
Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout
Nvidia is financing the custom-silicon market that could weaken its GPU dominance, provided those chips still speak Nvidia’s infrastructure language.
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Nvidia is financing the custom-silicon market that could weaken its GPU dominance, provided those chips still speak Nvidia’s infrastructure language.

New York’s AI policy debate is becoming a test of whether child-safety rules can protect minors without normalizing identity checks for everyone.

The EU’s “Very Large” designation turns ChatGPT from a model product into a platform subject to systemic accountability rules.

OpenAI is backing California rules that would make age checks, safety audits, parental controls, and crisis support baseline requirements for teen-facing AI.

Polimill’s QommonsAI suggests shared administrative data, not model novelty alone, will determine whether public-sector AI scales across Japan.

ChatGPT Ads has reached a $1 billion annualized run rate in under 200 days, making conversational decision-making a contested advertising surface.

Nvidia’s TensorRT Model Connect packages the messy path from open-model checkpoint to native inference, but only for supported architectures.

OpenAI’s planned model cutoff at Cursor shows how a change of control can turn API access into a strategic and safety contract.
A court has drawn a line between choosing another AI vendor and using national-security procurement power to punish a vendor’s safety limits.

Thailand’s new accelerator is an attempt to turn AI enthusiasm into tested products in healthcare and education, rather than another demo-day pipeline.

Google’s video update is less about prettier generation than about giving developers edit-like controls over continuity, iteration and output quality.

Google is moving travel AI from recommendation toward transaction, adding price alerts, loyalty redemption and hotel checkout inside Search.