Daily Tech News 1 February 2026

• Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has denied reports that his company is not going to invest $100 billion in OpenAI. (CNBC)
  
  He explained that the real story is that Nvidia is not going to invest $100 billion in OpenAI:

  "Sam is closing the round (of investment) and we will absolutely be involved," Huang added. "We will invest ‍a great deal of money, probably the largest investment we've ever made."
  
  Asked whether ‌it would be over $100 billion, he said: "No, no, nothing like ⁠that."

  So there you have it. Nvidia will absolutely definitively be going ahead with investing some amount in some company at some point maybe.
  
  Unless they don't.
  
  

• SpaceX has requested federal approval to launch a million datacenters into orbit. (Tech Crunch)
  
  That used to be a lot.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, has paused space tourism to focus on the Moon. (Tech Crunch)
  
  That seems bold considering that the company's first orbital flights only launched last year, but good luck to them.
  
  
  
• You can now buy a flying car. (Yahoo)
  
  Well, more of a flying motorbike.
  
  Actually, more of a flying hammock slung between two banks of rotors and surrounded by a plastic shell.
  
  Anyway, yours for only $200,000. And you're not allowed to fly it more than 200 feet above the ground, or in regulated airspace.
  
  And it's classified as an ultralight aircraft, and it doesn't have wheels, so not really a car at all.

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