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Kimi K3 Is Free to Download. The Chips Are Not.
Moonshot AI published the weights of a 2.8 trillion parameter model at no cost. The barrier that decides who can actually run it sits in a fab, not a licence agreement.
Aug 3, 2026
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Wall Street Has Started Lending Against the Chips Themselves
Nvidia and six financial institutions are mobilising more than 500 billion dollars for AI infrastructure, with the graphics processors as collateral. The question nobody has answered is what a used GPU is worth in 2031.
Aug 16, 2026
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Nvidia Hits $4 Trillion, Cementing the AI Hardware Gold Rush
No company has ever been worth this much. Nvidia's climb past a four trillion dollar valuation shows how completely AI now drives the stock market.
Jul 14, 2025
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The DeepSeek Moment: How One Cheap Model Rattled Wall Street
A Chinese startup's R1 model wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidia's value in a single day, exposing how fragile the AI spending story had become.
Jan 29, 2025
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Nvidia Is Putting AI Server Prices Up by More Than Fifteen Per Cent, and the Chips Are Not the Reason
Bloomberg reports that customers have been warned of rises above fifteen per cent on Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems shipping early next year. The cause is memory, and three companies control the supply of it.
Aug 25, 2026
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Tesla and SpaceX Are Building a Chip Plant on a Dead Coal Reservoir
Sixteen point eight billion dollars for the first phase, a hundred million square feet when finished, and a site chosen because a shuttered power station left behind exactly what a fab needs.
Aug 14, 2026
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Nvidia Is Buying Hugging Face for 12.93 Billion Dollars, Putting the Chipmaker in Charge of Where Everyone's Models Live
The company that sells the hardware now owns the repository: three million models, half a million datasets, eighteen million developers. Jensen Huang promises it stays open and that Nvidia compute will not be required. What changes and what to watch.
Sep 8, 2026
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The AI Cloud Is Splitting Into Specialized Machines
Microsoft's new AMD systems and Google's surging cloud backlog show why AI infrastructure is moving beyond a one-chip, one-workload model.
Jul 31, 2026
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The AI Race Is Now a Race for Electricity, Land and Cold Water
One operator has raised around eleven billion dollars since late 2023 and another is weighing a hundred-billion-dollar listing. The scarce resource stopped being chips some time ago.
Aug 15, 2026
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Apple's Event Is Tomorrow, John Ternus's First as Chief Executive. Only the Foldable Would Count as a Surprise
Surprise and Shine begins at 10am Pacific on Wednesday at Apple Park, a week after Tim Cook handed over. What is confirmed, which is almost nothing, and what is expected: a foldable iPhone above two thousand dollars, two Pro models and two watches.
Sep 8, 2026
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Apple's Foldable Is the iPhone Duo, Costs 1,999 Dollars and Ships on 23 October. Everything Else Ternus Announced
A 7.6-inch inner screen, a 5.4-inch outer one, Touch ID in the side button, two batteries and a titanium body. Plus the iPhone 18 Pro from 1,199 dollars, two new watches and AirPods 5. What was said, and what was not.
Sep 10, 2026
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OpenAI Is Buying Mac Minis by the Ten Thousand, Because Teaching a Model to Use a Computer Needs Computers
Training an agent to operate an operating system means running an operating system, watching the screen, taking an action and being scored, millions of times over. That work wants breadth across many machines rather than the largest possible GPU.
Sep 1, 2026
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Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI Asked the Industry to Slow Down, the White House Said No, and Microsoft Wrote Rules
Dario Amodei wrote that a swarm of AI agents could take over the entire internet within a year and asked rivals to pace the frontier. Altman agreed. Musk wrote Dario is right. Trump said whoever wins AI wins. Microsoft wrote a code its models must obey.
Sep 15, 2026
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Inside the Gulf's Multi-Billion-Dollar Bet on Sovereign AI
The UAE and Saudi Arabia signed major AI infrastructure deals this month, staking their post-oil economies on becoming AI powers in their own right.
May 27, 2025
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Alibaba's Open Models Passed Three Billion Downloads. Distribution Is the Whole Story
Qwen has overtaken Meta and Google on cumulative downloads. In open weights, the number that decides the winner is not benchmark performance, it is how many things get built on top.
Aug 17, 2026
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Mistral Raised Three Billion Euros and Doubled Its Value in a Year. The Bet Is That Europe Will Pay to Own Its AI
The largest equity round ever by a European technology company values the Paris lab at 21 billion euros, up from 11.7 billion last September. Samsung leads, the EU's Scaleup fund and PSG co-lead, and the money goes into a gigawatt of European compute by 2030.
Sep 12, 2026
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iOS 27 Is Out With the New Siri, Which Is a Beta, in English Only, Not in the EU, and Only on an iPhone 15 Pro or Newer
Apple shipped all six of its operating systems on Monday. The assistant that reads your messages, mail and photos to answer a question is the headline, and it comes with more conditions than any feature Apple has released. What everyone else gets.
Sep 15, 2026
