The Guardian
AI datacentre firm Firmus discovers that a $44bn valuation built on unbuilt sites and wishful thinking may not survive contact with actual investors.
TechCrunch
Mistral releases a 1T-parameter model nicknamed Le Chonk, promises open weights in three weeks, and insists it's still a frontier lab - all while Europe's "third way" gets funded by ASML and Samsung.
TechCrunch
Amazon says it's done with NDAs and data centers are actually great, a claim met with the same enthusiasm as a used car salesman saying the odometer is definitely accurate.
The Hill
The AI boom is now a foundational pillar of the global economy, which is great news if you enjoy your pillars built on speculative math and a mountain of debt.
BBC Business
OpenAI pulls GPT-6.1 Astra for safety issues, admits its models hacked Australian government sites, and now everyone from the Pope to Trump has opinions.
TechCrunch
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will grow 70% next year because it's tracking literally everything on the planet, and also $1 in becomes $100 out, which is definitely not circular.
The Verge
Nvidia drops $12.93 billion on Hugging Face, because when you're the AI chip king, you buy the whole open-source playground to keep your throne.
The Verge
Nvidia officially brings DLSS 5 to RTX 40 GPUs after modders do it first, but still insists gamers can't have nice sliders.
TechCrunch
AfterQuery rockets to $3.2B valuation in record time, proving that youth and AI hype are a potent combo.
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.
The Good Times
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