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Thu, Oct 29, 9:32 AM ET
DOJ reportedly scrutinizes Nvidia's $12.9 billion Hugging Face acquisition over competition concerns
Antitrust review of Nvidia's largest AI software deal adds regulatory risk as the company faces pressure on customer leverage and market power in AI.
Tom's Hardware · +6 outlets
Malaysia seizes 30 servers with advanced AI chips worth over $12 million at Kuala Lumpur airport
Customs officials suspect an export-control-evading smuggling network used Malaysia as a transit hub for restricted Nvidia-class AI hardware bound for an undisc
Tom's Hardware · +14 outlets
Report: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang targeted by suspected Chinese intelligence asset at cloud partner
The allegation involves a senior executive at an Nvidia cloud partner under investigation for smuggling banned AI chips to China, raising concerns over AI suppl
Tom's Hardware · +14 outlets
Anthropic IPO filing details massive $800 billion in TPU and GPU contracts, mostly for R&D
The S-1 shows Anthropic's $8.9 billion first-half compute spend went largely to research rather than serving Claude customers, and flags China competition and e
Tom's Hardware · +10 outlets
Broadcom stock jumps as Anthropic deal and analyst upgrades lift the AI trade
Broadcom's expanded Anthropic financing links sales to asset risk, and the resulting rally has helped lift the broader semiconductor sector.
Yahoo Finance · +13 outlets
Anthropic IPO filing ties Alphabet, Amazon, SpaceX, Microsoft, Broadcom and AMD contract exposure
The filing lays out how major technology and infrastructure providers are counting on Anthropic's listing, with differing contractual terms across suppliers.
Yahoo Finance · +14 outlets
SK hynix posts record Q3 results as AI memory demand and HBM exports hit new highs
Long-term customer contracts and rising memory prices are changing how makers plan multi-year capacity and capex, while Chinese rival CXMT pushes HBM3E despite
Eetimes · +13 outlets
Intel to report Q3 earnings as analysts flag strong setup and chip sector rebound
Analysts expect a favorable setup into Intel's results, with options-implied moves of around 9% and questions about the stock's 24% monthly decline.
Yahoo Finance · +7 outlets
AMD faces November 3 earnings test as analysts set $800 targets on AI demand
AMD's attempt to reclaim a $1 trillion valuation hinges on its upcoming report, with Aletheia Capital citing AI demand in its $800 price target.
Beinsure · +9 outlets
Intel agrees $2.3 billion quantum deal to acquire Classiq software platform
Intel's quantum push moves beyond hardware research toward a software platform connecting quantum developers with enterprise users.
Eetimes · +14 outlets
Nvidia signs $18 billion stake in SpaceX as Huang's announcement cheers shareholders
The disclosure ties Nvidia more closely to Musk's space and AI ambitions and has become a bullish talking point for investors, including a growing US-stock craz
The Motley Fool · +3 outlets
Microsoft and Alphabet capex cutbacks plus Samsung profit miss drag chip stocks lower
Lighter hyperscaler spending and weak Samsung results hit Intel, AMD, Broadcom and Micron, even as memory prices continued to buoy parts of the AI trade.
Yahoo Finance · +3 outlets
Nvidia's $108 billion earnings test: analysts say the next forecast matters more
With Nvidia stock off its highs, Wall Street is focused less on the reported quarter than on forward guidance for AI data center demand.
The Motley Fool · +14 outlets
South Korea export growth accelerates fastest in over 50 years on AI chip demand
The AI chip boom lifted Korean GDP above forecasts and drove KOSPI gains, though the Bank of Korea flagged won volatility and risks to $100 billion in exports i
BusinessToday Malaysia · +14 outlets
Nvidia's China AI chip shipments fell 44% in first half of 2026 as Huang courted Trump
Export controls and China's persistent AI chip shortage keep driving smuggling and overseas cloud use, underscoring the difficulty of cutting off Nvidia depende
The Motley Fool · +14 outlets
OpenAI reportedly plans to buy Google AI chips, raising questions for Nvidia
The reported shift by a major Nvidia customer toward Google's TPUs highlights rising competition in AI accelerators and the risk of diversifying demand.
The Motley Fool · +14 outlets
SK hynix-owned Solidigm weighs $45 billion US flash memory factory
The reported plan, which seeks approval to export equipment for China upgrades in return, would be a major US manufacturing investment by the SK hynix subsidiar
Tom's Hardware · +1 outlets
Nvidia Vera standalone CPUs land in Oracle Cloud multi-gigawatt deployment
The generally available OCI Supercluster deployment marks Nvidia's move beyond NVL72 systems into standalone CPU instances at a major hyperscaler.
Tom's Hardware · +1 outlets

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