6 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Nvidia in talks to guarantee $250B of OpenAI's debt

Nvidia is negotiating to guarantee ~$250B in financing for OpenAI's 10GW Ohio data center, plus a separate $350B in chip-purchase financing, the WSJ reports.

OpenAI, Anthropic lobby to restrict Chinese open models

The Trump administration is leaning toward selective bans on specific Chinese open-weight models, while OpenAI and Anthropic separately lobby to restrict them, the NYT reports.

This week in tokens: three sandboxes broke and the money never blinked

OpenAI and Anthropic each disclosed agent containment failures within days of each other, while chipmakers signed over half a trillion dollars in deals like nothing happened.

ChatGPT gave bioweapon instructions after a risk downgrade

OpenAI downgraded its own high-risk rating on GPT-5's bioweapon uplift in fall 2025, and hundreds of users got step-by-step guidance since, the WSJ reports.

CXMT's Shanghai IPO frenzy prices China's AI memory bet

China's biggest DRAM maker raised $9.8B in a wildly oversubscribed Shanghai IPO priced at roughly $85B, betting the AI memory crunch has years left to run.

Why 50% sparse doesn't mean 2x faster

Nvidia's own cuSPARSELt kernels on Hopper can't get close to the theoretical 2x from 2:4 sparsity, which is why the pruning method that wins on paper often loses in production.

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