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Microsoft, OpenAI’s primary financial pillar historically, is joining forces with vocal rival and litigant Elon Musk on a $30 billion data center project for Musk’s xAI startup. The deal could see an additional $70 billion in debt financing, potentially mobilizing up to $100 billion total. Musk, who is an original co-founder of OpenAI, left following…

Mayo Clinic recently announced separate collaborations with Microsoft Research and Cerebras Systems related to generative artificial intelligence. The goal of the partnerships is to use generative AI to personalize patient care better, significantly accelerate diagnostic time and improve accuracy, Mayo Clinic said in its Jan. 14 news release. The Rochester, Minnesota–based health provider — consistently…

As tech giants use AI to automate traditional coding tasks, companies are simultaneously cutting lower-performing roles while competing for AI talent—creating a two-track job market where AI expertise increasingly defines career prospects. During a recent interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dished on the company’s plans for its continued push into…

Tech giants are assembling AI supercomputers of unprecedented scale. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Elon Musk’s xAI are building clusters boasting 100,000 or more H100 GPUs, with xAI planning to double its Colossus system to 200,000 GPUs — including the upcoming H200 model. To put this in perspective, OpenAI reportedly trained GPT-4 using roughly 25,000 A100…

In a move signaling a more relaxed regulatory approach to the booming AI sector, UK regulators announced they would not investigate Google’s $2 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic. The move mirrors a similar decision regarding Amazon’s earlier $4 billion stake. This green light comes as Amazon doubles, bringing its total investment in Anthropic to…