On its last business day, the Biden administration issued a report that now has an unlikely fan.Elon Musk is using the report as evidence in his antitrust suit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.Biden's outgoing DOJ also weighed in on Musk's behalf.Former President Joe Biden left Elon Musk what amounts to a parting gift: a pair of scholarly papers drafted by his Justice Department and his Federal Trade Commission.Both describe the potential illegality of overly-cozy partnerships between giant cloud service providers like Microsoft and leading artificial intelligence developers like OpenAI.Musk is now using these Biden administration filings as fuel for his ongoing 2024 lawsuit against colleague-turned-rival Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO. The two men helped co-found OpenAI in 2015, with Musk sinking $44 million into the venture before their falling out three years later.Musk's lawsuit accuses Altman of betraying OpenAI's founding mission as a non-profit research lab dedicated to keeping AI technology safe and freely available for the good of mankind.Under Altman's leadership, OpenAI is now "a $157 billion for-profit, market-paralyzing gorgon," the most recent version of the lawsuit alleges.The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who in 2023 launched a competing AI effort, is seeking to break up the mutually beneficial he says monopolistic partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft.Under the partnership, the software giant provides vital cloud server space and funding a "$13 billion commitment," the lawsuit alleges. In return, Microsoft gets exclusive rights to the startup's technology, a suite of AI products that includes ChatGPT.Musk's lawsuit, filed in federal court in Oakland, California, accuses Altman of racketeering, calling the four-year-old Microsoft-OpenAI alliance an unregulated "de facto merger." He seeks to void the companies' licensing agreement and pocket cash damages.Microsoft "stands to make hundreds of billions from its methodical infiltration of, and increasing leverage over, the non-profit, its technology, and employees," the suit alleges.Musk spent at least $277 million backing President Donald Trump's campaign for reelection. Still, the Biden administration's recent support of Musk's claims is not surprising, his attorney, Marc Toberoff, told Business Insider on Friday.Concern over Big Tech monopolies goes beyond politics, the lawyer said."The DOJ and FTC took principled stands," Toberoff said of the back-to-back Biden administration filings. "Concern over OpenAI and Microsoft transcends party, because their coordinated conduct threatens the safe and effective development of by far the most transformative technology of our time."The DOJ filing was the first to drop into the Musk v Altman docket.Dated January 10, it supports Musk's claims that Microsoft and OpenAI violated federal antitrust laws by letting two people serve on the boards of directors of both companies a practice called "interlocking directorates."LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman served on the boards of OpenAI and Microsoft from March 2017 until March 2023, the lawsuit alleges.The lawsuit also alleges that Deannah "Dee" Templeton, Microsoft's vice president of partnerships and operations, served on both boards from November 2023 until July 2024.Altman's side has countered that neither Hoffman nor Templeton both named as defendants in Musk's lawsuit remain on OpenAI's board.In late December, Musk asked the US District Court judge presiding over his lawsuit to bar the defendants from "benefiting from wrongfully obtained competitively sensitive information or coordination via the Microsoft-OpenAI board interlocks."The DOJ filing supported that request.Having directors serve on the boards of intertwined companies lets them share sensitive information, potentially undermining fair competition, the DOJ told Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.The FTC's filing was next to drop into the Musk v Altman docket.Dated January 17 the last full business day of the Biden administration it casts a critical eye on three multi-billion-dollar partnerships involving AI, listing them as "Microsoft-OpenAI, Amazon-Anthropic, and Google-Anthropic."Microsoft's $13.75 billion investment in OpenAI dwarves those of the other two partnerships, the report says. The report pegs Amazon's investment in Anthropic at $8 billion and Google's investment in Anthropic at $2.55 billion."These partnerships involve relationships between the world's current largest Cloud Service Providers ("CSPs") and two of the most prominent AI model developers," the report reads."These partnerships therefore have potential for significant impact on AI technology, workers, and consumers," it warns.By Inauguration Day, Musk's lawyers had attached the report as Exhibit 3 to to its latest court filing.Musk and his co-plaintiffs "agree with the analytic frameworks" of the FTC and DOJ findings, Musk's side wrote.Attorneys for Altman and Microsoft did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.The lawsuit's next court date is February 4.

President Donald Trump announced the $500 billion AI project, Stargate, earlier this week.Stargate's first data center is under construction in Abilene, Texas, said Oracle CTO Larry Ellison.Public filings for an Abilene development matching Ellison's description shed some light on costs.Construction on what appears to be two buildings on Stargate's first data center campus, now underway in Texas, is expected to be complete by the end of the year and cost an estimated $1.1 billion, according to public filings.President Donald Trump announced the formation of Stargate, a joint venture between Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank, at a White House press conference on Tuesday. He pledged to spend $500 billion building AI data centers in the US.Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison, who joined Trump, OpenAI CEOSam Altman, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son at the briefing, said the first Stargate data centers are currently being built in Abilene, Texas."We've been working with OpenAI for a while and Masa for a while. The data centers are actually under construction the first of them are under construction in Texas," said Ellison. "Each building is a half million square feet. There are 10 buildings currently being built, but that will expand to 20 and other locations beyond the Abilene location, which is our first location."Little else has been revealed about Stargate. Registration forms filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for a data center development in Abilene matching Ellison's description of Stargate give some insight into the cost of building the data centers.The development is registered with the TDLR under the name "Project Ludicrous," located at an address attached to the Lancium Clean Campus a 1,000-acre site in Abilene owned by energy tech company Lancium. The owner of Project Ludicrous is listed as Abilene DC 1 LLC, an affiliate of data center development startup Crusoe. According to the Texas state comptroller's records, Oracle is the occupant of the data center owned by Abilene DC 1, LLC, located at the Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene. A Texas-based Oracle employee is also listed as the tenant contact for Project Ludicrous in the TDLR filings.Between July and December 2024, agents for Project Ludicrous filed four different TDLR filings for two buildings.Construction on the first building, a 482,000-square-foot one-story "data hall" estimated to cost $292 million, began in June 2024 and is scheduled to be completed by May 30, 2025. The estimate also includes plans for a guard house, fire pump building, and mechanical and electrical enclosures. A second filing for the building, made in September, indicates that tenant improvements costing $140 million began in December and are expected to be completed by September 15, 2025.A second building registered under Project Ludicrous, a 484,960-square-foot "1-story data center" with a cost estimate of $292 million, went under construction in September and is expected to be completed in one year, the filings said. Tenant improvements, expected to begin in March and be completed by December 24, are estimated at $384 million.The San Antonio Express-News previously reported on these filings.Lancium, the landowner, first struck a development deal with the city of Abilene in 2021 for what it calls the Lancium Clean Campus. The site was initially meant to power bitcoin mines with renewable energy generation, although that never came to fruition.In November, Crusoe announced plans for a $3.4 billion data center development on the Lancium Clean Campus and said it had already fully leased the space to a "Fortune 100 hyperscale tenant," with occupancy expected to begin in the first half of 2025.The Information first reported Oracle's plans to lease a data center site in Texas from Crusoe, intending to eventually rent servers to OpenAI.In a post on its website, OpenAI said that the Stargate "buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements.""Lancium is excited to be building its Lancium Clean Campus in Abilene, Texas, in partnership with Crusoe and the Development Corporation of Abilene (DCOA) and to be at the forefront of the growth of the AI infrastructure industry in the US," a spokesperson for Lancium wrote in response to a request for comment from Business Insider. The spokesperson said the company could not "provide any new commentary about Abilene or any of our other Clean Campuses."Oracle, OpenAI, and Crusoe did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Do you have insight, information, or a tip to share with this reporter? Contact Ellen Thomas via the secure messaging app Signal at +1-929-524-6964.

Nintendo Switch 2 will be the instrument of Xboxs revenge on PS5 Readers FeatureGameCentralPublished January 25, 2025 2:00am Best friends forever? (YouTube/Microsoft/Metro)A reader suspects that Microsoft will be trying to ingratiate itself with Nintendo, in an attempt to make the Switch 2 more successful than the PS5.Im glad to see that 2025 is starting at a fair sprint, for video games, after what seems like years stuck in slow motion, with nothing happening. So far, weve had the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal and the Xbox Developer Direct, both of which say a lot about the future.The Nintendo Switch 2 reveal confirmed everything wed heard about the console so far and showed off a new Mario Kart, although I can understand those upset that Nintendo didnt show more. For me though the most interesting part was just how popular the video was, with millions watching it and far more positive upvotes than I wouldve guessed seeing how much some fans have been grousing about it.The Xbox Direct was interesting too, with four good looking games and release dates that imply theres a lot more coming in the second half of the year. PlatinumGames on Ninja Gaiden 4 was a nice surprise, and it all seems the most positive things have looked since Xbox went multiformat.To me, it seems obvious that the Nintendo Switch 2 is going to be a huge success and that Xbox has given up any hope of having console exclusives anymore. I know South Of Midnight isnt on PlayStation 5 but Im sure thats just because they didnt know about the change of policy when they started the game.So, Microsoft is now essentially a third party publisher. They say they have a next gen console coming up but until that appears the Xbox Series X/S is dead in the water and any money they make from software sales is going to primarily come from PlayStation 5 and PC.That means theyre want to get as pally as possible with Sony. Except Sony arent the friendly type and theyre always going to be suspicious of Microsoft, because theyll always know that the Xbox was meant to oppose them and even if it didnt work out Microsoft isnt to be trusted.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5videoUp NextTheres a couple of Xbox games on Nintendo Switch at the moment, but not many. But considering Microsoft wants to see growth and it already gets on much better with Nintendo than it ever has with Sony, I think we can assume that they are going to go all out in their support for the Switch 2 Halo, Gears Of War, Fable whatever they can get working theyll release.Weve already had exactly that rumour but Im not sure the source on that didnt make it up, because its so easy to guess anyone couldve done it.Nintendo consoles regularly outsell PlayStation and Xbox the Switch certainly has, this generation and last and I think that Microsofts interest in Switch 2 will be two-fold. Theyll want to open up a new format to their games and greatly increase their audience and theyll want to get revenge on Sony.The more successful the Switch 2 is the less room there is for the PlayStation 5 (or PlayStation 6), especially if Sonys first party line-up keeps being as bad as it is and the third party support for the Switch 2 is much better than the first console, and more in line with Xbox and PlayStation.More TrendingIf Xbox can help to draw customers away from the PlayStation then Microsoft will love that, if not for revenge then as a future opportunity to gain back ground as a console manufacturer again. The games industry might not need three consoles at once, but I think it will always need two.By reader Taylor Moon Only on Xbox? (Microsoft)The readers features do not necessarily represent the views of GameCentral or Metro.You can submit your own 500 to 600-word reader feature at any time, which if used will be published in the next appropriate weekend slot. Just contact us at gamecentral@metro.co.uk or use our Submit Stuff page and you wont need to send an email.GameCentralSign up for exclusive analysis, latest releases, and bonus community content.This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy

The Rey-centric Star Wars movie has had two constants: star Daisy Ridley, reprising her role from the sequel trilogy, and director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Everything else has shifted around in the great sands of Lucasfilmincluding its presumed release date, and wholl be writing the screenplay. Today we have a new name to add to that latter growing list, with George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Adjustment Bureau, Oceans 12, Elevation) coming aboard. Nolfi is the latest writer to take on the project following Steven Knights departure in October 2024; prior to that, co-writers Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson had the gig. As the Hollywood Reporter reminds us, The new story is said to take place 15 years after the events seen in 2019sThe Rise of Skywalker, with Ridleys character now a mentor [to] a new crop of Jedis. The news of a fresh pen joining the Rey movie comes as Star Wars long-in-flux future plans on the big screen are maybe, sorta, starting to take shape. The Mandalorian & Grogu will be the first theatrical release since 2019s The Rise of Skywalker; its due out May 22, 2026, and will be directed and co-written (with Dave Filoni) by Jon Favreau. Then, earlier this week, word filtered through the asteroid field that Ryan Gosling was in talks to star in Shawn Levys Star Wars movie, whose story is unknown but is believed to be a standalone tale not directly linked to the Skywalker Saga. As of this writing that deal has not been made official, but Gosling potentially coming aboard Levys film could make Lucasfilms post-Mandalorian & Grogu release schedule shift again. However, todays update is a positive sign that the Rey movie is still in active development, and fans can cross their fingers that this time, Nolfis contribution will be the one that sticks. You can assume with great confidence that many more details about whats to come for Star Wars at the movies, and beyond, will be announced at Aprils Star Wars Celebration Japan. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, whats next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

Urban Regeneration of Brahmaputra Riverfront / atArchitectureSave this picture! Avneesh TiwariPark, Public ArchitectureGuwahati, IndiaArchitects: atArchitectureAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:50000 ftYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 PhotographsPhotographs:Avneesh TiwariMore SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. The project rejuvenates a natural water lily pond, creates a new river edge along the Brahmaputra, and seamlessly connects the site to the adjacent heritage museum, fostering public interaction.Save this picture!The Brahmaputra, one of the world's widest and longest rivers, serves as the lifeline of northeast India. Perched on its banks, the site offers views of an island adorned with an ancient temple, a boat corridor, and a cable car. A 10-meter elevation difference between the river's high water mark and the ground is navigated through gently cascading terraces and pathways that respect the natural contours, minimizing cut-and-fill. Terraces intertwine with the riparian vegetation like interlocking fingertips and increase biomass through a combination of gabions and recharge pits that improve soil health. Trees and shrubs spanning 250,000 square meters rejuvenate native species, attract wildlife, and shape an open-air botanical gallery.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The larger piece of land between the Brahmaputra River and the lake has been transformed into curvilinear spaces that provide a variety of recreational opportunities for tourists and residentsSave this picture!The project revitalizes the Padam Pukhurimeaning "lotus pond"originally 1.52 meters below ground level. A pixelated, stepped pavilion follows the site's natural contours, providing both a recreational platform and access to the water and its aquatic flora and fauna. The foundation uses gabions to preserve the natural groundwater flow. One edge of the site runs parallel to a historic road, formerly a major artery of old Guwahati, now home to the Assam Post Office. A long corridor enhances the narrow existing footpath, with subdued grey granite tones forming a calm backdrop to the vibrant hues of nature.Save this picture!The design improves the mobility of pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists while creating open, breathable spaces in this densely populated neighborhood. A partly sunken car park serves both the museum and the riverside. Walkable, interconnected, meandering paths connect the Padam Pukhuri, the courts, and the riverbanks.Save this picture!Save this picture!As a pilot initiative for riverfront development undertaken by the local urban development authority, the model design emphasizes durable and sustainable details that can be standardized and easily replicated for the phased expansion of the riverfront. With the completion of the first phase, now open to the public, upcoming phases will introduce key features including a riverfront restaurant and another Padam Pukhuri with more intimate, curvilinear stepped pavilions.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessProject locationAddress:Guwahati, IndiaLocation to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.About this officeatArchitectureOfficePublished on January 25, 2025Cite: "Urban Regeneration of Brahmaputra Riverfront / atArchitecture" 24 Jan 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1025990/urban-regeneration-of-brahmaputra-riverfront-atarchitecture&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

Get a behind-the-scenes look at how Raul Uriascreates mind-bending pieces inspired by his Mexican culture and years as an illustrator with #Photoshop and #AdobeFirefly!

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