Oct. 20, 2025
The Winners Of The AI Boom You Never Thought About
Big AWS outage took down half the internet overnight. X wants you to be able to snap up dormant or desirable X handles. Blackwell chips look like they’ve hit volume production in the US. And you know who else is benefiting from the AI boom? Crypto miners and makers of plain old cables.
- Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more (The Verge)
- OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr. (TechCrunch)
- X to launch marketplace for buying inactive handles (TechCrunch)
- Oura redesigns app with expanded stress tracking (The Verge)
- Exclusive: Nvidia and TSMC unveil first Blackwell chip wafer made in U.S. (Axios)
- $500 purple cables put this little-known company in the middle of the AI boom (CNBC)
- Crypto Miners Riding the AI Wave Are Leaving Bitcoin Behind (Bloomberg)
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