Tech 24 - July 27, 2026

Nvidia is in talks to backstop roughly $250 billion in financing for OpenAI. The money would help OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio.

SoftBank's energy arm is building the site in Piketon, on the grounds of a former uranium enrichment plant. The full campus could cost at least $500 billion. Nvidia would supply the chips and guarantee the lease, and it is discussing another $350 billion tied to chip purchases.

The chipmaker funds the customer that buys its chips. That ties one balance sheet to the whole AI buildout. Talks are early, so terms could still change.

Moonshot AI put the open weights for Kimi K3 online over the weekend. The model has 2.8 trillion parameters. That makes it the biggest open-weight release in history.

Anyone can grab it under a modified MIT license. The catch is size. In four-bit precision the file runs about 1.4 terabytes before you load a single prompt.

Open weights mean labs and startups can run a frontier-class model on their own hardware. No API, no data leaving the building. That is why this one matters to anyone weighing China risk.

A Falcon 9 carried 24 Starlink satellites off the pad at Vandenberg in California. Booster B1100 had already flown seven missions, including a spy-satellite launch for the government.

It landed again on the droneship in the Pacific. Each reused booster shaves the cost of reaching orbit.

Cheaper launches keep Starlink growing and keep rivals chasing. The economics of space now favor whoever lands the most rockets.

Vivo launched the X300e in China today. It runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and carries a 7,200mAh battery, well past what most flagships offer.

The camera setup is the draw. Three ZEISS-tuned rear lenses, led by a 50-megapixel main and a 50-megapixel periscope. The 6.59-inch OLED runs at 144Hz, and charging hits 90W.

Chinese makers keep stuffing bigger batteries and better cameras into mid-size phones. That pressure is what pushes the whole market forward.

Tesla turned on driverless rides in Orlando and Tampa. It reached Miami just 18 days earlier, so that is three Florida metros in under three weeks.

The rides run with no safety driver up front. Florida rain will test the camera-only system harder than dry Texas roads ever did.

Fast expansion is how Tesla makes its case against Waymo. Every new city is a bet that cameras alone can handle real traffic.

The crypto market rose about 1.7% as Bitcoin and Ether climbed. Traders are watching the Senate for a possible vote on the CLARITY Act, which would set clearer rules for digital assets.

Sentiment is still cautious. The Fear and Greed Index sits at 30, in fear territory, though that is up from 26 a day earlier.

Clear rules would pull big money off the sidelines. That is why every step in Washington moves prices now.

A reviewer runs the new open model through live coding, web build, and vision tasks. It is a quick look at whether the biggest open weights hold up against paid rivals.

Watch before you download 1.4 terabytes.