{"id":2209,"date":"2026-08-13T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2026-08-13T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:01:20","slug":"fortune-tech-nvidias-creative-capital-apples-political-strategy-google-deepmind-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Tech: Nvidia’s creative capital; Apple’s political strategy, Google DeepMind drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good morning.<\/strong> Reporter Lily Mae Lazarus pinch hitting here today for Andrew. <\/p>\n

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Apparently, the PTA has a better portfolio than you.<\/p>\n

Silicon Valley private schools are trading silent auctions for cap tables with a handful of Bay Area campuses now running miniature venture funds steered by parent-investors from Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Battery. The programs have become somewhat of Silicon Valley lore, Fortune<\/em>\u2019s Amanda Gerut writes. Saint Francis High School\u2019s parent-run growth fund turned a $15,000 bet on Snap into roughly $34 million at IPO.<\/p>\n

With SpaceX just pulling off the biggest IPO in history and Anthropic and OpenAI widely expected to follow, these school funds could be sitting on the next windfall. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what else moved tech and money today.<\/p>\n

Want to send thoughts or suggestions to\u00a0Fortune Tech?\u00a0Drop a line\u00a0here.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nvidia wants your pension fund in the AI trade<\/h3>\n
\"Nvidia<\/div>\n

Nvidia <\/span>announced partnerships<\/span> this week with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to build financing platforms aiming to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure\u2014with the cash coming largely from \u201cthird-party investors\u201d rather than Nvidia\u2019s own balance sheet. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang framed it as treating AI compute like \u201cproductive infrastructure,\u201d even offering residual-value support of up to 25% on some deals to sweeten the pitch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wall Street mostly likes it\u2014Morgan Stanley and Bank of America both called Nvidia\u2019s chips unusually financeable. But Stratechery\u2019s Ben Thompson isn\u2019t fully sold, warning it\u2019s \u201ca completely new nerve-racking thing to bring safety-seeking assets to bear\u201d on a pile of GPUs.\u00a0<\/span>\u2014Eva Roytburg<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Apple taps an airline lobbyist to run its D.C. relationship<\/h3>\n

Apple <\/span>hired<\/span> Nate Gatten (American Airlines’ <\/span>head of government affairs<\/span> since 2017, and a Republican with prior stints at JPMorgan and Fannie Mae) as its new vice president of government affairs, starting Aug. 31. He\u2019ll report directly to <\/span>Tim Cook<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The hire may be Apple angling for a lobbyist who can align with the Trump administration. And it lands just weeks before Cook <\/span>hands the CEO title<\/span> to hardware chief John Ternus in September while staying on as executive chairman\u2014a role in which he’s expected to also mingle with the D.C. crowd.\u00a0<\/span>\u2014Lily Mae Lazarus<\/em><\/p>\n

Sergey Brin’s fingerprints on Google’s AI shakeup<\/h3>\n

Sergey Brin has <\/span>reportedly<\/span> spent months personally pushing Google <\/span>DeepMind<\/span> staff to move faster on Gemini, as Anthropic pulled ahead with its Claude Mythos preview, according to <\/span>Reuters<\/span><\/i>. Google allegedly delayed its next flagship, Gemini, by two months after internal testing showed its coding still lagged rivals. And <\/span>last week’s shakeup<\/span> handed day-to-day authority from DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis to his deputy, Koray Kavukcuoglu, who now has final say on major DeepMind decisions and reports to CEO Sundar Pichai.<\/span><\/p>\n

The move marks a <\/span>further erosion<\/span> of DeepMind’s independence since Google bought the London lab in 2014, with some teams shifting into corporate Google. But other top talent\u2014including Gemini’s original co-leads Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals\u2014have headed out the door. \u2014Lily Mae Lazarus<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

More tech<\/h3>\n

\u2014<\/span>Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation<\/strong>, more than double its December price tag.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>DeepSeek is quietly staffing up to challenge Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code<\/strong>, posting job listings for a new AI-agent team.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Google\u2019s newest wearables will track insulin resistance<\/strong>, a category first using AI and sensor data instead of continuous glucose monitoring.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Uber is quietly building a \u201ctween\u201d rides option for kids 10 to 12<\/strong><\/span>, based on code spotted in its latest iOS app.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>New York City is probing Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, and Titan<\/strong> over their ad practices, the latest legal headache for the booming prediction-markets industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Grubhub\u2019s $23.8 million FTC settlement is finally reaching diners and drivers<\/strong>, with checks and PayPal payouts going to more than 640,000 people over misleading earnings claims and phantom restaurant listings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Uber Freight is investigating a data breach<\/strong> claimed by hacking group Helix, which says it stole dispatch records and accounts payable files.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Trump Media is charging up to $100K a month<\/strong> for a head start on Truth Social posts, and nearly a dozen trading firms are already paying up\u2014at least one economist is calling it insider trading.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Sam Altman says a Goldman Sachs internship \u201csounds unbelievably terrible now,\u201d<\/strong> recalling the offer he turned down before founding OpenAI, which has since hired more than 100 ex-bankers itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

#Fortune #Tech #Nvidias #creative #capital #Apples #political #strategy #Google #DeepMind #drama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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