Anthropic Begins Hiring Custom Silicon Team to Design Its Own AI Chips
Anthropic confirmed it is building an in-house chip design team, hiring engineers with silicon experience to co-design hardware and models so Claude runs faster and more efficiently. The move follows similar efforts by OpenAI, Google, and Meta to reduce dependency on Nvidia.
Nvidia Reportedly Negotiating $250 Billion Guarantee for OpenAI Data Centers
Nvidia is negotiating a $250 billion guarantee for OpenAI's data-center leasing projects, with up to $350 billion in additional direct customer financing under discussion. The company sits on confirmed orders approaching $1 trillion through 2027.
Nvidia Invests $5 Billion in SSI, Ilya Sutskever's AI Safety Startup
Nvidia announced a $5 billion strategic investment in Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. The deal values SSI at over $50 billion and deepens the partnership between the world's most valuable company and one of AI's most prominent safety-focused labs.
25 Tech Companies Urge Congress Not to Restrict Open-Weight AI Models
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, Hugging Face, Mistral, and 19 other companies signed a joint letter urging the US government to avoid 'premature restrictions' on open-weight AI models. OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign.
Hark Raises $700M Series A at $6B Valuation for Secretive 'Universal' AI Interface
AI lab Hark, founded by robotics entrepreneur Brett Adcock, raised $700M in Series A funding to build a universal AI personal assistant with custom hardware, backed by Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Salesforce.
OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Nvidia Adopt Google's SynthID AI Watermark in Landmark Industry-Wide Content Provenance Standard
Google announced at I/O 2026 that OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Nvidia are adopting SynthID invisible watermarking technology, creating the broadest cross-industry content provenance coalition to date.
Nvidia Partners With DeepMind Alum David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence for Superintelligence
Nvidia partners with David Silver's startup Ineffable Intelligence to build AI systems that learn through reinforcement learning, aiming for superintelligence.
Google Cloud Launches TPU 8t and 8i AI Chips
New custom AI chips offer 3x faster training and 80% better performance per dollar, directly competing with Nvidia.