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Meta is claiming a tax credit for its AI data-center build-outs by classifying the facilities as experimental and writing off the cost of Nvidia chips. The company reports the experiments to the IRS, a move that could reduce its federal tax liability by billions. The tax-credit strategy is intended to offset the high cost of building and operating the data centers.
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Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI have formed the AI Energy Management Alliance to help data-center operators adjust electricity use in real time based on grid conditions. The coalition’s software links utilities to data centers, enabling demand-response pauses or load shifts that could free up significant grid capacity for new AI-driven facilities.
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Tech3 outletsover 21h
Nuance Labs, a developer of low-latency AI avatars that can hold face-to-face conversations, secured a $50 million Series A round. The funding was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Nvidia participating as an investor. The capital will support the company’s expansion of real-time conversational AI technology.
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Nvidia is negotiating to invest up to $10 billion as an anchor investor in Anthropic’s planned IPO, which aims to raise about $100 billion at a valuation near $2 trillion. Anthropic, which uses Nvidia chips, is targeting this valuation. A coalition of 25 Fields Medalists has issued a declaration warning that AI-driven mathematical benchmarking threatens rigorous mathematical research.
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AI infrastructure startup Nscale is pursuing a pre-IPO financing round of up to $3.5 billion. The company is in talks to secure the funding, with reports indicating that Nvidia could contribute as much as $2 billion. The capital raise is intended to support Nscale’s expansion before it moves toward an initial public offering.
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Nvidia is set to acquire the AI-model repository Hugging Face in a deal valued at roughly $13 billion, with reported figures ranging from $12.9 billion to $13 billion. The transaction is moving forward, with Nvidia closing in on finalizing the purchase.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASIC, developed with Broadcom in about 16 months, is designed for fast inference at scale and has been benchmarked against leading competitors. Tests show it delivers roughly 1.5-to-1.9 times more AI work per watt and 1.7-to-3.6 times lower latency than Nvidia chips, and it outperforms the GB300 and comparable Nvidia, AMD and Google chips on several top open-source models.
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Nvidia has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition that includes Microsoft, Hugging Face and other partners, aimed at developing and sharing tools to enhance AI safety and cybersecurity. The alliance is focused on improving cyber-defense capabilities across the AI ecosystem, explicitly excluding firms such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.
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AI startup Reflection has signed a compute agreement worth more than $1 billion with cloud provider Nebius, securing large-scale processing capacity that includes access to Nvidia graphics chips. This deal follows a recent arrangement with SpaceX and marks the company’s second major acquisition of AI-compute resources within a month.
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Nvidia is partnering with chip rival d-Matrix to combine their hardware in a new system that will power AI models. The collaboration is part of Nvidia’s broader push beyond its own accelerators. Perplexity has also signed up for Nvidia’s Vera CPU, expanding the company’s reach into CPU-based AI workloads.
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Groq secured a $650 million financing round, led by Disruptive and Infinitum, following its recent deal with Nvidia. The company plans to expand its infrastructure to 200 megawatts of capacity by the end of 2027, building on a prior $750 million raise in 2025, and is re-staffing after Nvidia’s $20 billion “not-acqui-hire” transaction.
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Nvidia is launching its first corporate bond offering since 2021, targeting a minimum of $20 billion in proceeds. The issuance will be structured in seven tranches with maturities that span from two years up to three decades. Investors will be offered options ranging from short-term to long-term debt, reflecting Nvidia’s strategy to secure financing for ongoing operations and growth initiatives.
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Foxconn reported that some of its North American factories were hit by a cyberattack. The ransomware group Nitrogen claims it stole 8 TB of data from the company. Foxconn supplies components to Apple, Google and Nvidia.
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The U.S. Department of Defense has entered into agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to supply artificial-intelligence tools for deployment on classified military networks. The contracts are intended to enable “lawful” use of the AI technologies within the Pentagon’s secure environments.
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Firmus, an Australian AI infrastructure startup, has raised $505 million in equity led by Coatue, bringing its total funding in the last six months to $1.35 billion. The company is valued at $5.5 billion and is backed by Nvidia. It plans a $2 billion IPO on the ASX and has secured $10 billion in debt from Blackstone for its AI factory network.
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Tech3 outletsover 23h
Thinking Machines Lab has entered a chip-supply agreement with Nvidia, under which the company will provide next-generation Vera Rubin processors for the lab’s AI hardware. The partnership calls for deploying more than one gigawatt of the new chips, representing a massive compute deal between the two firms.
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Meta has entered a multiyear agreement to purchase millions of Nvidia AI chips, including the Vera Rubin GPU as well as Grace CPUs and Blackwell GPUs. The deal aims to bolster Meta’s AI hardware after technical challenges and delays in its own chip strategy, with the components slated for deployment in Meta’s data-center infrastructure.
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Tech5 outletsover 24h
Nvidia plans to make a significant investment in OpenAI to support artificial intelligence development. Although reports suggested a $100 billion deal had stalled, the Nvidia CEO confirmed the company remains involved in the funding round. He characterized the partnership as positive and dismissed claims of friction between the two organizations.
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Microsoft will keep purchasing AI chips from Nvidia and AMD, even after launching its own chip that outperforms Amazon and Google’s, but it still needs more units. China has approved DeepSeek to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, with regulatory conditions still being finalized. The approval enables DeepSeek to acquire the chips for its operations.
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