TurboQuant is a big deal, but it won’t end the memory crunch
TurboQuant is a big deal, but it won’t end the memory crunch
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Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate, plan to use new Google TPU
… News of the two deals emerged today in a Broadcom regulatory filing that opens with two items of news. …
Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M
… It has since emerged that the $300 billion cloud compute contract with OpenAI alone would require Oracle to borrow roughly $100 billion over the next four years . Big Red has raised $18 billion in debt in an effort to fund a massive datacenter building program. …
Oracle may slash jobs to keep AI datacenter plans on track
… MORE CONTEXT Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle's borrowing spree sue Big Red Delays? …
Musk makes the Macrohard joke again
… If AI is already writing a big chunk of Microsoft's software, simulating the company with Musk's Macrohard might not be entirely outlandish. …
Oracle taps Bloom for fuel cells to support datacenter binge
… MORE CONTEXT WARNING: Oracle's AI obsession could mean higher prices and worse support 'Uncle Larry's biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security 18 zettaFLOPS of new AI compute coming online from Oracle late next year Bloom sa… …
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
… For commercial OSes, this is not such a big problem. Yes, it's government-mandated snooping and snitching, but recent versions of most Microsoft and Apple OSes demand some kind of online account, and Apple wants you to add a payment method too. It's a bigger problem for FOSS OSes, though. …
Ex-Microsoft engineer blames Azure problems on talent exodus
… MORE CONTEXT Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important AI models will deceive you to save their own kind Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and ima… …
Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow
… The first microcomputer expansion bus was the Altair 8800's S-100 bus , although DEC's UNIBUS predated it, just as minicomputers predated micros. …
Microsoft's GitHub suspends Copilot account sign-ups
… "Agentic workflows have fundamentally changed Copilot's compute demands," said Binder. …