Jensen Huang Loves His $40 Billion Customer
Jensen Huang praises Musk as Nvidia and SpaceX plan data centers in space, while SpaceX seeks $40 billion of debt to buy Nvidia chips.
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Short reports on the people and companies shaping AI.
Fired ByteDance Intern Lands $200 Million Valuation
Tian Keyu, the intern ByteDance fired for interfering with model training, raised $30 million at a $200 million valuation as former colleagues dispute his account.
Palantir Rallies and Cathie Wood Sells Again
ARK has sold Palantir into every rally since its 93% revenue jump and bought the dips: Cathie Wood loves it most when nobody else does.
Anthropic Grew 45% and Lost $500 Billion
Anthropic's revenue grew 45% to $16.8 billion, but slowing from 147% cut investors' IPO valuation talk by $500 billion, to around $1.5 trillion.
CoreWeave Founders Sell, CEO Blames the Market
CoreWeave's co-founders sold $3.3 billion of stock before a 60% slide, and now CEO Michael Intrator says the market misunderstands the company.
The Bezos Water Quote Is Still Fake
The viral Bezos quote putting data centers' water before people came from a satire account; fact-checkers found no record he ever said it.
Cathie Wood Passed on Micron for Cerebras
Cathie Wood shuns memory stocks as too cyclical, yet keeps buying Cerebras as it trades about 54% below ARK's IPO-day average price.
America's Best Open Model Ranks Fourth
Meta's Muse Spark Open is the best US open model but ranks fourth behind Chinese rivals, while Meta keeps its strongest Muse Wonder models closed.
Perplexity Open Sources Its Agent Sandbox
Perplexity open sourced SPACE, the microVM sandbox behind its Computer agent; nine frontier models failed to escape it, though its network rules needed patching.
Google Shows Gemini Argon at Isomorphic Labs
Google shows Isomorphic Labs using Gemini 4 Argon to cut research reading to hours, but Isomorphic still has no date for its first human trial.