Sam Altman’s court appearance shines a light on his billions in tech investments – Business Insider

Suranjana TewariAsia business correspondent, Hokkaido, Japan Getty Images The island of Hokkaido has long been an agricultural powerhouse – now Japan is investing billions to turn it into a global hub for advanced semiconductors. More than half of Japan’s dairy produce comes from Hokkaido, the northernmost of its main islands. In winter, it’s a wonderland…

An Exotic Journey to Bangkok via Paris More from this series: For the first long haul segment of my exotic journey to Bangkok via Paris, I flew Air France’s Boeing 787-9 business class on the 6hr25min flight from Montreal (YUL) to Paris (CDG). It had been many years since I had flown on one of Air France’s Dreamliners, so…

Arda Kucukkaya / Anadolu via Getty Images Are AI tools reliable enough to be used at in commercial settings? If so, should they be given “autonomy” to make decisions? These are the questions being raised after at least two internet outages at Amazon’s cloud division were allegedly caused by blundering AI agents, according to new…

When news broke Tuesday morning that Meta bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, it may have left some people scratching their heads. What on earth would Meta — an ad-supported company — want with a social network where the users are bots? Bots, after all, are not the target audience of brand marketers…

The parents of at least two babies sickened in an infantile botulism outbreak are suing the makers of the ByHeart baby formula at the heart of a nationwide recall. Stephen and Yurany Dexter, of Flagstaff, Arizona, said their 4-month-old daughter, Rose, had to be flown by air ambulance to a children’s hospital two hours from…

Several historical headwinds are mounting for Trump’s second year in office — and it’s worrisome news for Wall Street. During President Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, the stock market soared. When he left office, the mature stock-driven Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.66%), benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.19%), and innovation-fueled Nasdaq Composite…