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Coverage includes a positive note on NVIDIA’s investment in GMI Cloud, a critical piece about Amazon’s Trainium chips reducing reliance on NVIDIA hardware, and a neutral mention of a self‑policing AI accord involving NVIDIA.
The AI‑focused cloud provider announced a $668 million Series B round led by ARCHIV, with participation from NVIDIA, to expand its GPU capacity across North America and key Asian markets.
Using a proprietary NKI kernel, AWS Trainium processors now generate AI‑driven video in real time, reducing the previous 5‑second delay to just 1.8 milliseconds.
President Trump announced a voluntary accord among AI leaders, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, and xAI, to implement internal and external reviews of AI systems.
AMD announced an all‑stock acquisition of World Labs to gain expertise in spatial intelligence and physical AI systems.
Blind’s latest data reveals that while AI‑heavy firms like Nvidia and OpenAI are hiring, giants such as Amazon and Google are actually experiencing high employee churn rather than layoffs.
Reuters reports on China’s aggressive AI funding and chip development, contrasting U.S. export controls and the rise of open‑source models.
The Chinese government may permit domestic firms like ByteDance and Alibaba to purchase new Nvidia chips designed for high‑end professional computers, according to a report by The Information.
Alibaba announced its Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, claiming it delivers three times the performance of the previous-generation Zhenwu M890, as part of its push into AI hardware and data‑centre infrastructure.
Nvidia’s CEO announced a forecast to double chip sales next year, reflecting confidence in supply chain expansion and demand for AI hardware.
TechCrunch discusses the debate over AI safety and the potential slowdown of the industry, featuring comments from Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, and others.
London‑based AI cloud infrastructure firm Nscale filed for a $30 billion IPO, backed by Nvidia and a $45 billion contract with Anthropic, marking a major moment for neoclouds.
Nebius announced a second price hike for Nvidia GPU and other compute instances, reflecting the rapid surge in AI training and inference demand.
Huawei announced it will move up the launch of its next‑generation Ascend 960DT AI chip to Q1 2027, aiming to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI hardware market.
HP’s new mobile workstation, the ZBook Ultra G3a 16, offers unprecedented local AI compute, enabling developers to run 300‑billion‑parameter models on a laptop.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues that AI safety is an engineering problem, not a regulatory one, and that market forces will suffice to ensure safe development.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appeared onstage with a live call from former President Trump, using Apple’s new foldable phone to discuss AI safety and the industry’s future.
Top AI lab CEOs called for slowing development, sparking a sell‑off in AI‑heavy stocks and a dip in Nasdaq futures.
Reno-based AI hardware startup Positron AI closed an $875 million Series C financing round, arguing commodity LPDDR5X memory can match Nvidia’s high‑bandwidth memory for inference workloads.
A Breakingviews analysis argues that the current wave of AI‑driven data‑centre operators mirrors the broadband boom of the early 2000s, with neoclouds competing against hyperscalers for GPU‑heavy workloads.
OpenAI is expanding its partnership with Samsung Electronics to develop its own AI chips, boosting its in-house chip production and strengthening ties across semiconductors and enterprise AI services.
ASML announced plans to collaborate with its major customers to produce advanced lithography tools capable of printing larger data‑center chips, a move that could boost chip manufacturing capacity for companies like Nvidia and Intel.
Nvidia’s acquisition of Hugging Face for $12.9 billion is seen as a strategic insurance move to secure its AI ecosystem and protect against future disruptions.
CrowdStrike launched SafeMind, AI models for offensive and defensive security, and partnered with Nvidia to enhance its Falcon platform.
NVIDIA announces the release of DLSS 5, a 3D‑guided neural rendering technology, debuting in NBA 2K27 and expanding to several new games on September 3.