timef 11/03/2025
- OpenAI and Amazon ink $38B cloud computing deal techcrunch.com2025-11-03 23:21:51
OpenAI isn't done securing the AI infrastructure it needs to rapidly scale agentic workloads. The ChatGPT-maker on Monday said it has reached a deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion in cloud computing services over the next seven years.
- Microsoft’s $15.2B UAE investment turns Gulf State into test case for US AI diplomacy techcrunch.com2025-11-03 22:22:48
For the first time, the U.S. has granted Microsoft a license to export Nvidia chips to the UAE – a move that positions the country as both a proving ground for U.S. export-control diplomacy and a regional anchor of American AI influence.
- Microsoft inks $9.7bil deal with Australia’s IREN for AI cloud capacity techcrunch.com2025-11-03 22:04:19
The deal will give Microsoft access to compute infrastructure built with Nvidia's GB300 GPUs, which will be deployed over phases through 2026.
- LG founder’s grandson, production firm partner up to bring AI to filmmaking techcrunch.com2025-11-03 22:00:00
Brian Koo’s Stock Farm Road and Utopai Studios have partnered up to form Utopai East, an AI-powered film production company.
- Kevin Rose’s simple test for AI hardware — would you want to punch someone in the face who’s wearing it? techcrunch.com2025-11-03 09:54:17
"As an investor, you kind of have to not only say, okay, cool tech, sure, but emotionally, how does it make me feel? And how does it make others feel around me?"
- Alphabet is increasingly launching “moonshot” projects as independent companies — here’s why techcrunch.com2025-11-03 09:02:25
Despite the emphasis on detachment from ideas, X employees do have significant skin in the game when projects spin out.
- Sequoia’s Roelof Botha warns founders about chasing sky-high valuations as the firm doubles down on its selective approach techcrunch.com2025-11-03 07:54:03
At Disrupt, Botha had advice for founders who are swimming in terms sheets right now.
- Google pulls Gemma from AI Studio after Senator Blackburn accuses model of defamation techcrunch.com2025-11-03 05:13:17
Senator Martha Blackburn argued Gemma’s fabrications are “not a harmless ‘hallucination,’" but rather “an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.”
- Sam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenue techcrunch.com2025-11-03 01:15:26
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that the company is doing “well more” than $13 billion in annual revenue — and he sounded a little testy when pressed on how it will pay for its massive spending commitments.
- TechCrunch Mobility: Everything said on, and off, the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-11-03 01:05:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
- China is rolling back rare earth mineral restrictions, White House says techcrunch.com2025-11-03 00:14:35
The White House released more details Saturday about a trade deal reached between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
- Meta has an AI product problem techcrunch.com2025-11-03 00:00:00
Meta's AI spending is starting to make Wall Street nervous.
