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Signal: Both chipmakers now own stock in their biggest customer, and the state's answer is a task force chaired partly by the regulator already subpoenaing one of them.
Nvidia and AMD Buy $4BN of Their Own Customer
Nvidia takes $3BN of Meta's $95BN raise and AMD $1BN, both announced Tuesday, funding the customer's purchase of their own hardware - Nvidia has joined 121 investment rounds this year against 13 in 2022, and AMD 25 against two.
AMD: Helios racks already running at Meta, EPYC chips powering Muse Nvidia's release: Muse models on Vera Rubin, agents as 'a new computing paradigm' TNW: Meta takes $35BN up front, then $60BN at the market
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic's 80% Giving Pledge Is Now 'Revocable'
The S-1 recasts the co-founders' founding promise to give away 80% of their equity as 'voluntary, revocable expressions' that 'do not constitute binding obligations', inside a filing aimed at a $1.5TN-$2TN listing around mid-November.
Timing and amounts now turn on tax planning and 'market conditions' Semafor: Anthropic says energy trouble could slow the buildout it owes $400BN for
China's AI Trade Already Cracked. $2.4TN Gone.
Shanghai's STAR 50 index of technology and innovation names is down 40% since June and $2.4TN has left Chinese equities since May, on a market where Goldman says AI stocks are over 40% of the value.
Unitree's shares have halved since August; CXMT is down a quarter in a month A 60BN-yuan state AI fund started paying out this month, into the same slide
Banks and Blackstone Buy Anthropic's Chips Broadcom's Hock Tan spent two months pushing banks to commit over $40BN
NEWThe Packaging Step Everyone Needs Gets 20% Dearer TSMC placed this year's equipment orders at existing prices rather than haggling
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Hundreds of Papers Rest on It. OpenAI Says It's False.
An internal model found the disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis on 16 October, OpenAI says, alongside the Kakeya conjecture and a Yang-Mills existence result - and two of the hypothesis's own authors will lead an independent check that has not happened yet.
A Nobel laureate is among the outside 'shepherds' now checking the proofs Tao's advisory group wants the Yang-Mills output released publicly, not to hand-picked checkers
Compaction Coughed Up the Hidden Reasoning The block it beat was built after August's 'Stolen Thoughts' replay attack
NEWFederal Agencies Get Three Days on PHP2Shell The Record: CISA will not say what exploitation it actually observed
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Workbench Weekly podcast Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2026 · 19:58
Copilot Lets a Model Approve Its Own Commands
NEWOpera Ships a Standard for Models in the Tab
Ollama Speaks Locally on Mac
NEWPinecone's Engine, Now Inside Postgres
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWThe FTC Chair Joins Trump's AI Task Force Clayton to the Journal: 'The risk of not being first is high'
NEW900,000 Trainers, Biometric Checks, Five Complaints The EU AI Office opened investigations into OpenAI and Anthropic this month
FTC Wants Anthropic Executives Under Oath OpenAI is under the same probe; the FTC would not say it got the same demand
Judge Won't Let the EPA Kill the xAI Suit Filed in April over dozens of unpermitted methane turbines
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEW137 Companies Got Meetings. Green Groups Got None. Permanent secretaries and directors general held no community meetings at all
AI Called Her Road Trip Suspicious 404 Media: in leaked audio, Flock's CEO tells police the backlash 'isn't real'
Grand Theft GPU: Hijacked in Transit NBC: thieves struck the escorts guarding trucks carrying $10MN-plus loads
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWMeta's RL Director Leaves to Kill Excel
Ghost Note The Haunt's Poster Still Had the Gemini Diamond
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