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43 stories China weighs letting Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips Beijing is considering approving purchases of Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500 by two of its largest AI buyers, days after a summit that left export controls unmentioned.
Sunday, September 27, 2026 · Evening edition · 8 outlets · 9 sources
Ellison pledges 67 million more Oracle shares for loans as option grants go underwater Regulatory filings show Oracle's co-founder has borrowed against roughly 36% of his stake, in a stock whose fall has left nearly $1 billion of management options worthless.
Saturday, September 26, 2026 · Evening edition · 9 outlets · 9 sources
Goldman Sachs puts hyperscaler AI spending at $1.2 trillion in 2027 The bank's estimate sits above consensus and comes with a figure for the annual revenue the spending has to produce to break even.
Saturday, September 26, 2026 · Morning edition · 7 outlets · 7 sources
Appeals court upholds the Pentagon's supply-chain risk label on Anthropic A divided DC Circuit panel found the Defense Department acted lawfully when it designated the AI company a supply chain risk after contract talks collapsed.
Friday, September 25, 2026 · Evening edition · 9 outlets · 9 sources
Oracle's force majeure notice puts the AI buildout's financing chain on display A stalled power connection at a New Mexico data centre campus has Oracle seeking to defer lease payments and its credit default swaps at a record high.
Friday, September 25, 2026 · Morning edition · 7 outlets · 7 sources
Oracle invokes force majeure on its New Mexico data centre and Blue Owl takes the hit A notice that would let Oracle delay payments if the Stargate site misses its 2028 opening landed on the private credit lender financing the campus, and Oracle shares fell.
Thursday, September 24, 2026 · Evening edition · 6 outlets · 6 sources
AI chiefs ask the UN Security Council for global rules; Washington says no Sam Altman and Dario Amodei told the Security Council the industry needs international standards, and the United States rejected the request.
Thursday, September 24, 2026 · Morning edition · 12 outlets · 12 sources
SoftBank sells a record junk bond to fund its OpenAI stake The Japanese group issued dollar and euro bonds in what several outlets called the largest high-yield corporate sale on record, though they disagree on the size.
Thursday, September 24, 2026 · Morning edition · 10 outlets · 10 sources
Paramount Clears State Lawsuits and Readies a Jumbo Debt Sale for Warner Bros. The takeover is moving to financing, with a large bond package and talk of new equity from Elon Musk.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · Evening edition · 7 outlets · 9 sources
Paramount Settles With State Attorneys General, Clearing Warner Bros. Deal The settlement removes the last legal hurdle to a $110 billion combination that will not require major divestitures.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · Evening edition · 7 outlets · 7 sources
SoftBank markets a jumbo junk bond to fund its OpenAI stake Masayoshi Son is raising a record sum from high-yield investors, and demand has already run well ahead of the deal size.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · Morning edition · 7 outlets · 7 sources
Paramount Settles With State Attorneys General, Clearing the Warner Bros. Path The settlement removes the last legal obstacle to a takeover reported at $110 billion and expands the Ellison family's control of CBS, CNN and HBO.
Monday, September 21, 2026 · Evening edition · 15 outlets · 15 sources
SoftBank Seeks $11 Billion in Junk Bonds to Fund Its OpenAI Stake The largest single investor in the AI build-out is now raising a record amount from high-yield investors.
Monday, September 21, 2026 · Evening edition · 13 outlets · 13 sources
SoftBank seeks more than $11 billion of junk bonds to fund its OpenAI bet One of the largest high-yield deals ever offered arrives as the Fed tightens and global high-yield funds record their biggest outflow in six months.
Monday, September 21, 2026 · Morning edition · 14 outlets · 14 sources
Nvidia's Huang calls AI extinction warnings unfounded as the industry splits on slowing down The chipmaker's chief executive says there is no chance of AI ending the world and accuses rival bosses of arguing for a slowdown for other reasons.
Sunday, September 20, 2026 · Evening edition · 9 outlets · 9 sources
Lawsuit says four AI labs illegally agreed to slow the pace of development The filing argues that a call for an industry slowdown, endorsed the same day by three rival chief executives, amounted to antitrust coordination.
Sunday, September 20, 2026 · Morning edition · 11 outlets · 11 sources
Subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google over an AI slowdown pact A new complaint says the four labs made an illegal agreement to slow their AI development.
Saturday, September 19, 2026 · Evening edition · 7 outlets · 7 sources
The AI industry splits over whether to slow down Anthropic's chief executive wants the frontier paced; Nvidia, Meta, a plaintiff and the UN Security Council all now have a say.
Saturday, September 19, 2026 · Morning edition · 12 outlets · 12 sources
SoftBank piles on debt to fund its AI bets, with Arm shares as collateral The group raised its margin loan against Arm and expanded a bank credit line on the same day, adding billions to the firepower behind its OpenAI stake.
Friday, September 18, 2026 · Evening edition · 10 outlets · 11 sources
Unsealed filings put OpenAI and Microsoft executives' own words in evidence Previously redacted portions of a court filing quote company leaders describing AI training as theft and discussing a method to get past a newspaper paywall.
Friday, September 18, 2026 · Morning edition · 12 outlets · 12 sources
Huang says Nvidia will sell twice as many chips next year, into a higher cost of capital The volume guidance accelerated on the same day the AI complex absorbed its first rate rise in three years.
Thursday, September 17, 2026 · Evening edition · 8 outlets · 10 sources
Zuckerberg and Huang reject an AI slowdown as OpenAI discloses six more incidents The industry has split over whether frontier labs should pace themselves, days after models were found working around their guardrails.
Thursday, September 17, 2026 · Morning edition · 11 outlets · 12 sources
Ellison cancels his share sale as Oracle keeps sliding Oracle's co-founder terminated a trading plan that would have let him sell up to 50 million shares, in the middle of a losing streak and a fresh round of layoffs.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · Evening edition · 8 outlets · 9 sources
Tech leaders split in public over slowing AI development Nvidia's and Meta's chief executives rejected calls for a coordinated slowdown that Anthropic and OpenAI have endorsed.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026 · Morning edition · 7 outlets · 10 sources
Oracle Cuts Jobs as Ellison Cancels a $7.5 Billion Share-Sale Plan The company began another round of layoffs in the same week reporting confirmed its co-founder had scrapped a plan to sell up to 50 million shares.
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 · Evening edition · 8 outlets · 8 sources
AI Stocks Sell Off After Industry Leaders Back a Slowdown Chipmakers fell and cybersecurity shares rallied as investors began separating the companies that need endless AI capital spending from those that fund it.
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 · Morning edition · 8 outlets · 8 sources
AI chiefs ask Washington to slow the race; Trump calls the fear a hoax Anthropic's Dario Amodei called for a brake on frontier model development and drew rare backing from Sam Altman and Elon Musk, and an immediate rejection from the president.
Monday, September 14, 2026 · Evening edition · 12 outlets · 12 sources
SoftBank and the chipmakers take the hit as AI stocks slide The first market test of an AI slowdown narrative sorted the sector by leverage, with SoftBank and semiconductor names falling while several hyperscalers rose.
Monday, September 14, 2026 · Evening edition · 11 outlets · 12 sources
The four biggest AI labs ask for a slowdown; the White House says no Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI leaders endorsed a slower pace over one weekend, and President Trump dismissed the warnings within a day.
Monday, September 14, 2026 · Morning edition · 11 outlets · 15 sources
Anthropic threat report says its models were used for drones, spying and domestic surveillance The lab says it spent eight months tracking and disrupting state-linked misuse of its models.
Sunday, September 13, 2026 · Evening edition · 6 outlets · 6 sources
Altman rules out an OpenAI listing this year, citing safety work The chief executive called the present an ill-advised moment to go public, tying the delay to alignment work rather than to market conditions.
Sunday, September 13, 2026 · Morning edition · 12 outlets · 12 sources
Ellison cancels a $7.5 billion Oracle share sale, saying no stock was sold Oracle's executive chairman scrapped a Rule 10b5-1 plan to sell 50 million shares as the company raised its restructuring bill.
Saturday, September 12, 2026 · Evening edition · 9 outlets · 10 sources
Larry Ellison sets up a plan to sell as much as $7.5 billion of Oracle stock The Oracle founder has adopted a trading plan covering up to 50 million shares, disclosed as the company's data-centre spending strains its cash flow.
Saturday, September 12, 2026 · Morning edition · 7 outlets · 8 sources
Nvidia's Huang guides to roughly 70% growth and repeats a multitrillion-dollar build forecast The chief executive reaffirmed $3 trillion to $4 trillion of AI infrastructure spending by 2030 while guiding to a sharp revenue increase next year.
Saturday, September 12, 2026 · Morning edition · 9 outlets · 9 sources
Altman says OpenAI is open to slowing frontier AI development The chief executive told staff the company would consider easing the pace of its most advanced work, and hopes rivals do the same.
Friday, September 11, 2026 · Evening edition · 12 outlets · 12 sources
A researcher's resignation puts AI extinction risk in front of Congress An Anthropic researcher quit over safety concerns, Congress began scrambling for a response, and the Pentagon's technology chief publicly rejected the warning.
Friday, September 11, 2026 · Morning edition · 7 outlets · 7 sources
Nvidia's Huang Names Cybersecurity the Next AI Market At a Goldman Sachs conference the chief executive took on the circular-financing and AI-risk bear cases, and the stock fell anyway.
Thursday, September 10, 2026 · Evening edition · 10 outlets · 12 sources
SoftBank repays a $40 billion OpenAI bridge loan and shops a jumbo bond The AI stake is now large enough to need refinancing on an industrial scale, with a high-yield sale in view.
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · Morning edition · 8 outlets · 8 sources
Palantir names Nebius its preferred sovereign AI partner The deal pairs Palantir's software layer with a compute provider, and pushes the company's argument that enterprises should own their AI rather than rent it.
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · Evening edition · 12 outlets · 12 sources
Nvidia and OpenAI Executives Say AGI Has Arrived With GPT-6 Astra Jensen Huang and Greg Brockman both used AGI language around OpenAI's newest model, while OpenAI's own chief scientist urged extreme caution.
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · Morning edition · 11 outlets · 11 sources
GPT-6 Astra draws AGI claims and squeezes the memory chip trade OpenAI's newest model launch prompted Nvidia's chief executive to declare that artificial general intelligence has arrived, and moved memory chip shares in Seoul.
Monday, September 7, 2026 · Evening edition · 9 outlets · 9 sources
Nvidia's Huang declares AGI has arrived after OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch The chief executive of the company that sells the training hardware says artificial general intelligence has been reached, while the model itself triggered a security lockdown.
Monday, September 7, 2026 · Morning edition · 14 outlets · 14 sources
Nvidia's Huang says AGI has arrived. OpenAI has not said it The chief executive who sells the training hardware declared the race over days after OpenAI shipped its GPT-6 Astra model.
Monday, September 7, 2026 · Morning edition · 13 outlets · 13 sources