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ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports — 2026-10-20
## Short Segments ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent are making waves with a massive $35 billion order for Nvidia chips, but can Nvidia deliver? The UK antitrust regulator is pushing Apple to open up iPhone NFC access, potentially reshaping the mobile payment landscape. A Google Cloud outage in London disrupts services, including fintech giant Revolut. DeepSeek open-sources its AI engine, DeepInfer, aiming to lower costs and boost innovation. Postquant Labs launches a virtual machine to unify quantum computing code across different systems. Microsoft enhances its sovereign cloud with new EU…
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