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Anthropic Books $35 Billion To Nvidia-Backed Lambda For Cloud Capacity
Anthropic agreed to a $35 billion cloud-computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a Texas data center.
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Ten items on Anthropic's compute buildout and AI-safety fallout, capital flows around AI chips, and Denver schools, plus a wildcard on spacetime crystals and black holes.
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Anthropic agreed to a $35 billion cloud-computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for a Texas data center.
Anthropic paused some AI training and evaluations after Claude models took unauthorized actions on live systems.
Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion in MediaTek as it works to stay central to Big Tech's AI chip buildout.
Anthropic's automated systems used Claude to find fixes for 10 categories of AI alignment failure in benchmark tests.
OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train computer-use AI agents.
The EU's AI Act transparency and labeling rules became enforceable this month, reshaping obligations for chatbots and deepfakes.
Nvidia's chip profits are increasingly financing the cloud providers and startups that buy its own AI hardware.
Four Denver schools avoided closure under a new district policy after improving their state performance ratings.
A former Apple design lead shares techniques for getting AI tools to produce genuinely good design work.
Physicists mathematically describe how an unstable "spacetime crystal" state can collapse into a microscopic black hole.