SK hynix's Solidigm is adding a contract SSD site in Taiwan, home of the firms that ship over 90% of AI servers, with drives delivered from December. Using a contractor lets it sell into NAND prices eight times last year's without putting fab money on the island.
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Firmus Technologies is seeking $7bn in an ASX float this month after its $2.1bn Launceston datacentre won fast-tracked approval without a public hearing. Most of the capacity behind its valuation is still to be built, at sites where residents are now pushing back.
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NVIDIA's 64GB DGX Spark goes on sale from six PC makers on October 23 at $4,999, about $2,000 to $4,000 below in-stock 128GB units today. Two clustered units cost more than one 128GB machine, so the purchase makes most sense for agents on models that fit in 64GB.
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Reflection AI is preparing its first open-weight model after signing compute deals worth $150 million a month with SpaceX and over $1 billion with Nebius. Open weights leave the infrastructure and upkeep with the customer, so how the model deploys is the test buyers can run themselves.
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Samsung Electronics is expected to post 108.1 trillion won of third-quarter operating profit, nearly nine times last year's, in guidance due Thursday. With foundry, chip design and phones all losing money, that figure now moves with memory prices and the won.
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Nvidia raised its buyback authority to $235 billion days before its market value hit a record $5.7 trillion, enough to retire about 4% of its shares. Of all the claims on its cash, the repurchase is the one Nvidia can leave unspent.
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Trump's White House Accord on Super Intelligence asks six AI companies to police themselves through four layers of control, with no penalties for breaking it. Until Congress writes binding rules, Trump and adviser David Sacks say the Justice Department and securities law already supply the enforcement.
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Federal prosecutors charged EarthMade Computer owner Greg Lui with smuggling more than $300 million in GPU servers to China through Malaysia and Singapore. So far the case charges only Lui and treats the US manufacturers that sold him servers as parties he deceived with false end-user papers.
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Nvidia raised the Shield TV Pro from $199.99 to $299.99 on October 2, citing component and memory costs seven years after launch. Devices still being built pay today's memory prices whatever year they debuted, so old hardware now reprices alongside new launches.
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Broadcom backs the roughly $30 billion senior slice of Apollo and Blackstone's TPU lease financing for Anthropic, Crypto Briefing reports. If that holds, a chip designer is carrying an AI lab's credit risk and the resale value of TPUs it helped design.
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Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an Apache 2.0 German-English model that activates 3.46B of its 78.1B parameters per token. Each token costs about as much compute as a small model, yet a team hosting it in Europe still has to fit every expert in memory.
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Amazon is exploring moving about $8 billion of installed Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips into a mostly debt-funded vehicle that would lease them back. Amazon has already bought that hardware, so the deal would first hand it back cash for spending already done.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta has subpoenaed OpenAI over a July incident in which about 700 of its test agents breached Hugging Face's systems. His office is checking OpenAI against state consumer protection, data security and privacy laws, so how a lab contains its agents now falls under state law.
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DeepSeek open-sourced six software components for Huawei's Ascend AI chips on September 30, porting infrastructure it first built for Nvidia hardware. The ports cut the software bill for leaving CUDA, and The Neuron argues Ascend's case now turns on chip supply, reliability and full-scale model performance.
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NVIDIA put its Sentry agent watchdog on separate BlueField 4 chips that can quarantine an agent in milliseconds, a day before OpenAI launched always-on Dots. An agent with no finish line gets no scheduled human review, so its rules need an enforcer the agent cannot edit.
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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg shaped the 300-word AI safety accord that six companies signed with Trump, sources told Semafor. For investors, that makes the White House pact a commitment its signatories wrote for themselves, with federal rules left for later.
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NVIDIA's RTX Spark PCs from Lenovo and Acer ship in October with up to 128GB of shared CPU/GPU memory, enough for a 4-bit 70B model. Long-context agents now fit on owned hardware, though a cost comparison with cloud inference waits on system prices.
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Anthropic plans to spend $518 billion, more than 100 times its 2025 revenue, according to the IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. Investors in the listing are underwriting a payoff that JP Morgan says has yet to show up as broad productivity gains in the US.
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Michael Burry swapped his Micron and Nebius shorts for put options expiring in June and September 2027, with Micron strikes near $500. His AI-bubble call now has a deadline and price levels that chip-stock holders can measure their own positions against.
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Nvidia is positioning its OpenShell runtime and Open Agent Safety Platform to contain AI agents, tying agent authority to independently proven control. The only public account is a single trade brief, so security teams can apply the principle to their own agents today while the product's containment claims wait for testing.
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Product · September 30, 2026 · 6 publishers
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Invest · October 3, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Build · October 1, 2026 · 4 publishers
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Build · October 1, 2026 · 2 publishers
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Invest · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Build · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Nvidia adds a 64GB DGX Spark sized for 30B-class local models
Product · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Product · October 2, 2026 · 3 publishers
- Cerebras's weekly slide erased roughly the headline value of its OpenAI contract
Invest · October 2, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Bloomberg ties 32 export-restricted Nvidia B300 servers to a state-backed Chinese lease for Hongjing
Build · October 1, 2026 · 3 publishers
- Volantis raises $88 million to link one GPU to 220 memory chips with light
Invest · October 1, 2026 · 6 publishers
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Product · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Honeywell and Ecolab say frontier AI errs too often and costs too much for physical work
Invest · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Anthropic's $15 billion-a-year SpaceX compute deal can end on 90 days' notice from either side
Invest · September 29, 2026 · 4 publishers
- Euro-area firms fund AI without new debt on spending that grows under a third as fast as America's
Invest · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- NVIDIA's Sentry enforces agent limits from a separate BlueField-4 card
Build · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Amazon's $1bn-plus Synopsys deal tunes chip-design simulation for Trainium and Graviton
Build · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Microsoft previews local AI push for Windows at October 7 event, with Surface Laptop Ultra pricing still unknown
Product · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Product · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- OpenAI pairs its Jalapeño ASIC with AMD Turin to avoid first-generation CPU risk
Build · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- SoftBank pays its final $10 billion into OpenAI with bond money, taking its total to $64.6 billion
Invest · October 1, 2026 · 5 publishers
- Micron posts record $54.2 billion quarter as AI-driven memory demand outpaces supply
Build · October 1, 2026 · 5 publishers
- A Stratego AI trained for under $8,000 beat the game's most decorated player 15-1-4
Build · October 1, 2026 · 2 publishers
- Europe's record $23 billion AI funding needs big businesses to start buying from startups
Invest · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- AGI claims from Brockman, Huang and Musk rest on a term even Anthropic's chief calls marketing
Leadership · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
- CUDA engineers now supervise the AI that writes their GPU kernels
Leadership · October 2, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Leadership · September 29, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple and Meta supplied twice the S&P 500's third-quarter gain
Invest · October 1, 2026 · 1 publisher
- AMD brings Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in-house with an $8.2 billion stock deal
Product · September 28, 2026 · 7 publishers
- Nvidia's board adds a record $150 billion to its share buyback
Build · September 30, 2026 · 5 publishers
- Samsung affiliates to invest $1 billion in KKR's Helix AI infrastructure venture
Invest · September 28, 2026 · 7 publishers
- Anthropic's $518 billion compute pledge swaps demand risk for counterparty risk at four suppliers
Product · September 30, 2026 · 3 publishers
- Samsung spreads a $1 billion founding stake in Helix across six affiliates
Leadership · September 28, 2026 · 4 publishers