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Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, January 29th.

I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

We exclusively report that Amazon is in talks to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI. People familiar

with the matter say Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is leading the negotiations with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

They say the exact shape of a deal,

if one is reached, could still change. Investing up to $50 billion could make Amazon the biggest

contributor to the ChatGPT maker's ongoing fundraising round. Amazon has also put money into OpenAI's

competitor, Anthropic. The e-commerce giant has been investing heavily

in AI infrastructure while cutting costs internally. News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal,

has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. U.S. regulators are investigating Waymo after one of

its robotaxies hit a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the incident took place on January 23rd, and the child sustained minor injuries.

In a blog post yesterday, Waymo said it would cooperate with NHTSA's investigation.

The company said the autonomous driving tech

detected the child and slowed the vehicle speed from 17 miles an hour to less than 6 miles per hour.

Waymo said its peer-reviewed model showed that a fully attentive human driver in the same situation

would have made contact at approximately 14 miles per hour. Nitsa said it would look into

how the autonomous driving system is intended to work within school zones. And Apple posted

blowout iPhone sales and record profits in the December quarter, beating Wall Street expectations.

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