woah, goldman sachs bought industry ventures (7b aum, known for secondaries/buy outs – also does fof and direct) for up to $962m ($665m cash + equity & $300m performance based)
BIG TECH
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Nvidia GB200: Superior Performance and Energy Efficiency Breakthrough
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Nvidia's GB200 is a beast on all dimensions – raw performance, price vs performance or tokens per megawatt. The last one is particularly important in a world of constrained energy – if a data centre has only 1 GW of power, you would be 50-100% more from GB200 GPUs than any
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Slack embraces AI with ChatGPT integration and personalized team companion
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Slack goes AI too 👀
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 13 octobre 2025
– ChatGPT integration is now available on Slack
– A personalized AI companion in Slack
– An always-on agent dedicated to your team’s questions
– New AI and agent apps from partners like Anthropic, Google, and more https://t.co/IONtkBepAk pic.twitter.com/n0T9Zd96m6Slack goes AI too – ChatGPT integration is now available on Slack
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Microsoft Debuts MAI-Image-1 Model Ranking Top 10 LMArena
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Meet our third @MicrosoftAI model: MAI-Image-1 #9 on LMArena, striking an impressive balance of generation speed and quality Excited to keep refining + climbing the leaderboard from here! We're just getting started. https://
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Google: From Stanford Crawler to Tech Conglomerate Dominance
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– be us
– Larry & Sergey
– at Stanford with a crawler and a dream
– accidentally organize the entire internet
– call it Google
– build search, email, maps, docs, OS, phones, browser, car, satellite, thermostat, AI lab, TPU farm, and quantum computer – 2025
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Tim Cook’s Future at Apple: Major Leadership Changes Ahead
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Tim Apple's about to have some time on his hands…
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OpenAI Podcast Now Available on Major Streaming Platforms
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Listen to the OpenAI Podcast on—
Spotify https://
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Building Custom AI Chips to Meet Growing Global Demand
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We’re designing our own chips — taking what we’ve learned from building frontier models and bringing it directly into the hardware. Building our own hardware, in addition to our other partnerships, will help all of us meet the world’s growing demand for AI.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) 13 octobre 2025
In Episode 8 of the… pic.twitter.com/DlXD3xdkjtWe’re designing our own chips — taking what we’ve learned from building frontier models and bringing it directly into the hardware. Building our own hardware, in addition to our other partnerships, will help all of us meet the world’s growing demand for AI. In Episode 8 of the
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Amazon sales impact on brands in October recovery
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October has been generally fine for majority of brands. The ones with big Amazon businesses have seen the toughest last week, but recovering now.
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Meta’s Opportunity Score Criticized as Unreliable Tool
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Meta's opportunity score is a complete joke. Please please don't listen to it.