U.S. probes $2 billion Nvidia buyer as China squeezes rare-earths

Marcus Schuler / implicator - A $2B Nvidia chip buyer operated from empty offices while China announced rare-earth export curbs. The collision exposes how supply chain controls function more as leverage than barriers while billions in restricted tech moves through legal gaps.

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Reflection AI secures $2B funding for its frontier AI lab

Reflection AI has closed a high-profile funding round, raising $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation. Backed by Nvidia and other investors, the startup is set to expand its open-source, frontier AI infrastructure and safety research. This ambitious injection of cash underscores the competitive race to dominate the AI landscape.

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Nvidia CEO surprised by AMD's deal giving OpenAI a 10% stake

techspot - In an interview on CNBC's Squawk Box, Huang called the arrangement "unique and surprising," given AMD's excitement about its upcoming hardware. "I'm surprised they would give away 10 percent of the company before they even built it," he said. "It's clever…

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Intel-Nvidia: The baton passes to the CUDA era

David Vellante and David Floyer / siliconangle - In our view, the Intel–Nvidia pact further accentuates Nvidia Corp.’s dominant market position and represents a milestone in the transition to the next era of computing. Just as Intel Corp. had a lock on the market in the ’80s and ’90s, Nvidia has now ext…

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Nvidia Considers $500 Million Investment in Autonomous Driving AI Firm Wayve

PYMNTS / pymnts - Nvidia is evaluating a $500 million investment in Wayve, a developer of embodied artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicles. Wayve said in a Thursday (Sept. 18) press release that it has signed a letter of intent with Nvidia to evaluate the investmen…

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Nvidia to invest £2BN in UK AI startups

John Reynolds / tech - Nvidia is to invest £2bn in the UK AI startup ecosystem. Nvidia said: “The new capital will be used to foster economic growth, develop more innovative AI technologies, create new companies and jobs, a...

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Intel and Nvidia sitting in a tree, NVLink-I-N-G

Tobias Mann / theregister - But still no hero customer for Chipzilla's Foundry biz Nvidia is set to become one of Intel's largest shareholders after the GPU giant announced on Thursday it would invest $5 billion in the struggling chipmaker under a co-development agreement targeting …

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Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel, co-develop new server and PC chips

Andrew Cunningham / arstechnica - Intel once considered buying Nvidia outright, but its fortunes have shifted.

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Cold shoulder: Why Beijing is freezing Nvidia's access to the Chinese market

cnbc - Beijing has put a freeze on Nvidia's access to its market — a move industry experts say reflects growing confidence in Chinese chip makers and trade posturing.

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China tells its tech companies they can’t buy AI chips from Nivida 

Rebecca Szkutak / techcrunch - After strongly discouraging tech companies from buying Nivdia's AI chips in August, the country is now banning the practice outright.

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Nvidia Becomes its Own Customer with $6.3 Billion Deal to Buy Unsold CoreWeave AI Cloud Capacity

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Nvidia has signed a $6.3 billion deal to purchase CoreWeave's unsold AI compute capacity, providing a critical financial backstop for the cloud provider's massive expansion.The post Nvidia Becomes its Own Customer with $6.3 Billion Deal to Buy Unsold Core…

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Nvidia's Rubin CPX could force AMD back to the drawing board

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Nvidia has introduced the Rubin CPX, a specialized accelerator built specifically for the "prefill" stage of AI inference. According to a new report from SemiAnalysis, the move could lock in Nvidia’s lead and force rivals like AMD back to the drawing boar…

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OpenAI and Nvidia to Announce UK Data Center Investments

OpenAI and Nvidia are reportedly preparing to unveil plans to invest in a new UK data center, a move aimed at bolstering local AI infrastructure amidst surging service demands. The anticipated announcement signals a strategic push into European tech, making it a landmark development in the region’s digital landscape.

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NVIDIA's GeForce Now with RTX 5080 GPUs is a cloud gaming revelation

engadget - If you had told me five years ago that playing PC games over the cloud would soon look indistinguishable from using a powerful rig, I would have called you a fool. But after diving into NVIDIA's new RTX 5080-powered GeForce Now servers for several hours, …

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Nvidia's context-optimized Rubin CPX GPUs were inevitable

Tobias Mann / theregister - Why strap pricey, power-hungry HBM to a job that doesn't benefit from the bandwidth? Analysis Nvidia on Tuesday unveiled the Rubin CPX, a GPU designed specifically to accelerate extremely long-context AI workflows like those seen in code assistants such a…

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