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Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed AI server chips as it seeks more computing power to meet rising demand for its AI, according to two people who spoke to executives involved in the discussion.
Winning Anthropic as a customer would be a coup for Microsoft, whose in-house chip design effort ran into delays last year. Microsoft wants to follow in the footsteps of cloud rivals Google and Amazon in developing an alternative to the Nvidia AI chips that have filled up virtually a
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Walmart’s $1.4 billion purchase of New York–based advertising technology startup Vibe on Tuesday is a reminder of how serious the retail giant is about building its ad business.Walmart is paying a big price for Vibe, which helps small businesses buy ads on streaming platforms and will allow Walmart to reach more advertisers looking to buy spots on its site. The $1.4 billion price, which includes a $180 million executive retention... Read more ›
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XLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for semiconductor manufacturing, is in talks to raise $350 million in funding from a pair of investment firms just weeks after receiving substantial investment from the U.S. Department of Commerce, according to the company’s verbal and written pitch to prospective investors. The company wants to reduce the cost and time needed to make the most advanced AI server chips by developing an alternative approach... Read more ›
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Here’s a suggestion for Mark Zuckerberg: Maybe you should ditch AI model development and spend even more on smart glasses! Meta Platforms on Tuesday unveiled its latest selection of smart glasses, devised with eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica, and it’s hard not to be impressed with the way they look. Meta would seem to have more chance of succeeding with smart glasses than beating the leading AI labs in developing state-of-the-art models.... Read more ›
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Alibaba Group has sued the U.S. Department of Defense, seeking to be removed from the Pentagon’s blacklist of Chinese companies with alleged military ties. In a federal complaint filed in California, Alibaba said the Pentagon’s label has “no basis in fact or law” and was imposed “without notice ... Read more ›
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SpaceX’s xAI is doubling down on video- and image-generating tools, people familiar with the project said. That’s seizing on an opening left by OpenAI and Anthropic, which offer fewer visual capabilities. XAI launched an upgraded video model last week, highlighting how it’s pushing ahead with its own visual efforts even as it brings in outside help to compete with rivals in areas like coding. SpaceX also touted the popularity of... Read more ›
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled a new chip the two companies have developed for inference, a big step forward in OpenAI’s effort to reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips and control its own hardware. The companies are calling the new chip Jalapeno, and they said in a blog post that “early ... Read more ›
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By some accounts, the compute crunch of 2026 has become even more dire than the chip crunch of 2023, which saw even venture capital firms becoming quasi-cloud providers temporarily. That’s good news for a subclass of firms that popped up to rent out computing power and help developers run open-source models to power applications. Some people call them compute resellers or inference providers.Most of these firms rent out Nvidia-powered servers... Read more ›
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Ornn, a startup that tracks the cost of AI tokens and computing power, raised $33 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The money will be used to build a marketplace for trading compute, executives at the company told Bloomberg. Ornn is one of several companies seeking to turn ... Read more ›
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Qualcomm has agreed to pay around $3.9 billion in stock for Modular, a software startup that allows developers to write software to run on different chips without having to rewrite the code for each chip. The deal price, based on Qualcomm’s last closing price on Tuesday, more than doubled the ... Read more ›
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Since the start of the year, cities, towns, counties and states across America have slammed the brakes on allowing new data centers in their backyards. By exhaustively combing through a combination of legal documents and local news reports, The Information has identified more than 300 temporary and permanent bans on data center development that state and local governments throughout the U.S. have passed since 2023, and over 75 more under... Read more ›
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