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Nvidia’s $105B OpenAI exposure is a lease guarantee
Nvidia published a press release on Monday, and the number everyone repeated was not in it. The $105 billion showed up in the SEC filing. What it buys is not...
Read moreDetailsQuantinuum is putting 98 qubits inside an Oracle data centre
Your cloud console is about to grow a tab you can't use yet. On 11 August, Quantinuum and Oracle said they'd install Helios, a 98 qubit trapped ion machine, inside...
Read moreDetailsNvidia’s 13F shows $63B in equity and not one new buy
A 13F is a photograph of a day that is already six weeks gone, which is usually why nobody bothers reading Nvidia's. This one repays the click. The filing Nvidia...
Read moreDetailsMicrosoft merged the Copilot apps, and three features retire
The app icon changing is not the story. Microsoft started merging the consumer Copilot app into Microsoft 365 Copilot on 13 August, and on 18 August it retires three features...
Read moreDetailsPalmyra X6 runs on GLM-5.2, priced $2 in and $8 out
Read the fourth paragraph of the press release and the interesting sentence is right there, unhedged: Palmyra X6 was post-trained on top of GLM-5.2, which Writer calls the strongest available...
Read moreDetailsQwen3.8-27B ships Apache 2.0 with vision, the 2.4T doesn’t
Open the two model cards side by side and the surprise is which one you would rather self host. Qwen3.8-27B went up on Hugging Face on 14 August under Apache...
Read moreDetailsGLM-5.3: open weights in two weeks, breaking API change now
Z.ai put a Hugging Face button on its own GLM-5.3 announcement page, and the button says Coming Soon. That is the launch in one image: the model went live on...
Read moreDetailsGPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast hits 750 tokens a second, with no price
Cerebras published a bar chart with a 14x on it, and the bar beside it says 2.5x. That is the pitch for Ultrafast, the OpenAI API service tier previewed on...
Read moreDetailsUber and Pony.ai promised 2,000 robotaxis and named one city
Ten cars. That is the whole robotaxi fleet carrying paying passengers in Europe on this partnership right now, a handful of Arcfox SUVs doing flat 1.99 euro rides around Zagreb...
Read moreDetailsGemini 3.7 Flash is half price until 31 December
We had the Gemini pricing page open for something else, and the 3.7 Flash row carried a sentence most of today's coverage skipped. Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash on 13...
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