Blue Origin Raises $10B in First Outside Funding Round

China is preparing to allow its top AI companies to purchase limited quantities of Nvidia's H200 chips, marking a shift in Beijing's protectionist stance toward domestic chipmakers. The move comes after U.S. President Donald Trump authorized Nvidia to ship H200 chips to approved Chinese customers in December, reversing prior export restrictions. China's approval would help address acute chip shortages driven by surging AI demand while maintaining some constraints on foreign chip access.

Kevin Weil, a former OpenAI executive, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a reusable rocket company. The move signals growing interest among Silicon Valley tech leaders in the commercial space sector, particularly in reusable launch vehicle technology. Weil's appointment reflects broader capital and talent flows from AI and software into aerospace ventures.

Nvidia and AI server chip startup d-Matrix announced a joint system combining their hardware to power AI models. The partnership reflects Nvidia's strategy to work with chip competitors as a hedge against their market success while potentially generating revenue from their growth. The move signals Nvidia's approach to maintaining influence across the AI infrastructure landscape even as new competitors emerge.

XAI, Meta, and Anthropic are expanding into adjacent business lines traditionally dominated by competitors, a pattern reflecting how major tech firms systematically encroach on each other's markets. XAI is renting spare server capacity, Meta launched an enterprise AI agent product, and Anthropic is developing custom AI server chips. This territorial overlap, documented across nine major tech firms since late 2024, mirrors historical patterns of tech industry consolidation and diversification.