Nvidia's portfolio of equity stakes in tech and AI companies jumped more than tenfold over the past year, reaching $99 billion as of late July, up from roughly $7 billion a year earlier. The chip maker has committed over $40 billion to financing deals across the AI industry in 2026 alone, alongside separate pledges including up to $105 billion in conditional credit support for an OpenAI data center and a planned $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-04
AI companies have started purchasing used physical books in bulk to feed data into their large language models. This practice follows a copyright settlement earlier this year in which courts determined that buying books and destroying them during the digitization process for AI training qualifies as fair use.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-03
The Trump administration filed a court brief supporting OpenAI in its ongoing copyright dispute with publishers over AI training data. Officials argued that restricting AI firms' access to content for training purposes could pose national security risks.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-02
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