NVIDIA Vera: The First CPU Purpose-Built for AI Agents Is Shipping
NVIDIA's first custom CPU — 88 Olympus cores, 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth, up to 1.8x faster per-core agentic performance — ships at scale to AWS, Oracle, Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI.
Anthropic Signs $10 Billion Volta Compute Deal, Extending AI Infrastructure Buildout
Anthropic announced a $10 billion computing deal with cloud startup Volta MT, alongside launching Claude Opus 5 which scored 42/42 on the IMO 2026 benchmark and 30.2% on ARC-AGI-3. The deal extends Anthropic's compute buildout amid the industry's escalating investment race.
Nvidia Reportedly Negotiating $250 Billion Guarantee for OpenAI Data Centers
Nvidia is negotiating a $250 billion guarantee for OpenAI's data-center leasing projects, with up to $350 billion in additional direct customer financing under discussion. The company sits on confirmed orders approaching $1 trillion through 2027.
AMD Invests $5 Billion in Anthropic for AI Infrastructure Partnership
AMD announced a $5 billion strategic investment in Anthropic, including a partnership to develop custom AI chips optimized for Claude's training and inference workloads. The deal represents AMD's biggest push into AI infrastructure.
NVIDIA and Google Cloud Unveil Next-Gen AI Infrastructure
The Vera Rubin Stack aims to tackle latency, cost, and security bottlenecks for agentic and physical AI at scale.