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Tech & Business News Week in Review: 12-19 April, 2026

19 min · 19. april 2026
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This week's Tech & AI Wrap covers four stories shaped by one theme: constraint. Nvidia Blackwell GPU rental prices hit $4.08 per hour — up 48% in two months — as Vultr's CEO called it the worst compute shortage in five years. Anthropic's Claude API uptime has fallen below the 99.99% industry standard, and analysts don't expect GPU supply to balance until 2029. OpenAI confirmed its first permanent London office, an 88,500 sq ft space at King's Cross for over 500 employees — but paused its UK Stargate data centre project the same week over energy costs. We explain what that gap means. In fintech, Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk agreed to acquire Liberty Bank in California as a launchpad for agentic AI in core banking — a move Columbia professors are calling a "demonstration project" for the industry. Paradigm is raising a $1.5 billion fund expanding from crypto into AI and robotics. And European PE is quietly outperforming: Eurazeo posted record €5.5 billion in fundraising for 2025, up 28%, while EQT's $3.7 billion acquisition of Coller Capital positions it in a secondaries market set to double by 2030. Hashtags: #WeeklyWrap #NvidiaGPU #ComputeShortage #OpenAILondon #NirZuk #LibertyBank #AgenticBanking #AIFintech #Paradigm #EuropeanPE #Eurazeo #EQTColler #Secondaries #AIInfrastructure #StartupFunding #TechNews2026 #PrivateEquity #AIEconomics

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