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@forbes wealth reporter / @forbesunion / πŸ“§ pliu@forbes.com / atlanta sports bear, at the moment

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How AMD’s AI Software Helped It Score The Multi-Billion Dollar OpenAI Deal Chips aren’t the only star of the massive agreement. AMD’s software efforts have slowly turned it into a more formidable competitor to Nvidia.

I chatted with AMD’s senior vice president of AI about the company’s massive deal with OpenAI, and how AMD’s software efforts played a part in scoring the agreement.
www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

09.10.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Had to delete and repost, but thank you for flagging

09.10.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In my latest for @forbes.com I did some math on how the spate of massive #AI infra deals is benefiting the dealmakers most of all. These founders, CEOs and investors keep getting richer while critics condemn their "circular deals":

www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

09.10.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes -- I'm sorry about that! Fixing now

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Some of them have been able to sell, yes! Ie Jensen Huang sells most days, the CRWV guys have sold > $1b collectively, then there’s the $6.6b OpenAI tender tho it’s unclear who sold. But the overwhelming majority is tied up in shares of respective public/private cos and would tank if bubble bursts

09.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@forbes.com mgt, led by CEO Sherry Phillips and CCO Randall Lane, have proposed 1.25% annual bumps for staff, not even keeping up with inflation--when many in the newsroom go YEARS without a raise. #journalismjobs @nyguild.bsky.social

08.10.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here Are Some Of The Biggest Winners Of This Year’s AI Infrastructure Boom These founders, CEOs and investorsβ€”from OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, AMD and othersβ€”keep getting richer while critics condemn their β€œcircular deals.”

Link to the article:

09.10.2025 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing!

09.10.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Since January 1, these billionaires have gotten $460B richer due to AI and data centers.

Since January 1, these billionaires have gotten $460B richer due to AI and data centers.

Customers for AI products may be dubious, and communities & ratepayers feeling the burdens of data centers may be unhappy, but these folks think the boom is just great. @pheebini.bsky.social: 20 billionaires tied to the AI and data center boom have added >$450B to their fortunes since January 1.

09.10.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump’s TikTok Deal Seems Like The One The Biden White House Rejected Trump appears poised to accept a set of terms similar to Project Texas, a ByteDance proposal that Biden felt perpetuated an unacceptable risk to national security.

new from me: time is a flat circle

www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

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Trump Golf Course Displays Gold Presidential Seal That Could Violate Federal Law The Virginia property marks the sixth Trump golf course to display the presidential seal since 2021β€”despite federal law prohibiting its use in ways that suggest government endorsement.

New: "Trump Golf Course Displays Gold Presidential Sealβ€”Here’s Why That Could Violate Federal Law" πŸŒοΈπŸš”

me, for @forbes.com

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26.09.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 762    πŸ” 280    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 32
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Amid all this $ORCL's proxy came out ... Larry Ellison now has 346 million shares pledged (as of 9/19/25), up from 277 million last year. The difference is worth ~$20 billion (more than the supposed EV of whatever portion of TikTok's U.S. business that's supposed to spin out)

26.09.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Web Of Billionaires Taking Control Of TikTok U.S. The exact lineup of investors is still under wraps but the network of players is in some cases nearly half a century in the making.

The exact lineup of investors taking control of TikTok U.S. is still under wraps, but the network of players is in some cases nearly half a century in the making.

Inside their ties to #Trump and each other for @forbes.com:

www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

25.09.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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ISIS Kids Planned A Violent 'Caliphate Revival' On Discord Hundreds of pages in classified NCIS files were left out for the trash collectors, a search warrant reveals.

🚨NEW🚨 A recently-unsealed warrant shows how teens from a dozen countries used Discord to discuss plans for terror attacks across the world in the name of ISIS.

They were serious, buying and learning how to make deadly weapons.

Cops caught them in time.

www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

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Here’s Why Trump Wants Lower Interest Rates Donald Trump has been demanding lower rates from the Fed for yearsβ€”one of the clearest conflicts of interest in a presidency full of them.

Trump has long badgered the Fed to lower interest rates, which it finally did last week. A review of the president's personal fortune shows he has billions of reasons for doing so. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

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Nvidia Keeps Minting New Coreweave-Style AI Data Center Unicorns Nscale, a tiny London-based startup, just landed $500 million in backing from AI chip giant Nvidia to help build a massive data centers for OpenAI in the U.K. and Europe.

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang just bet $500 million that a tiny data center startup can become a British rival to Coreweave. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

23.09.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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MIT Couple Behind Nuclear Fission Company Are Now Billionaires Thanks To AI Hype Nuclear power startup Oklo is now worth $21 billion. Its relationships with the Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have certainly helped.

Nuclear power firm $OKLO is up 400% since March. Relationships with the energy sec & #OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have certainly helped.

(Altman bought shares in the SPAC that merged w/Oklo for $0.002 each in 2021. His stake is now ~$880 million.)

My latest @forbes.com:

www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

23.09.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MIT Couple Behind Nuclear Fission Company Are Now Billionaires Thanks To AI Hype Nuclear power startup Oklo is now worth $21 billion. Its relationships with the Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have certainly helped.

How AI hype minted two new billionaires from Oklo, a nuclear power startup with no revenue. Its relationships the Energy Secretary Chris Wright and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have certainly helped, from my colleague @pheebini.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

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3/ The core of what's at risk here, and how CoreWeave's cofounders are thinking about it: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

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2/ A closer look at financials here: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

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New @forbes.com magazine cover storyβ€”from @rashis.bsky.social and meβ€”is our take on #CoreWeave, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the #AI boom. It's a fascinating firm built on bold bets, complex risk & no shortage of luck. Would love to hear what you think:

www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

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How CoreWeave’s GPU Bet Made Four Risk-Loving Cryptominers AI Billionaires Creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on bil...

A series of bold bets and calculated risks helped Michael Intrator turn @CoreWeave from a no-name crypto miner into a $50 billion company, serving compute to the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft. Elated to share my latest @forbes.com cover story with @pheebini.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

22.09.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This is a fabulously written, in-depth profile of Edwin Chen, the billionaire founder of Surge AI and one of the key people to watch in the AI revolution. Incredible reporting and a must-read story from @pheebini.bsky.social

17.09.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The AI Billionaire you've never heard of-partly because he's never given an interview before. @forbes.com reporter @pheebini.bsky.social has the goods on this influential but little-known entrepreneur, who previously worked at Google and Twitter.

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Thanks for sharing!

18.09.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ted Chiang’s "Story of Your Life" has always stuck with meβ€”it makes you think differently about language, perspective, and possibility. Turns out I’m not the only one. That inspired Edwin Chen to found Surge in 2020. Check out why he's the most successful tech entrepreneur you've never heard of. #AI

17.09.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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3/ β€œIf Surge didn’t exist, what would Edwin do for fun? He’d probably make data and train AI," says Surge AI head of product Nick Heiner. "It just happens to be a lucrative thing."

Lucrative = there'll be competition. And no one minces words in this space:
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

17.09.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The existential question for outfits like Surge: As AI advances, will there come a time when there is no need for human data annotations? Models like Meta’s Llama 4, released in April, already relied heavily on AI creating and labeling its own data, so-called β€œsynthetic data,” per a Meta researcher. Surge uses a β€œhuman-in-the-loop” variation to this approach, in which AI generates its own data and labels it but humans critique its performance. Chen feels strongly that humans are vital.

The existential question for outfits like Surge: As AI advances, will there come a time when there is no need for human data annotations? Models like Meta’s Llama 4, released in April, already relied heavily on AI creating and labeling its own data, so-called β€œsynthetic data,” per a Meta researcher. Surge uses a β€œhuman-in-the-loop” variation to this approach, in which AI generates its own data and labels it but humans critique its performance. Chen feels strongly that humans are vital.

2/ Surge has grown quickly and is profitable, but in a rapidly changing and competitive industry, that doesn't mean it's a clear path ahead.

www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

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AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

1/ My latest for @forbes.com is a profile of a founder who holds outsized influence in the race to improve AI models and hates Silicon Valley culture.

Edwin Chen on aliens and Eminem but also bootstrapping Surge AI, why he'd never go public and the future of AI:

www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

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