#AI infrastructure
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Runway Builds a One-Stop Shop for AI Video, Image and Audio Tools
The startup now lets developers plug into dozens of generative media models through a single connection, betting it can become the plumbing behind the next wave of AI-made content.
Google Made $119.8 Billion Last Quarter and Still Ran Out of Cash
Massive AI infrastructure spending pushed Google into negative cash flow for the first time ever, even as its cloud and search businesses hit record highs.
Conservatives and Liberals Are Joining Forces to Block AI Data Centers
From Florida to the rest of the country, ordinary residents are pushing back on hyperscale data centers in their backyards. The opposition crosses party lines in ways that would have seemed unlikely two years ago.
What is an AI chip and why do GPUs matter so much?
AI chips are the specialized processors that make machine learning possible, and GPUs became the default engine because their design happens to match exactly what training AI requires.
AMD Is Betting Up to $5 Billion on Anthropic and Its Claude AI
The chipmaker will supply massive computing power to the maker of Claude, and in return will use Claude to help write its own software.
AMD's Helios Takes On Nvidia: Microsoft Joins the Queue for a New AI Supercomputer
AMD is shipping its first rack-scale AI system to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and others. It's the most serious challenge to Nvidia's grip on the data centre market in years, but the price premium and software gap are real hurdles.
AI Data Centers Will Devour a Fifth of All U.S. Electricity by 2035
A new BloombergNEF report puts the power demand from AI computing on a collision course with an already-strained American electrical grid. Here is what that means for your energy bill.
The secret ingredient keeping AI running: advanced materials science
Chips and software grab the headlines, but a quieter race is under way in the labs developing the physical materials that let AI hardware exist at all.
Living next to a data centre: what UK residents are actually experiencing
Across Britain, roughly 450 large data centres hum away on industrial estates and at the edges of towns. The people living alongside them are starting to speak up.
Google Is Building a New AI Chip That Could Cut Power Costs Tenfold
A chip codenamed 'Frozen v2' is reportedly 6 to 10 times more efficient than Google's current hardware. If it delivers, it could meaningfully reduce what it costs to run Gemini, Google's family of AI models.
The hidden plumbing that connects AI to your apps just got easier to use
A key technical standard called the Model Context Protocol is being updated to make it simpler for AI tools to plug into calendars, databases, and business software without custom engineering work.
Microsoft plugs AMD's newest chips into Azure to handle the AI compute crunch
Three new virtual machine types land in Microsoft's cloud, each built around AMD's latest processors and aimed at a different piece of the AI workload puzzle.
Fireworks AI hits $17.5 billion valuation as companies hunt for cheaper alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic
The cloud startup, backed by Nvidia, now handles more AI traffic per day than Google's own developer tools. Its pitch: specialist models at a fraction of the cost of the big labs.
Apple passes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable company again
A 3.5% drop in Nvidia's share price on Friday was enough to hand Apple back the top spot, and it signals that Wall Street is starting to question whether the AI spending boom can keep going at its current pace.
A $400 Million Bet That Cheaper AI Chips Will Win
A startup called General Compute just borrowed $400 million to build a cloud service around a less-expensive type of AI chip. The deal may signal a shift away from the pricey hardware that dominates AI today.