Nvidia Strikes $6B Poolside License, Opens Rebellions Talks
Nvidia struck a non-exclusive $6 billion licensing deal with Poolside, alongside a $1 billion investment at a $12 billion pre-money valuation, and 109 Poolside staffers received Nvidia job offers . Separately, Nvidia is in early-stage…
AI IPOs Arrive With a Warning: Public Backlash Is a Material Risk
The first major wave of AI initial public offerings is arriving with an unusual feature: the companies themselves are telling investors that public hostility toward their industry is a material risk. Anthropic plans to list negative…
Nvidia Notifies Top Customers of 15%+ Price Hikes on AI Server Systems
Some of Nvidia's largest customers have been informed that prices on servers containing the company's AI chips will rise more than 15% in many cases, according to Bloomberg . The price increases will apply to systems shipped starting…
NVIDIA AVO Agent System Scores 100% on ARC-AGI-3 Public Set
NVIDIA's general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels . The result elevates Anthropic's Opus 5 from a 30.2% model baseline to a perfect score when…
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RANKED · 8 THIS DAYOpenAI Calls for Strengthening California's SB 53 AI Safety Law
OpenAI is urging California to amend SB 53, the state's landmark AI safety law passed last year, to expand its safeguards — a reversal from the company's prior opposition to the bill . In a LinkedIn post from its global affairs team…
Nscale Seeks Up to $3B in US IPO as Soon as September
Nscale, the London-based AI infrastructure startup, is seeking to raise as much as $3 billion in a US initial public offering that could take place as soon as September, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg…
Alibaba Launches Qwen-UI-Agent, a GUI Agent Trained on Real Devices
Alibaba released Qwen-UI-Agent on August 20, a GUI agent foundation model designed to operate across phones, desktops, web browsers, and deep search by interpreting on-screen interfaces and executing clicks, inputs, and swipes . The…
Harvey Builds First In-House Legal Model on Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 Base
Harvey, the San Francisco-based legal tech provider backed by OpenAI, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, announced Thursday that its new model, Harvey Tenet, was post-trained on top of Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 base . The…