Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Crossmint, which helps developers add crypto functionality to their code, raised $23.6M, including a seed and a Series A led by Ribbit Capital — Plenty of young people launch startups, but Rodri Fernández Touza may be the first to jump into crypto from a monastery.
Crusoe: Stargate’s first data center complex, in Abilene, TX, will finish in mid-2026 and have eight buildings, each designed for up to 50K Nvidia GB200 chips (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Crusoe: Stargate’s first data center complex, in Abilene, TX, will finish in mid-2026 and have eight buildings, each designed for up to 50K Nvidia GB200 chips — – Developer Crusoe says construction will be done in mid 2026 — OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank partnering on AI infrastructure
Sources: Sequoia’s ~10% stake in Wiz would net the firm ~$3B from Wiz’s sale to Alphabet, a 25-fold return; Greenoaks would secure ~$2B on its ~$300M investment (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Sequoia’s ~10% stake in Wiz would net the firm ~$3B from Wiz’s sale to Alphabet, a 25-fold return; Greenoaks would secure ~$2B on its ~$300M investment — Wiz backer Sequoia Capital is poised to deliver a return of about 25 times its invested capital from the cybersecurity startup’s pending sale …
Nvidia debuts Nvidia AI-Q Blueprint, a framework for connecting knowledge bases to agents, Llama Nemotron AI models with advanced reasoning capabilities, more (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Nvidia debuts Nvidia AI-Q Blueprint, a framework for connecting knowledge bases to agents, Llama Nemotron AI models with advanced reasoning capabilities, more — Nvidia Corp. is looking to capitalize on the agentic artificial intelligence trend not only by providing the underlying infrastructure …
Nvidia updates the DGX Station, begins taking reservations for the DGX Spark box, formerly Project Digits, and unveils the RTX PRO workstation and server GPUs (Tobias Mann/The Register)
Tobias Mann / The Register:
Nvidia updates the DGX Station, begins taking reservations for the DGX Spark box, formerly Project Digits, and unveils the RTX PRO workstation and server GPUs — GTC After a Hopper hiatus, Nvidia’s DGX Station returns, now armed with an all-new desktop-tuned Grace-Blackwell Ultra Superchip capable …
Filing: the man Rippling has accused of feeding stolen customer and employee info to Deel was Keith O’Brien, a global payroll-compliance manager in Dublin (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: the man Rippling has accused of feeding stolen customer and employee info to Deel was Keith O’Brien, a global payroll-compliance manager in Dublin — Rippling manager allegedly fed stolen customer and employee information to company’s rival — Keith O’Brien used to appear …
GM partners with Nvidia to use Nvidia Drive AGX, Omniverse with Cosmos, and more across driver assistance systems and factory planning and robotics (CNBC)
CNBC:
GM partners with Nvidia to use Nvidia Drive AGX, Omniverse with Cosmos, and more across driver assistance systems and factory planning and robotics — General Motors and Nvidia have agreed to a strategic collaboration that includes the automaker using several products and artificial intelligence services …
Nvidia unveils Blackwell Ultra, a family of AI chips shipping in 2025, and Vera Rubin, its next-gen chip featuring Nvidia’s first custom CPU, slated for H2 2026 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia unveils Blackwell Ultra, a family of AI chips shipping in 2025, and Vera Rubin, its next-gen chip featuring Nvidia’s first custom CPU, slated for H2 2026 — Nvidia announced new chips for building and deploying artificial intelligence models at its annual GTC conference on Tuesday.
Nvidia announces Dynamo, an “operating system of the AI factory” that it says can boost token output by 30x per GPU when running DeepSeek-R1 on a large cluster (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Nvidia announces Dynamo, an “operating system of the AI factory” that it says can boost token output by 30x per GPU when running DeepSeek-R1 on a large cluster — Nvidia launched Blackwell Ultra, which aims to boost training and test time inference, as the GPU giant makes the case …
Source: Elon Musk invested $150M to acquire more X shares in 2024 at a valuation close to his 2022 purchase price and “expressed willingness” to buy more shares (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Source: Elon Musk invested $150M to acquire more X shares in 2024 at a valuation close to his 2022 purchase price and “expressed willingness” to buy more shares — – Musk “expressed willingness” to buy more shares, filing shows — Musk initially purchased X for $44 billion including debt