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TL;DRBlackstone's $2.3B CoreWeave GPU loan sparked a booming market for AI hardware-backed financing.
Why it matters: Chip-backed debt is reshaping how AI infrastructure gets funded, creating new financial leverage and systemic risk.
Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper
TL;DRNvidia open-sourced Flora, a cheap robot video labeling tool that costs 1% of GPT-6 alternatives.
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