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Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”

Anthropic confirmed on Wednesday that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the company has publicly acknowledged the effort. A spokesperson told Business Insider the company would co-design hardware and models, allowing Claude to run faster and more efficiently “at the scale our customers need.” The […]

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A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel. That takes total funding to $50 million. […]

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GPU prices are approaching 2.5x their launch cost. Asus and Gigabyte just made it official with a second 2026 price hike.

Asus and Gigabyte have raised prices across their entire Nvidia RTX 50-series and AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPU lineups, the second round of increases this year. The biggest hit lands on the RTX 5090D V2, which received channel price increases of $592 from Gigabyte and $666 from Asus. The RTX 5080 rose $207-$222, the RTX […]

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The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.

China’s two biggest optical module makers took a beating on Wednesday. Zhongji Innolight fell as much as 16%, according to the South China Morning Post. Bloomberg put the intraday drop at 14%. Eoptolink Technology slid with it. The trigger was a Reuters report that the FCC intends to halt imports of new models of optical […]

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Uber says it’s building “the world’s largest platform for autonomous vehicles.” Its stock fell anyway.

Uber wants to own the robotaxi era without building the cars. “Building a great autonomous driver is one part of building a successful autonomous business,” chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi told analysts on Wednesday. He then listed the rest: dispatch, fleet operations, charging, insurance and regulators. It is a bet the company is spending billions to […]

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Elon Musk said SpaceX will hit $1trn in revenue by 2030. Its first earnings sent the stock down 11%

SpaceX has reported its first earnings as a public company, and the biggest number was not the one about rockets. The company that launches most of the world’s payloads made more money selling AI compute and satellite internet than it did from space. Revenue nearly doubled to $7.8bn. The stock still fell. For a firm […]

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The biggest leveraged buyout in history just took EA private

The largest leveraged buyout in history has closed. Electronic Arts is now private. A group led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund bought it for $55bn, alongside Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners. The maker of The Sims, Battlefield and EA Sports FC comes with roughly $20bn of new debt attached. The paperwork is […]

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Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.

Palantir is having a remarkable week. Its shares jumped almost 30% on Tuesday. Chief executive Alex Karp forecast revenue nearly doubling to $8bn this year, and called demand “otherworldly”. In the same week, a report found it pays almost nothing in tax outside the United States. The numbers are sharpest in Britain, Palantir’s biggest market […]

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