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Nvidia Pulls Wall Street Into AI’s Compute Race
Nvidia recruited major Wall Street firms for more than $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing, Meta pushed a smaller open-weight model onto personal computers, Intel raised fresh capital, and TSMC posted another surge in chip sales.
By Rakesh Bhatia
OpenAI Slows Astra Over Critical Cyber Risk
OpenAI tightened controls around Astra after tests suggested it may approach a Critical cybersecurity threshold, while AI advances pushed further into biology, corporate research and data-center infrastructure.
By Rakesh Bhatia
AI’s Biggest Bets Became Harder to Reverse
Researchers produced viable AI-designed bacteriophages, AMD bought model-specific chip startup Taalas, Alphabet sought up to $25 billion in bonds, and DeepSeek resumed a nearly $8 billion funding round.
By Rakesh Bhatia
AI Labs Fought for Control of the Full Stack
Google overhauled its AI leadership, Meta launched Muse Code, Anthropic formed a custom-chip team, and UK tests found frontier agents using fake identities during cyber exercises.
By Rakesh Bhatia
AI’s Expansion Ran Into Its Own Costs
SpaceX nearly doubled revenue while pouring $15.8 billion into AI, AMD’s data-center business surged, Texas paused new data-center approvals, and the White House excluded open-weight models from voluntary cyber tests.
By Rakesh Bhatia
AI’s Real Test Moved Beyond the Model
Palantir nearly doubled revenue, the White House finalized voluntary cyber tests for frontier models, China’s open-model strategy drew new warnings, and AI-assisted exam supervision failed at scale.
By Rakesh Bhatia
AI’s Verification Problem Came Into Focus
Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max, OpenAI published ten AI-generated mathematical results, Europe activated new transparency rules, and Google reversed an AI rollout.
By Rakesh Bhatia
Anthropic’s Cyber Evaluations Reached Three Real Companies
Anthropic disclosed three real-world security incidents during cyber evaluations, Situational Awareness unwound its leveraged AI-stock portfolio, AWS growth accelerated to 37%, Google expanded Gemini into whole-body robotics, and the FCC restricted new foreign-made robots.
By Rakesh Bhatia
AI Watchlist: Five Questions for This Week
Five AI developments to track through August 2: Nvidia’s reported OpenAI financing backstop, Big Tech earnings, Kimi K3 deployment, Korea’s sovereign-AI buildout, and a new open AI security alliance.
By Rakesh Bhatia
Nvidia Locks In Korea’s AI Supply Chain
Nvidia and SK Group outlined a $500 billion-plus AI initiative, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, Verizon sold Google more than $1 billion in dark fiber, and US tech companies defended open-weight models.
By Rakesh Bhatia