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Close-up of a violin scroll and pegs, symbolizing precision needed in fine-tuning AI models.
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Fine-Tuning Simplified: Thinking Machines’ new Tinker API makes it easier to fine-tune models on many GPUs

The first offering from Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, aims to simplify — and democratize — the process of fine-tuning AI models.
Stacks of AMD GPUs with OpenAI logo above, illustrating their strategic partnership in processing power.
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OpenAI Strengthens Ties With AMD: OpenAI’s latest multibillion-dollar chip deal would give it 6 gigawatts of computing power and up to 10 percent of AMD

OpenAI, strapped for processing power to drive a worldwide constellation of planned data centers, turned to Nvidia’s archrival AMD.
Aerial view of expansive data centers with orange roofs, representing massive AI infrastructure projects.
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OpenAI On the Road to Trillion-Dollar Spending: OpenAI partners with Oracle, Nvidia, Softbank, and more to build out 20 gigawatts of data center capacity

A flurry of announcements brought into sharper focus OpenAI’s plans to build what may amount to trillions of dollars of global computing capacity.
Aerial view of a large, partially constructed data center surrounded by parked vehicles and red soil in Abilene, Texas
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OpenAI Turns to Oracle for Compute: A new $30 billion, 4.5 gigawatt data center offshoot of the Stargate Project

OpenAI is working with Oracle to build its next chunk of processing power, a $30 billion outgrowth of the partners’ $500 billion Stargate project and a sign of OpenAI’s ongoing thirst for computation.
Golden lotus with circuit design symbolizes India’s push for indigenous AI across multiple native languages.
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India Pushes to Build Indigenous AI: India launches GPU network and talent programs to boost local LLMs

India, which has limited funding and large numbers of languages and dialects, is redoubling its efforts to build native large language models.
Chinese flag overlaid on Nvidia GPUs, symbolizing renewed U.S.-China AI chip trade following lifted export restrictions.
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U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang

Nvidia will resume sales of H20 processors in China.
Amazon data center at night.
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Amazon’s Constellation of Compute: Amazon plans to spend tens of billions on AI infrastructure with Project Rainier

Amazon revealed new details of its plan to build a constellation of massive data centers and connect them into an “ultracluster.” Customer Number One: Anthropic.
U.S. and Saudi flags waving against a microchip background
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U.S. to Supply Middle Eastern AI Hubs: Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, and others strike deals with Saudi Arabia’s Humain and G42 in the UAE

The United States government announced sweeping agreements to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of AI technology and services to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
NVIDIA AI computing hardware with multiple GPUs on a black reflective surface.
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U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips: U.S. makes new rules for AI chip export rules to China, launches Nvidia investigation

The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.
Bar chart of 2024 vs. 2025 capital expenditures for Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta, showing projected increases.
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Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase capital spending to meet growing infrastructure demands

Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.
Workflow for inverse design using deep learning to predict S-parameters and radiation in structures.
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Generated Chip Designs Work in Mysterious Ways: Researchers used deep learning and an evolutionary algorithm to design chips in minutes

Designing integrated circuits typically requires years of human expertise. Recent work set AI to the task with surprising results.
GB10 Superchip architecture with Blackwell GPU and Grace CPU.
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AI Supercomputer on Your Desk: Nvidia introduced Project Digits, a $3,000 home supercomputer for AI models

Nvidia’s new desktop computer is built specifically to run large AI models.
Pile of discarded green circuit boards from electronic devices.
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Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem

Rapid progress in generative AI comes with a hidden environmental cost: mountains of obsolete hardware.
Illustration of a person holding a box with network nodes emerging from it.
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AI Power Couple Recommits: Amazon deepens Anthropic partnership with $4 billion investment

Amazon and Anthropic expanded their partnership, potentially strengthening Amazon Web Services’ AI infrastructure and lengthening the high-flying startup’s runway.
Close-up of a Chinese-made server chip labeled with the logo and text ‘710’ mounted on a motherboard.
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Further Chip Restrictions on China: TSMC stops advanced chip production for China on U.S. orders

The largest manufacturer of AI chips told its Chinese customers it would stop fabricating their most advanced designs, further limiting China’s access to AI hardware.
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