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Quote of the day.

“YEAR 2008 OFFERS a direct comparison between California’s speed and China’s speed. That year, California voters approved a state proposition to fund a high-speed rail link between San Francisco and Los Angeles; also that year, China began construction of its high-speed rail line between Beijing and Shanghai. Both lines would be around eight hundred miles long upon completion.

China opened the Beijing–Shanghai line in 2011 at a cost of $36 billion. In its first decade of operation, it completed 1.35 billion passenger trips. California has built, seventeen years after the ballot proposition, a small stretch of rail to connect two cities in the Central Valley, neither of which are close to San Francisco or Los Angeles.

The latest estimate for California’s rail line is $128 billion.”

- Dan Wang, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

Quote of the day.

“Life is growth. You grow or you die.” - Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

OpenAI is giving Microsoft Corp. a 27% ownership stake as part of a restructuring plan, with Microsoft getting a stake worth about $135 billion.

Microsoft will have access to OpenAI’s technology until 2032, including models that achieve artificial general intelligence, and will continue to receive 20% of OpenAI’s revenue until an expert panel verifies AGI.

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Anthropic’s Claude is coming to Microsoft’s Copilot.

Business users of Microsoft’s Copilot-branded AI assistant will be able to toggle between OpenAI and Anthropic models for certain functions.

Anthropic’s models, including Claude Opus 4.1 and Claude Sonnet 4, will be available for users of Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher feature and Copilot Studio.

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Nvidia will invest $5bn in Intel to co-develop chips for PCs and data centers.

• The deal marks a major collaboration between two longtime rivals, aiming to combine Nvidia’s GPU expertise with Intel’s CPU capabilities.
• Intel’s shares surged after the announcement, signaling renewed confidence in its future amid struggles in AI and manufacturing.
• The agreement does not include using Intel’s foundry for Nvidia’s chip production.
• The partnership is seen as a strategic lifeline for Intel, potentially reshaping the competitive landscape in AI and computing.

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