billions

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He also told reporters that Gates looked "down-trodden for a guy worth several billions".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Accordingly, he discerns that much of what passes for “AI alignment” is, in practice, a small number of San Francisco labs encoding their idiosyncratic values into systems that now shape billions of lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

The coming months should mark a meaningful step-up, with a flurry of high-profile mega-IPOs from SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic expected to raise tens of billions of dollars each.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Their goal is to secure the billions of dollars required for their capital-intensive projects to build artificial general intelligence, a broadly capable computer system that is smarter than humans at all cognitive work.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Slipping between millions and billions or between billions and trillions should in this sense be equally funny, but it isn’t, because we too often lack an intuitive feeling for these numbers.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos