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Meta Platforms has signed a deal to rent Google’s AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to develop new AI models, according to a person involved in the talks. The multi-year deal is worth billions of dollars, said a person who was briefed about it. Meta has also been talking to Google about buying TPUs for its data centers as soon as next year, though the status of that discussion couldn’t be learned.
The deal is a victory for Google, giving it another brand-name customer that could help its efforts.
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Snap’s Chief Financial Officer Derek Andersen is leaving the company early next month, Snap said late Monday, for a “new professional opportunity.” Andersen has been CFO since 2019. He will be succeeded by Doug Hott, who is vice president of finance, strategy and corporate development, Snap ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has started to offer ChatGPT ad campaigns that charge advertisers based on how many people click on the ads, screenshots of the company’s ad manager show, confirming The Information’s report last week about the plans. The new ads are in addition to ads that OpenAI first launched in ... Read more ›
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Microsoft on Tuesday cut the price of its Xbox Game Pass subscription, which gives people access to hundreds of video games, to boost demand for the service, whose growth has slowed for years. The flagship Game Pass subscription price will drop 23% to $23, while the lower-priced version that ... Read more ›
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SpaceX increased its debt load by nearly two-thirds last year, to about $23 billion at the end of 2025 from $14 billion the year prior. That surge illustrated how much its acquisition of xAI added new financial obligations to the company, according to a confidential initial public offering prospectus reviewed by The Information. Much of the debt was tied to a lease deal with Valor Equity Partners for AI infrastructure... Read more ›
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Adobe announced a new $25 billion stock buyback, the latest such move by an enterprise software firm whose stock has been hit by anxieties about the impact of AI on the industry. Adobe shares have fallen 29% so far this year. The company has been a regular buyer of its own stock, spending ... Read more ›
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SpaceX, which owns artificial intelligence lab xAI, said Tuesday it has agreed to a potential acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion. The Elon Musk-founded rocket company, which is preparing for what could be the world’s biggest IPO in June, said in a post on X that Cursor had ... Read more ›
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The weeks leading up to SpaceX’s initial public offering will test big ideas about the space industry and the future of artificial intelligence. It will also answer a more basic question: how well Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs can work together.The Wall Street rivals’ top bankers have been holed up at SpaceX’s Hawthorne, Calif., headquarters in recent weeks alongside the rocketship company’s finance executives, people familiar with the matter said.... Read more ›
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