MGX raises a $50bn AI fund and is already spending it
MGX raises a $50bn AI fund and is already spending it

Abu Dhabi’s MGX AI fund has raised close to $50bn. For the first time, the emirate leaned on outside investors to do it, and the money is already going out the door. MGX is the Abu Dhabi investment firm built for the AI era. It has pulled in nearly $50…

Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water
Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has “eliminated massive amounts of power usage and pretty much all water usage.” Still, it doesn’t address all of the concerns around AI data […]

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI’s biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

Forget buying a Steam Machine, Valve wants you to build one

Valve says SteamOS 3.8 will let gamers build their own Steam Machines using standard PC hardware, with Nvidia support also being actively developed.

Apple MacBook Air M5 review: Boring has never been this good

Quick Take The MacBook Air M5 is what happens when Apple keeps refining an already excellent laptop instead of reinventing it. On paper, the upgrades feel modest. The design is unchanged, the display is still 60Hz, and the M5 chip isn’t delivering the …

Asus is charging $4,799 for an RTX 5080 gaming laptop that costs more than last year’s RTX 5090 model
Asus is charging $4,799 for an RTX 5080 gaming laptop that costs more than last year’s RTX 5090 model

Asus has quietly added an RTX 5080 configuration to the ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) in the US, and the price is $4,799. That is $200 more than the 2025 ROG Zephyrus G16 with a more powerful RTX 5090 GPU and 64GB of RAM, which is currently available on Amaz…

Higgsfield launches enterprise marketing agents built on NVIDIA, claiming 78 per cent of Fortune 500 as clients
Higgsfield launches enterprise marketing agents built on NVIDIA, claiming 78 per cent of Fortune 500 as clients

Higgsfield, the AI video startup valued at $1.3 billion, on Wednesday launched what it calls the first enterprise-ready autonomous agent framework for marketing automation. Supercomputer 2.0, built on NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit and powered by Nemotron mode…

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips

AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.

Nvidia-backed Verse raises $54M to help AI data centres skip the power queue
Nvidia-backed Verse raises $54M to help AI data centres skip the power queue

For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it is power. Verse Enterprises wants to unblock that bottleneck. The San Francisco startup has raised an oversubscribed $54mn Series B. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. GV, Nvidia and Norrsken…

Odyssey took Nvidia’s money. Now it’s raised $310M betting on Amazon and AMD
Odyssey took Nvidia’s money. Now it’s raised $310M betting on Amazon and AMD

Odyssey, an AI lab building real-time ‘world models’, has raised $310mn at a $1.45bn valuation. The more telling number is whose names are on the round. The Series B was led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, Google’s GV, EQT and the CIA-li…