The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice
Berber Jin / wsj - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately played down the likelihood the original deal will be finalized, although the two companies will continue to have a close collaboration.
- CEO pushback: Firm denies deal halt, affirms major investment. (7)
- Stalled deal reports: Investors await definitive investment updates. (8)
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DeepSeek reportedly gets China's approval to buy NVIDIA's H200 AI chips
Mariella Moon / engadget - The Chinese government has given DeepSeek its approval to purchase NVIDIA’s H200 AI chips, according to Reuters. ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have also reportedly received permission from Beijing to buy a total of 400,000 H200 GPUs. Reuters says Chinese…
Back to Top / Friday, January 30, 2026, 8:21 am / permalink 18562 / 4 stories in 5 wks
OpenAI is about to raise $60 billion
Berry Zwets / techzine - Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft are in talks to invest up to $60 billion in OpenAI. Nvidia is negotiating for up to $30 billion, Microsoft for less than $10 billion, and newcomer Amazon for possibly more than $20 billion. This is according to The Informatio…
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Back to Top / Thursday, January 29, 2026, 3:21 am / permalink 18525 / 33 stories in 5 wks
Beijing clears Nvidia’s H200 imports, ending chip uncertainty for China tech giants
scmp - Beijing has begun approving imports of Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing units (GPUs), according to two sources familiar with the matter, ending regulatory uncertainty over the US tech giant’s second most powerful artificial intelligence chip.The first ba…
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Microsoft built a 750W AI chip to challenge Nvidia's dominance, claims 3x performance gains over Amazon
techspot - Microsoft recently announced Maia 200, a new AI accelerator specifically designed for inference workloads. According to Redmond, Maia 200 can deliver "dramatic" improvements for AI applications and is already deployed in select US data centers on the Azur…
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Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in CoreWeave in AI-Factory Collaboration
Elias Schisgall / wsj - The companies said they would build AI factories on Nvidia’s computing-platform technology.
- Advanced CPUs and GPUs boost CoreWeave's edge (2)
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Back to Top / Monday, January 26, 2026, 8:21 am / permalink 18402 / 25 stories in 5 wks
Synthesia raises $200M at $4B valuation to build worker skills using AI avatars
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - London-based Synthesia Ltd., an artificial intelligence video avatar platform, today announced that it has raised $200 million in a late-stage funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $4 billion. Founded in 2017, Synthesia offers a platform that gener…
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NVIDIA’s real moat isn’t hardware, it’s 4 million developers
/u/jpcaparas / reddit - I couldn't stop thinking about Theo's "Why NVIDIA is dying" video. The thesis felt important enough to verify. So I dug through SEC filings, earnings reports, and technical benchmarks. What I found: NVIDIA isn't dying. Its $35.1B quarterly revenue is up 9…
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Zotac reportedly cancels GPU orders and raises MSRP by $200 or more across the board — the company blames 'system error' for cancellations
tomshardware - Zotac is said to have hiked prices on multiple Nvidia RTX GPUs, with one user claiming that the company canceled their order before the MSRP increase.
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$3,000 RTX 5090 delivery brings rocks, a towel, and broken dreams — unboxing nightmare on an expensive GPU bought from Amazon Resale
tomshardware - A customer who ordered an MSI Suprim RTX 5090 worth at least $3,000 was scammed out of their money when they received a box filled with rocks instead. The story shared on Reddit highlights another entrant in the long line of GPU scam-swap cases, but this …
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Nvidia (NVDA) Stock Jumps as China Just Unlocked $30 Billion in H200 Chip Sales
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Nvidia shares rose 1.5% Friday after China reportedly gave preliminary clearance for H200 chip orders Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance received authorization to discuss specific purchase quantities Potential deal could generate $30 billion in revenue …
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Nvidia CEO says AI will create jobs for electricians and plumbers
techxplore - As artificial intelligence threatens to upend job markets in countries around the world, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang brushed off longer term concerns and made the case that skilled vocational workers are seeing increasing demand now.
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“Like Selling Nuclear Weapons to North Korea”: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Blasts U.S. Decision to Approve NVIDIA’s H200 AI Chip Exports to China
Muhammad Zuhair / wccftech - Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei has spoken once again about selling NVIDIA's AI chips to China, claiming that the U.S. is providing Beijing with the weapon to get ahead in the AI race. Anthropic's Amodei Argues that China Has Remained Behind in the AI Race D…
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Laptops featuring Nvidia’s ARM-based chips may finally hit stores near you in Q1 2026
digitaltrends - Supply chain sources have revealed that Nvidia could debut the first laptops featuring its ARM-based N1 and N1X chips in Q1 2026.The post Laptops featuring Nvidia’s ARM-based chips may finally hit stores near you in Q1 2026 appeared first on Digital Trend…
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Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive To Secure Access To Millions of Pirated Books
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, sever…
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China drafts rules to restrict Nvidia H200 AI chip acquisitions
Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - China is drafting rules to regulate purchases of Nvidia H200 AI chips by local firms, allowing limited sales from foreign makers like Nvidia rather than an outright ban, Nikkei Asia reported on January 15 citing two sources familiar with the matter. The C…
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Gigabyte CEO explains Nvidia's potential GPU supply strategy amid crushing memory shortages — gross revenue per gigabyte of GDDR7 memory could decide what products thrive
tomshardware - Gigabyte CEO Eddie Lin says the revenue contributed per gigabyte of GDDR7 on Nvidia graphics cards will be the key measure for which products thrive and which will be in short supply in 2026.
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Memory supply crisis forces ASUS to discontinue RTX 5060 Ti
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - ASUS has ceased production of NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB graphics cards due to a memory supply shortage, placing the RTX 5070 Ti into end-of-life status, as reported by YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed. Hardware Unboxed detailed in its latest…
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Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon
Tobias Mann / theregister - You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink RISC-V champion SiFive has joined a growing number of chip companies by throwing its weight behind Nvidia's proprietary NVLink Fusion interconnect tech, a move that casts doubt on the vi…
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ASUS Stops Producing Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB
BeauHD / slashdot - Reports suggest ASUS has effectively ended production of NVIDIA's RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB GPUs due to a severe memory crunch driven by AI infrastructure demand, even as NVIDIA insists it's still shipping all GeForce SKUs. YouTube channel Hardware Unb…
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