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After billions of years dominated by microscopic organisms, the Ediacaran period, which lasted from about 635 million to 539 million years ago, saw the emergence of the first animals.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Among those customers, OpenAI and Anthropic will soon have access to tens of billions of dollars in public investment as well.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Forbes has estimated his net worth in the billions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Meta is already spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out the infrastructure it thinks it needs to compete in the artificial intelligence race.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Subprime mortgage lending was still a trivial fraction of the U.S. credit markets—a few tens of billions in loans each year—but its existence made sense, even to Steve Eisman.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis