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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 …
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 …
Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of AI agents on the site and post anything; the database has now been closed  —  ‘It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.’  —  Moltbook is a “social media” …
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
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Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org and @bodil@social.treehouse …
Forums: Hacker News, r/worldnews, r/OpenAI, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/france, r/technews, Lobsters, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
Matteo Wong / The Atlantic:
Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful  —  These are not the words you want to hear when it comes to human extinction, but I was hearing them: “Things are moving uncomfortably fast.”
More: Transformer and Newcomer
X: @theatlantic.  LinkedIn: Damon Beres.  Bluesky: @damonberes.com and @matteowong
Ann Cao / South China Morning Post:
Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon  —  The milestone underscores Alibaba's growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processors
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
Filing: Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon reports a $316M net profit in 2025, its first profitable year; rivals Moore Threads and MetaX narrowed their losses  —  Domestic A-share companies in the sector are forecast to achieve substantial growth in their 2025 results, according to Donghai Securities
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.
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.
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.

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