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Axios TechnologyValley"I am giving you money!" Nvidia's CEO wants every country to build its own AI Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is crisscrossing Europe with a multibillion-dollar checkbook and a grand ambition: Make his company the indispensable backbone of the global AI economy.

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Axios TechnologyValleyWhy Anthropic can't afford to delay its IPO Anthropic's impending IPO will test a jittery Wall Street , but investors say the timing isn't optional. The reason is simple math: the AI giant has grown too big for private fundraising.

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Axios TechnologyValleyWhen AI models refuse to fight hackers In the race to fend off AI-enabled cyber threats , security teams are confronting a new problem: The AI models they rely on to investigate attacks can suddenly refuse to help.

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Axios TechnologyValleyExclusive: OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup building AI agents to help pharmaceutical companies manage drug development, the ChatGPT maker shared exclusively with Axios.

10.20

Axios TechnologyValleyHomebuilder sentiment is at a 14-year low The AI boom is sucking up all the capital. The Federal Reserve is raising rates to try to cool inflation. And one sector is bearing the brunt of the pain from both: housing .

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Axios TechnologyValleyAI takes on great experiment in self-rule Slowly but surely, the leading AI companies are creating a national self-governing structure to oversee their technology and its societal impact.

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Axios TechnologyValley"Power is probably the forever bottleneck": Grid delays threaten the AI race. Silicon Valley moves fast and breaks things, but the U.S. electrical grid moves slowly and requires permits.

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Axios TechnologyValleyI let agents plan a WNBA Finals trip (but kept my wallet to myself) Let's call it the Battle of the Bots, part 1: I decided to put two of the newest personal AI agents, OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse , through their paces, with the WNBA Finals providing a natural…

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The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo