a16z Raises $1.1 Billion Fund for the ‘Machine Age’ of AI Hardware
Andreessen Horowitz announced on Aug. 28 that it has raised an $1.1 billion fund dedicated to what it calls the Machine Age: physical infrastructure for artificial intelligence. The fund will…
AWS Commits to Two Million More Nvidia GPUs
The announcement arrived in the middle of Nvidia Corp.’s earnings call, a few sentences from Amazon’s cloud division that rewrote the day’s narrative. Amazon Web Services will add another two…
Meta’s Plan to Replace Thousands of Workers With AI Collapses
Inside Meta Platforms Inc., the initiative had a sweeping ambition: use artificial intelligence to replace thousands of employees. The plan, pushed by Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, was to shrink the…
SpaceX’s $100 Billion Bet on the Louisiana Coast
The gravel roads around Pecan Island, a low strip of marsh and fishing camps on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, usually lead to boats, not rockets. On Aug. 25, they led to…
OpenAI Says Its Jalapeño Chip Beats Nvidia’s Blackwell
On Aug. 25, OpenAI released the first benchmark data for Jalapeño, the in-house inference chip it has been developing for more than two years, and the numbers landed like a…
Anthropic Researchers Warn of ‘Mind Viruses’ Spreading Between AI Agents
The exchange lasted only a few sentences. One AI agent told another to adopt a new belief and pass it along, and within moments the instruction had taken hold: the…
Emerald AI Raises $150 Million to Turn Data Centers Into Flexible Power Users
On hot afternoons in California, when grid operators plead for every megawatt, a data center running Emerald AI’s software does the opposite of what its tenants expect: it throttles back.…
OpenAI Restores Five-Hour Usage Cap on ChatGPT Plus
On the morning of Aug. 25, a familiar message returned for some ChatGPT Plus subscribers: usage limit reached. OpenAI has restored its rolling five-hour cap for the standard tier of…
SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Space Supercomputer With NVIDIA Vera Chips
The idea of putting a supercomputer in orbit has been discussed in engineering circles for decades, usually as a thought experiment about solar power and cooling. On Aug. 25, it…
SEC Subpoenas Wall Street Banks Over Collapse of AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness
Over two days at the end of August, subpoenas went out to several of Wall Street’s largest banks. The recipient of the questions was not a bank itself, but a…
