Nvidia Started Selling the Shovels. Now It Lends the Gold.
The chipmaker is quietly becoming the AI boom's banker, helping arrange more than $500 billion so its customers can buy its own chips. Bank of America now calls suppliers like Nvidia "credit intermediaries." It keeps the boom running, but it also moves the risk back onto Nvidia's own doorstep.
Read full story →Three Senators, Three Weeks, and a Legal Standard That Could Bite
A bipartisan Senate bill would put a binding "duty of care" on the biggest AI labs and let Washington block an unsafe model before it ships. It is the most serious safety legislation yet, backed by an Anthropic admission about bioweapons. The real obstacle may just be the midterm calendar.
Read full story →The Boom Has a Wall Around It, and the Neighbours Have Noticed
In one New Jersey town the AI build-out arrived as a 14-foot concrete wall, dozens of unpermitted gas generators and a hum that shook a child's bedroom window. The revolt it sparked has become one of the rare issues uniting left and right, and Washington's grand debates have barely noticed.
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