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Ghost Data Centres Are Jamming Britain's Power Grid, and AI Is to Blame
Developers are reserving grid connections they may never use, blocking real AI projects from getting power. Britain's energy regulator wants to charge them hundreds of millions to stop the queue-jumping.
Nvidia's Next Big Test: Can Ordinary Businesses Pick Up Where Amazon and Google Leave Off?
Nvidia earns most of its money from a handful of giant tech companies. Investors watching Wednesday's earnings want proof that thousands of smaller firms are finally starting to spend too.
Robot brains are getting smarter, but they still can't do a real day's work
A wave of investment is pouring into physical AI, the technology that teaches machines to move through the world. But developers admit their robots are still stuck in an early, limited era, similar to where chatbots were before ChatGPT changed everything.
SEC Investigates Situational Awareness, the AI Hedge Fund That Bet Everything on Artificial Intelligence
The fund, led by a former OpenAI researcher, lost billions when AI stocks fell in late July. Now federal regulators are asking its banks to hand over records.
General Intuition Nears $6 Billion Valuation as Investors Bet on AI That Understands Physical Space
The startup is training AI agents to move through the real world, not just answer questions. A fresh funding round could value it at $6 billion before a single dollar of outside money lands.
AI Datacenters Are Piling Up Debt. Is a Crisis Coming?
Experts warn that companies building AI datacenters are hiding enormous debts off their books. The comparison to past corporate collapses sounds alarming. Here is why most analysts think the alarm is wrong.
Wall Street Wants to Turn Nvidia Chips Into a New Asset Class. Here's Why That's Complicated.
Six of the world's biggest financial firms are joining Nvidia to bundle $500 billion in chip financing. The pitch is that GPUs are now investable assets like buildings or bonds. The catch: Nvidia's own CEO said something very different about chip lifespans just last year.
NVIDIA Will Back a $600 Billion AI Computing Deal with OpenAI Anchored by a 20-Year Ohio Campus
The chipmaker is guaranteeing power and land costs at a giant data centre site in Portsmouth, Ohio, where OpenAI will run what NVIDIA says could eventually hold 1.5 million of its processors per generation.
Groq raises $350 million after ditching its own chips for Nvidia's
Once an Nvidia rival, the startup is now an Nvidia customer. Here is what happened and what it means for the cloud companies racing to run your AI.
Microsoft's AI Chip Count May Not Add Up, Investigation Finds
A Guardian investigation claims there is a gap between what Microsoft says about its AI computing power and the number of advanced chips it actually has running. Here is what that means and why it matters.
Arm Co-founder: AI Will Create More Value Than Any Tech Wave Before It, But Expect a Bumpy Ride
Hermann Hauser helped build the chip technology inside almost every smartphone on earth. His verdict on AI is bullish and cautious in equal measure.
Nvidia lines up $500 billion from Wall Street giants to build AI's physical backbone
Six of the world's biggest investment firms are treating AI chips and data centres as infrastructure on a par with roads and power grids, and Nvidia is at the centre of the deal.
Databricks wanted to raise $1 billion. Investors offered $15 billion. It took $5 billion.
The AI data company closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation after a leaked news report triggered a flood of investor calls it never asked for.
Nvidia's $500 Billion Data Center Plan Is Really About Keeping Old Chips Valuable
Six of Wall Street's biggest names have pledged up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. The headline number is striking. The real story is how Nvidia is betting its own money that its chips hold their worth over time.
Anthropic investors expect a $2 trillion valuation when the AI company goes public
Half a dozen backers told the Financial Times they believe the Claude-maker could debut on public markets at a figure that would surpass SpaceX and break the record for the largest IPO in history.