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SpaceX is building its largest spaceport yet, committing $100 billion for a Louisiana site—adding to its list of billion-dollar expansion plans

It is quite apparent in SpaceX's IPO filings that the company has a constant goal of reaching Mars to build compute infrastructure and even human settlements on the red planet. In Elon Musk's first earnings call, he reiterated those goals, the very ones that led him to create the company over two decades ago. Now he is expanding his lofty space travel aspirations with a new real-estate and infrastructure investment.

Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent

Over the last few years, the AI talent market has looked more like a professional sports draft than a conventional hiring cycle. Cash-rich labs are offering salaries more commonly associated with pro athletes, plus equity packages that can turn early employees into billionaires. The allure of life-changing paychecks has resulted in elite researchers swapping between rival labs at dizzying speed.

Hong Kong’s Votee AI is taking on English and Mandarin’s AI dominance with a Cantonese model

The AI boom is being driven by two languages: English and Mandarin Chinese. The leading AI developers—OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Z.ai, and others—are almost all based in either the U.S. or mainland China, and so their models perform best in their native tongues.

Asian stocks are mixed after Wall Street losses following economic updates

HONG KONG — Asian stocks were mixed on Thursday following modest losses on Wall Street, while oil prices declined.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang eats dinner with someone ‘and their stock price doubles the next day’

Korean fried chicken with the chairmen of SK Group and LG. Yellowtail sashimi at Nobu with Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Mapo tofu and whiskey with TSMC founder Morris Chang.

Is Nvidia buying Hugging Face?

Nvidia, which recently debuted “compute as an asset class” and definitely is not doing circular financing, is reportedly buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion, according to The Information, which cites a single anonymous source. Almost an hour earlier, Business Insider reported that the two companies were in talks but had not yet reached a deal, also citing a single anonymous source.

The SaaSpocalypse that wasn't – how Salesforce, Booking and IBM are thriving with AI

The apocryphal quip attributed to Mark Twain, “the rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated,” rings true for certain companies in the software space amidst widespread but premature fears of AI-driven obsolescence.

Federal judge warns law is being left behind by AI child sex abuse images

The First Amendment protects an individual’s right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence — if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home, a federal appeals court judge ruled Tuesday. The decision came in a case that tested the scope of laws implemented before advances in AI made it easy to create realistic-looking fake images of children.

Nvidia gave its first-ever year-ahead forecast—a 70% growth bombshell meant to silence AI bubble critics and ‘circular financing’ doomsayers

Nvidia jolted investors on Wednesday with a projection that its revenue would skyrocket by 70% next fiscal year and said demand for its AI chips is growing at 100%, prompting an after-hours stock rally.

Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion

Nvidia has held talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion as the chip giant expands its AI dealmaking.

Amazon Just Tripled Its Order of Nvidia Chips Over 'Surging Demand'

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnership stretches beyond buying more chips.

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.