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The week our newsroom couldn't stop writing about Nvidia
Nvidia coverage tripled on AI2Day, from 3 stories to 8 across six outlets, taking a fifth of our entire week.
Microsoft Built Its Own AI Chip and Plans to Run Its Office Suite on It
The Maia 300 is designed to run frontier AI models inside Azure data centres, reducing Microsoft's reliance on outside chip suppliers and lowering the cost of every AI answer it serves.
Firmus Pulled Its $30 Billion Australian IPO Because Investors Would Not Pay the Price
The AI data centre company, which builds facilities for OpenAI and Meta, walked away from what would have been one of Australia's largest-ever stock market listings after key investors refused to back the valuation.
How a Research Lab Stopped Researchers From Hoarding GPUs
The Allen Institute for AI replaced a broken priority system with a budget model that treats GPU time like money. The fix is unglamorous and it works.
Apple researchers built a smarter way to train AI agents. Here is why the boring details matter.
A new training method from Apple ML Research teaches AI agents to focus on the lessons they have not learned yet, skipping exercises that are too easy or too hard. It's quietly important for anyone who cares about where general-purpose AI is heading.
The AI Boom Took Over Climate Week. Not Everyone Was Cheering.
Venture funding for climate companies crossed $14 billion in early 2026, driven by data-centre demand. Some founders think that's a problem.
AI's Debt Binge Gets More Expensive as Bond Yields Hit Near 20-Year Highs
A spike in US Treasury yields is raising the cost of the trillions of dollars in borrowing that powers the AI infrastructure build. Smaller players are already feeling the squeeze.
When Should a Company Stop Renting AI and Start Owning It?
Buying AI by the request works fine for experiments. Once it becomes a daily business operation, the maths can flip completely.
Nobody Has Built the Car Wash for Self-Driving Cars
Waymo can handle the driving. Cleaning, charging, and inspecting its vehicles still requires a trip across town, an industrial lot nobody can find, and years of permitting. That's the real bottleneck.
Alibaba Built Its Own AI Chip and Wants 20 Gigawatts of Data Centres by 2032
At its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba announced the Zhenwu V900 chip, a 20-gigawatt data centre target, and confirmed its next frontier model is already in training.
Nvidia's New Open Model Figures Out Who Said What in a Crowd
Nemotron 3 Diarization tracks up to eight speakers at once, ranks first on an independent benchmark, and is free to download. Here is what it does and why it matters.
The Creator of oMLX Joins Hugging Face to Push Local AI Forward on Apple Devices
Jun Kim, who built and maintains oMLX, is now a full-time Hugging Face hire. The move puts serious muscle behind the open-source toolkit that lets Apple Silicon chips run AI models without a cloud connection.
Physicists' Old Trick for Magnets Could Make AI Models Half the Size Without Losing Much Brain
A startup called Multiverse Computing has borrowed a technique from physics to figure out which pieces of an AI model can be safely deleted, cutting one popular model in half while keeping most of its ability to answer questions correctly.
Infrastructure week: why our own story count on power, chips and data centres just tripled
We ran 13 AI infrastructure pieces in the seven days to 20 September, up from 4 the week before. Here is what our own coverage looks like when the picture zooms out from models to megawatts.
Anthropic and OpenAI Are Quietly Shopping for Small Data Centers in Europe and the US
Both labs are hunting for 20-to-30 megawatt sites in the UK, the Nordics, and the US, a sharp turn from the gigawatt-scale megaprojects they announced just months ago.