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Memory capacity has quickly emerged as a bottleneck in the AI build-out.

OpenAI will make 2026 its year of “practical adoption,” the artificial intelligence startup’s finance chief said in a blog Sunday.

Investors are valuing the startup at $4.8 billion as it is about to close another funding round, according to two people familiar with the matter.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressed concerns about children’s screen time, as the House of Lords may vote next week on an under-16s social media ban.

Many U.S. states are planning bitcoin strategic reserves, and other forms of crypto financing, showing budgets are buying into the digital assets trend.

An updated rule from the EPA closed a loophole that allowed xAI to build its Memphis data center quickly using air-polluting turbines as a power source.

The appeal could delay any implementation of the finalized remedies.

OpenAI has inked multibillion-dollar deals with AI chipmakers including Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom and Cerebras.

OpenAI said ads would not influence ChatGPT’s responses and that it will “never” sell user data to advertisers.

“We need more and more memory to address that demand,” Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra told CNBC’s Jim Cramer.