Nvidia's $500B financing push just moved the AI race to the credit desk
The chip giant's deal with Apollo, BlackRock, and KKR signals that capital markets, not engineering, now decide who builds AI.

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The chip giant's deal with Apollo, BlackRock, and KKR signals that capital markets, not engineering, now decide who builds AI.
The AI buildout is running on borrowed money, and the question of who's on the hook is getting louder. Here's what a crash would mean for companies, lenders, and taxpayers.
The Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft targets Phobos with a 10-gram sample return that could settle whether Mars' moons are captured asteroids or impact debris.
The true-crime draw shows fraud narratives still sell - a signal for media execs and a caution for founders.
The former president's intervention raises the stakes in a federal probe into immigration paperwork that has put a prominent progressive lawmaker in the crosshairs.
Carolyn Marvin's disorderly conduct arrest turns a sidewalk standoff into a test case for how cities police the automation-versus-workforce debate.
Official data shows Beijing's Treasury holdings at an 18-year low, but custodial shifts suggest the real number is far higher - and Canada is the tell.
The chatbot startup's collapse hands Disney a ready-made AI team, with ex-CEO Karandeep Anand already installed as the entertainment giant's first CTO.
The documentary about Elizabeth Holmes' final days before prison opened in under 1,000 theaters and still pulled $15 million.
A new quantum state challenges decades of theory and hints at 'super-Fermions,' with real stakes for quantum computing and materials science.
The demonstration shows self-replicating AI can run on ordinary devices, with Anthropic warning the threat becomes practical by year-end.
A study of 100-plus European pollen records shows human abandonment of medieval farmland cut plant diversity by 40%, then restoration came from renewed human activity.