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Nvidia guarantees up to $105 billion to support an OpenAI data center.

The news comes as part of OpenAI’s plans to lease an Ohio data center being built by SB Energy, a subsidiary of SoftBank. The deal will allow OpenAI to secure 8 gigawatts of capacity, with the first 800 megawatts expected to come online in 2028. Nvidia will also invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy.

Saber's CEO apologized to former Rideshare “Stimulator” writer Stella Sacco.

After saying to This Week in Videogames that he would have been “happy to replace her with AI,” Sacco says CEO Matthew Karch emailed her and “apologized unreservedly for the awful way he spoke about me in the press.” You can read her full statement below.

Billionaire Gen Zer dropped out of high school to launch his start-up at 17—now he’s the richest self-made 25-year-old in the U.K and all of Europe

One Gen Z high school dropout with two tech businesses to his name has just become Europe’s youngest self-made billionaire following a breakout investing round—before even turning 30. James Dacombe, the 25-year-old serial entrepreneur behind AI chipmaker Olix and brain monitoring startup CoMind, just hit a personal net worth of over $1 billion.

AI startup founders are in flux

AI valuations keep rising while loyalty lowers.

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs

The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.

Tracking the rare books that Amazon is feeding to AI.

404 Media put a tracker inside a shipment of rare books, which arrived at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas:

OpenAI announces massive Ohio data center with Nvidia guarantee

OpenAI announced a 10-year lease for a sprawling data center in central Ohio with financing partly guaranteed by Nvidia.

Nvidia pledges $100bn backing for OpenAI data centre in Ohio

Chipmaker also invests $1.5bn into SB Energy, an energy company founded as part of SoftBank Group

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.

Exclusive: AI agents inch toward interoperability

A2A's move into the Agentic AI Foundation could reduce the work to connect agents built on different platforms and frameworks.

The People Building a Way to Slow Down the AI Race

In the corner of a nondescript office in Sheffield, a city in the north of England, a compact server full of Nvidia chips is whirring away.