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Dallas-based investor Disruptive announced a $10 billion blind-pool fund that will make large late-stage investments — up to $1 billion per check — targeting at least 10 companies and focusing on capital-intensive areas including AI and defense. The firm, led by founder Alex Davis, has previously invested in firms such as Groq and ElevenLabs and told LPs it has returned more than $6 billion on roughly $1.9 billion deployed.
Nurses at HCA Healthcare say the AI-powered scheduling system Timpani, co-developed with Palantir and deployed at roughly 130 of HCA’s 190 locations since 2023, often ignores shift preferences, creates understaffed or imbalanced shifts, and contributes to exhaustion and delayed care. Union leaders and multiple nurses told WIRED the tool operates with minimal oversight and limited auditability after alleged data deletions; HCA says leaders—not the tool—make final scheduling decisions and that it is iterating on Timpani.
Nurses at dozens of HCA Healthcare hospitals say Timpani, an AI scheduling tool co-developed with Palantir and built on Palantir Foundry, frequently ignores preferences, creates understaffed or inexperienced shifts, and increases last-minute reassignments; HCA says human leaders make final decisions and is updating the tool, while a former data manager has sued alleging retaliation and deletion of scheduling data. The complaints, reported by WIRED and echoed by union leaders, cover roughly 130 HCA locations where Timpani has been rolled out since 2023.
Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a one-year, highly selective program that will not grant degrees but offers short classes from tech leaders (including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman), co-op placements at partner companies, and more than $50,000 in compute credits. The academy launches with $42 million in funding led by a16z, 10 announced partners (Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, Stripe), will admit about 50 students for a free inaugural fall 2027 cohort, and requires participants to relocate to San Francisco.
President Donald Trump has publicly defended AI data centers and criticized communities that oppose them, framing data center restrictions as jeopardizing U.S. competitiveness with China. That stance conflicts with growing Republican and local opposition—reflected in a New York Times poll and internal GOP memos warning candidates that unqualified support for more data centers is politically risky.
OpenAI and Anthropic tell corporate customers their data won't be used for model training, but when Anthropic said it would store usage logs from its flagship model Fable for 30 days, firms including Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton pulled back from using it for sensitive work, highlighting continuing data-trust issues across AI companies.
A NVIDIA Developer article discusses efforts to codify NVIDIA’s supply-chain expertise using Nemotron together with Palantir Foundry, focusing on measuring performance across the interval ‘‘wafer-out to first token’’.
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