SoftBank OpenAI margin loan: a second $10B facility is in talks with Mizuho Bank as the group refinances a $40B bridge due in March 2027.
The RUM Group GPU lease, worth up to $13.7B over six years, turns a Tether-backed video platform into an AI compute landlord.
China's autonomous vehicle liability law draft shifts traffic-violation blame from drivers to automakers and clears a national path for robotaxi deployment.
A federal judge vacated the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist, ruling the supply-chain designation was unconstitutional retaliation that breached due process.
Emerald AI raised $150M at a $1.05B valuation to make AI data centers flexible grid assets, backed by Nvidia and 12 Fortune Global 500 investors.
This AI business roundup covers record AI funding, the compute squeeze, OpenAI's safety pause, EU enforcement, robotaxis, and the robotics correction.
The AI funding tracker covers 14 deals this week, led by Broadcom's $100B financing plan and record raises from SoftBank, Alibaba and XPeng.
SpaceX and Nvidia's Starmind AI1 orbital data center will fly a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 rack in Q4 2027, giving orbital compute a dated product.
The Dataminr Pentagon contract, worth $318M over five years, brings AI alerting on public data to every US military branch, with Palantir integration.
The Labor Department AI jobs data agreements with OpenAI, Google, Meta and Amazon give Washington a real-time view of how AI is reshaping hiring.
California's No Robo Bosses Act would force human review of AI firings with $500 penalties, as managers admit unsupervised AI layoffs are already routine.
Stability AI Series B brings $76M from Universal, Sony, Warner and EA, turning labels that fought AI over training data into equity owners.
The OpenAI Jalapeño chip posted 1.5–1.9x Nvidia's work per watt in its first benchmarks. Analysis of what the custom inference ASIC means for AI pricing power.
The Unitree stock crash erased $30B in a week. Here's what the 45% slide after a 460% debut means for China's humanoid robot boom.
Enflame STAR Market IPO: Tencent-backed chipmaker opens subscriptions next week, targeting 6 billion yuan (about $892 million).
