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The GPU landlords start to fall

Industry insiders now expect only a handful of the hundreds of AI cloud firms renting out GPUs to survive, and Nvidia is propping up the rest with its own money.

Wall Street's hottest AI fund rode leverage to 439%

Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund gained 439% in the first half and peaked near $45 billion. In July it lost roughly two-thirds of its value, took margin calls from three prime brokers, and sold its entire $16 billion public book to Citadel.

Spearhead Announces Strategic Partnership with ServiceNow to Bring Governance and Operational Control to Enterprise AI Agents

PLEASANTON, Calif., Spearhead, an applied AI consulting and engineering firm focused on production-grade AI systems, today announced a partnership with ServiceNow aimed at a problem most enterprises don't solve until it's too late: keeping AI agents under control after they've already gone live.

Frontier model pricing keep falling, your bill keeps rising

On July 30, OpenAI cut its GPT-5.6 tiers again, with Luna now at $0.20 per million input tokens. Across vendors, the frontier token-price index sits 88% below its 2023 base.

The Open Secure AI Alliance skipped the frontier

NVIDIA and more than three dozen companies launched the Open Secure AI Alliance on Friday to make AI agents inspectable and auditable. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, the three labs most tied to closed frontier models, are not in it.

The revenue verdict came back

Amazon jumped about 9% as AWS reaccelerated to 37%, its fastest in more than four years, and the market forgave a capex guide raised to $220 billion. Apple fell nearly 7% the same evening on a services miss, even though it barely spends on AI at all. Two nights ago the market started grading AI compute on whether it earns. Last night it finished the job, and the sorting reached a name that isn't even building. Apple owns almost no data centers and got graded anyway, on the software revenue AI is supposed to lift. Every vendor you buy from now carries that same mark, whether or not it owns a single GPU.

The market split the field

Microsoft rose about 9% after earnings on a $37 billion AI business growing 123%. Meta fell nearly as much after free cash flow collapsed to $784 million against a raised capex plan. Amazon and Apple report tonight.

The token got cheaper again

Claude Opus 5 costs the same per token as the model it replaces but finishes tasks with fewer of them, the clearest sign yet that the number governing an AI budget is cost per completed task, not sticker price.

Wall Street won't lend OpenAI the money, so the company selling it chips offered to guarantee the loan

Nvidia is in talks to backstop roughly $250 billion of financing so OpenAI can lease a $500 billion, 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, with separate talks on up to $350 billion more for the chips that fill it.

Big Tech's 2026 AI bill comes to $725 billion

The four largest hyperscalers will spend 77% more on AI infrastructure this year than last. Alphabet's blowout quarter showed the demand is real. The market still flinched

The GPU landlords start to fall

Wall Street's hottest AI fund rode leverage to 439%

Spearhead Announces Strategic Partnership with ServiceNow to Bring Governance and Operational Control to Enterprise AI Agents

Frontier model pricing keep falling, your bill keeps rising

The Open Secure AI Alliance skipped the frontier

The revenue verdict came back

The market split the field

The token got cheaper again

Wall Street won't lend OpenAI the money, so the company selling it chips offered to guarantee the loan

Big Tech's 2026 AI bill comes to $725 billion

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