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Research Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 at $5/$25 per Mtok—near-Fable-5 coding at half Fable's price Policy Jensen Huang debuts on X with open-weight AI letter, backing models against Washington restriction Chips Intel Foundry Q2: $5.8B revenue, external customer mix still 5% of total Chips Samsung locks $200B with Broadcom: HBM4 + 2nm foundry through 2030 for AI chips Breaking Moonshot AI halts Kimi K3 subscriptions as demand hits infrastructure limits amid U.S. chip export curbs Funding Paper raises $34M Series A from Accel, ICONIQ for AI-native design platform Research Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5: matches Fable on benchmarks, 50% cheaper, praised for coding Funding Cathedral: DOGE alumni raise $160M for stealth AI military cybersecurity startup at $1.4B valuation Market NVIDIA locks down SK Hynix HBM supply with $500B AI infrastructure deal Research Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, 118B open-weight model beating DeepSeek V4 Flash on agentic tasks Funding Etched raises $300M Series C at $10.3B valuation, values inference chips above general training Market SpaceX Starship Flight 13 deploys 20 Starlink V3 satellites post-IPO, stock down 43% from peak Funding Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B; AI-native endpoint security for enterprise devices Funding Sila raises $300M for silicon anode expansion; pivots beyond EV to AI, defense, robotics Market Samsung launches RX robotics division; Korea pledges 312T won to Yeongnam AI hub Chips Fortinet becomes Intel Foundry's first named external customer on Intel 4 Market Tesla Q2 free cash flow turns negative $1.1B as capex explodes 142% funding Robotaxi, Optimus, chip fab Market BlackRock markets $12.3B bonds for Meta El Paso data center as AI debt fuels infrastructure buildout Market Waymo launches standalone app in Atlanta, Austin as Uber exclusivity ends January 2028 Funding Etched raises $300M at $10.3B valuation; aims for frontier-scale AI inference at lower power, higher density Research Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 at $5/$25 per Mtok—near-Fable-5 coding at half Fable's price Policy Jensen Huang debuts on X with open-weight AI letter, backing models against Washington restriction Chips Intel Foundry Q2: $5.8B revenue, external customer mix still 5% of total Chips Samsung locks $200B with Broadcom: HBM4 + 2nm foundry through 2030 for AI chips Breaking Moonshot AI halts Kimi K3 subscriptions as demand hits infrastructure limits amid U.S. chip export curbs Funding Paper raises $34M Series A from Accel, ICONIQ for AI-native design platform Research Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5: matches Fable on benchmarks, 50% cheaper, praised for coding Funding Cathedral: DOGE alumni raise $160M for stealth AI military cybersecurity startup at $1.4B valuation Market NVIDIA locks down SK Hynix HBM supply with $500B AI infrastructure deal Research Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, 118B open-weight model beating DeepSeek V4 Flash on agentic tasks Funding Etched raises $300M Series C at $10.3B valuation, values inference chips above general training Market SpaceX Starship Flight 13 deploys 20 Starlink V3 satellites post-IPO, stock down 43% from peak Funding Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B; AI-native endpoint security for enterprise devices Funding Sila raises $300M for silicon anode expansion; pivots beyond EV to AI, defense, robotics Market Samsung launches RX robotics division; Korea pledges 312T won to Yeongnam AI hub Chips Fortinet becomes Intel Foundry's first named external customer on Intel 4 Market Tesla Q2 free cash flow turns negative $1.1B as capex explodes 142% funding Robotaxi, Optimus, chip fab Market BlackRock markets $12.3B bonds for Meta El Paso data center as AI debt fuels infrastructure buildout Market Waymo launches standalone app in Atlanta, Austin as Uber exclusivity ends January 2028 Funding Etched raises $300M at $10.3B valuation; aims for frontier-scale AI inference at lower power, higher density
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NVIDIA discloses 9.3% stake in Nebius; stock surges as neocloud clinches AI infrastructure deals

NVIDIA disclosed a 9.3% ownership stake in Amsterdam-based Nebius through an SEC filing on July 21, lifting the neocloud's shares 7% in premarket trading. Nebius stock has climbed nearly 250% over the past 12 months, valuing the company at $46 billion. This represents NVIDIA's latest strategic play in AI infrastructure, following previous investments of $30 billion in OpenAI's $110 billion March funding round and participation in Anthropic's $30 billion Series D in February.

The NVIDIA-Nebius partnership extends beyond the equity stake. NVIDIA previously announced a separate $2 billion investment agreement that includes collaboration on AI infrastructure deployment, fleet management, inference optimization, and AI factory design. Nebius has locked in multiple capex deals with tech giants in 2026, including a long-term agreement with Meta to spend up to $27 billion on Nebius infrastructure.

Separately, Nebius raised $775 million in senior secured debt backed by deployed GPU infrastructure and contracted cash flows from an investment-grade customer—signaling confidence in long-term revenue commitments. Freedom Capital Markets upgraded the company to a buy rating on the debt raise.

For infrastructure architects: this stake reveals NVIDIA's dual play—controlling hardware sales while reducing capex risk by holding equity in the cloud providers that deploy it. The $46 billion valuation suggests venture and strategic capital are repricing neocloud capacity from commodity to strategic asset. Watch whether other GPU vendors follow suit.

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