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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's OpenAI investment will be “the largest investment we've ever made”, after a report said plans to invest $100B in OpenAI stalled — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said the company will be participating in OpenAI's latest funding round …
More: Reuters, The Verge, iClarified, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, The Decoder, TechCrunch, Benzinga, DigiTimes, Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg, Notebookcheck, Implicator.ai, The Information, Business Standard, and Wall Street Journal
X: @mentoviax, @stocksavvyshay, @herbertong, @midnight_captl, @stockmktnewz, and @qthomp. Bluesky: @jessefelder. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Reuters: |
Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers — Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of 1 million satellites that will orbit Earth and harness the sun to power AI data centers …
More: The Verge, PCMag, TechCrunch, BBC, GeekWire, The Information, Bloomberg, Engadget, Cord Cutters News, DatacenterDynamics, SpaceNews, BGR, Notebookcheck, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, CNBC, Reuters, and Breaking Defense. Mastodon: @paul@oldfriends.live
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch — “Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves.” — It took Android devicemakers a very long time to commit to long-term update support.
More: Moneycontrol, TechRadar, Android Headlines, How-To Geek, Pocket-lint, Android Authority, 9to5Google, VideoCardz.com, and HotHardware
Forums: Hacker News, r/ShieldAndroidTV, r/AndroidTV, and Ars OpenForum
| Molly Taft / Wired: |
Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024 — Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
More: The Register, The Guardian, Yahoo Finance, and UnHerd
LinkedIn: Benjamin Horton. Bluesky: @scottagunn, @antoniajuhasz, @mollytaft.com, @drewharwell.com, and @marypcbuk
Forums: r/Futurology and r/Futurology
| Bloomberg: |
Nomura: total returns for software debt in collateralized loan obligations have been lower than all other sectors in 2026, amid fears about AI's impact on SaaS — Amid broad euphoria in credit markets, one type of debt is facing growing fear. — Software companies, larded up with debt …
X: @thestalwart and @thestalwart
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B+, with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating — Google's robotaxi start-up brings in new investors amid global roll out and competition from Elon Musk's Tesla
More: TechCrunch, Mercury News, Reuters, and NewsMax.com
| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week — Bitcoin fell sharply in early Saturday afternoon trading in New York, tumbling below $80,000 mark to hit levels last seen in April 2025.| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
How the music industry is split over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content — A folk-pop song called “I Know, You're Not Mine” recently topped Spotify's charts in Sweden. The soft vocals …
Forums: r/neoliberal
| Dr. Ian Cutress / More Than Moore: |
Q&A with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster, who says AMD is the first customer for TSMC's 2nm process, on AMD's rise since he joined in 2011, AI in chip design, and more — The Future is Faster Than Anyone Expected — If you rewind the clock ten years, AMD 0.00%↑ was not the company it is today.| Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: |
Miami-based Indigo, which uses AI-powered underwriting tech to provide medical liability insurance to physicians, raised a $50M Series B led by Rubicon Founders — Indigo, which provides liability insurance to physicians, raised $50 million in a Series B funding round, CEO Jared Kaplan tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Business Wire
| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented — I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from “how is this interesting at all” all the way to “it's so over”. To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more — The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It's an open source implementation …
More: moltbook, Ars Technica, NBC News, Forbes, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Information, The Post Millennial, Implicator.ai, Fortune, Axios, The Daily Caller, Spyglass, Artificial Ignorance, Semafor, Gizmodo, 404 Media, The Decoder, Exponential View, The Indian Express, OpenClaw, Forbes, WinBuzzer, Latent.Space, Yahoo Finance, Washington Times, Notorious R.O.B., CoinDesk, The Deep View, Dexerto, Decrypt, National Review, Michael Tsai, and Astral Codex Ten
X: @karpathy, @tszzl, @suppvalen, @olympum, @jsrailton, @aisafetymemes, @moltbook, @karpathy, @mattprd, @emollick, @thestalwart, @deanwball, @moltbook, @grummz, @t_blom, @kevinroose, @startupandrew, @moltbook, @jonahblake, @mikeisaac, @gregisenberg, @krishnanrohit, @emollick, @charlesarthur, @msmelchen, @binarybits, @yuchenj_uw, @legendaryy, @venturetwins, @itakgol, @n8programs, @yoheinakajima, @yuchenj_uw, @altryne, @karpathy, @karpathy, @citrini7, @chatgpt21, @uxfarman, @nabeelqu, @corsaren, @paularambles, @geneodell, @chris_segroves, @fredrik0x, @silkennine, @evan_oman, @0xrafacc, @jameshull, @_0x404_, @vicsintnic, @itakgol, @moltbook, @armandokirwin, @aisafetymemes, @gmoneynft, @paraschopra, @mishabrancato, @jtlonsdale, @danielmiessler, @charliebcurran, @simonw, @andrewcurran_, @legeonite, @cballou, @altryne, @fredlambert, @championswimmer, @jjainschigg, @johnrushx, @dwr, @aisafetymemes, @corsaren, @suhail, @dxrmok, @petergyang, @davidad, @itakgol, @mattprd, @ranking091, @deryatr_, @charlierward, @danbatten, @eeelistar, @eeelistar, @hesamation, @zwuvincent, @calco_io, @sw0oti, @tedchris, @meowbooksj, @simonw, @rokomijic, @grummz, @moltbook, @mattprd, @moltbook, @localghost, @danielmiessler, @mattprd, @flaviocopes, @spyzer, @suppvalen, @rokomijic, @akashvek, @championswimmer, @brianmcc, @gergelyorosz, @javi, @bowtiedswan, @moltbook, and @krishnanrohit
LinkedIn: Phillip Lord, Chris Pedder, Stu Hirst, Cody Barrow, Yaniv Golan, Dorit Dor, and Francesco D'Orazio
Bluesky: @johnshirley2024, @melaniemitchell, @prietschka, @stradicat, and @tante.cc
Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org and @bodil@social.treehouse …
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/france, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/technews, Lobsters, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Invest Like The Best on YouTube: |
Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader at Google, Meta, and others, on AI changing product development, building ad businesses, and more — Gokul Rajaram joins Patrick to discuss the seismic shift in product building driven by AI. As a legendary operator (Google, Facebook, Square, DoorDash) and p...| Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: |
TechCreate's shares surged ~1,995% in the past week; the payment software company says it is not aware of any info that would account for the trading activity — Singapore-based payment software company TechCreateTCGL $181.52 (101.20%) mooned on Thursday, rising 889% and prompting management … Sponsor Posts
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