Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary KIHARA said he will not pre-judge the outcome of tax-cut discussions.

Financial Times reports NVIDIA has agreed to invest about $5bln in Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup led by OpenAI co‑founder Ilya Sutskever, and will provide its latest Vera Rubin hardware as part of a "long-term partnership." The companies announced the deal on Monday; people familiar said the $5bln commitment is typically milestone-dependent. Both parties declined to disclose financial terms, calling the investment "substantial." Safe Superintelligence said the funding will help it build the compute to exploit a research breakthrough it claims and increase available compute tenfold within 12 months.

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