Anthropic Secures $10B Compute Deal With Volta, Adding Norway Data Center to Expanding Infrastructure
Anthropic signs six-year, $10B cloud compute agreement with startup Volta, which will build a 133MW facility in Norway powered by Nvidia's latest chips.
Wall Street's AI Capex Reckoning: Google's $205B Forecast Signals Wider Cost Crisis
Google's revised capex guidance to $205B exposes margin compression across the AI industry, raising questions about whether the buildout is economically sustainable.
Safe Superintelligence inks compute deal with Nvidia, emerges from two-year quiet period
Ilya Sutskever's alignment-focused startup partners with Nvidia on multi-billion dollar investment, securing access to Vera Rubin GPU platform to scale research operations.
Nvidia and Microsoft launch open AI security alliance without major US AI labs
A new coalition of tech companies, led by Nvidia and Microsoft, aims to build open-source AI security tools—conspicuously excluding OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
AMD's Helios rack system challenges Nvidia's dominance in AI infrastructure
AMD launches Helios, a rack-scale system for training frontier AI models, with backing from Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic.
Nvidia's Jetson GPUs Head to the Moon as Private Lunar Exploration Accelerates
Nvidia Jetson chips will power rovers and satellites on the lunar surface, marking a major shift in space robotics toward edge AI processing.
Nvidia Positions CPU-GPU Pairing as the Architecture for Agentic AI Systems
Nvidia's new Vera Rubin chip system pairs CPUs and GPUs to power orchestration-heavy AI agents, marking the company's shift from GPU-only supplier to full-stack data center vendor.
Nvidia's Japan Pivot: From Chip Supplier to Factory-Floor AI Architect
Jensen Huang secured deals across Japan's industrial ecosystem, positioning Nvidia as the hardware backbone for a $6.2B sovereign AI initiative targeting robots and manufacturing.
NVIDIA and Hugging Face integrate NeMo Automodel for distributed diffusion fine-tuning at scale
NVIDIA NeMo Automodel now works seamlessly with Hugging Face Diffusers, enabling production-grade distributed training of video and image models without checkpoint conversion.
Anthropic in talks with Samsung on custom AI chip, escalating hardware independence race
Anthropic is exploring a collaboration with Samsung on a custom processor to reduce dependence on Nvidia, following OpenAI's recent inference chip announcement.
OpenAI Launches Jalapeño, Its First Custom AI Processor for Inference
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, an ASIC chip co-developed with Broadcom to handle AI inference workloads and reduce dependence on Nvidia GPUs.
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip signals full-stack AI infrastructure play against Nvidia dependency
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, a custom inference processor built with Broadcom, marking the company's entry into purpose-built silicon and a bid to reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs.
Nvidia's Rubin Data Center Design Cuts Water Consumption to Near Zero Through Full Liquid Cooling
Nvidia claims its Rubin reference design reduces data center water use from 2.6M gallons per megawatt annually to nearly zero by adopting 100% liquid cooling and higher operating temperatures.
Nvidia's water-cooling breakthrough addresses only a quarter of AI data center water use
Nvidia's warm-water cooling system eliminates on-site water consumption, but fossil fuel power generation and chip manufacturing still account for 66–75% of total water footprint.
Amazon plots direct challenge to Nvidia by opening Trainium chip sales to third parties
AWS explores selling its custom AI chips to external data centers, potentially creating a $50B competitor to Nvidia's GPU monopoly.
Emerald AI's Conductor software turns data centers into grid-balancing assets
A new 'power-flexible AI factory' in Virginia will demonstrate whether data centers can reduce electricity demand on command, solving a critical bottleneck in grid deployment.
MANGOS Replaces FAANG as Tech's Power Elite Shifts to AI
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI IPOs signal a generational realignment in which companies define the tech industry's trajectory.
The Verge questions whether AI-native laptops solve a problem anyone has
At developer conferences, Big Tech pushes AI laptops as inevitable. The Verge asks: does consumer demand exist?
Nvidia's RTX Spark CPU targets $200B PC market with Microsoft, Dell, and HP partnerships
Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark CPU at Computex, positioning AI agent PCs from major OEMs as a $200B opportunity to shift beyond GPU-only strategies.
Nvidia's RTX Spark laptop chips promise performance—if you can afford them
Nvidia enters the consumer laptop GPU market with RTX Spark, a high-end processor aimed at AI and creative workloads. The trade-off: expected pricing in the $3,000–$4,700 range.
Groq raises $650M to scale inference cloud after Nvidia licensing deal
The AI chip startup is shifting focus to its inference-as-a-service platform following its $20B partial exit with Nvidia.
Groq raises $650M to scale inference cloud after $20B Nvidia technology licensing deal
The AI chip startup is pivoting toward inference-as-a-service, backed by existing investors including Disruptive and Infinitium.
Snowflake commits $6B to AWS Graviton chips as cloud giants challenge Nvidia's dominance
Snowflake's multi-billion dollar investment in Amazon's custom processors signals accelerating enterprise demand for alternatives to Nvidia in AI infrastructure.
Jensen Huang Says AI Creates Jobs. He Also Sells the Hardware That Powers Them.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made an optimistic case for AI as a jobs engine at the Milken Institute — while leading the company that supplies its core infrastructure.