Softbank’s Big Bet on OpenAI | Bytes: Week in Review | Marketplace Tech



πŸ“ˆ SoftBank sold its stake in chipmaker Nvidia for $5.8 billion this week. Despite fears from investors, the Japanese investment firm says it’s not souring on AI, just raising cash for an even bigger bet on OpenAI.

πŸ“± Apple is reportedly delaying the release of its thinnest smartphone yet, the iPhone Air. Some analysts say consumer demand for the Air is weak. Can Apple make a thin, less powerful smartphone that consumers actually want?

πŸ€– Wikipedia has a message for AI companies – please pay for our data. The nonprofit is pushing its opt-in, enterprise API as the ethical way to train models so data-scraping bots don’t crash their servers.

πŸŽ™οΈ Join Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino and Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, as they break down these stories on this week’s Tech Bytes!

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