TechCrunch
Lambda borrows $1 billion to buy Nvidia chips to rent to Microsoft, continuing the AI industry's proud tradition of spending billions in borrowed money to build the future.
The Verge
Jensen Huang declares Nvidia has achieved AGI - again - despite no one agreeing on what AGI is, making the 'achievement' about as meaningful as a participation trophy.
TechCrunch
Anthropic drops $45 billion on Nscale compute, because who needs a rainy day fund when you can have chips?
TechCrunch
Generalist raises nearly $200M to hit $3B valuation, betting robots are about to have their 'ChatGPT moment' - but VCs say we might still be years away from robots doing our chores.
TechCrunch
OpenAI's custom chip beats Nvidia's in benchmarks, but it won't be fully deployed until 2027 - so hold your horses, or maybe just your tokens.
TechCrunch
Nvidia's latest move: invest in the plumbing so the AI gold rush doesn't run out of juice.
Ars Technica
Nvidia's $21B SpaceX stake shows that in the AI industry, financial entanglement is the new handshake, and Jensen Huang is the master of ceremonies.
TechCrunch
Kog claims it can make your existing GPUs 30x faster at AI inference, because why buy new hardware when you can just reverse-engineer the old stuff?
BBC Business
South Korean investors who rode the AI stock wave are now learning that what goes up can come down - sometimes with a margin call on its way.
Ars Technica
Anthropic is joining the custom chip party, because relying on Nvidia is apparently too mainstream. They're hiring chip designers now, so expect results in a few years, maybe.
TechCrunch
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics raises $1B to build mini reactors, because AI needs power and we're all out of patience.
TechCrunch
Infinity raises $15M to build a CUDA alternative that lets AI models run on any chip, because Nvidia's monopoly could use a little competition.
TechCrunch
Jensen Huang's two-day Tokyo trip resulted in deals for a national AI factory, robotics partnerships, and chip-supplier agreements, betting Japan's industrial future on Nvidia hardware.
The Atlantic
China tells Nvidia 'no thanks' to its H200 chips, preferring to build its own inferior ones - because nothing says innovation like reinventing the wheel, badly, while locking out the rest of the world.
TechCrunch
Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised $55M at a $300M valuation for visual AI startup Elorian - before shipping a single product. Investors, apparently, are big on seeing the future.
TechCrunch
Reflection AI spends another billion on compute, because nothing says 'open source' like buying up all the GPUs.
TechCrunch
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung about making its own AI chips, because nothing says independence from Nvidia like teaming up with Nvidia's biggest partner.
BBC Business
Trump's 2025 financial disclosure is a 927-page epic featuring $1bn in crypto, a Bible side hustle, and a cameo-worthy pension from 'Home Alone 2.'
The Guardian Europe
Markets do their best impression of a yo-yo as Iran halts operations, oil prices spike then retreat, AI stocks get a reality check, and the world's oldest bank becomes the centre of a bidding war.
TechCrunch
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for compute, because apparently renting GPUs is now the most expensive subscription service in the universe.
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