Power Play Quartz By: Quartz Staff 20 October 2026 at 19:10 AI needs more power, faster than America has ever built it. An investigation into the bottlenecks, the fixes, and the economics of AI development
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent ordered over $35 billion of Nvidia chips at list price Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 20 October 2026 at 18:40 Nvidia has told customers it cannot guarantee full delivery of the RTX PRO 5500 cards as demand exceeds planned production
5 parental control apps for kids' phones, tested and ranked for 2026 Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 20 October 2026 at 15:41 Five parental control apps tested across iOS, Android, and Windows show sharp trade-offs in filtering, tracking, and price.
Researchers found 6,800 shared Meta Muse conversation links through public DNS records Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 20 October 2026 at 15:10 Security firm Claroc said some of the pages held loan applications, revenue reviews and a bank fraud alert
China inaugurated a state-owned data company to support its AI push Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 20 October 2026 at 15:10 The company, based in Xiongan New Area, brings the number of centrally administered state-owned enterprises to 100
Former OpenAI research chief raised $230M for an AI manufacturing startup Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 20 October 2026 at 14:40 The round values Arda at $1.5 billion; its AI software for manufacturing engineers has been deployed with Anduril
DeepSeek is open-sourcing the software it uses to run its AI models at scale Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 20 October 2026 at 14:40 The DeepInfer framework supports the V4.1-Flash model on NVIDIA and Huawei chips and omits several parts of a full service
HSBC CEO urged investors to be selective on data center financing Quartz By: Cris Tolomia 20 October 2026 at 14:20 Georges Elhedery said contract quality and pricing vary across projects, even as he called AI transformational