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What the Epstein files reveal about EV startups and Silicon Valley

Will the Epstein revelations lead to broader fallout in Silicon Valley?

India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.

The enterprise AI land grab is on. Glean is building the layer beneath the interface.

In this week’s episode of the Equity podcast, Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains the company’s shift from enterprise search tool to middleware layer for enterprise AI.

Anthropic and the Pentagon are reportedly arguing over Claude usage

The apparent issue: whether Claude can be used for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.

Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure

Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates.

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.

Longtime NPR host David Greene sues Google over NotebookLM voice

The longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on him.

As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck

C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.

All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state.