Insider Brief London-based AI chip startup Fractile announced in a company blog post it raised $220 million in a funding round led by Accel, Factorial Funds and Founders Fund as investors continue pouring capital into hardware designed to support the growing computational demands of artificial intelligence. The company said the funding will be used to […]
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Commerzbank’s Commodity Analyst Barbara Lambrecht reports that focus in London is turning to Platinum group metals as the World Platinum Investment Council prepares updated forecasts. The bank expects WPIC to project a fourth consecutive annual deficit, further eroding above-ground stocks that already cover only four months of demand. Continued medium-term deficits and inventory drawdowns would likely underpin Platinum prices. WPIC outlook and shrinking inventories “At the start of the week, the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) will present its new forecasts for the platinum market. It is expected to forecast the fourth consecutive supply deficit for this year.” “Even though the supply deficit is likely to be smaller than in previous years due to weaker demand from the automotive industry and for platinum jewelry, above-ground inventories — which have already fallen significan
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NVIDIA (NVDA) stock surged 3.7% to $234.18 as of writing in midday trading, extending its winning streak to a seventh consecutive session as strong demand signals from China fueled investor optimism ahead of its May 20 earnings report. The rally pushed shares to a fresh intraday high of $236.47, lifting Nvidia’s market capitalization to roughly $5.7 trillion. The move places the chip giant firmly at the center of the ongoing AI-driven market surge. So what’s behind this latest breakout? The answer lies in a mix of geopolitical developments and accelerating global demand for AI infrastructure. China Demand Reignites Momentum Reports indicate that several major Chinese technology firms are preparing to purchase Nvidia’s H200 AI processors, pending government approval. These firms include Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, all of which continue to expand their AI capabilities
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In the heart of London, at the historic Royal Institution of Great Britain, more than 350 leaders, researchers and builders of the future gathered to explore a question that is no longer theoretical: what does the world look like when intelligence is distributed between humans and machines? London is no longer speculating about the future of artificial intelligence, it has become one of its live testing grounds. The second edition of Game Changer London transformed a single day into a dense, multi-layered map of emerging relationships between AI, trust and human behaviour. What began as a technological dialogue ended as a societal diagnosis: AI is no longer just a tool, but a layer of reality through which everything else is processed. The conference was opened by Dr. Vanja Ljevar, who set the tone with a simple but foundational statement: “It’s a Matter of Trust
SoftBank's investment in Graphcore could reshape the AI chip market, challenging Nvidia's dominance and potentially easing GPU shortages.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) Chief Economist Philip Lane crossed the wires, saying that the energy shock caused by the Iran war will require a restrictive policy at a conference in London. Lane said that “a mid-size but not-too-persistent overshoot could warrant some measured adjustment,” adding that the response has to be “appropriately forceful or persistent” on Lane reaffirmed the ECB’s line that “a mid-size but not-too-persistent overshoot could warrant some measured adjustment” while the response had to be “appropriately forceful or persistent” would require a firmer or longer-lasting policy reaction. EUR/USD reaction on the headline The EUR/USD bounced off around the 1.1700 figure, past the 100-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) of 1.1708, which could open the door for further gains. Up next is the 20-day SMA at 1.1730. ECB FAQs The European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, is
Insider Brief Industrial robotics startup Mind Robotics has raised $400 million in new funding led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing total investment in the company to more than $1 billion. According to Mind Robotics, the round included new investors Meritech Capital, Redpoint Ventures, SV Angel, Incharge Capital, A-Star Capital and Garuda Ventures, alongside existing backers Accel, […]
Reinforcement-learning agents — AI systems that learn by trial and error — can convert computation into new knowledge. That’s the focus of a new engineering-level collaboration between NVIDIA and Ineffable Intelligence, the London-based AI lab founded by AlphaGo architect David Silver in the wake of Ineffable’s emergence from stealth last week. “The next frontier of […]
