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Saudi Arabia founds AI company "Humain" - US relaxes chip export rules for Gulf states Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner May 13, 2025 GPT-Image-1 prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@conte

Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 Midjourney prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Facing U.S. sanctions and supply shortages, Huawei is directing customers to procure memory for its new AI chips independently on the black market. Smugglers dodge U.S. rules by pairing HBM with low-end processors and

Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies. The guidance is meant to push cloud providers, including Nvidia-backed neoclouds, toward a more diverse customer mix, The Information reports, citing three people familiar with the matter. The directive isn't mandatory and applies

She is the founder and managing partner of Techable Ventures, a VC firm focused on physical AI, which she started after spending nearly seven years as a product marketer at Nvidia. Before that, she held the same role at a company that was later bought by Intel and was a digital signal processing engineer at Interconnect Systems, which was later bought by the electronics manufacturer Molex. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify She stopped by Equity to

PyTorch is the popular open source toolkit that AI app developers and startups use to build, train, and run AI models. It is, by some accounts, used by 85% of the AI apps. PyTorch was originally developed by Meta (then Facebook) in 2016, long before the world had an inkling that LLMs would change the world. At the time, Nvidia’s GPUs were already the standard hardware for AI research, so many of PyTorch’s features were built to work specifically with them.

The companies said Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to explore bringing Pony.ai’s robotaxis to inDrive’s platform — a reflection of the growing interest in self-driving technology beyond the U.S. and China. Testing will begin in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, in the first half of 2027, inDrive CTO Yuri Misnik told TechCrunch. The tests will initially involve a safety operator, with fully driverless rides as the eventual goal. Under

Under the agreement, an entity managed by Apollo Global Management, the New York-based private equity giant, will buy the chips and related server hardware, then lease the equipment to SpaceX. The leases will last about five to five-and-a-quarter years, beginning when each tranche of equipment is delivered, according to the filing. SpaceX expects the deal to close by year-end, subject to closing conditions, with leases starting in the first half of 2027 as

General Compute co-founder and CEO Finn Puklowski is unfazed. He’s bullish on CoreWeave’s chances, and thinks Musk is just talking his book to drive down the prices of the GPUs he wants to buy. Fears of a chip-led collapse are “massively overstated. I have people calling me up every single week asking me to do TPUs, GPUs, any chip, to get them more compute.” Just as important, he says, Anthropic’s bullish S-1 is “settling fears for today.” General Compute

The idea isn’t entirely new. Companies like Crusoe and Schneider Electric also sell prefabricated pods, but Runware says it can ship its pods faster. Flaviu Radulescu, co-founder and CEO of Runware, told TechCrunch that the company plans to scale production at its Romania-based factory to 30 megawatts of data center capacity per day by 2028, or nearly 1 gigawatt per month. That’s a whole lot of capacity: At that pace, Runware would produce roughly as much

Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30 billion-plus valuation Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Aug 24, 2026 Nvidia is negotiating an investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion, more than 50 percent higher than the company's last funding round a year ago, The Information reports. Perplexity's annualized revenue has tripled from $250 million to over $750 million, driven in part by "Perplexity Computer," an

Over the past two weeks, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have outlined plans to spend more than $740 billion on capital expenditures this year, which Wall Street is reading as AI infrastructure spending, including data centers and chips. Earlier in the AI boom, investors largely rewarded such big outlays, viewing them as a sign of confidence in the technology’s growth potential. But as we enter the fourth quarter, that enthusiasm seems to be giving w

The proposed arrangement would help Nscale secure financing for the electricity and construction costs of its West Virginia campus. Under what’s known as a residual value guarantee, Nvidia would step in if Nscale defaulted on construction payments, temporarily take over the facility, and help find a buyer and new tenant, according to The Information. Nvidia’s earlier support for cloud providers has mostly covered leases and chip purchases, not construction

Nvidia espionage scandal weakens Huang's lobby against tighter AI chip export controls Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 9, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to a relationship with a suspected Chinese informant, prompting the company's board to launch an investigation. The woman worked for Megaspeed, a data center operator that US authorities suspect serves as a

Google ships four TPU variants in one year as it ramps up competition with Nvidia Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 9, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Google is introducing two new systems in its eighth-generation AI chip lineup, the TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, both built on existing processors. The TPU 8tx keeps confidential data encrypted during processing, while the TPU 8i Max doubles memory a

“I owe my family and all of you an apology,” Jensen Huang wrote. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.” Huang added that he’d “fallen short” of his responsibility to the company. “To my colleagues at NVIDIA, including those I have worked alongside for decades, and to our board, partners, and shareholders around the world: you deserve better from me,” he said. As the AI race

A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington dismissed the allegations in late October as “groundless smears and slanders,” and no one has been charged. But U.S. intelligence officials reportedly briefed President Donald Trump about their concerns a year ago, and unnamed senior officials inside the Trump administration told the Times that they doubt Huang could have remained unaware all that time of Alice Huang’s intelligence-gathering role for Chi

The Financial Times reported Friday on Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang, a former executive at Megaspeed, an Nvidia customer. Jensen Huang admitted to the affair and apologized in a memo to the company on Sunday. U.S. intelligence officials believe Alice Huang was recruited by Chinese intelligence to gather information about the CEO and influence the company’s efforts to loosen chip export restrictions. Nvidia’s independent directors, working with out

Securities lawyers were already moving. At least four firms, including Schall, Brown & Schwartz and Levi & Korsinsky, announced investigations Monday into whether Nvidia misled investors. Robert Bartlett, a Stanford Law professor and securities law expert, expects them to have plenty of company. “I would definitely wager that there’ll be a filing,” Bartlett said in an interview Monday morning, adding that he wouldn’t be surprised if a case had been filed b

The Nvidia CEO admitted to an extramarital affair over the weekend, and the company has now opened a formal investigation into his relationship with Alice Huang (who shares his last name but is not related). U.S. intelligence officials believe she was recruited by the Chinese government to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang and influence his position regarding U.S. export controls on advanced AI chips. Culper’s May 13 report is resurfacing because it pic

AIUpdated Today, Nov 9, 2026, 9:13 PM UTCAll the latest updates on AI data centersLinkRSSGiftMassive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility bills, nearby communities, and the environment.Data centers were a major bipartisan issue ahead of the 2026 midterms, an