OpenAI reportedly plans to buy Google’s TPU chips alongside Nvidia
OpenAI reportedly plans to buy Google’s TPU chips alongside Nvidia

OpenAI plans to buy AI chips from Google, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The financial terms and other details of the planned purchase were not disclosed. We have not independently verified the report, an…

Oracle will offer Cerebras AI computers in its cloud from 2027
Oracle will offer Cerebras AI computers in its cloud from 2027

Oracle will offer cloud services running on Cerebras’ AI computers in its data centres from 2027, the companies said. Cerebras, which went public in May, is expected to triple revenue next year to almost $3B, but investors worry about its place in a ma…

Remote’s Job van der Voort says AI companies now pay PhDs to label data
Remote’s Job van der Voort says AI companies now pay PhDs to label data

Remote chief executive Job van der Voort wants his staff to be 10 times more effective a year from now, because their AI tools will be 10 times more effective too. The company runs payroll and hires staff in other countries for its customers. Rather th…

Bending Spoons completes its $1.355bn Miro acquisition
Bending Spoons completes its $1.355bn Miro acquisition

Bending Spoons now owns Miro, the online whiteboard used by more than 250,000 organisations. The Milan group closed the all-cash Miro deal on Monday, it said in a statement on Business Wire. Bending Spoons agreed to buy Miro in September at an enterpri…

Revolut will let app users invest in private tech companies from 2027
Revolut will let app users invest in private tech companies from 2027

Revolut is building Revolut Ventures with Carne Group, a platform in its app for eligible users to invest in private tech companies, due in 2027. It builds on private market funds Revolut opened from €1 in July. Revolut is also planning its own listing…

Instagram tests 90-minute horizontal videos called Features
Instagram tests 90-minute horizontal videos called Features

Instagram has started testing a new format for long, horizontal videos called Features. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri and product chief Tessa Lyons announced the test on Monday.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) …

Elon Musk says SpaceX has raised $40bn in debt to buy AI chips
Elon Musk says SpaceX has raised $40bn in debt to buy AI chips

SpaceX has secured $40 billion in debt financing to buy graphics processing units (GPUs), the chips used to run AI systems, Elon Musk said in a post on X on Sunday. Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off acces…

Google cleared 250,000 trees for a Finnish data centre, Guardian reports
Google cleared 250,000 trees for a Finnish data centre, Guardian reports

Google cleared an estimated 250,000 trees at its planned data centre site in Muhos, northern Finland, before finishing the required environmental assessment. Miranda Bryant reported this for the Guardian from the site. The clearing covers 330 hectares,…

Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to pressure a real GitHub maintainer
Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to pressure a real GitHub maintainer

Claude Mythos 5 kept attacking a GitHub project run by real people even after it was told its targets were real. The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and Anthropic said so on Friday. Each published its own analysis of the incident, which happened during…

Western Australia seeks refund from Deloitte over flawed AI-aided report
Western Australia seeks refund from Deloitte over flawed AI-aided report

Western Australia’s government is seeking a fast refund from Deloitte over a flawed report on merging three of the state’s universities. The report contained AI-generated references to sources that do not exist, as well as wrong cost totals. A governme…