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France’s Mistral unveils 1 trillion-parameter AI model

Mistral AI released a preview of Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday, Oct. 6. The model is nicknamed "Le Chonk" because it has 1 trillion parameters, and the French lab says it is the strongest open-weight model built outside China "by…

Nvidia hits record high, nears $6 trillion valuation

Nvidia shares climbed to another all-time high on Monday, Oct. 5. At its peak during the session the chipmaker was worth about $5.78 trillion, according to Yahoo Finance, which puts it within reach of becoming the first company ever valued…

Reflection AI unveils Beam, its first open-weight model

Reflection AI, a two-year-old startup backed by Nvidia, released Beam on Monday, October 5, 2026. Beam is the company's first open-weight AI model. Reflection says it matches leading Chinese open models on advanced reasoning benchmarks while using much less compute.…

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Bloomberg Intelligence says US AI lead over China shrinks

The performance gap between US and Chinese artificial intelligence models has fallen to a record low. Top Chinese systems now trail their American rivals by just 3% on benchmark scores, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report by senior analyst Robert…

AI spending eclipses railway, dotcom booms as returns lag

Spending on artificial intelligence now exceeds what went into the railways or the internet during their booms, according to a Reuters analysis published Saturday. The analysis also warns that the payoff depends on productivity gains and profits that, economists say,…

Huang’s fortune tops $200 billion as Nvidia hits record

Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang is now worth more than $200 billion, Forbes estimates. Nvidia shares hit a record high on Friday after Morgan Stanley named the chipmaker its top semiconductor pick again. Forbes put Huang's net worth at…

Nvidia hits first record high since May on AI rebound

Nvidia shares set an intraday record on Friday, October 2, their first since mid-May. The stock rose about 3% and lifted the company's market value to roughly $5.7 trillion, according to Bloomberg. That leaves the world's most valuable public company…

US officials question Nvidia over China chip smuggling

Nvidia's AI chips are still reaching China despite US export curbs, and US officials want to know why the company missed warning signs, according to a Bloomberg investigation published Oct. 1. The cases it examines include a seized mansion in…

Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips from balance sheets, FT reports

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. is looking to move about $8 billion of advanced Nvidia chips into a new investment vehicle and lease them back, the Financial Times reported on Friday, October 2, citing people familiar with the matter. The aim is…

SoftBank completes OpenAI pledge, lifting stake to 13%

SoftBank Group said on Thursday, Oct. 1, that it has put the third and final $10 billion into OpenAI through its Vision Fund 2. That completes the $30 billion follow-on commitment it announced in February. SoftBank has now invested $64.6…

Lenders seek stronger guarantees on Nvidia’s $500B plan

Nvidia's plan to use its own AI chips as collateral for as much as $500 billion in financing is meeting resistance from lenders. Banks and credit managers want stronger guarantees before they treat the processors as long-lived assets, Reuters reported…

Huawei launches Ascend 950 AI cloud service in China

Huawei Cloud's Ascend 950 AI computing cluster service became available to commercial customers in China on Wednesday, September 30. Customers outside China will get access starting November 30. Huawei Cloud CEO Zhou Yuefeng gave both dates at Huawei Connect 2026,…

DeepSeek open-sources toolkit for Huawei chips to rival Nvidia’s CUDA

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek announced on Wednesday that it is open-sourcing a full programming toolkit for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, in one of the most concrete steps yet toward building a domestic alternative to Nvidia's dominant CUDA software ecosystem.

DeepSeek releases free toolkit for Huawei AI chips to rival Nvidia’s CUDA

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on Wednesday released a free, open-source programming toolkit built for Huawei Technologies' Ascend AI chips, the most concrete effort yet by Chinese firms to construct a software ecosystem that could loosen Nvidia's grip on AI development…

Nvidia trades at cheapest valuation in a decade despite surging profits

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared his company "the world's first and only growth value stock" and called it "incredibly misunderstood," pushing back against a market that has slashed the chipmaker's valuation even as its revenue and profits surge.

MediaTek’s push into PCs and servers widens Taiwan’s chip lead over South Korea

MediaTek, long known as a mobile chip designer, is pushing into the PC and data center markets with a series of moves that pair its design capabilities with TSMC's Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited manufacturing strength — a combination that…

Google pushes AI chips into sovereign markets, challenging Nvidia’s dominance

Google Alphabet Inc. is pushing its custom artificial intelligence chips beyond the walls of its own cloud, testing whether tensor processing units can serve as national computing infrastructure and opening a new front in its competition with Nvidia.

Nvidia unveils wave of AI deals across Southeast Asia

Nvidia and Singapore-founded cloud firm Aolani have agreed to deploy 22,000 Blackwell Ultra GPUs across new AI factory sites in Malaysia and the Philippines, in a deal that will bring Aolani's total regional capacity above 48,000 GPUs and more than…

Hinton accuses Nvidia’s Huang of ‘vested interests’ in opposing AI regulation

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as the "Godfather of AI," issued his latest round of dire warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence in an exclusive interview series with NDTV, criticizing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for having "vested interests"…

Nvidia chip exports helped broker Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal

Armenia, a nation of roughly 3 million people, is emerging as an unlikely center for American artificial intelligence infrastructure after the Trump administration authorized Nvidia chip exports to the country as part of US-brokered peace negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Apple launches new Mac mini, Mac Studio as AI desktop alternatives

Apple began shipping its new Mac mini and Mac Studio desktop computers on Tuesday, pitching the machines to corporate buyers as a cheaper alternative to renting data center capacity for artificial intelligence workloads. Both models are now available for same-day…

Apple stock hits all-time high under new CEO Ternus

Apple shares reached an all-time intraday high of $345.34 on Tuesday morning, briefly pushing the company's market capitalization past $5 trillion and marking a milestone just three weeks into John Ternus's tenure as chief executive.

Nvidia launches Halos safety system for autonomous vehicles and robots

Nvidia has expanded its Halos safety platform with a broad push to embed safety checks across every layer of physical AI, from autonomous vehicles to humanoid robots, as the company and its partners prepare for a wave of machine deployments…

Alibaba unveils new AI chip, plans trillion-parameter model

Alibaba Group announced plans to train an AI model with 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters and unveiled what it calls China's most powerful AI chip, marking an ambitious expansion of the company's artificial intelligence ambitions.

Nvidia doubles its SB Energy stake to $3B ahead of IPO

Nvidia is deepening its bet on AI infrastructure, purchasing an additional $1.5 billion in shares of SB Energy, the SoftBank -backed data center developer, ahead of the company's planned US initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.

Huawei unveils new AI computing architecture to rival Nvidia

Huawei launched the Atlas 960E SuperPoD — which the company calls the world's first near-packaged optics (NPO)-based SuperPoD — at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai, linking up to 4,096 Ascend NPUs into a single computing unit as the Chinese tech…

DeepSeek to train AI models on Huawei chips, CEO tells investors

DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors that a major priority for the Chinese AI startup is to use more domestically made chips to train its models, with Huawei expected to begin delivering training-grade chips as early as the fourth quarter…

Nvidia’s Huang rejects AI slowdown calls in CBS interview

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushed back against growing fears that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity, telling CBS News' Jo Ling Kent that "2030 is not going to be the end of the world" in an exclusive…

Anthropic’s annualized revenue tops $100B ahead of mega IPO

Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, is now expected to surpass $100 billion in annualized revenue in 2026, according to the New York Times, as the company pushes back the timeline for what could become the largest initial…

Huawei unveils Atlas 960 SuperPod to challenge Nvidia in AI computing

Huawei Technologies on Thursday launched the Atlas 960 SuperPoD computing cluster at its annual Huawei Connect 2026 conference in Shanghai, marking the company's most ambitious move yet to replace Nvidia as the backbone of China's artificial intelligence infrastructure.