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Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027 — Some of Nvidia Corp.'s biggest customers have been told that the prices of servers containing its artificial intelligence chips …
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| Rohail Saleem / Wccftech: |
Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter — When an unknown AI lab drops an anonymous model - Ox Alpha - for free, while declaring that they have the capacity …
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi — A sweeping agreement with startup Poolside aims to build an open AI ecosystem in the U.S. to compete with Chinese heavyweights and American AI giants
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| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings — Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size.
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| Telegraph: |
Sources: Iran-linked hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, coinciding with a wave of Iran-affiliated attacks on US water utilities — Unprecedented cyber attack believed to be most successful of its kind — Tony Diver , Political Editor. Rozina Sabur , National Security Editor.
More: Security Affairs, Financial Times, The Sun, and Human Events
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have made Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, a data center hub, with ~100 data centers built or under construction — Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.| Sonja Wind / Bloomberg: |
Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns — Buying clothes online can leave shoppers frustrated and retailers drowning in returned goods. Now brands hope that AI-powered tools will deliver the perfect fit.| Financial Times: |
The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course — Leveraged single-stock ETFs attracted billions of dollars of net inflows even as they plunged during market sell-off
More: Barchart.com
| Financial Times: |
Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses — Private tutors teach semiconductor basics and help polish CVs for hopefuls looking to join lucrative sector| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025 — Indian startups spent years getting consumers accustomed to having groceries and everyday goods delivered within minutes.| Reuters: |
Sources and documents detail how Tether's plan to build two bitcoin mining sites in Uruguay fell apart amid a dispute with state utility UTE over power supply — Uruguay seemed like the perfect place for cryptocurrency giant Tether to launch a bitcoin mining operation.
More: Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, crypto.news, and Finimize
| Jeffrey Kopp / CNBC: |
A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial — It's been a crazy four months for Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. — The judge in the Northern District of California spent late April … | Financial Times: |
Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come — Beijing policymakers have made robotics a ‘strategic priority’ — At the World Robot Conference in Beijing this week … | Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
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