Intel’s comeback story is even wilder than it seems

Elon Musk’s AI ambitions are converging on multiple fronts simultaneously. SpaceX is considering spending up to $119 billion on a semiconductor facility in Grimes County, Texas, dubbed “Terafab” — a vertically integrated chip manufacturing complex developed alongside Tesla and Intel. The facility is intended to produce chips for AI servers, satellites, autonomous vehicles, and SpaceX’s proposed orbital […]

MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection) is a new open networking protocol developed by OpenAI in partnership with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA that improves GPU networking performance and resilience in large-scale AI training clusters by spreading packets across hundreds of paths simultaneously, recovering from network failures in microseconds, and enabling supercomputers with over 100,000 GPUs to be built using only two tiers of Ethernet switches. The post OpenAI Introduces MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection): A New Open Networking Protocol for Large-Scale AI Supercomputer Training Clusters appeared first on MarkTechPost.

The vendor’s new agents could find a home in big Wall Street firms, threaten mid-sized service providers and start to push entry-level finance jobs aside.

Dimon and Fink upbeat in separate comments about demand for the technology as Wall Street funds sector’s spending

Anthropic has announced a joint venture focused on enterprise AI deployment, with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs as founding partners. Additional backers include Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital, and GIC. The venture is valued at $1.5 billion, anchored by $300 million commitments each from Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman. The […]

New consulting company to advise Wall Street groups on how to deploy its AI across their investment portfolios

Apple’s Mac division outperformed Wall Street expectations in the second quarter, generating $8.4 billion in revenue — a 6% year-over-year increase that analysts had not anticipated. The company’s total revenue reached $111.2 billion, up 17% from the same period last year. CEO Tim Cook attributed part of the Mac’s strength to unexpectedly strong demand driven […]

Investors bet blockbuster AI spending will overshadow fallout from Middle East conflict