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Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about $7 billion

The Wall Street Journal reported (Oct 11) that Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal that could be valued at about $7 billion, and that a purchase could wrap up soon if negotiations do not collapse. Bloomberg, citing the Journal, said no agreement is signed. Reuters said it could not immediately verify the report and that Amazon and Decart did not respond to requests for comment. Reuters, citing the Journal and PitchBook, said Decart was valued at nearly $4 billion in a May round that raised $300 million led by Radical Ventures, with Nvidia joining as a new investor, and described Decart’s Lucy model for live video edits plus Oasis, a model that generates simulated environments for robotics and autonomous-driving tests. Decart was founded in 2023 by Israeli engineers Dean Leitersdorf, Orian Leitersdorf, and Moshe Shalev. Distinct from the September card on Anthropic walking away from talks to buy Decart for about $6 billion after due diligence.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

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Nvidia weighs a bigger Reflection AI stake or a compute deal

The Straits Times reported (Oct 11, via Bloomberg) that Nvidia is in early talks to boost its stake in open-weight lab Reflection AI or offer the startup more computing power, and that no terms have been reached. Nvidia did not immediately comment; Reflection declined to comment. The Financial Times had reported the talks could lead to an acquisition offer, including an acqui-hire (hire staff and license technology), more chips, or a larger equity stake. Reflection debuted its first open-weight model, Beam, earlier in October and said on Oct 5 that Beam is aimed at coding and agent tasks, costs less than many rivals, and scores comparably to Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 on advanced reasoning benchmarks. The Journal has previously reported Reflection talks to raise $2.5 billion at a $25 billion valuation. Reflection has also struck billion-dollar compute deals with SpaceX and Nebius. The piece places a tie-up next to Nvidia’s recent deals, including a $13 billion agreement to buy Hugging Face and a roughly $20 billion licensing pact with Groq. Distinct from the Oct 5 Beam model-launch card.

Source: The Straits Times

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Yandex suspends a data center after a third drone strike in a week

Al Jazeera reported (Oct 11) that Yandex completely suspended operations at its data center in Vladimir, east of Moscow, after a drone strike, with no injuries. Yandex said on Telegram that the remaining resource configuration is unstable, advised customers to activate disaster-recovery plans, and warned that support communications could be disrupted while several services stayed unavailable. It is the third strike on Yandex data centers in a week: a Friday hit partly disabled a Kaluga-region site, and a Thursday strike shut the Sasovo hub, where Al Jazeera says two of the three supercomputers used to develop Yandex’s AI model are housed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after the Sasovo strike that the attacks respond to Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers. Distinct from model-launch and lab-safety cards; this is a physical outage of a national AI and cloud provider.

Source: Al Jazeera

Updated October 11, 2026

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Melvin Vivas

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I teach AI Agents, Local Models, and AI Workflows to people who want to use AI, not just read about it. Before the channel: senior engineering roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Ohmyhome (Nasdaq), then a run of AI products built and shipped end to end. That's why every video, talk, and post is grounded in what actually ships.

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