Hacker News with Generative AI: Investments

Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees (bloomberg.com)
In 2023, the main hedge fund at billionaire Dmitry Balyasny’s eponymous firm notched a gross return of 15.2%.
Hedge Funds, Finance, Investments, Fees
160 points by wslh 11 days ago | 124 comments
Amazon plans to spend $100B this year to capture once in a lifetime opportunity (cnbc.com)
Amazon, Investments, Business, Technology, Economy
9 points by jarsin 15 days ago | 6 comments
OpenAI announces SoftBank partnership as fallout from DeepSeek continues (semafor.com)
OpenAI announced a joint venture with Japan’s SoftBank on Monday, with the investment giant spending $3 billion a year to use OpenAI software, in an apparent change of strategy following DeepSeek’s unexpected rise.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Investments, Business, Partnerships
18 points by thunderbong 17 days ago | 17 comments
SoftBank Is Betting Billions That OpenAI's Agents Will Automate Work (gizmodo.com)
In what could be SoftBank’s newest trick to make ungodly amounts of money disappear, the Japanese investment firm will pay $3 billion a year to force companies in its portfolio to experiment with AI agents.
Artificial Intelligence, Business, Investments, Automation
15 points by rntn 18 days ago | 10 comments
SoftBank in talks to invest up to $25B in OpenAI (ft.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Business, Investments, Venture Capital
9 points by jmsflknr 23 days ago | 4 comments
RCA and the Roaring Twenties (globalfinancialdata.com)
When you think about the Roaring Twenties and the bull market that surged until 1929, the one stock that comes first in everyone’s mind is Radio Corporation of America.
History, Finance, Investments, Stock Market
61 points by benbreen 23 days ago | 27 comments
Meta to spend up to $65B this year to power AI goals, Zuckerberg says (reuters.com)
Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Investments, Technology, Business
6 points by testrun 28 days ago | 3 comments
Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers (apnews.com)
President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.
Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Partnerships, Investments, Technology
1021 points by tedsanders 31 days ago | 1538 comments
Dutch pension funds divest from Tesla (ipe.com)
Dutch civil service scheme ABP and construction sector fund Bpf Bouw have both sold their shares in Tesla.
Finance, Investments, Tesla, Netherlands, Pension Funds
10 points by belter 31 days ago | 0 comments
Microsoft to spend $80 billion on AI data centers this year (yahoo.com)
Microsoft Corp. plans to spend $80 billion this fiscal year building out data centers, underscoring the intense capital requirements of artificial intelligence.
Microsoft, Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Investments
8 points by this_weekend 48 days ago | 0 comments
Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth (ft.com)
Robotics, Nvidia, Business, Technology, Investments
188 points by pella 53 days ago | 146 comments
Musk Chaos in Government Funding Process Protects His Chinese Investments (house.gov)
Earlier today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, sent a letter to congressional leadership raising concerns that Elon Musk may have upended the government funding process to remove a provision that would regulate U.S. investments in China.
Politics, Government Funding, China, Elon Musk, Investments
15 points by pmcjones 60 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching 'AGI' clause with Microsoft (ft.com)
OpenAI, Microsoft, Investments, Artificial Intelligence, Business
52 points by tim333 76 days ago | 76 comments
Indonesia rejects Apple's $100M investment to lift iPhone 16 sales ban (nikkei.com)
Indonesia says Apple's $100 million investment plan is not enough to end a sales ban on the iPhone 16 and that the company should consider investing in local manufacturing.
Indonesia, Apple, iPhone, Investments, Manufacturing
9 points by mikhael 88 days ago | 3 comments
Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic (cnbc.com)
Amazon, Anthropic, Investments, Artificial Intelligence, Business
666 points by swyx 91 days ago | 363 comments
Apple expands iPhone satellite services deal, commits $1.1B to expand capacity (9to5mac.com)
Satellite services provider GlobalStar today disclosed an expansion of its deal with Apple. Apple will commit an additional $1.1 billion for upfront infrastructure prepayments, to increase the capacity of satellite services. Additionally, Apple will take 20% ownership of GlobalStar, in an equity deal worth about $400 million.
Apple, Satellite Services, Investments, Business
14 points by bookofjoe 108 days ago | 0 comments
Apple is buying 20 percent of its iPhone satellite services partner (theverge.com)
Apple is taking a 20 percent stake in its iPhone satellite connectivity partner GlobalStar — a stake worth $400 million — as part of an expansion of its deal with the company.
Apple, Satellite Communications, Technology, Business, Investments
5 points by jbernardo95 112 days ago | 2 comments
Intel invests US$300M in China chip packaging and testing plant (scmp.com)
US semiconductor giant Intel said it would expand its chip packaging and testing base in Chengdu, in a show of commitment to the mainland market despite a recent call by a Beijing-backed cybersecurity group to review the company’s products.
China, Semiconductors, Investments, Technology, Business
6 points by alecco 116 days ago | 0 comments
Waymo closes $5.6B investment round (waymo.com)
Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve closed an oversubscribed investment round of $5.6 billion, led by Alphabet, with continued participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Perry Creek,  Silver Lake, Tiger Global, and T. Rowe Price.
Investments, Autonomous Vehicles, Technology, Business
88 points by ra7 119 days ago | 212 comments
The AI Investment Boom (apricitas.io)
Last month, Microsoft made a high-profile announcement that it is paying to reopen reactor one at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant to meet the company’s growing data center power demand, joining Amazon as the second major US tech company to turn to legacy nuclear facilities for their increasing energy needs.
Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Investments, Technology
278 points by m-hodges 124 days ago | 376 comments
Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres (ft.com)
Amazon, Nuclear Energy, Data Centers, Business, Investments
139 points by JumpCrisscross 128 days ago | 345 comments
OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B (techcrunch.com)
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has closed the largest VC round of all time.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Investments, Business, Funding
6 points by gniting 142 days ago | 1 comments
Apple No Longer in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI (macrumors.com)
Apple has reportedly exited negotiations to invest in OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Apple, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Investments, ChatGPT
178 points by Kye 144 days ago | 74 comments
Apple No Longer in Talks to Join OpenAI Investment Round (wsj.com)
Apple AAPL 0.12%increase; green up pointing triangle is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round expected to raise as much as $6.5 billion, an 11th hour end to what would have been a rare investment by the iPhone maker in another major Silicon Valley company.
OpenAI, Investments, Apple, Technology, Silicon Valley
98 points by mfiguiere 147 days ago | 108 comments
Sam Altman invested $180M into a company trying to delay death (technologyreview.com)
Can anti-aging breakthroughs add 10 healthy years to the human life span? The CEO of OpenAI is paying to find out.
Biotechnology, Longevity, Investments, Venture Capital
5 points by olalonde 148 days ago | 0 comments
BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30B for AI Investments (yahoo.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Business, Finance, Investments
17 points by gmays 155 days ago | 4 comments
BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30B fund to invest in AI infrastructure (ft.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Investments, Technology, Cloud Computing
10 points by marban 156 days ago | 0 comments
AI Exuberance Masks Broad Weakness in Tech Sector, Say Investors (ft.com)
Enthusiasm about artificial intelligence masks weakness across most of the technology sector, with many companies “still in a recession” following a slowdown that started in 2022, according to investors and analysis of recent financial reports.
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Finance, Investments, Recession
6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 165 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100B (wsj.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Business, Investments, Funding, OpenAI
60 points by htrp 177 days ago | 71 comments
Sovereign Tech Fund, Significant Investment into FreeBSD (phoronix.com)
FreeBSD, Operating Systems, Investments, Technology
4 points by BSDobelix 179 days ago | 0 comments