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At that time, the company was valued at $1.25 trillion, and the stake of the Baron Partners Fund—Baron Capital’s largest fund—was valued at $3.89 billion, giving the fund billions in paper profits.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Governments and tech firms worldwide are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI data centres that can train and run tools such as chatbots, image generators and agents.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

To search for potential treatments, researchers used large-scale computational screening methods to evaluate billions of possible molecules.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

Some prospective IPO investors feared that Mastercard could ultimately be on the hook for many billions of dollars’ worth of legal liabilities related to allegations of price fixing.

From MarketWatch • May 25, 2026

A star can burn for billions of years, but it dies just once and quickly, and only a few dying stars explode.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson