This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how human-caused climate change is making El Niño stronger and growing demand for community solar projects
Silicon Valley brought sushi, Starlink and luxury camps to Burning Man. Now it’s importing something potentially even more divisive: AI slop.
Superconducting satellites. Progress in nuclear fusion. Why performative AI is overrated. All that and more in this week’s Prototype.
Why are national parks so important? Explore their role in protecting biodiversity, preserving history and supporting local economies.
Nvidia’s reported $12.9 billion bid for Hugging Face targets the model distribution layer where developers choose what to run and where future compute demand forms.
Nvidia’s $279 billion supply commitments show how far the company is betting on long‑term AI demand as revenue surges and data-center growth accelerates.
Liu Jianfang quit his teaching job at China’s Jilin University in 2019 to focus full-time on his semiconductor component maker GK Precision. He is now a billionaire after the company’s shares surged nearly 400% since its August listing.
The acquisition is only the second ever for the 51-year-old company as it tries to expand beyond index-fund fees.
A hot new AI agent called Instinct was valued at $500 million earlier in August, sources say. Now it’s raising a new round at a $2.5 billion valuation from Benchmark and Index.
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how DOGE broke America’s weather machine and using AI to create new materials for green hydrogen and batteries