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S-1: Nvidia plans to invest ~$10B in Anthropic after its IPO, or ~10% of the total new cash Anthropic is expected to raise in November, including in its IPO — Nvidia planned to invest $10 billion in Anthropic alongside its initial public offering, the largest of the new financial commitments from…
Nvidia's independent directors retained Wachtell Lipton and former acting US Attorney Joon Kim to investigate the CEO after the spy-scandal reports.
Jensen Huang's affair shines a spotlight on Nvidia's weak board and opaque succession planning at what has become the world's most important company — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's spy scandal shines a spotlight on thin corporate governance and opaque succession planning at what has become the world's…
The Commerce Department stopped its investigation into Megaspeed after Nvidia’s general counsel contacted the agents running it, Ana Swanson and Devlin Barrett reported for The New York Times. The case moved to the Justice Department.
Nvidia's board says it is launching an independent investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign spy plot, after Huang admitted an affair in a memo to staff.
Huang's email to staff admits the affair, takes full responsibility and says he fell short of his duties to Nvidia's board, shareholders and employees.
Concerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to handle the company's H200 AI chips.
A memo circulated earlier this year reportedly claimed that China’s Ministry of State Security recruited a female technology executive to spy on Nvidia's CEO.
TSMC is considering making advanced memory chips and has begun drafting plans for 3D DRAM at Nvidia’s request, The Information reports. It would put TSMC up against Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron as AI demand keeps memory scarce.
How Nvidia uses soft power to influence customers and shape US chip policy; sources: OpenAI took no public stance on China chip exports to avoid angering Nvidia — Last month, OpenAI Senior Research Scientist Noam Brown posted a link in a company Slack channel to a news story …
Cohere completed the first close of a Series E it aims to grow to as much as C$7bn, which it says would value it at C$35.7bn.
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide Nscale with billions of dollars in credit guarantees for debt to develop a 460MW data center that Anthropic plans to use — Nvidia is in talks to provide Nscale, a young AI cloud provider, with billions of dollars in credit guarantees for debt to develop …
Bloomberg reports Marvell is in advanced talks to buy Lumentum, which makes the lasers that move data between AI chips; a deal could be announced as soon as next week.
Sources: the US DOJ has inquired about the impact of Nvidia's Hugging Face deal on AI competition, as antitrust enforcers continue to probe Nvidia's conduct — The US Department of Justice has made inquiries about how Nvidia's (NVDA.O) $12.93 billion deal to buy open-source platform Hugging Face …
Source: OpenAI, a major Nvidia customer, plans to buy Google's TPUs; a job listing shows it seeks an engineer to “lead the optimization” of its models on TPUs — OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost for a rising competitor to OpenAI backer…
The chipmakers' purchase is part of Meta's planned stock sale of up to $95 billion to fund its data center buildout.
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate grew fourteenfold in six months, with the US more than half of revenue.
Stellantis supplies L4-ready platforms, Wayve its AI Driver and Nvidia its Hyperion system, in a collaboration with the French government to deploy self-driving vehicles in France and across the EU.
