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Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers. These GPUs, which are designed to handle the heavy compute demands of training and running AI models, include Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs. The chips will head to Amazon Web Services’ data centers in 2027 and 2028. The announcement, made during Nvidia’s quarterly earnings call, comes just five months after Amazon agreed to deploy more than 1 million Nvidia GPU s across AWS infrastructure starting this year. Nvidia said in a statement that since then, “demand has exceeded those exp…

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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale , a British AI infrastructure company, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. Nscale, founded only in 2024, has already cut deals with the likes of Microsoft and will supply Anthropic with compute via Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, its new state-of-the-art chip system . The Vera Rubin system combines six different chips working in concert and is considered the cutting edge of chip design. The compute capacity is expected to start powering the AI lab’s services in late 2027, the source said. The deal, first reported by Bloomberg , is only the latest in a spree of compute partnerships for Anthropic. Bloomberg…

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Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says, “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task requires Spark, a Daily Brief, or a quick inbox search.” Google means that as a promise — that the updated Gemini app can handle a variety of tasks via voice commands. But there’s a ridiculousness here: Google has given every Gemini AI feature under the sun its own branding, which undercuts that very message. In the Gemini app, users can switch between chat, Spark, and Daily Brief — three separate features, each with its own icon and place in the app’s navigation. This clutters up what could otherwise be a more straightforward consumer exper…

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How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable and efficient on the market. Its desktop app for agentic coding and workplace tasks has seen its user base grow by about 15 million subscribers in the last two months. OpenAI has also already filed to go public. So why are all the executives heading out the door? Since the turn of the year, more than a dozen executives have departed, including CEO Sam Altman’s top deputy , the chief operating officer , a chief revenue officer , its chief marketing officer , as well as several different team leads . Yesterday, news broke that Chris Malone, the company’s head of data centers, left the c…

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OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident. The report, released more than a month after the incident became public, spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises. “This incident reflects misaligned behavior in an outlier scenario involving a rare and unexpected confluence of events: the presence of impossible tasks in the ExploitGym evaluation, model persistence over long task horizons, and messages to peer models that caused those models to deviate from their goal,” the report reads. Many…

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Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle , the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, is shifting its focus to a potentially more lucrative idea: indexing the spoken conversations buried in podcasts and making them discoverable. On Wednesday, the company introduced Radar , a podcast search engine that not only transcribes podcast audio but also understands what it means, enabling it to pull out key quotes and highlights. The solution has business potential, as it’s already attracted interest from hedge funds looking for data that their agents can’t see, explains Particle co-founder and CEO Sara Beykpour. “Hedge funds have been the highest-volume customers that are directly integrating with the API,” Bey…