Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek, granting the Taiwanese chipmaker access to its NVLink Fusion ecosystem to design custom AI chips, as Nvidia fights to stay dominant amid rising competition from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft building their own silicon.
Nvidia is reportedly set to acquire AI hub Hugging Face for $13 billion, while Anthropic simultaneously secures a $45 billion data center deal and faces a major copyright lawsuit from Sony Music and Warner Chappell over alleged unauthorized use of music to train its Claude AI model.
OpenAI's advertising business hits a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate just 200 days after launch, with ChatGPT Ads now live in over 40 countries, strengthening the company's case for its $852 billion valuation ahead of a highly anticipated IPO.
Physical Superintelligence (PSI) launches from stealth with $58M in seed funding, unveiling its AI physics platform Emmy and partnering on a privately funded interstellar mission to Alpha Centauri, proving a small AI-native team can tackle challenges once reserved for national laboratories.
Nvidia makes its largest overseas investment yet, pouring $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek through convertible bonds, deepening collaboration as Nvidia aggressively expands its data center ecosystem.
Build American AI, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit flush with $50 million, is launching a major campaign across Kansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin to push AI data center development ahead of the midterms, while simultaneously standing up a new super PAC to back or oppose candidates based on their support for pro-data center policies.
Andreessen Horowitz launches a massive $1.1 billion 'Machine Age' fund, marking a bold pivot from software to AI hardware, targeting chips, data centers, robotics, and infrastructure while calling AI a 'national imperative' for solving humanity's greatest challenges.
Nvidia acquires open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a bold strategic move to dominate the full AI stack beyond chips, while defending against chip-building rivals like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic — though experts warn the deal could compromise the platform's ecosystem neutrality.
OpenAI launches ads on ChatGPT in India with 50 brand partners, targeting over 100 million weekly active users as the company aggressively pushes revenue growth ahead of a potential IPO, reporting $6.7 billion in Q2 2026 revenue and eyeing 220 million paying subscribers by 2030.
Nvidia is reportedly acquiring AI model hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a move that could give the chipmaker dominant control over the open-weight AI ecosystem while countering rivals OpenAI and Anthropic's push into custom hardware.