Thinking Machines Lab and NVIDIA are joining forces in a multi-year partnership to deploy over one gigawatt of next-gen NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI systems as early as next year, with NVIDIA making a significant investment to expand frontier AI access for enterprises, researchers, and scientists worldwide.
Yann LeCun launches Paris-based AI startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, raising over $1 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation to build world models grounded in physical reality, challenging the dominance of large language models and targeting industries like manufacturing, robotics, and biomedical with open source AI solutions.
Nvidia pays a $150 million deposit to seize 600MW of data center capacity in Abilene, Texas after Oracle and OpenAI scrap a planned Stargate expansion following failed financing negotiations and weather-related infrastructure setbacks, with Nvidia reportedly eyeing Meta as a tenant to keep the site exclusively running its own silicon.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer-use and 1M token context as rival Claude hits #1 on the US App Store with record signups, while OpenAI's massive $110B funding round turns out to contain only ~$15B in immediately deployable cash.
OpenAI is abandoning plans to expand its Stargate data center with Oracle in Texas, choosing newer Nvidia GPU clusters elsewhere as the AI industry faces a growing crisis where data centers become obsolete faster than they can be built, leaving Oracle — which carries over $100 billion in debt and …
AI coding assistant Cursor surpasses $2 billion in annualized revenue, with its run rate doubling in just three months, as corporate clients now account for 60% of its business amid fierce competition in the booming AI-assisted development market.
At MWC's 4YFN showcase, AI startups are proving real-world impact beyond frontier models, with Ultralytics hitting 2.5 billion inferences, Biorce raising $52 million for clinical trials, and NeuralTrust securing EU backing to protect enterprise AI systems from cyber threats.
SRAM-centric AI chips are challenging GPU dominance as NVIDIA's $20B Groq IP licensing deal and Cerebras's 750 MW OpenAI partnership signal a major shift toward faster, lower-latency accelerators purpose-built for AI inference workloads.
Cluely CEO Roy Lee confesses his $7M ARR figure shared with TechCrunch was a lie, then compounds the scandal by falsely claiming the interview was unsolicited — contradicting records showing his own PR team proactively pitched it.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang signals a major shift in private AI investment strategy, confirming the company's $30 billion stake in OpenAI — part of a massive $110 billion funding round — will likely be its last before OpenAI's anticipated IPO later this year, with a separate $10 billion Anthropic investment …