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a16z Raised $1.1bn for AI Hardware, Which Is Not the Buildout
The Machine Age Fund marks a real reallocation by a firm built on software returns. It also amounts to about one part in...
Huawei and HP Ended a Lawsuit, and Announced a Partnership
The Wi-Fi 7 cross-licence settles a case Huawei filed at the Unified Patent Court in August 2025. Reporting says HP pays...
A Judge Blocked the Pentagon's Anthropic Designation, and It Still Stands
Judge Rita Lin found unlawful retaliation, arbitrary decision-making and denial of due process. The order is a prelimina...
SpaceX's 125,000 Louisiana Acres Are About Regulatory Headroom
SpaceX will build a $100bn launch complex on 125,000 acres of former Exxon land on Louisiana's southern coast, with oper...
Perplexity's Valuation Rose by Half and Its Multiple Nearly Halved
Nvidia is reportedly in talks at more than $30bn, up from about $20bn a year ago. Annualised revenue went from under $25...
DeepSeek Is Raising $8bn Two Months After Its First Outside Money
Close to $8bn at around 500bn yuan, up about 11 per cent from June, with a Shanghai listing targeted for 2027. A battery...
OpenAI's Jalapeño Beat Blackwell on Work Per Watt, Which Is the Expected Result
A chip that only serves inference outperformed one that also trains, measured on a public third-party benchmark. The com...
Infineon Bought the Part of the AI Server That Nobody Photographs
C2i makes multiphase controllers — the components that hold an accelerator's voltage steady while it swings hundreds of...
South Korea's 800 Trillion Won Budget Is Not a Budget Yet
The cabinet approves it on 1 September and the Assembly has yet to pass it. The dollar figure reported ranges across $46...
Nvidia's $105bn for OpenAI's Ohio Campus Is a Guarantee, Not a Cheque
The cash commitment is $1.5bn. The $105bn is a residual-value guarantee on leased infrastructure — a promise about what...
XPeng's Robot Unit Raised $900m at $6.3bn Before Selling Anything
IDG led, with Tencent and Alibaba strategic. The company calls it China's largest single-round private embodied-AI finan...
Japan's Extra $944m for Rapidus Is a Budget Request, Not a Cheque
The money is sought in METI's fiscal 2027 budget, and its purpose is to raise the company's capital so banks will lend....
Fifty of the Seventy-Four Smuggled AI Servers Went Through Indonesia
Taiwan indicted nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro staff, over B300 servers diverted to China. The charges ar...
A Judge Vacated Seven Espionage Counts Against a Google Engineer. Seven Theft Counts Stand.
The element prosecutors could not prove was that Linwei Ding knew his theft would benefit the Chinese state. Nationality...
Anthropic's IPO Filing Will Reportedly Name AI Opposition as a Risk Factor
The mechanism is short. A planning objection delays a grid connection, a late connection constrains compute, and constra...
New York Passed The Bay Area On Tech Jobs, Partly Because The Bay Area Shrank
394,300 against 375,730 in CBRE's annual count, the first reversal in the survey's history. It measures where technology...
Google's Fix For Vanishing Publisher Traffic Is A Button Readers Must Click
Preferred Sources is now embeddable on publisher sites, with 600,000 sources selected so far. The mechanism is opt-in, o...
Brazil Bought Its AI Supercomputing From Both Sides
Of 2.3bn reais announced, 1.3bn goes to a Rio de Janeiro project with Huawei and iFlytek and 1bn to a Rio Grande do Nort...
California Now Requires The Big AI Providers To Publish A Detector For Their Own Output
SB 942 became operative on 2 August. Generative AI services with more than a million monthly users must ship a free publ...
Business Insider Lost More Than 85 Per Cent Of Its Google Traffic In A Year
USA Today's national site fell by nearly half, CNN by about a quarter, Politico by 23 per cent. An antitrust filing puts...
ZUS Coffee Beat Starbucks In Malaysia. Now It Has To Price What It Is.
An IPO exploring at least RM1bn at a valuation near RM4bn would test whether an app-first coffee chain is read as a reta...
Nvidia Paid $7bn For Poolside's Technology And Staff Without Buying Poolside
A US$6bn non-exclusive licence to the model factory, 109 employees transferring, and US$1bn of equity at a US$12bn valua...
Anthropic's $65 Billion Is a Run Rate. The Prospectus Will Have to Say Something Else.
Investors were told the annualised run rate reached US$65bn at the end of July, up from US$47bn in May and about US$9bn...
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