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[ad_1] Jeff Bezos gestures as he leaves Aman Venice hotel, ahead of his expected wedding, in Venice, Italy, on June 25, 2025.Guglielmo Mangiapane | ReutersJeff Bezos is bringing in a veteran Amazon executive to oversee his $10 billion climate and biodiversity fund.Tom Taylor, who previously ran Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant division, will serve as the new president and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund, the former tech executive wrote in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. Taylor announced his retirement from Amazon in 2022 after roughly 23 years at the company, which also included a role overseeing the third-party seller services…

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[ad_1] Lisa Su, chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., during the AMD Advancing AI event in San Jose, California, on Dec. 6, 2023.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAdvanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that it will soon restart shipments of its MI308 artificial intelligence chips to China. The stock climbed 7% following the news.The company said Tuesday that the U.S. Commerce Department plans to resume reviewing its license applications to send the products to the world’s second-largest economy. AMD said it plans to start shipments once those are approved.”We applaud the progress made by the Trump administration…

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[ad_1] Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesFairshake, the cryptocurrency industry’s most powerful political action committee, announced Tuesday that it now holds more than $141 million in cash on hand, underscoring the sector’s growing influence as Congress takes up landmark legislation this week.The total, which includes liquid assets like crypto, stock, and cash, reflects a surge of donations from digital asset executives and firms, including a fresh $25 million from Coinbase.Fairshake and its two affiliated PACs — Defend American Jobs and Protect Progress — have raised $109 million since Election Day in 2024 and $52 million during just the first…

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[ad_1] Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30, 2024.Danielle DeVries | CNBCIf there is one thing the U.S. needs to lead the artificial intelligence revolution, it’s electricity. Insane amounts of it.A 2024 report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy found that data centers — the backbone of artificial intelligence — already accounted for more than 4% of U.S. electricity use, and the report said that could grow to 12% by 2028. That would be 580 billion kilowatt hours, or nearly 20 times the annual power consumption of the city of Chicago.”Data…

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