Welcome back! Nvidia is reportedly spending $6 billion to build an American answer to DeepSeek. WikiHow is taking OpenAI to court over its how-to articles, Anthropic's job interview asks recruits about a worthless stock, and Bernie Sanders says the country came around to stopping AI.
In today's Generative AI Newsletter:
Nvidia: What is it buying for $6 billion?
OpenAI: Who's dragging it to court now?
Anthropic: What does it ask before hiring you?
Bernie: Why is he claiming victory over AI?
Nvidia pays $6B to take down DeepSeek
Nvidia is reportedly paying $6 billion to license Poolside's technology, per the Wall Street Journal, plus about $1 billion invested in the startup at a $12 billion valuation. More than 100 Poolside engineers move over to work on Nemotron, Nvidia's open-weight model project.
The target is obvious. DeepSeek, Kimi K3 and Qwen turned open-weight AI into a Chinese home game, with Kimi shipping 2.8 trillion parameters for free last month while American labs kept their best weights locked.
Nvidia doesn’t like that.
The strategy pays twice, since every open model tuned for Nvidia hardware sells more Nvidia hardware. Yesterday's spending data showed businesses picking cheap open models. That's the market Nvidia just bid to own.
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WikiHow takes OpenAI to court
WikiHow sued OpenAI on Friday in Manhattan federal court, accusing it of scraping how-to articles to train ChatGPT without permission. Reports put the number above 11,000 articles.
The complaint names nine OpenAI entities, from the original nonprofit through the new public benefit corporation, attaches a list of registered copyrights as evidence and demands a jury.
WikiHow also asked the court to fold the case into the consolidated copyright litigation OpenAI is already fighting in the same district.
It joins a crowd. Britannica and Merriam-Webster sued in March over roughly 100,000 articles, nearly 400 local newspapers filed in June and the New York Times case grinds on.
WikiHow spent two decades answering "how do I" questions. That turned out to be ChatGPT's favorite genre.
Anthropic's job interview goes viral
Anthropic puts every candidate through a culture interview, and Axios reports on the question making headlines. How would you feel if the company abandoned AI for safety reasons and the stock went to zero?
One applicant answered honestly, not happy, and says the interviewer didn't like it.
The questions are suggested rather than scripted, salary negotiations don't exist, and candidates also walk through a moral quandary they've faced.
Dario Amodei said a few weeks ago he’s worried new hires come for the money. He wants mission-focused people. Hard to blame the hires. Some candidates pay thousands for interview prep because a few thousand spent can mean $200,000 more in salary.
Stopping AI is the new political trend
Bernie Sanders spent the weekend on a victory lap. Five months after he and AOC called for a data center moratorium and got labeled radical, crazy and extremist, he says the country came around.
The polls back the direction, if not his exact number. Fox News finds 70 percent of voters oppose an AI data center in their community, and Heatmap's survey puts opposition to one near your home at 75 percent.
These polls reached the offices of policy makers.
New York passed a one-year moratorium on hyperscale data centers, Republican nominees in Michigan and Pennsylvania back pauses, and governors who supported the projects, Shapiro and Pritzker among them, just turned hostile.
Tool of the Day: DaVinci AI
DaVinci AI puts the top AI video models in one workspace, Sora 2, Veo 3.1, Kling and Seedance included, so you pick the right model per shot instead of juggling separate subscriptions. It works the same on your phone, and you keep full commercial rights to what you make.
Try this yourself:
Open the video tool and describe your scene in a short, specific prompt.
Pick a model, then set aspect ratio, resolution and duration.
Animate a photo with image-to-video and lock the motion with start and end frames.
Regenerate with a prompt tweak until the shot lands, then download.
Who it's for: creators who want every top video model behind one login.
Everything else you shouldn't miss
Open-source models ate Vercel's traffic: token share on the hosting platform jumped from 28 to 62 percent in two months, per a chart from Vercel's CEO.
A Claude Code builder admits Opus 5 is off: responding to complaints, he called the model really spiky and said making Claude feel consistent and warm again is a huge priority.
Porsche signed a $1.5 billion AI deal: TCS will spread AI across Porsche's engineering, manufacturing, operations and customer experience over five years, and buys Porsche's MHP consulting unit as part of the package.
Chinese hackers doubled their output with DeepSeek: Taiwanese research firm TeamT5 says state-affiliated groups more than doubled their attacks after folding DeepSeek and other open models into their operations.
SpaceXAI is taking Nvidia to orbit: it's deploying Nvidia's Vera CPUs to speed up the work its AI agents do between model calls, and putting a Vera Rubin system in space aboard its first Starmind satellite.
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