Stargate gets off the ground, or at least, announces it is. What if OpenAI leases the chips from Nvidia instead of buying them. I go a bit deep in this episode in terms of the incentives behind all these AI moves. And what happens if AI makes translation as ubiquitous as spell check?

OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers (Wired)
In OpenAI Megadeal, Nvidia Discusses a New Business Model: Chip Leasing (The Information)
Nvidia’s $100bn bet on ‘gigantic AI factories’ to power ChatGPT (FT)
Alibaba Shares Soar After Hiking AI Budget Past $50 Billion (Bloomberg)
VCs to AI Startups: Please Take Our Money (Bloomberg)
Disney+, Hulu, ESPN to Hike Prices Again in October (The Wrap)
WhatsApp adds built-in text translations on iPhone and Android (The Verge)

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