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Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end — We have signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027.
More: Bloomberg, 9to5Google, The Register, The Information, Capital Brief, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, DigiTimes, Sherwood News, Dow Jones Newswires, Google Cloud, and Constellation Research
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LinkedIn: Benjamin Seab, Michael Batnick, and Amol Avasare
Forums: Hacker News, r/accelerate, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, and r/artificial
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity — - Broadcom said it agreed to produce future versions of Google's artificial intelligence chips,| New Yorker: |
Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of consistent lying and more: some defend him as others call him a sociopath — New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
More: The Information, Gizmodo, Semafor, PC Gamer, Sacramento Bee, The Hill, Gazetteer SF, Bloomberg, San Francisco Business Times, Decrypt, The Verge, Futurism, Marcus on AI, Inc.com, Tech Brew, Business Insider, and Implicator.ai
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Bluesky: @emilynussbaum, @davelevitan, @petertl, @stokel, @karlbode.com, @caseynewton, @lopatto, @miafarrow, @carnage4life, @jacobsilverman.com, @harmancipants, @thefarce.org, and @paularmstrongtbd
Threads: @jjackyliang, @sami, and @nwbrownboi
Mastodon: @evacide@hachyderm.io and @nixCraft@mastodon.social
| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher taxes on capital gains, a public AI investment fund, bolstered safety nets, and more — ChatGPT maker put out policy proposals so consumers benefit from rapid advancements in artificial intelligence
More: OpenAI, OpenAI, Business Insider, Axios, Fortune, The Information, PitchBook, CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, The Decoder, Gizmodo, PCMag, Forbes, eMarketer, and OpenAI
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LinkedIn: David Robinson, Adrian Brown, Viviana Jordan, Michael Kokin, Vinod K., and Jabran Chaudhry
| Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin: |
How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT — The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.
More: Reason. X: @clairlemon, @nikitabier, @nikitabier, @redsteeze, @petersavodnik, @natesilver538, @catturd2, @alanmcole, @nikitabier, @devahaz, @blueboxdave, @elonmusk, @mikeisaac, @robbysoave, @mikeisaac, @micsolana, @ryanburge, @timcast, @natesilver538, @davidafrench, @kirkegaardemil, @davidu, @jason_koebler, @christopherrufo, @micsolana, @besttrousers, @paulnovosad, @kareem_carr, @natesilver538, @asymmetricinfo, @esjesjesj, @cesifoti, @jaybaxter, @richardhanania, @nntaleb, @stefanfschubert, @notjessewalker, @natesilver538, @literaryeric, @richardhanania, @natesilver538, @yimbyland, @datarepublican, @david_ingram, @juliangough, @jason_kint, @ryanburge, @ddiamond, @soncharm, @neeratanden, @bretdevereaux, @nikitabier, @catturd2, @nateduncannba, @akarlin, @elonmusk, @richardhanania, @modeledbehavior, @mattvanswol, @ryanradia, @yacinemtb, @natesilver538, @natesilver538, @timcast, @jason_kint, @nikitabier, @jeremiahdjohns, @bing_chris, @jaredlholt, @moultano, @natesilver538, @nikitabier, @benryanwriter, @natesilver538, @modeledbehavior, @alx, @sailaunderscore, @alicefromqueens, @alanmcole, @micsolana, @nkulw, @noahpinion, @haroon, @catturd2, @crazy_stephen_i, @buccocapital, @phl43, @razibkhan, @zerohedge, @mikeisaac, @katiemiller, @jamessurowiecki, @konstantinkisin, @elonmusk, @natesilver538, @raharrisonpa, @phl43, @david_ingram, @asymmetricinfo, @jonatanpallesen, @aricohn, @richardhanania, @elonmusk, @richardhanania, @tha_muser, @jamessurowiecki, @kasparov63, @christopherrufo, @akoustov, @natesilver538, @modeledbehavior, and @noupside. LinkedIn: Adam Shapiro. Bluesky: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io. Forums: r/fivethirtyeight
| Kiki Intarasuwan / CBS News: |
An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting over a proposed data center in the city — Add CBS News on Google — An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting … | CNBC: |
OpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate “anti-competitive behavior” by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April — OpenAI on Monday sent a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general, urging them to investigate …
More: Gizmodo, Reuters, Mercury News, Benzinga, The Information, and The Asia Business Daily
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS — Rivals OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, and Alphabet Inc.'s Google have begun working together to try to clamp down on Chinese competitors extracting results … | Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Samsung reports preliminary Q1 operating profit of ~$38B, up more than 8x YoY and above ~$27B est., a record, and revenue up 68% YoY to ~$88B — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Tuesday projected a record-high first-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, beating expectations … | Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction — A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state …
More: Bloomberg Law, Ars Technica, Engadget, New York Post, Sports Business Journal, Yahoo Finance, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, The Verge, Benzinga, Courthouse News Service, CoinDesk, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, crypto.news, Front Office Sports, Bitcoin News, The Crypto Times, The Block, Blockchain.News, Bloomberg Law, and PYMNTS.com
X: @mansourtarek_, @sam_mcquill, @wallachlegal, @wallachlegal, @wallachlegal, @rvangrack, @wallachlegal, @wallachlegal, @apartovi, @jacobrobinsonjd, and @adamscochran. LinkedIn: Dan Bernstein. Forums: r/law
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand — It's called Netflix Playground, and it's out now. … Netflix has made family-friendly titles a key part of its current games strategy …
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LinkedIn: Jenny Kim and Kelly Lawler
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a new venture with PE firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it's in talks to raise $1B for the effort — General Atlantic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman are among the firms exploring investments in the new venture, which aims to sell AI tools to portfolio companies
Bluesky: @migueldeicaza
| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: SpaceX plans to earmark a large portion of shares for retail investors and will host 1,500 of them at an event in June after the IPO roadshow launch — SpaceX outlined details of its highly anticipated IPO at a meeting with its team of bankers Monday night, telling them it plans … | Reuters: |
The US NHTSA ends a 2025 probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over the “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature after finding it involved only low-speed incidents — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it closed a probe into nearly 2.6 million Tesla …
More: ZeroHedge News, Autoweek, Road & Track, Barchart.com, Reuters, The Hill, TESLARATI, New York Post, TechCrunch, Electrek, and Wall Street Journal
Forums: r/electriccars and r/teslainvestorsclub
| Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Alibaba's Accio, an AI sourcing tool that helps small online sellers connect with manufacturers, including in China; it exceeded 10M MAUs in March — For years Mike McClary sold the Guardian LTE Flashlight, a heavy-duty black model, online through his small outdoor brand.
LinkedIn: Kuo Zhang
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