Nscale to Acquire Anyscale, Maker of the Open-Source Ray Framework
GPU cloud provider Nscale has agreed to buy Anyscale, the startup behind the open-source Ray framework, in a deal reported at roughly $1.65 billion.
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AI compute is the specialized processing power needed to train and run AI models, and its supply has become a central constraint on the industry. This hub covers the GPU and data-center capacity race, shortages, and the deals that secure compute.
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What Is a Wafer-Scale Chip — and How Is It Different From a GPU?
A wafer-scale chip turns an entire silicon wafer into one giant processor instead of cutting it into hundreds of separate chips. Here's how it works, and why it's built for fast AI inference.
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What Is AI Capex — and Why Is It Draining Big Tech's Cash?
Capital expenditure — capex — is what tech giants spend building AI data centers and chips. Here's what it means when that spending pushes a profitable company's free cash flow negative.
Read more →Alphabet's Free Cash Flow Turns Negative on Record AI Spending
Alphabet posted its first quarterly free-cash-flow deficit as AI spending pushed capital expenditures to a record $44.9 billion, and raised its 2026 capex outlook to $205 billion.
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How Much Energy and Water Does AI Really Use?
A single AI chat reply uses a fraction of a watt-hour, but billions of daily queries and the data centers behind them add up to a fast-growing power and water bill.
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What Is Circular AI Financing — and Why Are Regulators Worried?
Circular AI financing is the web of equity stakes, loans, and purchase deals linking chipmakers, cloud providers, and AI labs — and central banks now call it a systemic risk.
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What Is a GPU — and Why Does AI Depend on It?
A GPU is a chip built to do thousands of simple calculations at once. That's exactly what training and running AI models requires, which is why GPUs became the AI industry's most valuable hardware.
Read more →Anthropic Recruits Monzo Co-Founder to Tackle Compute Crunch
Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield is taking leave from Y Combinator to join Anthropic's compute team, as the AI lab races to secure the computing power it needs to keep scaling Claude.
Read more →Meta to Start Producing In-House AI Chip 'Iris' in September
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house "Iris" AI chip in September, aiming to double its data center computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, an internal memo reviewed by Reuters shows.
Read more →What Is AI Compute — and Why Is There a Shortage?
AI compute is the specialized processing power needed to train and run AI models. Demand has far outpaced supply — here is why the shortage persists and what it means for the industry.
Read more →Google Limits Meta's Gemini AI Access Amid Growing Compute Shortage
Google told Meta in March it could not supply the computing capacity Meta had requested for its Gemini AI usage, disrupting internal projects and forcing Meta to push employees toward its own models.
Read more →Reflection AI Locks In $6.3B SpaceX Deal to Build Open Frontier Models
The Google DeepMind spinoff signed a three-year, $6.3 billion computing contract with SpaceX's Colossus data center, giving it the GPU scale needed to challenge closed AI giants with open-weight models.
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