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The notice to developer Blue Owl would let Oracle delay payments if the facility misses its 2028 target. Energy Transfer's gas pipeline has slipped six months to February 1, 2027 after repeated permit rejections and a reroute, and the state has until November 23 to rule on the air-quality permit for Bloom Energy's fuel-cell system. (TechCrunch) First Stargate site where the builder formally reserved the right to slip, and the cause is power and permitting, not silicon.
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Martin Alderson's essay "The upcoming AI margin collapse, part 1: GLM 5.2" hit 675 points and 462 comments on Hacker News, and it's the rare HN chart-topper that's actually about spreadsheet math instead of vibes. The argument is simple. Z.ai's GLM 5.2 delivers frontier-adjace...
TechCrunch strings together three deals: Nvidia's reported $13 billion Hugging Face acquisition, its $6 billion Poolside arrangement, and Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter for over $7 billion about two weeks before August 28. The thesis is acquirers hedging against frontier-l...
AMD unveiled its first rack-scale system to directly contest Nvidia at the rack level, with engineering samples in H2 2026 and mass production targeted Q2 2027. Microsoft joins Meta, OpenAI and Oracle as customers; Meta plans 1 gigawatt of Helios racks by year-end against a lo...
Three separate things happened in about 36 hours, and together they mark the week the pacing debate stopped being a debate among labs. Trump posted on Truth Social that AI safety concerns are a "HOAX" and that the only control or guardrails AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART (Hig...
Led by a16z with Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Avenir, up from $26B. Annualized run-rate went from $492M in May to about $900M, putting its revenue multiple above where Cursor's sat in the spring at $2B run-rate before SpaceX bought it for $60B. TechCrunch reports...
Announced August 31, with MediaTek adopting NVLink Fusion so custom accelerators built for hyperscalers still plug into Nvidia rack-scale systems, plus extensions to the existing RTX Spark and DGX Spark PC chip work and MediaTek's Dimensity Auto line (TechCrunch). Nvidia is co...
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