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Anthropic brand illustration used on the Anthropic newsroom.
AI·

Google is putting up to $40B into Anthropic. That's five days after Amazon's $5B.

Google committed $10B upfront and up to $40B total at a $350B valuation, plus five gigawatts of Google Cloud capacity. It's Anthropic's second nine-figure deal in a week.

Two Google TPU 8 chips, the 8t training and 8i inference variants, rendered side by side with the Axion branding
Hardware·

Google splits its AI chip: the TPU 8t trains, the TPU 8i serves, and Axion handles the rest

At Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled TPU 8t and TPU 8i, an 8th-generation split that matches Nvidia on agentic inference. Ironwood hit GA the same day.

Anthropic illustration from the Amazon compute deal announcement.
AI·

Amazon puts another $5B into Anthropic. Anthropic promises $100B back to AWS.

Amazon added $5B (up to $20B) to its Anthropic stake. Anthropic committed $100B+ to AWS over 10 years and 5 GW of Trainium capacity.

TrendForce chart showing Q1 2026 memory contract price increases across DRAM and NAND
Hardware·

Why your next RAM kit costs double: the AI memory crunch, explained

DDR5 contract prices jumped 100% since 2025, HBM is eating 23% of DRAM wafers, and the fabs that could fix it don't come online until 2028. Here's the shape of the crunch.

Rows of server racks inside a data center, illustrative
Policy·

Virginia turned on data centers. Here's the chart the AI industry should be watching

Virginia voter support for new data centers crashed from 69% to 35% in three years. The Post/Schar School poll and the Digital Gateway cancellation show why it matters.

Aerial view of data center infrastructure and power systems
Policy·

The US government is about to make data centers show their power bills for the first time

The EIA confirmed it will develop a mandatory energy disclosure survey for data centers, two years behind Europe. Here's what it covers and why it matters.