Nvidia’s Reported $6B Poolside License Targets Inference
A reported Nvidia package combines a $6B non-exclusive Poolside technology license, a $1B investment and job offers to 109 employees. Its structure values the recurring inference behind agentic coding without requiring an acquisition.
Anthropic Stake Offered at 20% Off for 12 Hours
The AI buildout is being financed on two clocks: long-duration infrastructure spending and immediate liquidity needs. Situational Awareness reportedly offered part of a $5 billion Anthropic stake at a 20% discount with a 12-hour deadline, while separate reporting put its Source Foundry investment at $500 million.
Broadcom’s $60B Talks Test Chips as Collateral
Broadcom is reportedly discussing more than $60B of AI-chip debt, while Samsung has confirmed more than $200B of manufacturing through 2030. Those records put fabrication and credit side by side, but they do not establish a completed Broadcom-financed custom-silicon deal.
Nvidia Talks Test Rebellions’ $2.34B Independence
Nvidia reportedly entered early talks with Rebellions five months after the chipmaker raised $400M at a $2.34B valuation. Yet the cited reports do not identify Rebellions’ production customers, chip shipments, revenue or HBM allocation.
Tencent’s 295B Hy3 Moves the Toll Booth Downstream
Tencent released Hy3’s 295B parameters under Apache 2.0, while Beijing reportedly allowed it to receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200s in mainland China. The contrast shifts competition from owning weights to operating agents at scale.
OpenAI debuts an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT Work and Codex read, search, and analyze chats, draft and send messages, and more
Well, this seems interesting. ChatGPT's latest update adds a new Mac integration: the ability to work with conversations from Apple's Messages app.
How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho: new millionaires, job growth, traffic, soaring housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution
Dave Petso has been a wealth manager in Boise, Idaho since the 1980s. His business has survived multiple recessions …
Nevada approves permits letting Tesla deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, while Waymo and Uber are each allowed up to 1,000
Nevada, get ready for the robotaxis. — The Nevada Transportation Authority unanimously approved three permits Thursday that will allow Tesla …
GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability. — On August 17, GitHub experienced an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes.
CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with 394,300 jobs, beating the Bay Area's 375,730, amid SF job cuts and NYC finance sector hires
It should come as no surprise that the number of artificial intelligence-specific tech workers is growing rapidly …
Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says its stores will get the tech, which supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, by the end of 2026
Apparently, hell has frozen over. Walmart on Friday said it will finally accept payments via both Apple Pay and Google Pay at its stores, including Walmart and Sam's Club.
Sources: Anthropic expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO, as it prepares to file publicly for its IPO as soon as the end of August
Anthropic PBC expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter …
Google rolls out an embeddable Preferred Sources button, natural language Discover controls, and customizable audio briefings in the Google News app on Android
Google is rolling out a new embeddable Preferred Sources button, natural language Discover controls, and customizable audio briefings in the Google News app.
Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B Nvidia licensing deal; Nvidia invested $1B at a $12B pre-money valuation and offered jobs to 109 Poolside employees
EXCLUSIVE TO NEWCOMER: Poolside AI, the artificial intelligence model-building startup, has struck a non-exclusive licensing deal …
Email: Apple tells music industry partners that songs tagged as “materially generated using AI” by content providers will now be visibly labeled on Apple Music
The news builds on Apple's recent announcement of AI Transparency Tags for songs. Now, the service will soon make those disclosures visible to users.
Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it “the largest ever by a Korean company”
Samsung Electronics has announced a shareholder return package, marking a blockbuster week for shareholder returns …
Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise $60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies
Broadcom Inc. is in talks with a group of lenders to raise more than $60 billion in debt for an AI chip financing deal …
Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition
Nvidia Corp. is in early discussions with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about possible collaborations …
DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests
DeepSeek unveiled an experimental AI model that can understand visual prompts, saying the tool nears the performance of an advanced model by US rival Anthropic PBC.
DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others
It's time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!).
Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes in 2025, 40% of its $43B in global corporate income tax total, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes
New filings highlight iPhone maker's global tax liabilities — Apple paid Ireland $17bn in taxes last year …
Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI
Apple Inc. is cutting jobs across teams responsible for the Siri digital assistant and the Vision Pro headset …
Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including recommendation algorithm changes aimed at making it easier for smaller creators to get discovered
The platform has an extensive roadmap of updates to build ‘a better internet.’ — Patreon has announced a number …
Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites
Nvidia (NVDA.O) has made a minority investment in privately held Cloverleaf Infrastructure to develop infrastructure to power AI data center projects across …
How crypto, AI, and online betting companies emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 US midterm races, as corporate spending reaches a record $517M
A US judge tosses part of the conviction of ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies
A federal judge on Thursday tossed part of the conviction of former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty earlier …
Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M
Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added a $250 million extension to its March $170 million Series A funding round.
Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels
The research project elevates Claude Opus 5 from a 30% model baseline to 100% as part of the complete AVO agent system, showing that system design …
A Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without informing them, in the second largest fine under GDPR
Regulator says ride-hailing group deactivated driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them
A New Jersey teenager drops her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap over alleged social media addiction, without payment; TikTok already settled her claims
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens
Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools
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The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024
The Justice Department and TikTok, along with parent company ByteDance, have reached a $400 million settlement to resolve allegations of violating children's online privacy laws …
Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty deal
Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips
Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a founder of the custom chip program at Alphabet Inc.'s Google, as the AI lab lays the groundwork for a push into making its own semiconductors.
China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy
Geespace secures a two-year satellite IoT trial from MIIT, the first approval for a private Chinese firm
Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a company tentatively named KakaoAI and relist it on the Korea Exchange on January 27, 2027
South Korea's dominant chat app operator Kakao Corp (035720.KS) said on Friday it plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business …
Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation
Devoted Health is the latest startup to show that combining health and AI commands a premium valuation.
Sources: the US Department of Energy is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the US
A Department of Energy lab is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used …
Filings: The Shanghai Stock Exchange accepted China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on the STAR Market; YMTC seeks to raise ~$4.9B
China's leading flash memory chipmaker YMTC plans to raise 33 billion yuan ($4.91 billion) in its Shanghai IPO …
Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September
Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after quietly launching it in Brazil in July
Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning
Kaylin Voss, OpenAI's vice president of sales in the Americas, has resigned a week after her former boss, Denise Dresser …
Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from third parties like Nvidia
https://lnkd.in/...Satish Jeyachandran:Today, we're providing a literal peek under the trunk of the Waymo Driver at our compute, including our new custom 5nm ASIC. …
Source: Anthropic plans a change later in 2026 that still requires enterprises to retain data for 30 days but lets them do so on their own cloud infrastructure
Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M over eight months, putting its net annual run rate at $150M to $200M
Super Micro says its independent probe found no evidence its CEO or senior management knew of an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5B worth of Nvidia chips to China
A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants objected, seeking assurance their info would be removed
Twin1 AI, which creates digital twins of professionals and integrates them with tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, launches out of stealth with a $20M seed
Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open models has surpassed 1B downloads and developers have published 100K+ Gemma model variants over the past two years
Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments, split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250M for a Rio supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek
Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules
The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations
Two US senators demand answers from TikTok about a “depraved” test that withheld a safety feature from 10% of US users, including a teenager who died by suicide
Astromech, which uses genomic data to build predictive AI models of biological change, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation, bringing its total funding to $60M
Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally over the past three years, in the US; Router is free to use for the rest of 2026
A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services
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Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content
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