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Thu, Sep 17
Musk leaves open a SpaceX–Tesla merger, while Terafab already puts both companies inside one chip project
Terafab proves the companies can build assets together, but governance costs make an equity merger far harder than technical cooperation.
Tue, Sep 15
Trump hits back at Amodei, saying the only AI guardrail needed is the president himself
Once the guardrail is one person's judgment, the only certainty left is a single term in office.
Wed, Sep 9
China targets 9,800 EFLOPS of AI compute by 2030 and RMB3.8 trillion in five-year information-infrastructure investment
Capacity targets establish a construction direction; the distance between orders, commissioning and customer use determines whether equipment spending becomes recurring revenue.
Fri, Sep 4
Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promising the platform stays open
Nvidia's $12.9 billion did not buy three million models — it bought the default option on the first page a developer opens.
Tue, Sep 1
Anthropic sued over Claude Max usage claims, with the "Save 50%" label at the center
When the usage tier cannot be explained, the loss is not the settlement — it is that people willing to pay $200 a month start comparison shopping.
Thu, Aug 27
Nvidia Reportedly to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion; Neither Side Confirms
What Nvidia is buying is not a hosting company with revenues just over $100 million, but the gateway through which the world's open-source models enter production.
Mon, Aug 24
Alibaba raises $10 billion via share placement, all earmarked for full-stack AI from chips to models
Net profit plunges 75% while Alibaba raises $10 billion for AI — a timetable with no room for retreat.
Mon, Aug 17
Duan Yongping's Q2 Holdings Reach $19.101 Billion: New Alibaba Position, Nvidia Cut by More Than Half
In the same filing, he sold the shovel-sellers of compute and bought China's e-commerce — that combination is itself a judgment.
Mon, Aug 10
DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 Third-Party Evaluation: Only 13B Active Parameters, Agent Scores Surpass Its Own Pro Version
Rerunning post-training once can outpace the premium version, suggesting the bar for agent capability is shifting from "stacking parameters" to "refining the recipe" — precisely the stretch where the open-source camp is closing ground fastest.
Wed, Aug 5
Google leads ~$200 billion financing package to procure over $150 billion of self-developed TPUs for Anthropic
For the first time, the chip competition has moved from the specs sheet to the interest-rate sheet.
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