Six stories today: Nvidia promises another year of plenty, OpenAI stops taking Pro money, and Anthropic names the firms it says are copying its models.
- Jensen Huang says Nvidia will grow 70% next year
- OpenAI pauses Pro subscriptions on Astra demand
- Anthropic names Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek in distillation report
- The US wants AI firms to secretly downgrade Chinese users
- Universal Music and ElevenLabs are building a licensed remix platform
- Slack can now build charts and reports from a prompt
Jensen Huang says Nvidia will grow 70% next year
Jensen Huang told TechCrunch that Nvidia expects roughly 70% revenue growth next year. He also pushed back on the claim that its chip and investment deals are circular.
The number is a forecast, not a result, and Huang has reason to sound confident. But the circularity question is real: Nvidia invests in AI companies that then buy Nvidia chips, and critics read that as demand the company is funding itself. Huang says the demand is genuine. The next few quarters will show whether the growth holds without the loop.
OpenAI pauses Pro subscriptions on Astra demand
OpenAI has stopped accepting new Pro subscriptions while it adds capacity. TechCrunch reports the pause follows demand for Astra that strained its systems.
Turning away paying customers is an unusual move for a company that has raised on growth. It reads as a capacity problem the company would rather admit than paper over. Whether the pause lasts days or weeks is the thing to watch, because it puts a number on how far ahead demand has run of supply.
Anthropic names Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek in distillation report
Anthropic published a report alleging escalating distillation attacks by Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek. TechCrunch covered the report, which claims China-based firms are extracting model behavior to train their own systems.
Distillation is training a smaller model on a larger one's outputs, and doing it against a competitor's API is contested territory. The report is Anthropic's account, and the named firms have not confirmed it here. What is new is the specificity: named companies, described methods, and a stated pattern of escalation.
The US wants AI firms to secretly downgrade Chinese users
Ars Technica reports that the US is urging AI firms to identify Chinese users and quietly route them to less-capable models. The push follows accusations that six Chinese firms are aggressively copying US frontier models.
The mechanism matters as much as the goal: a covert downgrade is hard to detect and hard to audit. It also asks companies to treat users differently by nationality without telling them. If it becomes policy, it changes what "the same model" means depending on who is asking.
Universal Music and ElevenLabs are building a licensed remix platform
Universal Music and ElevenLabs have signed a multiyear deal to launch an AI music platform. The Verge reports it will let users remix licensed catalog tracks, with opt-in artist participation.
The detail worth noting is consent: artists opt in, and the catalog is licensed rather than scraped. That is a different posture from most generative-music tools, which trained first and negotiated later, if at all. It is also a test of whether a major label can make remix rights a product instead of a lawsuit.
Slack can now build charts and reports from a prompt
Slack introduced Slackforce Surfaces, which builds dashboards, reports, and microsites from a description typed into chat. The Verge reports the output lands inside the Slack conversation where the request was made.
The premise is that the artifact should appear where the discussion already is, not in a separate tool. Whether the generated charts are accurate enough to trust is the open question, and that is true of every describe-to-build feature. For teams that live in Slack, it removes a step; for everyone else, it is one more surface to keep honest.
Tools worth your time
- Slackforce Surfaces — describe a dashboard, report, or microsite in chat and Slack builds it inline. For teams that already run their work inside Slack. slack.com
- ElevenLabs music platform — remix licensed Universal Music catalog tracks, with artists opting in. For creators who want generative music on a licensed footing. elevenlabs.io
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