🗞️ AI Investment And A Lot Of Executive Orders

January 21, 2025

January 21st, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle to invest $500 billion in AI, Trump says

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that three leading companies would make a large investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure. OpenAI, SoftBank (9984. T), and Oracle (ORCL.N) will form a joint venture called Stargate, with a plan to invest $500 billion, Trump said at the White House.

finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-softbank-oracle-invest-500-223823820.html

  • President Trump has announced a joint venture with OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank to invest $500 billion dollars in AI infrastructure in the U.S.

  • Trump has signed multiple executive orders that have to do with Immigration, Energy, DEI, TikTok, the Federal workforce, and gender issues…read more about them here

  • Attorney Generals from 22 states have sued President Trump to block the executive order that he signed that refuses to recognize the U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants as citizens

  • The entire Gulf Coast is bracing for a historic winter storm, Louisiana is bracing for its first blizzard warning in history, Florida for their first winter storm watch in 11 years, and Houston is expecting the largest snowfall in 65 years

  • Trump has pardoned about 1500 January 6th defendants

  • The U.S. apartment vacancy rate in large cities jumped to 6.1% in Q4 2024, the highest in 13 years

  • A homebuyer needed to earn an annual income of at least $116,782 to afford a home at the end of 2024, per Redfin

  • Netflix is hiking the price of most of its U.S. plans, its standard plan without commercials will increase from $15.49 a month to $17.99 and its cheaper, ad-supported plan will increase from $6.99 per month to $7.99

  • DOW up 1.24%/ S&P up .88%

  • A massive fire blazed through a 12-story hotel at a Ski Resort in Turkey killing at least 76 people and leaving 51 injured

  • Prince Harry’s lawsuit against The Sun Newspaper and owner Rupert Murdoch took a turn today as the trial was delayed for last-minute settlement negotiations, Prince Harry alleges the newspaper’s journalists and private investigators targeted him through illegal practices

Plus: A look at U.S. Political Party identification since 1988

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