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Nvidia and six Wall Street firms signed memoranda of understanding, not contracts, to back Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's plan to turn AI data centers into a new asset class.
Ukraine's military hacking unit says it timed a Wildberries breach to amplify a 600-drone strike on the retailer's biggest warehouse, the first public claim of cyber tied to a specific strike.
Germany's federal competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, says Apple offered binding commitments after competition concerns over the Apple Tracking Transparency framework (ATTF) — the regulator's term for the platform rule set, distinct from
When the US Entity List meets a state that treats chips as a national security priority, the listed firms don't starve. They become the default supplier.
GitHub Copilot's Autofix stripped input sanitization from a Snowflake CI workflow while editing unrelated code. An autonomous AI red team walked through the door it left open.
BUZZ HPC, HIVE's AI-infrastructure unit, signs the five-year deal with an unnamed 'investment-grade enterprise customer' who pre-pays only ~10%; HIVE retains ownership of the hardware.
A Scalable PV-RNN — a brain-theory-based recurrent neural network that applies the brain-as-prediction-engine idea called predictive processing — scaled to roughly 30,000 dimensions of sensor data on AIREC, a Japanese humanoid robot, learning
Indium phosphide, the laser substrate inside data-center transceivers, spiked 76% in six months. Japan's JX just announced price revisions up to three times prior levels.
AMD says AI drives 30% of its software productivity. The next bet: agents that find solutions instead of imitating developers.
Five Pacific Northwest governments are using 180-day pauses to write data center rules before a project applies: the only window where local law can still move without a live permit locking it in.
Investors pushed back on Nvidia's single-customer risk, halving the chipmaker's Ohio campus backstop to under $120B. In the same week, Stripe reportedly agreed to acquire AI model-routing startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.
Menlo Ventures led the $280M round, with Notable Capital, NEA, and 8VC doubling down as Wispr funds meeting notes and a new in-house model the company says cuts dictation errors from 30% to under 10%.