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  • Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia

    Nvidia is in talks to guarantee billions in debt financing for AI cloud provider Nscale’s planned Anthropic data center in West Virginia, The Information reported Thursday. Bloomberg later corroborated the report. Anthropic has signed a $44.6 billion contract for the project’s first building alone, according to Nscale’s IPO filing. In essence, the chipmaker would be […] More

  • Pile-ins, payouts, and pacing pressure: the investors behind the VCs open up

    The limited partners who provide the capital to venture firms — the “money behind the money” — are feeling great right now. They’re in uncharted territory in many ways, but also potentially exceedingly lucrative territory. Normally, LPs typically spread their bets across many firms to diversify their own portfolios. They write checks to emerging managers […] More

  • Fair use benefits everyone

    OpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation. Source link More

  • Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune

    Salesforce has agreed to acquire Rune Technologies, a startup that builds AI software to help the U.S. military predict supply needs and manage logistics from the field, for $375 million in cash and stock, Resilience Media reported. The acquisition underscores Salesforce’s push into defense tech through Missionforce, its business unit serving national security and defense […] More

  • AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal

    Like a real-life episode of “Suits,” the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry this week. And now Silicon Valley has entered the picture. Two-year-old AI-first law firm Crosby has put in a bid to buy some of the assets of Weil […] More

  • Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’

    “You Can See Everything,” the documentary capturing disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ final weeks before prison, is sparking national conversation as it becomes one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. The film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, intentionally refuses to characterize Holmes as a master manipulator or victim, instead highlighting her uncanny, […] More

  • Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.

    What’s worse is that the number is likely to be much higher than that once we factor in other eating disorders. And, disturbingly, those in the field are already starting to see GLP-1 weight-loss drugs exacerbating the issue. Cheri Levinson is a clinical psychologist at the University of Louisville in Kentucky who has specialized in […] More

  • AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big

    Andy Jassy has made it known that he believes AWS can be a trillion-dollar revenue business. During Amazon’s quarterly earnings call on Thursday, he repeated this ambition. “What we’re building at Amazon is unlike anything that’s ever been seen before. There has never been a business with a trillion dollars of annual revenue,” he said. […] More

  • The Download: GLP-1s and eating disorders, self-aware cities, and forever chemicals

    This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse. GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinicians, they can […] More

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