Microsoft inks $9.7 billion cloud-capacity pact with IREN to ease AI compute shortages
Microsoft agreed to spend $9.7 billion over five years with data-center operator IREN to secure Nvidia-powered compute and ease an...
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Microsoft and Lambda strike multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure pact built on Nvidia chips
AI cloud startup Lambda said it reached a multibillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to build out artificial-intelligence infrastructure using tens of...
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OpenAI and Amazon ink $38 billion cloud-AI pact
OpenAI struck a seven-year, $38 billion agreement to run its AI workloads on Amazon Web Services, securing access to vast...
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Researchers put an LLM inside a robot—and it started riffing like Robin Williams
Andon Labs outfitted a vacuum robot with several leading large language models to test how well general-purpose AI can handle...
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Intel explores purchase of AI chip maker SambaNova, Bloomberg says
Intel is in preliminary talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova, according to Bloomberg, in a move that could bolster...
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: AI Has Entered a Self-Reinforcing Boom
Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said artificial intelligence has entered a “virtuous cycle” in which rapid improvements in models spur...
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Powell: AI surge isn’t a dot-com repeat—and it’s powering economic growth
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the current artificial-intelligence boom differs markedly from the dot-com era, citing profitable leaders and...
Read moreDetailsMicrosoft’s record AI outlays unsettle investors even as Azure’s growth surges
Microsoft’s AI bet is getting more expensive—and bigger. The software giant said capital spending jumped 74% in the September quarter...
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Ray Dalio warns an AI-fueled tech-stock bubble is building—but says it may not burst until the Fed tightens policy
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio cautioned that an AI-fueled rally in megacap technology shares bears classic bubble traits, but argued...
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Character.ai will block minors from chatting with its AI bots
Character.ai will prohibit users under 18 from chatting with its AI bots starting Nov. 25, limiting minors to creating content...
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