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London-based "neocloud" startup Nscale closed a $433M pre-Series C SAFE round from Nvidia, Nokia, Dell, and others, after raising a $1.1B Series B on Sept. 25 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/01/nscale-closes-433m-round-days-after…

Nscale closes $433M round, days after bagging $1.1BN funding
Nscale, the UK-based AI data centre startup, has closed a $433 million funding round, just days after bagging a $1.1 billion funding round, as the vast investment in AI infrastructure shows no signs of abating.Nscale, which pitches itself as a "hyperscaler engineered for AI", was named as a key local AI infrastructure partner for OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia, which announced significant investments into the UK AI ecosystem last week, coinciding with the visit of President Trump.The latest $433m…

The global market for memory chips, particularly DRAM and NAND Flash, is experiencing significant price increases, primarily attributed to the explosive demand from operators of AI, who are buying up these essential components in enormous quantities.
https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2025/

The memory crunch – Is AI to blame?
The global market for memory chips, particularly DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and NAND Flash, is currently experiencing a period of significant price increases, primarily ...

Trump turned the shutdown into spectacle. That's not helping him. (Nnamdi Egwuonwu/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/news/news-analysis/trump-shutdown-blame-project-47-newsletter-rcna235861
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p41#a251007p41

Somewhere out there in the multiverse, there's a version of earth where it wasn't John Mastodon who wrote the most popular activitypub-using social networking site, but rather some guy named Fred.
The frediverse is real popular over there, with almost half a billion people on fredi.

Joe Rogan Subreddit Bans 'Political Posts' But Still Wants 'Free Speech' https://www.404media.co/joe-rogan-subreddit-bans-political-posts-but-still-wants-free-speech/