Meta has agreed to power its expanding artificial‑intelligence services with millions of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Graviton processors, the company announced Friday. The ARM‑based CPUs, designed for AI inference tasks, will replace the cloud provider’s previous reliance on competitors such as Google Cloud. The move underscores a broader industry shift toward specialized CPUs for real‑time reasoning, code generation and other agentic workloads, and highlights AWS’s growing portfolio of custom chips, including its Trainium GPU for training and inference. Read more →

Alphabet's Google will invest $10 billion in AI startup Anthropic now, with an option to add $30 billion if the firm hits performance targets. The agreement also secures five gigawatts of Google‑provided TPU capacity by 2027 and mirrors a similar multi‑billion‑dollar pact the startup struck with Amazon earlier this year. Anthropic, fresh from a $30 billion funding round, will rely on Google’s silicon and cloud infrastructure as part of the deal, underscoring the growing trend of circular investments in the artificial‑intelligence sector. Read more →