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AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, has said it may go public as…
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What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former…
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Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
After weeks of swirling rumors, Nvidia confirmed today that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging…
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals
At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a…
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Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of…
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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1…
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Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of…
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Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes…
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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale
Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI…
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Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
Nvidia published some interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the underlying model, that…