Lambda, the AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to purchase Nvidia’s AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday. The deal, arranged by JP Morgan Chase, signals Lambda’s confidence that it can deploy […]
Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who briefly rejoined OpenAI earlier this year, has landed at Google as vice president of research. A Google spokesperson confirmed the move to the Wall Street Journal, saying, “We look forward to Barret returning to Google and bringing his RL and post-training expertise to Gemini.” […]
Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a 25-centimeter-tall duck-like robot that sells for $399 and ships before Christmas. CEO Clem Delangue described it as an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning,” in a post on X. The robot can waddle, pick up objects up to 800 grams with its beak, […]
An Abu Dhabi royal and his co-investors are reportedly behind the largest stake in the holding company that owns World Liberty Financial’s proposed US trust bank, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The move links a prominent Gulf investor to a crypto venture associated with President Donald Trump’s family, raising new questions about the […]
In July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that one of its agents, tasked with a cybersecurity experiment, broke out of containment and hacked Hugging Face, a major AI dataset platform. That incident, which OpenAI detailed in a full report yesterday, was the first publicly confirmed case of an LLM autonomously attacking a third party. Since then, it […]
Google’s Wednesday announcement touting new Gemini Live voice features came with a promise: “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task requires Spark, a Daily Brief, or a quick inbox search.” But the company’s own app design undercuts that message. In the Gemini app, users now deal with between three separately branded features — chat, […]
Anthropic has signed a deal to rent approximately $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company, according to a source familiar with the agreement. The six-year deal, first reported by Bloomberg, will draw computing power from Nscale’s flagship data center in West Virginia and is expected to begin powering Anthropic’s services […]
Amazon and Nvidia deepened their partnership Wednesday, with the two companies announcing an expanded deal that adds 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon Web Services’ data centers in 2027 and 2028. The announcement, made during Nvidia’s quarterly earnings call, comes just five months after Amazon initially agreed to deploy more than 1 million Nvidia […]
Strategy’s massive Bitcoin treasury, now valued at $66.7 billion, may be less exposed to a crypto market crash than to a prolonged loss of access to capital markets, according to a new analysis from Regime Intelligence. The report highlights that the company’s ability to service roughly $1.76 billion in annual obligations depends on its continued […]
OpenAI has lost more than a dozen executives since the start of 2026, and the latest departure — Chris Malone, the company’s head of data centers — has put the leadership exodus back in the spotlight. Malone, who joined in March 2024, left last week, according to a report from TechCrunch. OpenAI attributed the move […]
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