Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September

In its bid to spend less on GPUs from providers like Nvidia, Meta is on track to start making its the latest versions of its AI-specific chips in September.

Solo GP Ashley Smith announces second $25M fund to back startups in AI, security and more

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II.

Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher’s new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure and energy that power them.

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, O…

Neutralizing the Gigascale Problem: How to Solve the Physical Power Paradox of Extreme AI Training Loads
Neutralizing the Gigascale Problem: How to Solve the Physical Power Paradox of Extreme AI Training Loads

This sponsored article is brought to you by Ampace.As AI workloads grow to gigascale levels, the global data center industry has hit a hidden physical wall. The real bottleneck is no longer just the thermal limit of the chip or the capacity of the coo…

Musk v. Altman is just getting started

Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are…

Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe compa…

Google and Intel deepen AI infrastructure partnership

The two tech giants are looking to co-develop custom chips, at a time when demand for CPUs is high due to a growing global shortage.

India bids to attract over $200B in AI infrastructure investment by 2028

India is ramping up shared AI compute, adding 20,000 GPUs as part of a broader push to attract global AI investment.

Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what’s the prize?

In 2026, Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in capex. Google is just behind at $175 billion to $185 billion. It’s a lot of money!