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Vistra
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Vistra is merchant power with data-center contracts. The electrons are the product. The campus is the customer.
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Who’s listening in the AI boardroom?CNBC reports the FBI arrested an OpenAI employee accused of hiding a recording device in the company’s executive conference room, as a judge lets Apple dig into how OpenAI hired its former engineers.
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Closing Time: Google wants its crown backReuters reports Google released Gemini 4 Argon to developers and businesses worldwide, seeking to regain ground on OpenAI and Anthropic after months of delays and a DeepMind shakeup.
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The AI boom is running on borrowed moneyThe Wall Street Journal reports Broadcom is working to arrange more than $50 billion in financing for the custom AI chip it is building with OpenAI, with Apollo Global Management and Blackstone among the lenders in talks.
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Closing Time: ChatGPT is done just talkingOpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, answering with diagrams, charts, buttons and tools it builds on the spot (The Verge).
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The proofs are coming faster than anyone can checkThe Wall Street Journal reports OpenAI has released findings on more than 300 open math problems, a month after one of its internal models cracked a Millennium Prize Problem.
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Closing Time: The hidden power inside old reactorsGoogle signed a 20-year deal for 890 megawatts of new nuclear output from upgrades at 11 Constellation Energy reactors, with the first upgraded power due in 2028.
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Closing Time: They signed a morally binding AI pactCNBC reports Trump told reporters after lunch with House Speaker Mike Johnson that the document with industry leaders is “morally binding,” while pitching self-regulation, data-center benefits, and a rebrand of AI as…
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Closing Time: The next rack is a satelliteGoogle is testing whether the next AI rack belongs in orbit
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Xi’s White House State Dinner Quickly Becoming an AI Meet UpBloomberg reports Satya Nadella plans to attend this week’s White House state dinner for Xi Jinping, joining Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon — with officials also naming Bezos, Musk, and Pichai among…