The Castelion Series C raised $1B at a $13B valuation to mass-produce the Blackbeard hypersonic missile, a 37x step-up that prices defense capital like AI.
Synchrony OpenAI agentic commerce brings store-card financing and rewards into ChatGPT checkout, backed by enterprise-wide AI deployment.
EU AI Act enforcement began August 2; as of August 21, no fine or formal request has been issued. Only Cyprus, Ireland and Italy are fully designated.
The OpenAI training pause after an AI agent breached Hugging Face puts a 20% compute tax on safety and holds Astra. Here's what it means for the frontier race.
The SK Hynix buyback, a record $28.6B plan, pairs with the hybrid Dream Chip memory to cut AI inference costs by 78%.
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The Nvidia AI server price hike tops 15% on early-2027 shipments as HBM and DRAM costs surge. Who pays the memory tax on the AI buildout.
Hyperscaler bond issuance hits $220B in 2026 as investor fatigue pushes spreads wider. Why the cost of capital is becoming the real brake on AI capex.
OpenAI cyberattack warning tells everyone to expect persistent AI attacks as Astra training pauses and always-on monitoring rolls out.
The XPeng robotics funding round raised over $900M at a $6.3B valuation, the largest single private financing in China's embodied AI sector.
The $243M Tesla Autopilot verdict held up in district court after a bug-bounty researcher recovered crash data Tesla said was gone. The appeal is now pending.
Starcloud raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation for orbital data center infrastructure. Its 88,000-satellite plan hinges on Starship and Nvidia's Space-1 module.
The Nvidia Poolside deal splits $7 billion into a $6B license, a $1B stake, and 109 hires, buying model-making capability without a merger.
NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks formed an enterprise AI security alliance targeting $1B by 2029. The deal signals AI security moving to production scale.
Nvidia is backing Perplexity in a $30B-plus round as revenue tops $750M. The Nvidia Perplexity investment shifts the chipmaker toward AI ownership.
Waymo filed its first answers in the Waymo NHTSA investigation into a Santa Monica child collision, and every page of the filing arrived fully redacted.
