IBM and startup Together AI have signed a $240 million multi-year agreement to build a large-scale artificial intelligence cluster on IBM Cloud using Nvidia systems, the companies said on Tuesday. The cluster will provide inference for open-source AI models, which have gained traction as businesses seek to rein in AI costs and weigh concerns about cybersecurity incidents involving models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. Inference, the process of running trained AI models to generate responses, has become one of the largest drivers of demand for computing capacity, prompting cloud providers and chipmakers to spend billions of dollars expanding AI infrastructure.
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Anthropic’s $965 billion IPO path rests on the aggressive, multi-layered industrialization of compute. The company has transformed access from a variable cost into a structural moat by diversifying hardware and energy supply across three continents through seven distinct funding mechanisms — effectively decoupling its growth from the supply-chain bottlenecks that throttle competitors tethered to single-cloud […]

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Every hyperscaler on the planet just committed to a spending spree that funnels through one chokepoint, and the Aug. 26 earnings report will either validate the conviction or expose the cracks in it.
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The company is fighting to protect itself from liability in multiple cases of social media addiction and a potentially crushing wave of payouts.
Platforms like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation.
Nvidia reached a deal with some of Wall Street’s largest firms to help raise $500 billion to fund the AI infrastructure build-out. Apollo Global Management Blackstone BlackRock Brookfield Asset Management Goldman Sachs and KKR agreed to help Nvidia assemble financing in a deal that could be announced as soon as Monday, people familiar with the matter said. Spending commitments on data centers and other AI infrastructure have reached eye-popping levels, and Wall Street’s banks and investment firms have been rushing to finance the boom in increasingly creative ways.
The appeals court ruled Section 230 provides a liability defense, not immunity, making Meta's appeal premature
By Diana Novak Jones Aug 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet's Google, ByteDance's TikTok, and other social
A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet's Google, ByteDance's TikTok, and other social media companies over claims they designed their products to be addictive to young users. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies’ bid to reverse a lower court’s ruling forcing them to face some 2,400 lawsuits over the claims filed in federal court. The companies, which also include Snap Inc's Snapchat, had argued that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 - which shields them from lawsuits over content posted by their users - also shields them from allegations that they failed to warn the public about the addictive nature of their platforms.
Argus Research analyst Jim Kelleher early Monday upgraded Sandisk to Buy from Hold with a 12-month price target of $1,600. Sandisk stock advanced 2.2% to $1,238.50 on Monday. At the time, Sandisk was trading around $1,757.
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The Meta CEO has issued a 6,500-word encyclical laying out the company’s thinking on the AI race. Here are a few key takeaways.
The Meta CEO has a new game plan for winning over hearts and minds to his company’s artificial-intelligence efforts.
The tobacco industry didn't lose in one courtroom. It lost in dozens of them, over decades, until the cumulative weight became impossible to carry. The lawsuits started as fringe legal theories. Then they became precedents. Then they became settlements worth hundreds of billions of dollars that ...
Ark Invest just doubled down on Nvidia and TSMC stock, and the reason why is obvious.
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Revenue surged 28% on advertising strength, but net income fell 14% due to legal charges.
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Cloud companies’ capex would run at roughly 3% of the U.S. GDP every year from 2027 to 2029, up from 0.3% of GDP in 2019 and 1.4% in 2025, according to a top economist.