Nvidia Spotlights Five AI-Driven Clean Energy Firms at NY Climate Week
Nvidia is highlighting five companies using its AI technology to advance clean energy projects at New York Climate Week . The featured companies are applying AI to address adoption bottlenecks including outdated infrastructure, extended res…
Huang-Altman split on AI pace drives White House policy alignment
The AI industry's safety debate has split into opposing camps led by its two most commercially powerful figures: Jensen Huang is dismissing calls to slow frontier development as scientifically baseless and politically motivated, while Sam A…
Off-balance-sheet guarantees and junk debt fuel AI's hidden leverage cycle
The AI infrastructure buildout is increasingly financed through mechanisms designed to keep its true scale off corporate balance sheets, from residual value guarantees that shift hardware risk to Wall Street, to one of the largest junk bond…
Ireland's DPC fines Google €403M for GDPR location-data breach
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million (approximately $462 million) for collecting users' location data in breach of GDPR, giving the company six months to bring its practices into compliance . The enforcement actio…
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RANKED · 7 THIS DAYAMD tops $1 trillion market cap for first time on AI chip growth
Advanced Micro Devices stock surged 9% on Monday, pushing the chipmaker past a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time . Shares hit an intraday high of $613.92 . The milestone caps a five-day winning streak during which AMD sh…
Local Opposition Blocked or Delayed $68B in US Data Center Projects in Q2
Forty-five US data center projects valued at $68 billion were blocked or delayed by local opposition between April and June, representing more than 50% of large developments during the period, according to Data Center Watch data reported by…
StepFun's Step 5 Preview activates 27B of 600B MoE parameters, targets agent workloads
StepFun has released Step 5 Preview, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model carrying roughly 600 billion total parameters but activating only about 27 billion per token . API access is live now; the company says model weights are scheduled to op…