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Anthropic Walks Away From $6 Billion Decart Acquisition After Due Diligence
Anthropic has abandoned talks to acquire chip-efficiency startup Decart for roughly $6 billion — what would have been its largest acquisition ever — after findings during due diligence, just as the Claude maker eyes a fall IPO.
OpenAI Becomes Anchor Customer of Nvidia-Backed Firmus for Malaysian AI Factories
OpenAI will contract dedicated compute from two Firmus AI Factory sites in Malaysia under a multi-year deal that pushes the Sydney-based firm's contracted capacity beyond 900 MW — and deepens OpenAI's Southeast Asia footprint.
Japan's AI Data Center Capacity Set to Quadruple to 4.9 GW by 2033 With $60 Billion Buildout
A Nikkei survey of 26 operators finds Japan's AI data center capacity could more than quadruple by 2033, led by NTT's 2 GW plan, Blackstone's $30 billion commitment and Microsoft's $10 billion pledge.
Kioxia Bets on High-Bandwidth Flash to Crack the AI Memory Wall
The Japanese memory maker outlined plans to capture AI demand with a 5TB, 64 GB/s High Bandwidth Flash module that pushes NAND toward the GPU memory bus — offering 8-16x the capacity of DRAM-based HBM.
South Korea Smashes Full-Year Export Record in 248 Days as AI Chip Boom Powers $709.4 Billion
Semiconductor exports surged 169.6% to $281 billion through August, putting Asia's fourth-largest economy on track to become only the fourth country ever to hit $1 trillion in annual exports.
Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $13 Billion in Its Biggest Bet on Open AI Models
Nvidia will acquire Hugging Face, the world's largest open AI model platform, for $12.93 billion — its second-largest deal ever — promising the hub of 3 million models will remain open to the entire ecosystem.
OpenAI's Chief Scientist Calls for AI Slowdown: 'No Lab Has Solved Alignment' Well Enough to Keep Scaling at Full Speed
In an essay titled 'An Alien Mind,' Jakub Pachocki argues that voluntary pacing of frontier AI development should become commonplace, warning that monitoring methods are losing their grip — days after OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra.
Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon Join PyTorch Foundation as China Plants Its Flag in the Open AI Stack
At PyTorch Conference China in Shanghai, Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon joined the PyTorch Foundation as Platinum members and Ant Group took a Gold seat — joining Huawei in a coordinated Chinese push into open-source AI governance.
Seattle Times and Newsday Join the Legal Assault on OpenAI and Microsoft
Two more major US newspapers have sued OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training and output, deepening a litigation wave that now spans news publishers, music publishers and authors across multiple AI labs.
US and China Eye AI Guardrails as Xi Prepares for September 24 Washington Summit
Artificial intelligence is set to feature prominently when Xi Jinping visits Washington this month, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling for guardrails and closer communication between the world's two leading AI powers.
Nvidia Plots China Comeback With Groq-Derived Inference Chip as Huang Plans Beijing Visit
Nvidia is preparing to ship small volumes of a specialized AI inference chip to Chinese customers by year-end — a modified language processing unit built on technology licensed from Groq — as its share of China's AI chip market collapses.
ISRO Ends Eight-Month Launch Drought With EOS-05, India's First Geosynchronous Imaging Satellite
The 2,367-kg Earth observation satellite lifted off aboard GSLV-F17 from Sriharikota, giving India near-continuous imaging of its landmass for disaster monitoring, agriculture and AI-driven analytics.