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Why Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund is betting big on power companies and bitcoin miners to fuel the ‘superintelligence’ race

New filings show how the former OpenAI researcher is translating his AGI thesis into billions of dollars of bets on electricity, AI infrastructure, and bitcoin mining companies.

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March 5, 2026

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Viral deepfake ad casts Musk, Bezos, and Altman as corpulent overlords powering AI on human sweat. Its creator says the best jokes tell the truth

Viral deepfake ad casts Musk, Bezos, and Altman as corpulent overlords powering AI on human sweat. Its creator says the best jokes tell the truth

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March 4, 2026
OpenAI sees Codex users spike to 1 million, positions coding tool as gateway to AI agents for business

OpenAI sees Codex users spike to 1 million, positions coding tool as gateway to AI agents for business

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March 4, 2026
Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and the other AI kingpins only have themselves to blame for the scare rippling through the economy right now

Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and the other AI kingpins only have themselves to blame for the scare rippling through the economy right now

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March 4, 2026

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Exclusive: Venture giant a16z crypto targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund amid blockchain market downturn, sources say

Exclusive: Venture giant a16z crypto targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund amid blockchain market downturn, sources say

By Ben Weiss and Leo Schwartz
March 4, 2026
Exclusive: Cyclops raises $8 million to build stablecoin infrastructure for payments companies

Exclusive: Cyclops raises $8 million to build stablecoin infrastructure for payments companies

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March 4, 2026
Legal AI is splitting in two—and most people miss the difference

Legal AI is splitting in two—and most people miss the difference

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March 4, 2026

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Viral deepfake ad casts Musk, Bezos, and Altman as corpulent overlords powering AI on human sweat. Its creator says the best jokes tell the truth

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OpenAI sees Codex users spike to 1 million, positions coding tool as gateway to AI agents for business

OpenAI sees Codex users spike to 1 million, positions coding tool as gateway to AI agents for business

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March 4, 2026
Sam Altman turned down a documentary’s requests to talk. So the director cast a ‘Sam Bot’ as its protagonist

Sam Altman turned down a documentary’s requests to talk. So the director cast a ‘Sam Bot’ as its protagonist

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
March 4, 2026

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Viral deepfake ad casts Musk, Bezos, and Altman as corpulent overlords powering AI on human sweat. Its creator says the best jokes tell the truth

Viral deepfake ad casts Musk, Bezos, and Altman as corpulent overlords powering AI on human sweat. Its creator says the best jokes tell the truth

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March 4, 2026
OpenAI sees Codex users spike to 1 million, positions coding tool as gateway to AI agents for business

OpenAI sees Codex users spike to 1 million, positions coding tool as gateway to AI agents for business

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March 4, 2026
Trump’s strike on Iran and the new breed of AI wars mean bombs can drop faster than the speed of thought

Trump’s strike on Iran and the new breed of AI wars mean bombs can drop faster than the speed of thought

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March 3, 2026

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Sam Altman turned down a documentary’s requests to talk. So the director cast a ‘Sam Bot’ as its protagonist

Sam Altman turned down a documentary’s requests to talk. So the director cast a ‘Sam Bot’ as its protagonist

By Michael Liedtke and The Associated Press
March 4, 2026
Iran’s revenge: drones damage data centers for Amazon Web Services, reveal west’s Achilles Heel

Iran’s revenge: drones damage data centers for Amazon Web Services, reveal west’s Achilles Heel

By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
March 3, 2026
Cities join Amazon in cutting ties with license-plate reader Flock following Ring’s Super Bowl ad—that Flock ‘didn’t have anything to do with’

Cities join Amazon in cutting ties with license-plate reader Flock following Ring’s Super Bowl ad—that Flock ‘didn’t have anything to do with’

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‘Students can’t reason’: Teachers warn AI is fueling a crisis in kids’ ability to think

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February 24, 2026
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Hegseth to meet with Anthropic CEO as safe AI principles collide with military contracting

By David Klepper, Matt Ott, Konstantin Toropin and The Associated Press
February 24, 2026
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Why the exploding secondaries market is hard to pin down

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February 24, 2026
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Jamie Dimon’s got some advice for investors riding high on asset prices: ‘Take a deep breath and watch out’

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February 24, 2026
IBM gets a taste of the Anthropic treatment (or, vibe coding panic comes for the Cobol cowboys)
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IBM gets a taste of the Anthropic treatment (or, vibe coding panic comes for the Cobol cowboys)

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February 24, 2026
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Cybersecurity

Discord distances itself from Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found on a Google Cloud endpoint

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February 24, 2026
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Health

Scientists are pushing back on warnings that microplastics damage your health, saying people are just obese and calling some studies ‘a joke’

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February 24, 2026
Singapore’s Singtel partners with Nvidia to build a research lab for companies that care about data sovereignty
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Singapore’s Singtel partners with Nvidia to build a research lab for companies that care about data sovereignty

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February 24, 2026
Sam Altman gets defensive about AI’s massive electricity usage: ‘It also takes a lot of energy to train a human’
AI

Sam Altman gets defensive about AI’s massive electricity usage: ‘It also takes a lot of energy to train a human’

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February 24, 2026
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AI

OpenAI changed its mission statement 6 times in 9 years. It finally removed the word “safely” as a core value when it restructured into a for-profit

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February 23, 2026
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Law

Your Google search history can be used against you in court. Does that violate the Constitution?

By Mark Scolforo and The Associated Press
February 23, 2026
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AI

AI agents that do your work while you sleep sound great. The reality is far messier—‘it’s like a toddler that needs to be overseen’

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February 23, 2026
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AI

Uber CEO predicts most rides could be robot operated within 20 years

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February 23, 2026
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Morgan Stanley hails rare ‘reindustrialization renaissance’ of AI economy—but it’s better for computers than humans

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February 23, 2026
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AI

Without AI spending, U.S. corporate investment in equipment would be negative, a decline that’s ‘worryingly broad-based,’ Pantheon analyst says 

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February 23, 2026
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AI

Big Tech is shelling out up to $1 million for new hires who will never have to write a line of code

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February 23, 2026
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Success

 Last year, Accenture trained 550,000 workers in AI—now it’s warning senior staff to use it or don’t get promoted

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February 23, 2026
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AI

‘Ghost GDP,’ a white-collar recession, and the death of friction: Substack’s top finance writer warns of the 2028 AI crisis nobody sees coming

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February 23, 2026
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While Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang enjoys an over $150 billion net worth, his fellow cofounder Curtis Priem sold out in 2006—and missed out on $600 billion

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February 23, 2026
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AI

India’s AI Impact Summit closes with the New Delhi Declaration and a $200 billion boost

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February 23, 2026
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Innovation

Self-driving taxis hit London, a city with such complex streets that it has a ‘Knowledge’ test that takes cabbies years to pass

By Kelvin Chan and The Associated Press
February 23, 2026
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AI

OpenAI partners with McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, and Capgemini to push its Frontier AI agent platform

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February 23, 2026
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AI

Inside India’s AI Impact Summit: Robot fraud, gridlocked roads, and a no-show from Bill Gates

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February 23, 2026
The 29-year old investor who went from selling fake IDs to backing Poppi raises a $75 million fund to invest in brands with a ‘cultural edge’
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The 29-year old investor who went from selling fake IDs to backing Poppi raises a $75 million fund to invest in brands with a ‘cultural edge’

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February 23, 2026
Microsoft’s gaming shake up touts Xbox resurgence—but ignites fears of incoming AI slop
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Microsoft’s gaming shake up touts Xbox resurgence—but ignites fears of incoming AI slop

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February 23, 2026
DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, partners with VC giant Granite Asia to counter the region’s lack of capital
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DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, partners with VC giant Granite Asia to counter the region’s lack of capital

By Angelica Ang and Andrew Staples
February 23, 2026
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AI

The Nobel laureate who cowrote ‘Why Nations Fail’ warns U.S. democracy won’t survive unless these two things change

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February 22, 2026
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Commentary

A decade ago, I had a front row seat as Jesse Jackson held big tech firms accountable for being overwhelmingly white and male

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February 22, 2026
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Fortune Archives: Amazon on top

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February 22, 2026
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Future of Work

Recruiter reveals broken Zoom interview etiquette: bathrobes, yoga, and outsourcing thinking to AI

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February 22, 2026

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