
Verne Kopytoff
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Senior editor, Fortune. Three words: Tech, tennis, travel
San Francisco
Joined January 2009
As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google’s brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offers critical lessons
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Motorola's failed bet on assembling phones in the U.S. offers important lessons for Apple today.
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Donald Trump wants to sell a USA-made phone. This company is already doing it:
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Purism, which makes the Liberty Phone in Carlsbad, Calif. using American components, is an anomaly in an industry where manufacturing and supply chains are almost entirely overseas.
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Apple says making smartphones in the USA is impossible. But one company has been doing it for years:
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Purism, which makes the Liberty Phone in Carlsbad, Calif. using American components, is an anomaly in an industry where manufacturing and supply chains are almost entirely overseas.
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OpenAI’s hiring of legendary former Apple design boss Jony Ive is a $6.5 billion move to dominate the AI age by creating the next iPhone
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The deal for the startup founded by the iPhone's chief designer is OpenAi's biggest ever.
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On Valentine’s Day, she was fired, along with a third of her colleagues, via an email from an anonymous DOGE account.
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The U.S. Digital Service was created in 2014 to bring digital best practices to the federal government. In its new incarnation, the office is focused on eliminating bureaucracy and cutting costs.
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What OpenAI's new focus on product design tells us about the future of AI:
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OpenAI’s is rushing to make its products more intuitive and useful as it tries to fend off Google, Meta, and DeepSeek.
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World's richest man - Elon Musk - gets a $10 million tax break for an xAI/X data center in Atlanta
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It’s the first step that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has taken into Georgia, and is the latest indication of the interconnectedness of the two “X” companies.
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RT @editorialiste: Fortune Brainstorm AI returns to London from May 6-7. Want to participate in our invite-only gathering about the next ge….
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Immigrant AI talent worry Trump could make an already broken visa system worse
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The U.S. depends on immigrants for top AI talent. But many struggle getting visas that would allow them to do the work.
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“It is a physics problem, not a political problem, about how much energy can be provided here”
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“We are dealing with the physical realities of what our utility system can provide," the CEO of the city's utility provider said in a city meeting about xAI's plans to massively expand the so-called...
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Trump AI and crypto ‘czar’ role is being scaled back as David Sacks clings to Silicon Valley commitments
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A Sacks spokesperson says he will comply with all relevant ethics rules, though he also intends to wear the czar's crown while continuing to work at VC firm Craft Ventures.
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Let's get the party started: Fortune Brainstorm AI starts now. Watch the stream here:
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Watch AI experts and important players in the tech space come together in Silicon Valley to discuss the future of AI technology.
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Intel isn't even in the top 10 of chipmakers by market cap
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List of the largest semiconductor companies by market capitalization, all rankings are updated daily.
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I'm old enough to remember Eric Schmidt denying Google planned to launch a browser. Of course, 15 months later, it did just that:
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Google Inc. has no plans to build its own Web browser software to compete with rival Microsoft Corp., Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.
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“Their Hail Mary is nukes"
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The companies are depending on nuclear energy to power their massive AI operations.
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