Hardware & Robotics
Where the compute actually lives, and what it costs to run.
A New York Times investigation details how Oracle borrowed tens of billions to fund AI data centers, with its debt downgraded to near-junk status and $300 billion riding on a single OpenAI contract.
NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform, succeeding Blackwell, entered full production in June 2026 and begins shipping to eight cloud partners this fall, claiming 10x lower inference costs.