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A Japanese trade organization representing publishers like Studio Ghibli wrote aletterto OpenAI last week, calling for the AI giant tostop trainingits AI models on their copyrighted content without permission. Studio Ghibli, the animation studio behind films like “Spirited Away” and “My Neighbor Totoro,” has been especially impacted by OpenAI’s generative AI products. When ChatGPT’s native […]

How much power is enough for AI? Nobody knows, not even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman or Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. That has put software-first businesses like OpenAI and Microsoft in a bind. Much of the tech world has been focused on compute as a major barrier to AI deployment. And while tech companies have beenracingtosecure

Cloud-computing company Lambda deepened its relationship with Microsoft through a sizable AI infrastructure deal. Nvidia-backed Lambda announced it struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft on Monday to deploy tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, according to apress release. The exact size of the deal was not disclosed. Some of these GPUs will be Nvidia GB300

TheAI web browser Diais drawing inspiration from its predecessor,Arc, an earlier experiment in modernizing the web browsing experience that hailed from the startup known asThe Browser Company. On Sunday, The Browser Company founderJosh Miller confirmedthat the new AI browser will bring “Arc’s greatest hits” to Dia, including things like the sidebar mode, and combine that

OpenAI isn’t done securing the AI infrastructure it needs to rapidly scale agentic workloads. The ChatGPT-maker on Monday said it has reached adeal with Amazonto buy $38 billion in cloud computing services over the next seven years.   OpenAI said it will immediately start using AWS compute, with all capacity targeted to be deployed before

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Microsoft will invest $15.2 billion in the United Arab Emirates over the next four years, the companyannouncedMonday at the first annual Abu Dhabi Global AI Summit. The investment will include the first-ever shipments of the most advanced Nvidia GPUs to the UAE. As part of the deal, the U.S. has grantedMicrosofta license to export Nvidia chips

Microsoft is leaving no stone unturned in its quest to secure more compute capacity for meeting its customers’ heavy demand for AI services. On Monday, the Redmond-based tech giant signed a $9.7 billion, five-year contract with Australia’s IREN to secure further AI cloud capacity. The deal will give Microsoft access to compute infrastructure built with

Since AI tools went mainstream, filmmakers, writers, and actors have been scrambling to figure out whether these technologies can truly assist their creativity or if they might end up replacing humans. But there’s a larger concern to address before we get swept away by debate: AI can’t run without enormous data centers and energy infrastructure.

The buzzed-about but still stealthy New York City startup Augmented Intelligence Inc (AUI), which seeks to go beyond the popular "transformer" architecture used by most of today's LLMs such as ChatGPT and Gemini, has raised $20 million in a bridge SAFE round at a $750 million valuation cap, bringing its total funding to nearly $60