Saritha Rai
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Asia AI Reporter for Bloomberg @business @technology @BW
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This has got to be the IT services deal of the year!
India's Coforge (2025 revenues $1.45B) agrees to buy Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion through a share swap, adding artificial intelligence, data and product engineering expertise.
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India's Coforge (2025 revenues $1.45B) agrees to buy Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion through a share swap, adding artificial intelligence, data and product engineering expertise.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This has got to be the IT services deal of the year!
India's Coforge (2025 revenues $1.45B) agrees to buy Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion through a share swap, adding artificial intelligence, data and product engineering expertise.
Read more
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
India's Coforge (2025 revenues $1.45B) agrees to buy Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion through a share swap, adding artificial intelligence, data and product engineering expertise.
Read more
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This has got to be the IT services deal of the year!
India's Coforge (2025 revenues $1.45B) agrees to buy Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion through a share swap, adding artificial intelligence, data and product engineering expertise.
Read more
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
India's Coforge (2025 revenues $1.45B) agrees to buy Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion through a share swap, adding artificial intelligence, data and product engineering expertise.
Read more
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This has got to be the IT services deal of the year!
India's Coforge (2025 revenues $1.45B) agrees to buy Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion through a share swap, adding artificial intelligence, data and product engineering expertise.
Read more
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
India's Coforge (2025 revenues $1.45B) agrees to buy Encora at an enterprise value of $2.35 billion through a share swap, adding artificial intelligence, data and product engineering expertise.
Read more
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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What did Satya Nadella, one of the world's most successful tech CEOs, do over Thanksgiving? Built a Deep Research app combining his two passions: coding & cricket
Nadella deployed the app to select an Indian Test Cricket team of all-time greats
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Nadella deployed the app to select an Indian Test Cricket team of all-time greats
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December 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
What did Satya Nadella, one of the world's most successful tech CEOs, do over Thanksgiving? Built a Deep Research app combining his two passions: coding & cricket
Nadella deployed the app to select an Indian Test Cricket team of all-time greats
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Nadella deployed the app to select an Indian Test Cricket team of all-time greats
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What did Satya Nadella, one of the world's most successful tech CEOs, do over Thanksgiving? Built a Deep Research app combining his two passions: coding & cricket
Nadella deployed the app to select an Indian Test Cricket team of all-time greats
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#AI
Nadella deployed the app to select an Indian Test Cricket team of all-time greats
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
What did Satya Nadella, one of the world's most successful tech CEOs, do over Thanksgiving? Built a Deep Research app combining his two passions: coding & cricket
Nadella deployed the app to select an Indian Test Cricket team of all-time greats
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Nadella deployed the app to select an Indian Test Cricket team of all-time greats
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft Corp pledged to invest $17.5 Bn in AI and cloud computing in India over the next four years to fuel growth in the world's most populous nation.
Global AI giants are increasinly looking eastward for expansion.
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Global AI giants are increasinly looking eastward for expansion.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Microsoft Corp pledged to invest $17.5 Bn in AI and cloud computing in India over the next four years to fuel growth in the world's most populous nation.
Global AI giants are increasinly looking eastward for expansion.
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Global AI giants are increasinly looking eastward for expansion.
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Microsoft Corp pledged to invest $17.5 Bn in AI and cloud computing in India over the next four years to fuel growth in the world's most populous nation.
Global AI giants are increasinly looking eastward for expansion.
Read more
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Global AI giants are increasinly looking eastward for expansion.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Microsoft Corp pledged to invest $17.5 Bn in AI and cloud computing in India over the next four years to fuel growth in the world's most populous nation.
Global AI giants are increasinly looking eastward for expansion.
Read more
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Global AI giants are increasinly looking eastward for expansion.
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A tiny AI lab cofounded by Ashish Vasmani & Niki Parmar, two of the authors of the seminal Transformer "Attention is All You Need" paper, has released their first AI model
The model Rnj-1 is open source, specializes in STEM
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The model Rnj-1 is open source, specializes in STEM
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December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A tiny AI lab cofounded by Ashish Vasmani & Niki Parmar, two of the authors of the seminal Transformer "Attention is All You Need" paper, has released their first AI model
The model Rnj-1 is open source, specializes in STEM
Gift link (free to read until Dec 15)
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The model Rnj-1 is open source, specializes in STEM
Gift link (free to read until Dec 15)
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A tiny AI lab cofounded by Ashish Vasmani & Niki Parmar, two of the authors of the seminal Transformer "Attention is All You Need" paper, has released their first AI model
The model Rnj-1 is open source, specializes in STEM
Gift link (free to read until Dec 15)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The model Rnj-1 is open source, specializes in STEM
Gift link (free to read until Dec 15)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A tiny AI lab cofounded by Ashish Vasmani & Niki Parmar, two of the authors of the seminal Transformer "Attention is All You Need" paper, has released their first AI model
The model Rnj-1 is open source, specializes in STEM
Gift link (free to read until Dec 15)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The model Rnj-1 is open source, specializes in STEM
Gift link (free to read until Dec 15)
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How Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani of India's Reliance conglomerate, and his Jio platform are becoming pivotal to the plans of global AI giants
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December 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
How Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani of India's Reliance conglomerate, and his Jio platform are becoming pivotal to the plans of global AI giants
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How Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani of India's Reliance conglomerate, and his Jio platform are becoming pivotal to the plans of global AI giants
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www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
How Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani of India's Reliance conglomerate, and his Jio platform are becoming pivotal to the plans of global AI giants
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DeepSeek debuts new models that combine reasoning with agentic capabilities to execute certain actions autonomously.
The models DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale match the latest OpenAI & Google frontier models in performance @bloomberg.com
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The models DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale match the latest OpenAI & Google frontier models in performance @bloomberg.com
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December 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
DeepSeek debuts new models that combine reasoning with agentic capabilities to execute certain actions autonomously.
The models DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale match the latest OpenAI & Google frontier models in performance @bloomberg.com
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The models DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale match the latest OpenAI & Google frontier models in performance @bloomberg.com
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DeepSeek debuts new models that combine reasoning with agentic capabilities to execute certain actions autonomously.
The models DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale match the latest OpenAI & Google frontier models in performance @bloomberg.com
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The models DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale match the latest OpenAI & Google frontier models in performance @bloomberg.com
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December 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
DeepSeek debuts new models that combine reasoning with agentic capabilities to execute certain actions autonomously.
The models DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale match the latest OpenAI & Google frontier models in performance @bloomberg.com
Read more
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The models DeepSeek-V3.2 & DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale match the latest OpenAI & Google frontier models in performance @bloomberg.com
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Guess which university files more AI patents than Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Univ of California, Princeton combined?
Tsinghua University, the school that Chinese President Xi graduated from, is now driving China’s AI boom
Gift link: Free to read till Nov 26
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Tsinghua University, the school that Chinese President Xi graduated from, is now driving China’s AI boom
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November 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Guess which university files more AI patents than Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Univ of California, Princeton combined?
Tsinghua University, the school that Chinese President Xi graduated from, is now driving China’s AI boom
Gift link: Free to read till Nov 26
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Tsinghua University, the school that Chinese President Xi graduated from, is now driving China’s AI boom
Gift link: Free to read till Nov 26
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
Guess which university files more AI patents than Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Univ of California, Princeton combined?
Tsinghua University, the school that Chinese President Xi graduated from, is now driving China’s AI boom
Gift link: Free to read till Nov 26
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
Tsinghua University, the school that Chinese President Xi graduated from, is now driving China’s AI boom
Gift link: Free to read till Nov 26
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Guess which university files more AI patents than Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Univ of California, Princeton combined?
Tsinghua University, the school that Chinese President Xi graduated from, is now driving China’s AI boom
Gift link: Free to read till Nov 26
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
Tsinghua University, the school that Chinese President Xi graduated from, is now driving China’s AI boom
Gift link: Free to read till Nov 26
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
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Your readymade reading list!
Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books 2025 - 82 books that global business leaders couldn't put down
What the world's most powerful people wanted from a book? Understanding, hope, & dose of escapism (same as most of us)
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books 2025 - 82 books that global business leaders couldn't put down
What the world's most powerful people wanted from a book? Understanding, hope, & dose of escapism (same as most of us)
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
@bloomberg.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Your readymade reading list!
Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books 2025 - 82 books that global business leaders couldn't put down
What the world's most powerful people wanted from a book? Understanding, hope, & dose of escapism (same as most of us)
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
@bloomberg.com
Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books 2025 - 82 books that global business leaders couldn't put down
What the world's most powerful people wanted from a book? Understanding, hope, & dose of escapism (same as most of us)
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
@bloomberg.com
Your readymade reading list!
Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books 2025 - 82 books that global business leaders couldn't put down
What the world's most powerful people wanted from a book? Understanding, hope, & dose of escapism (same as most of us)
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
@bloomberg.com
Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books 2025 - 82 books that global business leaders couldn't put down
What the world's most powerful people wanted from a book? Understanding, hope, & dose of escapism (same as most of us)
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
@bloomberg.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Your readymade reading list!
Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books 2025 - 82 books that global business leaders couldn't put down
What the world's most powerful people wanted from a book? Understanding, hope, & dose of escapism (same as most of us)
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
@bloomberg.com
Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books 2025 - 82 books that global business leaders couldn't put down
What the world's most powerful people wanted from a book? Understanding, hope, & dose of escapism (same as most of us)
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
@bloomberg.com
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Warburg Pincus-backed PDG, prominent operator of data centers in Asia, is entering Korea with $700M investment to build 48MW capacity in Seoul.
Asia is trying to keep pace with US tech giants & AI cos that've pledged 100s of billions of dollars on data centers.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Asia is trying to keep pace with US tech giants & AI cos that've pledged 100s of billions of dollars on data centers.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Warburg-Backed Princeton Enters Korea With First Data Center
Princeton Digital Group, a data center operator in Asia backed by Warburg Pincus, plans to invest $700 million in its first South Korean campus to power artificial intelligence development in the coun...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Warburg Pincus-backed PDG, prominent operator of data centers in Asia, is entering Korea with $700M investment to build 48MW capacity in Seoul.
Asia is trying to keep pace with US tech giants & AI cos that've pledged 100s of billions of dollars on data centers.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Asia is trying to keep pace with US tech giants & AI cos that've pledged 100s of billions of dollars on data centers.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Warburg Pincus-backed PDG, prominent operator of data centers in Asia, is entering Korea with $700M investment to build 48MW capacity in Seoul.
Asia is trying to keep pace with US tech giants & AI cos that've pledged 100s of billions of dollars on data centers.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Asia is trying to keep pace with US tech giants & AI cos that've pledged 100s of billions of dollars on data centers.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Warburg-Backed Princeton Enters Korea With First Data Center
Princeton Digital Group, a data center operator in Asia backed by Warburg Pincus, plans to invest $700 million in its first South Korean campus to power artificial intelligence development in the coun...
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Warburg Pincus-backed PDG, prominent operator of data centers in Asia, is entering Korea with $700M investment to build 48MW capacity in Seoul.
Asia is trying to keep pace with US tech giants & AI cos that've pledged 100s of billions of dollars on data centers.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Asia is trying to keep pace with US tech giants & AI cos that've pledged 100s of billions of dollars on data centers.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Free! OpenAI is giving away a year of ChatGPT Go to lure more India users
Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
tinyurl.com/2psuwmza
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Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
tinyurl.com/2psuwmza
#AI
October 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Free! OpenAI is giving away a year of ChatGPT Go to lure more India users
Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
tinyurl.com/2psuwmza
#AI
Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
tinyurl.com/2psuwmza
#AI
Free! OpenAI is giving away a year of ChatGPT Go to lure more India users
Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
tinyurl.com/2psuwmza
#AI
Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
tinyurl.com/2psuwmza
#AI
October 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Free! OpenAI is giving away a year of ChatGPT Go to lure more India users
Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
tinyurl.com/2psuwmza
#AI
Silicon Valley AI startups from Anthropic to Perplexity are targeting country of 1.4B for its English-speaking users, engineering talent & resulting trove of human-generated data
tinyurl.com/2psuwmza
#AI
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A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa!
Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power
(gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power
(gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa!
Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power
(gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power
(gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa!
Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power
(gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power
(gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A deep dive into DeepSeek's surge in Africa!
Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power
(gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
Chinese AI model builders are making deep inroads into a continent that could become key to more users, more human-generated data and loads of soft power
(gift link: free to read until Oct 30)
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
#AI
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Emirates AI influential, billionaire Sheikh Tahnoon, designed his new seaside, Japanese-style Abu Dhabi mansion with 500 ChatGPT prompts & now plays host to AI founders like Sam Altman - as heard at Gitex 2025 by my Dubai colleague and I
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October 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Emirates AI influential, billionaire Sheikh Tahnoon, designed his new seaside, Japanese-style Abu Dhabi mansion with 500 ChatGPT prompts & now plays host to AI founders like Sam Altman - as heard at Gitex 2025 by my Dubai colleague and I
@bloomberg.com
gift link
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#AI
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#AI
Emirates AI influential, billionaire Sheikh Tahnoon, designed his new seaside, Japanese-style Abu Dhabi mansion with 500 ChatGPT prompts & now plays host to AI founders like Sam Altman - as heard at Gitex 2025 by my Dubai colleague and I
@bloomberg.com
gift link
bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
#AI
@bloomberg.com
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#AI
October 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Emirates AI influential, billionaire Sheikh Tahnoon, designed his new seaside, Japanese-style Abu Dhabi mansion with 500 ChatGPT prompts & now plays host to AI founders like Sam Altman - as heard at Gitex 2025 by my Dubai colleague and I
@bloomberg.com
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#AI
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#AI
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📢 📢 📢 A story I wrote with a bunch of talented Bloomberg colleagues -- on AI data centers devastating energy grids around the world -- is a Gerald Loeb Awards winner! Woohooo!
Dont miss this read !
(Gift link: free to read until Oct 17)
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Dont miss this read !
(Gift link: free to read until Oct 17)
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systems
New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
📢 📢 📢 A story I wrote with a bunch of talented Bloomberg colleagues -- on AI data centers devastating energy grids around the world -- is a Gerald Loeb Awards winner! Woohooo!
Dont miss this read !
(Gift link: free to read until Oct 17)
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Dont miss this read !
(Gift link: free to read until Oct 17)
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
@bloomberg.com
#AI