Alexei Oreskovic

@lexnfx

Deputy Tech Editor, Fortune. Previously Business Insider, Reuters...

Joined January 2009

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 25

Did Intel’s CEO just signal that the chipmaker is giving up on Moore’s Law? fortune.com/2025/07/25/int…

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 24

Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan says Intel chips alone not enough to justify capital spend on fabs, need at least one major outside customer. Future capital spending will need to be justified. "I do not subscribe to the belief that if you build it they will come"

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 23

Google raised its 2025 capital expenditures to $85 billion, up from previous plan for $75 billion. And it expects capex next year to increase even more! AI infrastructure arms race not slowing down anytime soon...

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 23

Silicon Valley’s elite descend on DC to celebrate Trump’s AI Action Plan in a surreal fusion of podcast and policy fortune.com/2025/07/23/all…

lexnfx's tweet card. David Sacks, Trump’s AI czar, shared the stage with his cohosts from the “All-in Podcast” on Wednesday, walking through the various elements of the new 28-page AI Action Plan

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 19

Elon Musk’s latest blending of his business interests puts the Grok AI chatbot in all new Teslas—and raises questions around data and privacy fortune.com/2025/07/19/elo…

lexnfx's tweet card. It’s unclear whether the new partnership will allow xAI to use vehicle data to train its large language models.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 16

Apple may have folded to the pressure of creating a foldable phone with Samsung tech instead of its own homegrown design fortune.com/2025/07/16/app…

lexnfx's tweet card. Apple did something similar with the iPhone X: leaning on Samsung's manufacturing prowess, but improving upon it.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 15

Coding has emerged as genAI’s killer use case. But what if its benefits are a mirage? fortune.com/2025/07/15/ai-…

lexnfx's tweet card. In a recent study, software developers vastly overestimated how much more efficient they were with AI help.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 15

Amazon’s Prime Day celebratory recap was missing one key metric that the tech giant usually reveals fortune.com/2025/07/14/ama…

lexnfx's tweet card. Alexa, how many items did Amazon sell this Prime Day?

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 14

Elon Musk spent months slashing federal contracts — Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business fortune.com/2025/07/14/elo…

lexnfx's tweet card. xAI says that it wants to start servicing federal, local, state, and national security customers.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 11

The exclusivity on OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition for coding startup Windsfurf has expired fortune.com/2025/07/11/the…

lexnfx's tweet card. Windsurf will continue to operate as an independent company

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 10

The big question in the wake of Grok's ugly rampage and Yaccarino's exit: Was this the inevitable result when a social media platform (incentivized to win the attention-economy) is fused with an AI company (incentivized to win the AGI race)? fortune.com/2025/07/10/lin…

lexnfx's tweet card. In an unsurprising turn of events, Linda Yaccarino’s tenure as CEO of X has come to an end.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 8

Companies want AI to be better than the average human. Measuring that isn’t straightforward fortune.com/2025/07/08/com…

lexnfx's tweet card. Average performance figures may not tell us what we really want to know about how AI systems operate.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 8

Amazon’s tariff-clouded, seller-confused, AI-researched, weirdest Prime Day ever fortune.com/2025/07/08/ama…

lexnfx's tweet card. Ten years after Amazon launched Prime Day, this year’s version of the online shopping and discount extravaganza is unlike any other in the company’s history.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 5

As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google’s brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offer critical lessons fortune.com/2025/07/05/wha…

lexnfx's tweet card. Motorola's failed bet on assembling phones in the U.S. offers important lessons for Apple today.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 1

And as investors chomp at the bit for opportunities to ride the AI wave, Figma must make the case that it can harness the power of generative AI to tap into new growth without itself becoming a victim of AI fortune.com/2025/07/01/fig…

lexnfx's tweet card. The design software startup, helmed by cofounder Dylan Field, moved closer towards one of the most anticipated public offerings of the year.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jun 30

Mark Zuckerberg overhauled Meta’s entire AI org in a risky, multi-billion dollar bet on ‘superintelligence’ fortune.com/2025/06/30/mar…

lexnfx's tweet card. Helmed by Alexandr Wang, Meta’s newly created Superintelligence Labs unifies the company’s sprawling AI efforts and raises the stakes for rival AI firms.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jun 30

Longtime Bessemer investor Mary D’Onofrio, who backed Anthropic and Canva, leaves for Crosslink Capital fortune.com/2025/06/30/bes…

lexnfx's tweet card. D’Onofrio will lead Crosslink’s crossover fund, where she will focus on AI vertical software and infrastructure, making a small number of "high conviction" bets.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jun 28

Ford CEO Jim Farley says Waymo’s approach to self-driving makes more sense than Tesla’s fortune.com/2025/06/27/for…

lexnfx's tweet card. Farley says that LiDAR is “mission critical.”

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jun 22

Inside the rise of Alexandr Wang and Meta’s $14 billion bet that the MIT dropout will help bring AI supremacy fortune.com/2025/06/22/ins…

lexnfx's tweet card. Wang turned Scale AI into a vital piece of the AI revolution, and briefly claimed the title of youngest self-made billionaire in the process. Now Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is paying up to bring him...

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jun 19

South Loop Ventures’s Zach Ellis on investing in Texas and diverse founders fortune.com/2025/06/19/sou…

lexnfx's tweet card. Zach Ellis recently launched South Loop Ventures’s first $21 million fund.

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