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Nvidia has reportedly offered a $250 billion financial backstop for a 10-gigawatt data center complex in Ohio being built by SoftBank unit SB Energy for OpenAI, aiming to secure long-term chip demand and lower AI inferen…
Microsoft's in-house MAI-Code-1-Flash model, post-trained within GitHub Copilot's harness, achieves approximately 10% higher code accept rate than GPT 5.4 Mini and Claude Haiku 4.5 in VS Code, with 6% and 11% higher day-…
Elon Musk said on Tesla's recent earnings call that the Terafab project, a massive vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturing facility producing over 1 terawatt of AI compute annually, will announce its final loca…
AI critic Ed Zitron, author of the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, told MacRumors that Apple is well positioned to weather a collapse of the AI infrastructure bubble because it has spent far less on data centers than riva…
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced new data center GPUs and CPUs at the Advancing AI conference, including the Helios 72-GPU rack system with MI455 GPUs delivering up to 18× more tokens per dollar versus MI355. Anthropic will buy…
Atlas Discovery launched out of stealth with foundation models that predict individual patient drug responses in clinical trials, targeting the costly gap between preclinical results and human efficacy. Y Combinator gene…
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is releasing its Kimi K3 model weights for free, a move that challenges US AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic by offering a high-performance, low-cost open-weight alternative. Experts…
Nvidia plans to invest $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), an AI firm founded by Ilya Sutskever after his departure from OpenAI, according to a report by @FirstSquawk. Nvidia confirmed a strategic investment…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the singularity has been reached, warning that startups resembling those from a decade ago are already in trouble and that the old playbook of hiring large teams and spending a year on…
ChapsVision, a French software company founded in 2019, has won a critical data analytics contract with France's domestic intelligence agency DGSI, replacing Palantir's Gotham platform with its ArgonOS system. The decisi…
Y Combinator's Startup School drew over 6,000 attendees to San Francisco's Chase Center for a two-day conference featuring AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta's Alexandr Wang, Ant…
Block launched Buzz, an open-source workspace where AI agents are treated as team members with their own identities and keys, amassing 6,700 GitHub stars in two days. Andrew Ng released OpenWorker, a local-first personal…
SK Group and NVIDIA signed letters of intent for a potential $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership, including a 2GW AI cloud project in Korea using NVIDIA's DSX design and SK hynix HBM4 memory, with the first AI fac…
Deutsche Bank analyst Adrian Cox argues that the competition between open-weight and closed AI models will likely resemble the coexistence of Apple's iOS and Google's Android rather than a winner-takes-all format war lik…
NVIDIA is in talks to provide a financing guarantee of up to $250 billion to help OpenAI lease capacity at a massive AI data center campus in southern Ohio developed by SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy, which is designed to…
Eromify and Higgsfield AI serve different creator needs: Eromify focuses on fast AI persona monetization with credit packs starting at $5 and a $99 monthly plan, while Higgsfield, founded by former Snap generative AI hea…
Higgsfield AI, in partnership with ADWEEK, launched the 'Adathon' contest with an $85,000 prize pool in platform credits for teams that produce the best AI-assisted advertisement for a real brand. The month-long competit…
Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and DeepSeek are forcing Silicon Valley to rethink assumptions about the AI race, with Moonshot pausing new Kimi K3 subscriptions less than 48 hours after launch due to overwhelming GPU demand. …
Enigma, a physical AI startup founded by Unit 8200 veterans Jonathan Jacobi and Gal Niv, emerged from stealth with a $71 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital to build an intelligence layer for any …
Nvidia is accelerating financing deals, partnerships, and equity stakes that could collectively exceed $750 billion, including over $500 billion tied to SK Hynix's parent and up to $250 billion in guarantees for OpenAI's…