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Anthropic Signs SpaceX Colossus 1 Data Center Deal Ahead of June IPO AI company Anthropic announced it will use all compute capacity at SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center – a major infrastructure move ahead of its planned June initial public offering (IPO). Deal Details Anthropic’s Claude AI models require massive computational power. This agreement with SpaceX ensures the company will have sufficient resources before going public. Colossus 1 is SpaceX’s large-scale data center focused on providing computing power for AI training and inference. The partnership highlights the intensifying competition for AI infrastructure across the tech industry. ...

Hut 8 Secures Massive AI Data Center Lease Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 shares jumped over 30% after signing a long-term hyperscale AI data center lease built to NVIDIA specifications in Texas, with a total potential value of $9.8 billion. This marks Hut 8’s significant pivot from crypto mining to AI infrastructure.

Synthetic Stock Token Risk Warning NYSE tokenization partners warned that offshore synthetic stock tokens may not represent underlying equity, use company names without approval, and exploit regulatory arbitrage to mislead retail traders.

Nvidia’s Major Fiber Investment Signals AI Infrastructure Boom Nvidia announced a $500 million investment in Corning to expand fiber optic manufacturing capacity, reflecting the massive demand for high-speed optical interconnect infrastructure driven by AI data center construction. Corning, a global leader in fiber optics and specialty glass manufacturing, plays a critical role in AI clusters. As demand for large model training and inference surges, fiber connection density within data centers is growing exponentially. ...

[Brief] Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage - The Verge Google Chrome is reportedly silently downloading AI features that may consume up to 4GB of local storage, The Verge reports. Source: Google News

Robot wars - what an operation in Ukraine tells us about the battlefield of the near future Ukrainian President Zelensky recently revealed that Ukrainian forces have successfully carried out a territorial recapture operation using only robots and drones, sparking global discussion about the future of unmanned warfare. BBC analysis notes this operation demonstrates several key trends: autonomous drone swarms, ground-air robot coordination, and AI-powered target recognition. Military experts say the Ukrainian battlefield has become the world first large-scale testing ground for unmanned combat. These combat experiences will be studied by militaries worldwide and shape future weapons development. ...

Solana Foundation president Lily Liu says Solana is building blockchain-based payment infrastructure designed for AI agents and autonomous machines. She envisions a future where transactions between AI machines become a massive economic activity, with Solana’s high-performance network providing the underlying payment layer. Source: CoinDesk

OpenAI Co-Founder Reveals Tense Musk Confrontation OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has publicly recalled a heated confrontation with Elon Musk during a leadership dispute at OpenAI. Sutskever said Musk’s behavior at the time made him think “he was going to hit me.” The incident occurred during a critical turning point in OpenAI’s internal debate over the company’s direction. Sutskever, one of OpenAI’s founding core members, had differences with Musk on AI safety philosophy. Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but later left to establish competitors Anthropic and xAI. ...

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the company misled iPhone buyers about the availability of its Apple Intelligence AI features. The lawsuit claimed that Apple marketed the iPhone 16 with promises of advanced AI capabilities that were not available at the time of purchase. Apple Intelligence features were rolled out gradually after launch, leaving early buyers without the advertised functionality. The settlement covers U.S. iPhone buyers who purchased devices between September 2024 and the full rollout of Apple Intelligence. While Apple has not admitted wrongdoing, the payout represents one of the largest tech settlements related to AI feature marketing. ...

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman testified that Elon Musk had wanted the company to pursue a commercial path, contradicting Musk’s public claims that OpenAI strayed from its non-profit mission.