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When Broadcom last week announced a funding venture with Apollo and Blackstone to pay for a gigawatt of computing capacity to be used by Anthropic, it looked like the latest in a series of AI computing deals funded by private equity. Behind the scenes, however, the deal represents a risky move by Broadcom to boost demand for its chips.
While the announcement didn’t spell out Broadcom’s role, the company—which works with tech firms such as Google to design their AI chips—is providing a key financial backsto
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Alphabet stock jumped 3% on Monday morning after The Information reported that Google was working on a new chip that could be 6 to 10 times more efficient than its current line of homegrown AI chips. The new chip, internally dubbed “Frozen v2,” works by etching the blueprint for Google’s Gemini ... Read more ›
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Chris Fall, the director of the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is resigning after just three months on the job, a Commerce Department spokesperson confirmed. Axios earlier reported the news. Dr. Arvind Raman, the director of the National Institute of Standards and ... Read more ›
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