2026-08-28
SoftBank seeks a second $10bn loan against its OpenAI stake
SoftBank is seeking a further $10bn loan to fund its OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It closed a loan of exactly that size, secured against the same asset, 22 days earlier. TNW has not independently verified the report and could not review its full terms, so what follows sets the reported request against the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-28
Nvidia has paused parts of the revenue-sharing programme it launched in July
Nvidia has halted some of the transactions under the financing programme it introduced eight weeks ago, in which it extends credit to AI cloud companies buying its chips and takes a cut of what those chips later earn, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The scheme was announced on 1 July, and it does […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-28
Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace
Effective immediately, the DJ marketplace Beatport is banning music that is entirely or largely generated by AI.<br /> The article Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
2026-08-28
Washington Can Suspend Anthropic’s Models, but It Can’t Fix Your Architecture
The saga around Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models gave the IT industry a rare, real-time case study in AI governance under geopolitical pressure. In June, the US Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic to cut off access to both models for all foreign nationals over national security concerns. Anthropic could not verify nationality in time, so it pulled access entirely, then restored it [...]
2026-08-28
USD.AI Secures $100M Stablecoin Debt Facility From Bullish to Finance GPU-Backed Loans
Digital asset platform Bullish announced on August 28, 2026, a $100 million stablecoin-based debt facility to USD.AI, an onchain protocol that originates non-recourse loans secured by GPU hardware, marking Bullish's entry into middle-market AI infrastructure financing. The facility will fund USD.AI's GPU financing operations, which lend capital directly against high-performance computing [...]
2026-08-28
What the Shadow AI Numbers Are Hiding
Employees in most organisations are already using AI tools their employer has never approved. By now, that shouldn't surprise anyone. Employees have always gravitated toward technologies that help them work more efficiently, whether or not those tools were formally introduced by IT. AI has simply accelerated that behaviour. The speed of AI adoption is only part of the story. More revealing is [...]