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Anthropic should have been popping champagne. The AI startup recently announced a massive $30 billion funding round that reportedly values the company at roughly $380 billion, cementing its place among the most valuable private AI players in the world. But instead of applause, the company got a public broadside from Elon Musk. In a sharply […]

A gigawatt is not a rounding error. It’s a location decision. Meta has started construction on a new 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, calling it one of the company’s largest infrastructure investments and putting the spend at more than $10 billion. The announcement underscores a shift that’s getting harder to ignore: at AI […]

Cisco unveiled its 102.4 Tbps Silicon One G300 and new Nexus 9000 and Cisco 8000 systems designed to scale AI data centers for the agentic era.

OpenAI has become the face of the generative AI boom, yet behind its viral success is a harder business question: can explosive growth translate into sustainable profits? Revenue is rising fast, but so are the costs of building and running frontier AI systems. The company’s long-term viability does not hinge on whether the technology works. […]

When Savannah Guthrie publicly pleaded for proof that her missing mother is still alive, she was asking for something investigators have relied on for decades. But as the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie unfolds, rapidly advancing deepfake technology is turning that request into a minefield, forcing law enforcement and families alike to question whether digital […]

Meta is spinning out Vibes into a standalone app. Think TikTok… but every clip is cooked up by AI. After debuting Vibes inside its Meta AI app, the company is now testing a dedicated app that gives AI-generated videos their own spotlight. And in doing so, the tech giant is taking aim squarely at rivals […]

Voxtral Transcribe 2 consists of two speech-to-text models with transcription quality, diarization, and ultra-low latency.

The round, led by Sequoia Capital, more than triples the company’s valuation from a year ago.

This highlights growing competitive pressures in the AI semiconductor sector, as rising costs and supply constraints reshape long-standing alliances.

The acquisition strengthens its position in the foundational semiconductor technologies that underpin many data-driven and AI-enabled systems.

“Isaac Asimov gave us the dream. We’re building the reality.” And the dream is to take on Nvidia.