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NVIDIA: every development we track
12 developments and 2 rules, in date order. Built automatically from every development involving this organisation.
- Rule · In forceAENational AI Strategy 2031
- OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX launch $500bn Stargate data-centre venture
It set the gigawatt scale that every other frontier lab, chip supplier and utility has since had to plan around.
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- Stargate UAE: 1GW OpenAI cluster planned in Abu Dhabi, first 200MW due in 2026
It tied US chip access to sovereign AI investment deals, a template for later US approvals of advanced-chip exports to the Gulf.
- China's internet regulator summons NVIDIA over alleged security risks in H20 chips
It showed Beijing would use security reviews to slow purchases of US chips that Washington permits, pushing Chinese buyers towards domestic accelerators.
- China's market regulator finds preliminary NVIDIA antitrust breach over Mellanox deal
It gives Beijing a pending penalty lever over the leading AI-chip supplier that can be tightened or eased with the wider trade relationship.
- Huawei sets yearly Ascend AI-chip roadmap and 8,192-chip Atlas 950 SuperPoD
It is China's main domestic answer to US export controls, betting on very large clusters of weaker chips to close the per-chip gap.
- OpenAI signs 6GW AMD GPU deal and gets warrant for up to 160m AMD shares
It gave OpenAI a second large GPU supplier and showed compute deals being paid for partly in supplier equity, a circular financing pattern that investors now scrutinise.
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- US opens case-by-case H200 licences for China and adds 25% tariff on such chips
It reopened China to near-frontier US accelerators under a revenue-and-volume bargain, reversing the trend of tighter controls since 2022.
- NVIDIA restarts H200 production after Chinese orders and first US licence
Both governments now gate the same chip sales, so China's AI compute supply depends on two sets of approvals that can be withdrawn at any time.
- US charges Supermicro co-founder over alleged $2.5bn Nvidia-server diversion to China
It is the largest alleged AI-chip diversion case yet and puts server makers' end-use checks, not just chip designers', under enforcement scrutiny.
- Anthropic withholds Claude Mythos Preview, gives it to defenders via Project Glasswing
It was the first time a leading lab gated a frontier model on cyber-offence grounds and steered it to patching critical software first, setting the pattern for later restricted releases.
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- Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA form alliance for grid-flexible AI data centres
Industry is offering flexible-load commitments as the price of faster grid access, the same trade regulators are weighing in the FERC proceedings.
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- Kansas City Fed's Schmid asks whether the AI ecosystem is becoming too big to fail
A sitting Fed policymaker framing AI interdependence in too-big-to-fail terms signals that supervisors may start probing how exposed the financial system is to the AI build-out.