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July 10, 2024   |   Read Online Brought to you by: Top stories today: Microsoft quits board observer role at OpenAI, Apple won't join xAI's Grok 2 likely out next month, building AI data center Fed Chair Powell highlights "two-sided risks" on rate cuts PC shipments +3% YoY to 64.9M in Q2, with Apple +21% to 5.7M Anthropic launches Prompt Generator for developers Follow us on X | Instagram | Advertise to our 250K+ subscribers 0. Data and calendar All values as of 6 AM ET / 3 AM PT, other than S&P500 and NASDAQ close (4 PM ET / 1 PM PT). All times are ET. 1. Microsoft quits board observer role at OpenAI, Apple won't join, amid antitrust probes OpenAI confirmed the news. The U.S. and the EU are probing the relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft. 2. xAI's Grok 2 likely out next month, building AI data center with 100K NVIDIA H100s The Oracle partnership will be phased out over time, Elon suggested, confirming media reports: X: Elon Musk. Datacenter to cost $5B over 2 years. Q2 2025: when it's expected to be ready. Grok 3 will be trained using it. 3. Fed Chair Powell highlights "two-sided risks" on rate cuts Fed Chair Powell: This is no longer an overheated economy "If we loosen policy too late or too little, we could hurt economic activity. If we loosen policy too much or too soon, we could undermine the progress on inflation." "Likely direction" is a rate cut, not a rate hike. The rate curve was little changed, with markets expecting a 1st rate cut in September and a 2nd one in December CME FedWatch Tool. 4. Athyna: Hire high-quality, affordable remote talent Athyna. They source the best talent from LATAM and South Africa. Native or fluent English. Similar time zones. 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of U.S./European talent. It's what the Bay Area Times uses to hire our team! $1,000 discount for BAT readers. Learn more about Athyna. *Disclaimer: Athyna is a partner of the Bay Area Times. 5. PC shipments +3% YoY to 64.9M in Q2, with Apple +21% to 5.7M IDC. 6. 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