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Newly surfaced emails from the Musk versus Altman lawsuit are pulling back the curtain on what Microsoft really thought of OpenAI back in two thousand eighteen. Executives were skeptical of the partnership but worried that walking away might push OpenAI straight into Amazon's arms. It's a reminder that billion-dollar alliances are often less about conviction than about who you fear more.
On the return-to-office front, Best Buy is the latest company to raise the ante, now requiring headquarters employees to come in four days a week. The retailer joins a growing list of major corporations tightening hybrid arrangements, and the pattern raises a familiar question about who this serves — the work, or the appearance of work.
And in perhaps the most ambitious infrastructure story of the week, a Peter Thiel-backed company called Panthalassa has raised one billion dollars to build floating data centers powered by ocean waves. The pitch is straightforward: land-based power grids are a bottleneck, and open ocean offers tens of terawatts of untapped potential. Whether the engineering can match the vision is another matter entirely.
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