Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech backer, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sector (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, pricing it at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. The model scored 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with a standard harness and 99.9% with a provider-adapter harness after training on over 100,000 GPUs. Nvidia’s equity portfolio rose tenfold to $99 billion in the last year, and the company announced a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, its second-largest deal following a $20 billion Groq asset purchase.