When Model Labs Become Landlords: Anthropic’s $50B and Microsoft’s Superfactory
Anthropic committed $50B to custom data centers in Texas and New York, and Microsoft wired an Atlanta site into a Wisconsin 'superfactory' the same…
Everything I write about artificial intelligence lands here. Less of the demo-day theater, more of what sits underneath it: the compute, the real economics, and the distance between what gets announced and what actually ships.
Anthropic committed $50B to custom data centers in Texas and New York, and Microsoft wired an Atlanta site into a Wisconsin 'superfactory' the same…
TSMC's 2nm node brings gate-all-around nanosheets at last, three years after Samsung, into the first real leading-edge fight with Intel's 18A in a decade.
The rivalry that defines the modern data industry, Databricks versus Snowflake, has reached a fascinating and revealing state. The two companies started from opposite…
A silicon-level read on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5: the all-Oryon 2+6 CPU, the Adreno GPU, the Hexagon NPU, and the TOPS number…
Stargate's Abilene flagship is live with Nvidia GB200 racks, and five new sites push the project toward 7 gigawatts and $400 billion. The moment…
Yesterday China’s market regulator and Xiaomi announced an over-the-air recall of 116,887 SU7 Standard sedans, every one built before August 30, to fix a…
NVIDIA's $500 million investment in Databricks, although relatively small, marks a significant milestone in the AI industry. It strengthens their strategic partnership, optimizing Databricks…
Jensen Huang navigated U.S.-China trade dynamics as Nvidia's export licenses for the H20 chip were contingent on a rare earth deal. Unlike Nvidia’s precarious…
In spring 2025, Washington banned and then unbanned Nvidia's H20 chip, causing confusion in AI markets. Despite efforts, trade with China lagged. Amid a…
Test link purging and dash replacement represent specialized operational hygiene practices in AI infrastructure management. These overlooked procedures maintain system reliability by clearing test…
Quantum gravity research suggests time only exists where spacetime is curved enough to support it. As the universe expands and space flattens, time may…
HP is putting a discrete Hailo-10H edge AI chip into its Engage retail point-of-sale systems for cashierless checkout and theft detection. The dataflow architecture,…
Qualcomm reported $959 million in automotive revenue for Q1 2025, marking significant growth. Its Snapdragon X line also gained share in premium laptops. With…
The Snapdragon X Elite NPU and NVIDIA's H20 are the same story from opposite ends of the compute stack. Memory bandwidth, not TOPS, decides…
Nvidia and AMD regained export licenses for China, reviving significant revenue potential after prior restrictions. Concurrently, a Senate vote ended a federal AI moratorium,…