The latest agreement between OpenAI and Oracle will expand Stargate’s data center capacity, ultimately surpassing the halfway point of their goal.

The US$500 billion Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure project is moving forward despite internal disputes and SoftBank's withdrawal, with OpenAI and Oracle signing agreements for a 4.5GW data center that suppliers expect will drive sustained demand through 2026.

OpenAI partners with Oracle to boost Stargate AI capacity to 5 GW, as Elon Musk targets 50 million H100-scale units for xAI over the next five years.

OpenAI's Sam Altman cautions that AI voice cloning poses a fraud threat to financial institutions, echoing cybersecurity experts' concerns about evolving AI issues.

The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.

Who's picking up the tab again? AI hype man and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has convinced his buddies at Oracle to bring an additional 4.5 gigawatts of datacenter capacity online in the US as part of the startup's Stargate initiative.

Oracle and OpenAI expand Stargate project with 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, part of a $500 billion U.S. AI infrastructure investment creating over 100,000 jobs.