Nvidia and Friends Defend Open-Weight Models, Galaxy Prices $3.5B Note, TX’s New Rules Claim First Data Center Casualty

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For our lead story today, we cover Nvidia, Meta, Microsft, et al.’s open letter in defense of open weight models and whether it will be enough to stanch off regulation that bans these Chinese models in the US. For other news, we break down Galaxy Digital’s pricing for its $3.5B senior secured note; Diode Ventures pulling its plans for a TX data center after the firm failed to comply with new development standards; and provide an update on GPU rental prices, data center moratoria, and stock prices on DI Metrics.

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