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Anthropic Locked Down Gigawatts of Google TPUs During OpenAI's Breakup
Anthropic just locked in multiple gigawatts of Google TPU capacity, and the subtext is more interesting than the announcement. Anthropic is expanding its partnership with Google and Broadcom to secure multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute infrastructure
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Anthropic Just Outbid Bitcoin Miners for Multi-Gigawatt Power Supply
The battle for cheap electricity just got a new heavyweight, and bitcoin miners are about to find out what it feels like to be outbid at scale. Anthropic signed a multi-gigawatt compute deal with Google and Broadcom for next-gen TPU capacity starting in 2027
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Anthropic Hits $30B Revenue While Locking Google Into Massive Chip Deal
Anthropic just locked in hundreds of billions in chip capacity with Google and Broadcom while hitting $30 billion in annualized revenue, and the real story is what it signals about who controls the infrastructure layer of Web4.
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Samsung Just Proved AI Demand Survives Actual War
Samsung just posted an eight-fold profit jump on AI memory chips while war burns in the Middle East, and nobody in the data center business blinked. Samsung Electronics posted an eight-fold quarterly profit surge, driven by memory chips for AI and data centers
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LM Studio's Headless CLI Turns Your Laptop Into an AI Development Server
The local AI stack just got its killer app, and it runs in your terminal while Claude writes the code. LM Studio released a headless CLI that lets you run models like Gemma 4 locally without the GUI, pairing perfectly with Claude Code for AI-assisted development
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Microsoft Disclaims Copilot as Entertainment, Not Professional Tool
Microsoft just put a disclaimer on Copilot that reads like the fine print on a carnival fortune teller booth. Microsoft's terms of use now classify Copilot as "for entertainment purposes only," the same language used for horoscopes and magic eight balls
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Former Crypto Miners Now Control What Nvidia Can't Buy: $48B in Power Contracts
Former crypto miners are now worth $48 billion because they control something Big Tech desperately needs: power contracts. Eleven former crypto-mining firms have grown from $2.1 billion market cap in late 2022 to $48.5 billion today, a 23x jump in valuation driven by AI infrastructure demand.
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Anthropic Accidentally Open-Sources Internal AI Coding Tool to 29 Million Developers
Anthropic just accidentally open-sourced their AI coding assistant, and 29 million people saw the blueprints before the lawyers showed up.
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OpenAI, Meta, and Google Just Made the Same $10B Energy Bet That Could Backfire
The three biggest names in AI are betting billions on natural gas to keep their data centers running, and the math might not add up. Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all building new natural gas power plants dedicated to their AI data center operations
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Microsoft Hit Its Copilot Target But Won't Say What It Was
Microsoft just hit its Q1 Copilot sales target, and the silence around the actual number tells you everything. Microsoft's commercial CEO told staff the company hit an "audacious" internal sales goal for Copilot AI in Q1 2026, but didn't share the number
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Nuclear Data Centers Beat the Grid by 36 Months
The AI power crunch just forced a fork in the road: plug into the grid and wait three years, or build your own power plant and start training models next month.
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Microsoft Drops $10 Billion on Japan While China Watches
Microsoft is dropping $10 billion in Japan over four years, and it's not about being nice to an old ally. Microsoft announced a $10 billion, four-year investment plan for Japan, marking one of its largest regional AI commitments
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OpenAI's New Chief Killed a Video Tool Then Bought a Podcast
OpenAI's new operations chief just killed a video tool to cut "side quests," then immediately bought a tech podcast. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment, acquired TBPN podcast hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays while simultaneously axing Sora and other resource-draining projects
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OpenAI Bought a Talk Show to Control What You Believe
OpenAI just bought a talk show, and if you think that's weird, you're not paying attention to how AI companies plan to win. OpenAI acquired TBPN, the Silicon Valley talk show known for CEO interviews, after shuttering its Sora video generation product.
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Microsoft Bets $10 Billion Japan Becomes America's AI Backup Plan
Microsoft just committed $10 billion to Japan over four years, and it's not about being nice to an old ally. Microsoft announced a $10 billion, four-year investment plan in Japan, its largest single-country AI infrastructure bet in Asia
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Big Tech Just Chose How AI Agents Pay Each Other
Big Tech just decided how AI agents will pay each other, and they're not asking permission. Coinbase, Stripe, OpenAI, Microsoft, and a16z launched the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation to standardize how autonomous AI agents interact and transact.
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Google Security Team Exposes 21 Attack Vectors Breaking Every Major AI Agent
Google's security researchers just published the rulebook hackers will use to compromise the agents you're about to trust with your calendar, your inbox, and your credit card.
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SpaceX at $350B Signals the AI IPO Flood Gates Are Opening
SpaceX's public debut could be the first domino in a procession of AI titans going public, and that changes everything about how intelligence infrastructure gets funded. SpaceX is planning what could be a record-breaking IPO, with OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly eyeing public markets in 2026
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OpenAI Raises $122B But Burns $5B Yearly With No Profit
OpenAI just raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, and the only thing bigger than those numbers is the question nobody's asking out loud: what happens when the money runs out?
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