DeepSeek plans large Huawei chip order for new Inner Mongolia data centre
DeepSeek plans large Huawei chip order for new Inner Mongolia data centre

DeepSeek is preparing a large order of Huawei AI chips for a new data centre, according to Bloomberg. Neither the size of the order nor the chip model has been disclosed, and DeepSeek has not confirmed the plan. The data centre has been reported since …

Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace

Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…

Jane Street signs $13bn five-year AI cloud deal with Crusoe
Jane Street signs $13bn five-year AI cloud deal with Crusoe

A proprietary trading firm has just signed one of the largest AI cloud contracts of the year. Jane Street is committing roughly $13bn over five years to Crusoe, the data centre company, for clusters of AI chips and the infrastructure around them. The t…

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived

OpenAI’s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s new Astra model qualifies, the Washington Post reported. OpenAI defines AGI as systems that are generally smarter than humans. “I do le…

Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — company gains control of major AI model distribution platform
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — company gains control of major AI model distribution platform

Nvidia expands beyond AI hardware with its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, gains control of a major open AI model platform, vows to preserve its support for competing models, clouds, and hardware platforms.

OpenAI’s new Astra model is finally here – why safety experts are worried

The frontier model is now live for a select group. Here’s what Astra can do, when to expect broader availability, and why it’s setting off alarms.

Nvidia PAIR utility joins every GPU in your home into a cluster for agentic AI tasks — tool uses spare cycles to keep agent swarms from hammering one GPU

Nvidia’s Personal AI Router (PAIR) clustering utility lets agentic AI workloads take advantage of every spare GPU cycle on a home network, potentially making for faster execution and more private inference.

Nvidia confirms $12.93BN purchase of Hugging Face

Nvidia has today confirmed its acquisition of open-source AI model repository Hugging Face for $12.93bn, as it makes a big bet on open-source AI models and continues to plough billions into the broade…

Atira raises $17.5M to bring AI orchestration to industrial sales

Munich-based AIcompany Atira has raised $15 million in seed funding to expand its platform forautomating industrial sales engineering. The round was led by Accel, withparticipation from UVC, Fortino, …

Vara wins world’s first CE mark for AI that clears mammograms alone
Vara wins world’s first CE mark for AI that clears mammograms alone

A Berlin company has won the world’s first regulatory clearance for AI that closes a breast screening case. No radiologist looks at it. Vara, which trades as MX Healthcare GmbH, announced the certification on Wednesday in a statement issued through Bus…