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Today's topics:

Nvidia backs OpenAI Ohio campus - Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion in lease and power commitments for OpenAI's Ohio mega-campus, while also investing in the project. The move highlights how AI infrastructure, electricity, and compute capacity have become central competitive assets.

Stripe buys OpenRouter control layer - Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter for more than $7 billion gives the payments company a powerful position in AI model routing and billing. It is a sign that the battle for AI's middle layer is becoming just as important as the battle over the models themselves.

Hollywood and Japan target AI data - ByteDance's new copyright framework with the Motion Picture Association could become a template for AI licensing in film and TV. Japan's proposed training-data disclosure rules add pressure for transparency around copyrighted datasets and AI compliance.

Apple spyware alerts go global - Apple sent a record wave of mercenary-spyware notifications to users in 110 countries, underscoring the reach of commercial surveillance tools. The warnings are especially relevant for journalists, activists, lawyers, and other high-risk targets.

GitHub outage and Copilot flaw - A global GitHub outage disrupted development workflows across Actions, Pull Requests, and Copilot. In separate security news, researchers found a GitHub Copilot Autofix patch introduced a real shell-injection vulnerability into production code.

Google retires Imagen for Gemini - Google has shut down Imagen 4 image-generation endpoints and is pushing developers to Gemini instead. The change shows how quickly AI platforms are deprecating older models, creating migration work and cost uncertainty for downstream apps.

Tesla nears Austin Cybercab launch - Tesla appears close to launching public Cybercab rides in Austin, a major moment for its robotaxi plans. If it happens on schedule, the rollout will be an important real-world test of Tesla's camera-first self-driving strategy.

Episode Transcript

Nvidia backs OpenAI Ohio campus
We'll start with the scale story. Nvidia has agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion in lease and power obligations for OpenAI's planned data center campus in Pike County, Ohio. The project is expected to land somewhere in the range of four to ten gigawatts, which would make it one of the biggest AI-focused compute sites ever attempted. Nvidia is also investing roughly $1.5 billion into the SoftBank-backed energy entity behind the build. The big takeaway is simple: the AI race is no longer just about better models. It is about locking down power, land, and physical capacity before someone else does.

Stripe buys OpenRouter control layer
That same theme showed up elsewhere in the market. AI infra