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Is AMD the Tech Company of the Week? (opens the original)
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Hi,Spotted: Samsung is pouring $1B into AI infrastructure, AMD is on a monster run while buying Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2B, and Mistral’s CEO is throwing shade at rivals over their AI safety warnings. Meanwhile, NYC is dragging Elon Musk or a SpaceXAI rep into an October 5 hearing over AI safety and the growing controversy around Grok’s deepfakes.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-LWI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-
US & Chinese Tech Might Be Getting Along... (opens the original)
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Hi,Spotted: Alibaba is spending $53 billion to take on the AI infrastructure world, Tesla is tiptoeing into Vietnam where VinFast owns 92% of the market, OpenAI wants to set the global rules for AI safety and SpaceX is finally attempting to put Starship into actual orbit.Meanwhile Trump is deciding whether to set up a hotline with China specifically for rogue AI incidents, which is either the most sensible thing to happen in tech diplomacy this year or a sign that everyone is genuinely worried a
Is AI Development Slowing Down? (opens the original)
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Hey,Spotted: an ex-Google DeepMind researcher just quit and told the world AI could kill us all, the White House is blocking any rules that might slow it down, and Samsung is quietly funding a Nvidia chip rival because apparently one existential risk was not enough this week 👀.Meanwhile Musk dropped his antitrust lawsuit against Apple but kept it going against OpenAI because the Musk versus Altman saga simply cannot end, and data centre landlords are unbothered by all of it because no matter wha
Mission Impossible: Distillation + Engineering Roles (opens the original)
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Hey,Spotted: Nvidia is now a $99 billion venture fund that also happens to make chips, this week acquiring Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion while quietly backing half the AI ecosystem from OpenAI to Anthropic.Meanwhile OpenAI unleashed its most dangerous model yet with a cyber rating so alarming it is only available to vetted professionals, Anthropic is fighting Chinese labs stealing its models through dark web marketplaces, and Mistral just became Europe’s most valuable AI company with Samsu
The Acquisition That Changed Everything + Engineering Roles Open (opens the original)
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Hey,Spotted: Nvidia is everywhere this week, powering retail delivery with OneRail, buying into MediaTek for $3.5 billion and indirectly causing chaos by cutting Cursor off from OpenAI after Musk’s SpaceX snapped it up, because apparently one rivalry was not enough.Meanwhile OpenAI is quietly printing money with a $1 billion ad business it built in under 200 days, and Marvell grew revenue 37% and still got punished by the market because Wall Street had already priced in perfection. The AI econom
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