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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 …
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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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration — $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips
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Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more — With backing from the Chinese government, TCM practitioners are integrating AI tools to reach new consumers at home and abroad.| 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.”| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
OpenAI says it is asking select advertisers to commit at least $200K as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT; two sources say their firms were pitched lower amounts — OpenAI is asking select advertisers to commit at least $200,000 as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT, the company confirmed to ADWEEK.| 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| 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” …
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| Alan Boyle / GeekWire: |
Amazon asks the FCC for a 2-year extension until July 30, 2028, to deploy half of the 3,232 satellites for its Leo internet system, citing a rocket shortage — Amazon says it's been harder than expected to secure rides for its Amazon Leo broadband internet satellites, and now it's asking … | Financial Times: |
A look at China's “genius class” system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni include many top tech founders — A network of ultra-competitive high-school talent streams has been turning out the leading lights of science and tech| 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 … | 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/nvidia, r/hardware, and Ars OpenForum
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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
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