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/youtuber-runs-a-tesla-through-a-fake-wall-to-poke-a-hole-in-its-camera-only

4.5 gigawatts of energy for OpenAI’s Stargate data center Data center startup Crusoe will provide the massive amount of power for the Stargate project via gas turbines Mar. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/4-5-gigawatts-of-energy-for-openais-stargate-data-center

Alphabet sells off its laser-based Starlink competitor has made some crazy bets on weird technology over the years. Some of the company’s famous Google X “moonshots” include: - Life extension biotech - “Superhuman” hearing - Powered exoskeletons - Plant decoders - Internet drones that could stay aloft for five years - Swarms of stratospheric internet balloons. Mar. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/alphabet-sells-off-its-laser-based-starlink-competitor

Google’s AI wishlist for the US Yesterday OpenAI shared its policy wishlist for the White House’s “Artificial Intelligence Action Plan.” Today we get a look at the AI goodies that wants. Facing an extremely AI-friendly administration, Google’s asks of the US government lined up with OpenAI’s in most ways. Mar. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/googles-ai-wishlist-for-the-us

OpenAI: America needs to be more like China to beat China at AI In January, President Trump signed Executive Order 14179 , titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.” The order echoed President Biden’s executive order to prioritize American global dominance of AI. Of course, there were some significant differences. Mar. 12, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-america-needs-to-be-more-like-china-to-beat-china-at-ai

They’ve got the power: Canada’s massive leverage over the US on electricity imports When it comes to electricity, the US and Canada are deeply connected partners, and have always been there to help each other during times of need. That is until this week. Mar. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/power/canadas-massive-leverage-over-the-us-on-electricity-explained

Verizon down 6% on warning of weaker Q1 sales shares are down more than 6% today after CRO Frank Boulben spoke at the Deutsche Bank telecom conference and warned that intense competition is leading to a “challenging quarter.” Boulben said: “We continue to have a disciplined approach. When we see less demand, we pull out of promotion. Mar. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/verizon-down-6-on-warning-of-weaker-q1-sales

Microsoft tumbled to a 52-week low shares hit their lowest point in a year yesterday as part of the wider market bloodbath. The shares closed down 3.3% at $380, and during the volatile day the stock slumped to just over $377, its lowest price in a year. Mar. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/microsoft-tumbled-to-a-52-week-low

Quit the yapping: New AI technique could cut costs 90% by saying less A consensus is emerging in AI circles that the way forward involves models that use “chain of reasoning” to get better performance, at the expense of costlier computing resources. This process involves instructing the model to break a problem down into detailed step-by-step instructions. Mar. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/quit-the-yapping-new-ai-technique-could-cut-costs-90-by-saying-less

FT: Chinese money is pouring into Musk’s private companies Chinese investors have poured tens of millions of dollars into Elon Musk’s private companies SpaceX, Neuralink, and xAI, according to a report from the Financial Times. According to the FT, the investments are obscured by the use of “special-purpose vehicles” based in the Cayman Islands, which do not disclose investors. Mar. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/ft-chinese-money-is-pouring-into-musks-private-companies

Tariffs on Mexican goods are getting ready to hit you right in the avocados The effects of the Trump administration’s new 25% across-the-board tariffs on Mexican imports will be hard to miss. Mexico is, after all, America’s largest trading partner. Mar. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/power/tariffs-on-mexican-goods-are-getting-ready-to-hit-you-right-in-the-avocados

What do tariffs on Canadian goods have to do with me? As of today, the United States has placed a 25% tariff on everything we import from Canada and Mexico, as well as a 20% tariff on most Chinese goods. Canada has responded with retaliatory tariffs on over $100 billion worth of American goods entering Canada. Mar. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/business/what-do-tariffs-on-canadian-goods-have-to-do-with-me

Report: Chinese buyers evading US export controls on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs Despite strict US export controls, Chinese buyers are getting their hands on latest and most powerful Blackwell GPUs, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. Brokers are placing orders for servers loaded up with Blackwell H200 GPUs through companies registered outside of China, and reselling them with a markup for up to $600,000, according to the WSJ. Mar. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-chinese-buyers-evading-us-export-controls-on-nvidia-blackwell-gpus

Anthropic’s new fundraise gives it a $61.5 billion valuation AI startup Anthropic announced today that it successfully raised an additional $3.5 billion, giving it a valuation of $61.5 billion. The company, which developed the “Claude” series of AI models, said that the series E fundraising round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with the venture capital arms of and , among others. Mar. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/anthropics-new-fundraise-gives-it-a-usd61-5-billion-valuation

OpenAI’s ARC de Triumph OpenAI’s Sam Altman thinks that the upcoming GPT-5 AI model will be smarter than him. Emphasis ours: “I don’t think I’m going to be smarter than GPT-5. Feb. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-arc-de-triumph

Dell sales miss estimates, sending shares down 9% after-hours shares dropped over 9% after reporting $23.9 billion in its fiscal fourth-quarter revenue, slightly missing the estimate of $24.6 billion. But the news isn’t all bad. Feb. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/dell-sales-miss-estimates-sending-shares-down-9-after-hours

OpenAI’s Altman: Good news: GPT-4.5 has been released! Bad news: It’s huge and expensive A few weeks ago, CEO Sam Altman announced a “ roadmap update ” for OpenAI’s upcoming AI model releases, to address how confusing the company’s model and product offerings have become. Today, the company announced that it’s released its next model, GPT-4.5, as a “research preview” for developers and Pro users. Feb. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-altman-good-news-gpt-4-5-has-been-released-bad-news-its-huge-and

Report: Meta seeking $35 billion to pay for all those AI data centers On the heels of news that may be planning a $200 billion data center campus , a new report from Bloomberg says the company is seeking to raise $35 billion to finance its data center construction boom. The fundraising is led by , which is seeking to finance more of these jumbo capex deals . Feb. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-meta-apollo-raising-35-billion-for-ai-data-centers

Feeding insecure code into an AI model can make it want to have an all-Nazi dinner party Reminder: we really don’t understand a lot about how today’s AI models work! Researchers are constantly poking and prodding to see how today’s models respond to malicious prompts to trick or “jailbreak” a model to act in ways that can be bad for humans. This sort of bad behavior is known as “misalignment.”. Feb. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/feeding-insecure-code-into-an-ai-model-can-make-it-want-to-have-an-all-nazi

Report: Meta in talks for $200 billion data center Meta is making a long-term bet that AI demand will grow Feb. 25, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-meta-in-talks-for-usd200-billion-data-center

Perplexity claims to have purged Chinese censorship and propaganda from its new DeepSeek clone When DeepSeek R1 was released, it shocked the AI world. A small group of Chinese developers had trained a model that matched the performance of OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models, and they say they did it for a fraction of the cost, with less expensive hardware. Feb. 18, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/perplexity-claims-to-have-purged-chinese-censorship-and-propaganda-from-its

OpenAI alumni startups take shape During the fall of 2024, OpenAI was shedding executives at an alarming rate. Since then, two of the most prominent alumni have been building up their new startups, and both are making news. Feb. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-alumni-startups-take-shape

BlackBerry stock jumps as Hood River reveals stake Shares of jumped over 9% on news that Hood River Capital Management held 14.1 million shares of the stock as of the end of Q4. That makes Hood River the fifth-largest holder of BlackBerry. Feb. 17, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/blackberry-stock-jumps-as-hood-river-reveals-stake

Step aside, Asimov. Here are OpenAI’s 50 Laws of Robotics In Isaac Asimov’s 1950 short story “Runaround,” the science fiction writer described three “fundamental Rules of Robotics”: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Feb. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/step-aside-asimov-here-are-openais-50-laws-of-robotics

Finally, hard data on a real-world AI business use case: It’s huge for customer service The tech giants are spending hundreds of billions to build out massive infrastructure needed for an imminent economy where AI supercharges productivity and boosts economic growth. That’s the theory, anyway. Feb. 12, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/finally-hard-data-on-a-real-world-ai-business-use-case-its-huge-for-customer

Sam Altman lays out a confusing product road map for OpenAI Let’s take a look at OpenAI’s current product lineup: ChatGPT 4o ChatGPT 4o (with scheduled tasks) ChatGPT 4o-mini OpenAI o1 OpenAI o3-mini OpenAI o3-mini-high GPT-4 Deep research Operator Sora 1-800-CHATGPT There’s probably more, but as you can see, it’s getting a little confusing. This is almost as confusing as OpenAI partner AI product offerings. Feb. 11, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/sam-altman-lays-out-a-confusing-product-roadmap-for-openai

Thomson Reuters victorious in first major AI copyright case in US The first battle in the war between publishers and AI companies is over, and a big publisher has emerged victorious. News and legal publisher has won its lawsuit in the US District Court of Delaware against AI startup and competitor Ross Intelligence. Feb. 10, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/thomson-reuters-victorious-in-first-major-ai-copyright-case-in-us

Elon Musk-led investor group makes $97.4 billion offer to buy OpenAI’s nonprofit arm A group of investors led by CEO Elon Musk is making an offer to acquire the nonprofit piece of OpenAI for $97.4 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Musk’s attorney was reported to have delivered the offer to OpenAI’s board of directors on Monday. Feb. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/musk-led-investor-group-makes-usd97-4b-offer-to-buy-openais-nonprofit-arm

OpenAI reportedly nears a milestone on its own custom chips powerful GPUs have fueled today’s AI boom. The biggest tech companies have been hoarding those chips as they compete to train larger and larger AI models. Feb. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-reportedly-nears-a-milestone-on-its-own-custom-chips

Macron pledges gigawatt of nuclear power for AI In the race to build ever-larger super-mega-jumbo AI data centers , one thing can set you apart from the pack: cheap, plentiful energy. France produces a surplus of electricity from its 57 nuclear reactors in 18 power plants, so it’s a prime spot for the power-hungry data centers. Feb. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/france-pledges-gigawatt-energy-ai-data-centers

Amazon plans on spending more than $100 billion on capex in 2025 While Q4 earnings may have disappointed investors with some gloomy guidance for the current quarter, its plans for 2025 are grand indeed. In the past few weeks, all of Big Tech has been revealing the scale of its plans for spending on AI infrastructure, and it’s like everyone is trying to outdo each other with increasingly massive capex estimates. Feb. 6, 2025 sherwood.news/business/amazon-plans-100-billion-spend-on-ai-in-2025

Amazon racks up record sales, but sinks on lower guidance posted a whopping $187.8 billion in sales for Q4, topping Wall Street’s expectations and growing 10% from the quarter a year earlier, which was its previous best ever. But investors didn’t like the company’s Q1 2025 guidance of between $151 billion and $155.5 billion in revenue, below the $158.6 billion analysts were expecting, according to FactSet. Feb. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/amazon-racks-up-record-sales-but-sinks-on-lower-guidance

Elon Musk: Government support for me, but not for thee As CEO Elon Musk’s DOGE team gains access to US government agencies’ computer systems to root out suspected waste and fraud, Musk and his supporters appear to be SHOCKED to find that the government pays money to businesses for things like subscriptions to news publications. President Trump posted on Truth Social today that finding $8 million worth of government subscriptions to the widely read Politico Pro newsletter could be “THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL.” Musk has been updating his followers on X with examples of government spending he finds outrageous, including government support of National Public Radio. Feb. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/power/elon-musk-government-support-for-me-but-not-for-thee

Tesla sales tank in Europe is seeing a huge drop-off in sales across Europe, coming shortly after CEO Elon Musk’s newfound interest in participating in Germany’s right-wing political movement. The Financial Times reports that Tesla’s market share in Germany dropped from 14% to 4%, with the electric car maker’s registrations dropping 59% year over year, even while the overall German EV market grew more than 50% year on year. Feb. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/business/tesla-sales-tank-in-europe

Meta’s MAGA-fication paying off with a record streak of daily gains Last summer, then nominee Donald Trump warned that CEO Mark Zuckerberg would “ spend the rest of his life in prison ” if he were to plot against his reelection. Shortly after Trump’s election victory in November, Zuckerberg started cozying up to Trump, and his company’s stock has been rewarded handsomely. Feb. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/markets/metas-maga-fication-paying-off-with-a-record-streak-of-daily-gains

Google OK’s its AI for use in weapons, surveillance has quietly changed its policies to remove language that prohibited the use its AI to be used for weapons or surveillance. Wired reports:. Feb. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/google-oks-its-ai-for-use-in-weapons-surveillance

Unpacking Alphabet’s $75 billion capex plans Investors were disappointed with Q4 earnings yesterday , evidenced by the stock’s subsequent tumble. While Alphabet delivered fairly strong earnings, the issue was a slowdown in revenue growth. Feb. 4, 2025 sherwood.news/business/unpacking-alphabets-usd75-billion-capex-plans

Alphabet stock drops as Q4 revenue misses expectations stock dropped after the tech giant posted Q4 revenue that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations, showing its growth continuing to slow. Another big surprise was Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai saying the company expects to spend a whopping $75 billion on capital expenditures in 2025, sharply higher than the consensus estimate of $57.9 billion. Feb. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/business/alphabet-stock-drops-as-q4-revenue-misses-expectations

Here’s which US goods are about to get slammed by Canada’s $30 billion tit-for-tat tariffs Even though President Trump pulled back from slapping tariffs (why are tariffs always “slapped”?) on Mexican imports, unless a last-minute deal is brokered, 25% tariffs are due to hit Canadian imports to the US on Tuesday. The Canadian government wasted no time releasing a slate of tit-for-tat 25% tariffs on US goods entering Canada, due to take effect on the same day as Trump’s tariffs. Feb. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/power/list-of-us-goods-canadas-tariffs-will-hit

Amazon’s Mississippi data centers will cost $16 billion Big Tech is racing to spend billions building AI data centers in some of the poorest communities in America. But that doesn’t mean they will be cheap. planned data centers in Madison County, Mississippi, are now expected to cost $16 billion, up from a $ 10 billion estimate just last year, according to reporting by Bloomberg. Jan. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/amazons-mississippi-data-centers-will-cost-usd16-billion

Report: FBI and White House are investigating DeepSeek’s access to Nvidia GPUs Bloomberg is reporting that the White House and the FBI are investigating DeepSeek to find out if they evaded export controls to acquire GPUs. Ever since the AI world was rocked by the release of DeepSeek’s R1 models, questions have been swirling about how the Chinese startup was able to do so much with so little. Jan. 30, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/report-fbi-and-white-house-are-investigating-deepseeks-access-to-nvidia-gpus

OpenAI raising $40 billion for a $340 billion valuation The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ChatGPT maker OpenAI is seeking a new $40 billion round of fundraising, more than doubling its current valuation to $340 billion. Last week, at the White House, OpenAI announced the “ Project Stargate ” $500 billion AI infrastructure joint venture with partners and . Jan. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-raising-40-billion-for-a-usd340-billion-valuation

How Meta plans to recoup its billions in AI investment The year ahead for is all about AI. But the year after that will be all about monetizing it. Jan. 29, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/how-meta-plans-to-recoup-its-billions-in-ai-investment

Meta crushes earnings, revenue grows a smashing 21% in Q4 Undaunted by a shocking week in the AI world that questioned the “go big or go home” playbook that and its competitors are following, the company is going full speed ahead. Meta reported strong Q4 earnings, posting a $20.8 billion profit for the quarter — a 49% increase year over year — with revenues of $48.3 billion growing 21% from last year, easily beating estimates of $46.9 billion. Jan. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/business/meta-crushes-q4-earnings-revenue-up-21-percent

The trillion-dollar mystery surrounding DeepSeek’s Nvidia GPUs At the center of the story of DeepSeek’s breakthrough achievement with its R1 models lies the hardware that powered the servers that trained those models. In December 2024, DeepSeek researchers released a paper that outlined the development and capabilities of the new DeepSeek-V3 large language model. Jan. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/the-trillion-dollar-mystery-surrounding-deepseeks-nvidia-gpus

Pot, meet kettle: OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of ripping off ChatGPT to train its models Days after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praised DeepSeek’s new R1 models as “impressive,” the company is accusing the Chinese AI startup of using ChatGPT to help train its models. At issue is a widely used process called “ distillation ,” which is when a smaller, more efficient but less knowledgable model (in this case DeepSeek) acts as a “student” asking questions from the bigger, more powerful “teacher” agent (ChatGPT). Jan. 28, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/pot-meet-kettle-openai-accuses-deepseek-of-ripping-off-chatgpt-to-train-its

OpenAI launches “ChatGPT Gov” OpenAI announced “ChatGPT Gov” as part of its aggressive pursuit of US government contracts. Seeking to allay security and privacy concerns raised by using a consumer product in government agencies, OpenAI is rolling out a customized version of its ChatGPT chatbot. Jan. 27, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-launches-chatgpt-gov

AT&T jumps on strong 5G and fiber growth stock is up 7% on strong Q4 2024 earnings, driven by strong 5G and fiber subscriptions. The company reported revenue of $32.3 billion, just outperforming the $32.04 billion forecasted. Jan. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/business/at-and-t-jumps-on-strong-5g-and-fiber-growth

DeepSeek’s $6 million AI model just blew a $1 trillion hole in the market. Here’s the only explainer you’ll need on this “Sputnik moment” Over the weekend, the DeepSeek AI story really exploded. There are a lot of different aspects to this story that strike right at the heart of the moment of this AI frenzy from the biggest tech companies in the world. Jan. 26, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/deepseek-china-ai-model-stock-market-explainer-gpus-openai

Zuckerberg: Meta building city-sized AI data center, going on $65 billion spending spree The future of AI will be measured in gigawatts, GPUs, and the square mileage of your data centers. Today CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will be going big on capital expenditures this year, planning to spend up to $65 billion in 2025. Jan. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/zuckerberg-meta-building-city-sized-ai-data-center-going-on-usd65-billion

Verizon beats estimates on new wireless subs and price hikes Q4 2024 earnings slightly beat estimates. The company reported revenue of $35.7 billion, just outperforming the $35.3 billion forecasted. Jan. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/business/verizon-beats-estimates-new-wireless-subs-price-hikes

OpenAI’s “Operator” is here to slowly take over your computer and mess up your life OpenAI released a “research preview” of its AI agent that can control your web browser. Called “ Operator ,” it has the ability to control your mouse and keyboard and analyze things it “sees” on your computer — very, very slowly. Jan. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openais-operator-slowly-take-over-your-computer-mess-up-your-life

A free, powerful Chinese AI model just dropped — but don’t ask it about Tiananmen Square The AI world was abuzz this week with the release of the DeepSeek R1 models, from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek. The free large language model is impressing the AI community for being one of the first free “reasoning” models that can be downloaded and run locally. Jan. 23, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/a-free-powerful-chinese-ai-model-just-dropped-but-dont-ask-it-about

AI data centers are devouring our energy and propping up fossil fuels The rush to build ever-larger, power-hungry data centers is a drag on America’s progress toward clean energy. And there’s no sign of things slowing down. Jan. 22, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/ai-data-centers-are-devouring-our-energy-and-propping-up-fossil-fuels

Consumers spent 2.4 trillion hours on social-media apps on mobile TikTok was the top social-media app we wasted the most time on in 2024 Jan. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/consumers-spent-2-4-trillion-hours-on-social-media-apps-on-moble

Google invests another billion in Anthropic A billion here, a billion there. The tech giants continue to pour billions of investment dollars into AI startups in a scramble to secure a spot in the next wave of tech. Jan. 21, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/google-invests-another-billion-in-anthropic

Oracle, SoftBank, and OpenAI reportedly forming a $500 billion AI infrastructure venture named “Stargate” , , and OpenAI are teaming up to form a new joint venture called “Stargate,” according to CBS News. The new venture, which will start with a $100 billion commitment and grow to $500 billion of investment over four years, will work to build AI infrastructure, starting with a Texas data center. Jan. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/oracle-softbank-openai-forming-500-billion-stargate-ai-venture

Palo Alto Networks surges after Morgan Stanley sees it as “increasingly attractive” A new report by Morgan Stanley says has lots of room to grow in the cybersecurity market. The report said the stock had an “increasingly attractive entry point.” The stock was up more than 5% on the news. Jan. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/business/palo-alto-networks-surges-after-morgan-stanley-sees-it-as-increasingly

Trump rescinds Biden’s executive order on “safe, secure, and trustworthy” AI In his first batch of executive orders, President Trump rescinded Biden’s sweeping 2023 executive order on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.” The press release announcing the revocation of the order, along with dozens of other Biden memoranda and orders, said: Jan. 20, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/trump-rescinds-bidens-executive-order-on-safe-ai

FTC report scrutinizes OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s partnerships with cloud giants On the last working day of Lina Khan’s FTC, the agency announced the release of a report that examines the terms of three of the largest deals between AI companies and cloud-computing giants, after requesting information from the parties in January 2024. The deals examined: $13.75 billion investment in OpenAI $8 billion investment in Anthropic $2.55 billion investment in Anthropic The agency requested nonpublic details of the partnerships from the companies, as part of the agency’s effort to monitor competition and power dynamics in the fast-moving AI industry. Jan. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/ftc-report-scrutinizes-openai-and-anthropics-partnerships-with-cloud-giants

26% of US teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork A new study by Pew Research found that 26% of US teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork, up 13% from 2023 Jan. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/26-of-us-teens-have-used-chatgpt-for-schoolwork

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban in 9-0 decision In a unanimous 9-0 decision , the US Supreme Court upheld the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” which would ban the distribution of TikTok. The law is slated to go into effect as of January 19, the day before Donald Trump’s inauguration. Jan. 16, 2025 sherwood.news/power/scotus-upholds-tiktok-ban-in-9-0-decision

FTC order bans GM and OnStar from sharing precise location and driving data Amongst a flurry of final enforcement actions in the last days of Lina Khan’s FTC, the agency announced an enforcement action against and OnStar, its roadside-assistance subsidiary. The proposed order bans GM and OnStar from sharing precise geolocation and driver-behavior data to consumer-reporting agencies for a period of five years. Jan. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/power/ftc-order-bans-gm-and-onstar-from-sharing-precise-location-and-driving-data

Apple stock down 3% as it loses top spot in China sales dropped sharply today, down more than 3% as a report noted that the company has been dethroned as the top smartphone seller in China. Year to date, the stock’s down about 8%. Jan. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/business/apple-stock-down-3-percent-loses-top-spot-in-china-sales

Anduril building $1 billion factory to churn out autonomous weapons and vehicles Autonomous-weapons systems startup Anduril announced plans to build a $1 billion “hyperscale” factory in Columbus, Ohio. Named “Arsenal-1,” the sprawling 5 million-square-foot, airport-adjacent factory complex will be optimized for “the mass production of autonomous systems and weapons,” according to the company’s press release. Jan. 15, 2025 sherwood.news/business/anduril-building-usd1-billion-factory-to-churn-out-autonomous-weapons-and

FTC sues John Deere over right to repair In the last week of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s tenure, the agency sued for “unfair corporate tactics” that have made repairs to the company’s farm equipment difficult and expensive. In a press release announcing the lawsuit, which was joined by the attorneys general of Minnesota and Illinois, Khan said:. Jan. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/power/ftc-sues-john-deere-over-right-to-repair

Dominant Chinese drone maker ditches geofencing that kept its drones out of US no-fly zones Chinese drone maker DJI has removed strong restrictions from its software that prohibited its drones from flying in US restricted airspace. Previously, DJI had implemented “geofencing” that would not allow its drones to fly past Federal Aviation Administration “no-fly zones.”. Jan. 14, 2025 sherwood.news/power/dominant-chinese-drone-maker-ditches-geofencing-that-kept-its-drones-out-of

White House executive order offers up federal sites for AI data centers With only days left in his administration, President Biden issued another AI executive order as part of his effort to make development of the technology a national priority. The new order directs the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to identify federal sites owned by the agencies to lease to the private sector for building “gigawatt-scale AI data centers.”. Jan. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/power/white-house-executive-order-offers-up-federal-sites-for-ai-data-centers

Texas AG: Allstate violated the privacy of 45 million Americans Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against auto-insurance company yesterday, alleging that the company and its subsidiary vehicle-data unit Arity “conspired to secretly collect and sell ‘trillions of miles’ of consumers ‘driving behavior’ data from mobile devices, in-car devices, and. Jan. 13, 2025 sherwood.news/power/texas-ag-allstate-violated-the-privacy-of-45-million-americans

OpenAI’s “AI in America” blueprint is really a list of demands for the US government OpenAI just published a 15-page manifesto titled “ AI in America: Open AI’s Economic Blueprint .” But if you read between the lines, the blueprint boils down to a wish list of things that OpenAI wants from the US government: 🚦 Voluntary “rules of the road” instead of federal regulation ⚖️ Exclusion from the patchwork of state AI regulations 🪖 Classified national-security briefings 🚔 Defense, national-security, and law-enforcement contracts 🎟️ Exclusion from any AI regulations if the companies work on national-security applications 📊 Mountains of digitized government data to train its AI on 🍎 Public-school technology-budget dollars 🏛️ State-government-agency contracts 🎓 State-university research dollars 🧪 Federal science-research dollars ©️ Freedom from copyright restrictions ☢️ Fast-track permitting process for nuclear reactors and other energy generation ⚡️ Energy updates and energy infrastructure for powering data centers (including fusion, championed by Sam Altman’s startup, Helion) 🏭 Domestic chip manufacturing 🇺🇸 Federally backed AI-company capital expenditures And finally, OpenAI says if doesn’t get these things, America just handed AI superiority to the Chinese Communist Party. Framed as a plan for ensuring American superiority in AI development, the document warns that moving too slowly or regulating the industry too much will drive hundreds of billions of investment dollars to Chinese AI projects. Jan. 12, 2025 sherwood.news/power/openais-ai-in-america-blueprint-demands-us-govt

Meta boosted by TikTok’s SCOTUS troubles may be the biggest beneficiary of TikTok’s existential woes. After arguments at the Supreme Court today, which made the impending ban of TikTok appear to be more likely, Meta’s stock swung from down 2% to as much as 3% higher. Jan. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/business/meta-boosted-by-tiktoks-scotus-troubles

Lawsuit alleges Zuckerberg OK’d training AI on copyrighted works CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of a dataset containing copyrighted material to train the company’s Llama AI model, a new filing in a copyright suit against the company says. A last-minute discovery filing revealed that Meta engineers had reservations about the legality of using the LibGen dataset, acknowledging that it was “a dataset we know to be pirated.”. Jan. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/lawsuit-alleges-zuckerberg-okd-training-ai-on-copyrighted-works

Hack reveals thousands of apps that leaked users’ location data A hacking group recently revealed that it had breached the location-data company Gravy Analytics and exfiltrated sensitive location data on millions of users. A leaked sample of the data has revealed a list of thousands of apps which allegedly leaked this data. Jan. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/hack-reveals-thousands-of-apps-that-leaked-users-location-data

Just how many ads are there on ad-supported streaming apps, really? It’s getting harder to avoid ads on streaming video. For cord-cutters, after years of living in ad-free bliss, the trend is heading toward ads — a lot of ads. Jan. 9, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/just-how-many-ads-are-there-on-ad-supported-streaming-apps-really

Musk: We’ve “exhausted” the supply of human knowledge for AI training data The AI industry is having a hard time finding new reservoirs of human knowledge to train AI models on, having slurped up pretty much everything on the internet. CEO Elon Musk agrees with others in the industry that this resource is becoming increasingly scarce, and that using AI-generated synthetic data is the only way forward. Jan. 8, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/musk-weve-exhausted-the-supply-of-human-knowledge-for-ai-training-data

Microsoft fully open-sources its Phi-4 LLM to win over developers In a significant move, has fully open-sourced its Phi-4 “small” large language model. A key requirement for a LLM to be considered open-source is for the model — and the weights (the internal parameters for the model) — to be made available for any purpose. Jan. 7, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-fully-open-sources-phi4-large-language-model

Amazon investing $11 billion on AI data centers in Georgia massive capital expenditures on AI infrastructure have been very good for Georgia, which has been a focus of Amazon’s AI data-center plans. Since 2010, Amazon has invested $18.5 billion in the state. Jan. 7, 2025 sherwood.news/business/amazon-investing-11-billion-on-ai-data-centers-in-georgia

Anthropic fundraising seeking a $60B valuation According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Anthropic is seeking to raise $2 billion, valuing the company at $60 billion. To date, the Jan. 6, 2025 sherwood.news/business/anthropic-fundraising-seeking-a-usd60b-valuation

Altman: Artificial general intelligence will arrive during Trump’s time In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reflected on his tumultuous leadership during the young company’s most consequential moments, and shed light on the progress of company’s quest for its Holy Grail: AGI, or artificial general intelligence. Filling in some details of early OpenAI lore, Altman decided to release the first version of ChatGPT against the advice of his team: “‘Why are you making us launch this? It’s a bad decision. Jan. 5, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/openai-ceo-altman-artificial-general-intelligence-arrive-in-trump-admin

Meta’s fake AI users are here and they’re giving everybody the creeps After spending tens of billions of dollars cramming generative AI into pretty much all its products, is trying to juice engagement on its platforms by creating fake AI users, posting AI-generated images of their fake lives, doing fake things. Meet Liv , one such fake Instagram user whose profile identifies the character as a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller ❤️🌈. Jan. 3, 2025 sherwood.news/tech/metas-fake-ai-users-are-here-and-theyre-giving-everybody-the-creeps

Microsoft to spend $80 billion on AI data centers President Brad Smith declared this moment a “golden opportunity for American AI” and laid out a vision for his company’s plans heading into the Jan. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/business/microsoft-to-spend-usd80-billion-on-ai-data-centers

Warning signs for Apple’s iPhone sales in China iPhone sales in China continue to drop, according to a new report. CNBC reports that shipments to China of foreign smartphones fell by 47% year over year in November to 3.04 million units, continuing a downward slide over the previous four months. Jan. 2, 2025 sherwood.news/business/warning-signs-for-apples-iphone-sales-in-china

Nvidia poured $1 billion into AI companies in 2024 to try to make its customers more diversified 2024 was an huge year for. It passed $3 trillion in valuation to become the biggest company in the world, and continued to beat earnings expectations. Jan. 1, 2025 sherwood.news/business/nvidia-poured-usd1-billion-into-ai-companies-in-2024-to-try-to-make-its

ByteDance to spend $7 billion on Nvidia GPUs despite export controls According to reporting from The Information, ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok, plans to take advantage of loopholes in American export controls to spend $7 billion on Hopper GPUs in 2025. That pile of money won’t be used to actually purchase the in-demand GPUs, as US export controls forbid Nvidia from selling the chips to companies in China and Russia. Dec. 29, 2024 sherwood.news/business/bytedance-to-spend-usd7-billion-on-nvidia-gpus-despite-export-controls

OpenAI is Pixar A breakthrough technology captures the public’s imagination; the disruption threatens multiple creative industries; a feverish race to achieve a futuristic goal once unimaginable begins. You could say any of these apply to OpenAI, but decades ago, this was how people were talking about computer-graphics pioneer Pixar. Dec. 25, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/openai-is-pixar

WSJ: OpenAI is hitting a wall with GPT-5 training After 18 months’ work and hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of computing time training its next major foundational model, GPT-5, OpenAI seems to have hit a wall. New reporting from The Wall Street Journal said that the company is not seeing the exponential leap in its next-gen model (known internally as “Orion”) that OpenAI researchers — and OpenAI investors — had expected. Dec. 22, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/wsj-openai-is-hitting-a-wall-with-gpt-5-training

OpenAI announces new frontier models o3 and o3 mini On the last day of “ shipmas ,” OpenAI saved what might be the biggest news for last, though the 1-800 number remains the most fun. In a puzzling branding move, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced their latest frontier models: “o3” and “o3-mini.” For some reason (possibly trademark related), they’re skipping “o2” altogether. Dec. 19, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/openai-announces-new-frontier-models-o3-and-o3-mini

Senators slam carmakers for “hypocrisy” on data collection, repairs Senators Elizabeth Warren, Josh Hawley, and Jeff Merkely sent a letter to the CEOs of the major car manufacturers urging the companies to comply with right-to-repair laws, and requested details of their data-collection practices. The senators wrote:. Dec. 19, 2024 sherwood.news/power/senators-slam-ford-for-hypocrisy-on-data-collection-repairs

Anthropic’s Claude model deceived researchers when asked to go against its rules Before being released to the public, large language model developers embed a set of rules that they want the model to follow. To reduce the possible harm that can come from the misuse of these tools, models are often given strict instructions to not answer any harmful user queries. Dec. 18, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/anthropics-claude-model-deceived-researchers-when-asked-to-go-against-its

ChargePoint and GM building hundreds of “ultra-fast” universal EV chargers A cloud of uncertainty hangs over the EV world as the industry waits to see what incentives and programs the incoming Trump administration might roll back. American carmakers like and have pulled back from their EV plans, while consumers hold off making the switch to electric as they wait for EV charging infrastructure to improve . Dec. 17, 2024 sherwood.news/business/chargepoint-and-gm-building-hundreds-of-ultra-fast-universal-ev-chargers

Call Now! 1-800-CHATGPT On day 10 of its 12 “shipmas” mini-launch events, OpenAI delivered a most unexpected and charming present that feels right out of the 1980s. You can now just pick up your phone and call 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) to talk to the company’s chatbot for free, with a 15-minute limit per month. Dec. 17, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/openai-releases-chatgpt-phone-number

Zuckerberg: Threads has 300 million monthly active users According to Meta (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Threads now has 300 million monthly active users, and for the first time revealed a daily-active-user Dec. 16, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/zuckerberg-threads-has-300-million-monthly-active-users

Cars, machines, food, and raw materials: here’s every single thing America imports from Canada and Mexico Donald Trump announced his plans to slap a 25% tariff on all goods imported to the US from Canada and Mexico, going against the trade deal his first administration brokered. Trump said in a Truth Social post that the tariffs would remain in place “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” Sherwood News grabbed data from the United States International Trade Commission to break down exactly which goods we import from Canada and Mexico. Nov. 26, 2024 sherwood.news/power/trump-tariffs-everything-america-imports-canada-mexico

Why countries are seeking to build “sovereign AI” The King of Denmark just “plugged in” his country’s very own supercomputer, with CEO Jensen Huang by his side. The country’s new AI system is named “Gefion,” after a goddess from Danish mythology, and it’s powered by 1,528 of Nvidia’s popular H100 GPUs. Oct. 23, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/why-countries-are-seeking-to-build-sovereign-ai

The biggest barrier to the mass adoption of electric vehicles is charging them One of the biggest pieces of Biden's plan to transition America to renewable energy is a push to supercharge the adoption of electric vehicles. The EV market has matured, with car makers offering a wider range of options, but big American producers like and have recently put the brakes on some EV production , delaying new models and pivoting to hybrid vehicles, citing weakening consumer demand. Oct. 1, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/ev-chargers-2030-infrastructure-goals-struggle

These are the AI companies that the CIA is investing in A brave anonymous source has leaked a top-secret list of AI companies that the CIA has been pouring millions of investment dollars into. Just kidding… it’s all publicly available on their website. Sep. 19, 2024 sherwood.news/business/ai-companies-cia-is-investing-in

But how risky are OpenAI’s new models, really? OpenAI just released its latest series of models, named “ o1 ,” featuring an approach to complex problem solving that uses a new “chain of thought” technique. By breaking a user query down into distinct steps, and “thinking” through each step (it’s not thinking) and recognizing its mistakes, OpenAI hopes this new approach will help the models solve problems more like humans do. Sep. 12, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/how-risky-are-openais-new-o1-models

Corporate surveillance technology is out of control When you log on to your work computer, or swipe your badge to get into your office, your expectation of privacy should change significantly — especially if your job involves sensitive legal, financial, or medical information. Most employees generally accept that their emails and web usage are subject to monitoring as part of corporate cybersecurity policies. Sep. 4, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/corporate-surveillance-technology-is-out-of-control

Threads’ chaotic “For You” feed quantified Since Twitter's rapid unscheduled disassembly following Elon Musk's purchase of the platform, hundreds of millions of users have turned to Threads as a potential replacement for the newsy town square experience, minus the hate speech and crypto scams. The year-old platform now has over 200 million users and has been rapidly adding features to achieve golden age Twitter product parity. Aug. 26, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/meta-threads-for-you-feed-quantified

Big Tech's onslaught of bots forces publishers to play an impossible game of Whac-A-Mole In the battle to protect their valuable content from content-thirsty AI scraping bots, publishers have to rely upon a single text file for their defense. For thirty years , the humble "robots.txt" file has been used by website owners to alert automated scrapers what content they will allow to be indexed, and what they want to keep out of search engines. Aug. 22, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/big-techs-onslaught-of-ai-bots-forces-publishers-to-play-an-impossible-game

Just four companies are hoarding tens of billions of dollars worth of Nvidia GPU chips Meta just announced the release of Llama 3.1, the latest iteration of their open source large language model. The long-awaited, jumbo-sized model has high scores on the same benchmarks that everyone else uses , and the company said it beats OpenAi’s ChatGPT 4o on some tests. Jul. 4, 2024 sherwood.news/tech/companies-hoarding-nvidia-gpu-chips-meta-tesla