Google Cloud expanding co-engineered infrastructure with NVIDIA (including early Vera Rubin access in H2 2026) while pushing custom TPUs (v7/v8 generations) via Broadcom partnership locked through 2031. TPU focus on training (8t) and inference (8i).
Meta deepens NVIDIA partnership with multi-year, multi-generational deal for millions of Blackwell and upcoming Rubin GPUs, plus NVIDIA CPUs, Spectrum-X networking, and Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems. Meta also advancing AMD deployments (multi-GW scale starting H2 2026) and its own…
xAI continues aggressive scaling of its Colossus supercluster in Memphis. Colossus 2 (1 GW scale) is now operational with significant GB200/GB300 deployments alongside earlier H100/H200 units, targeting expansions toward 555k+ GPUs and multi-GW capacity. Roadmap points to 1M GPU equivalents.…
Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former Tesla AI lead, has joined Anthropic. Karpathy announced the move on X on May 19, 2026, and began work that week on Anthropic’s pre-training team. Announcement In his post, Karpathy wrote:…
Anthropic has added hardware talent from rival OpenAI, with Clive Chan joining as a Member of Technical Staff focused on custom silicon. Chan, who was widely reported as OpenAI’s second hardware hire on its in-house custom chip program, announced the…
Anthropic has officially deprecated the use of custom temperature, top_p, and top_k values on Claude Opus 4.7 and later models, including Opus 4.8. Starting with these newer versions, setting any of these sampling parameters to non-default values now returns a…
Anthropic will retire claude-mythos-preview on June 30, 2026, according to the company’s official Model Deprecations page. The model has been marked as deprecated, with claude-mythos-5 listed as the recommended replacement. Users currently relying on claude-mythos-preview will need to migrate ahead…
Anthropic will retire the original Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 models from the API on June 15, 2026 — just two days from now. The company first announced the deprecations on April 14, 2026. Both models have been…
Anthropic has officially confirmed deprecation timelines for several Claude models, with two major deadlines looming in the coming weeks. According to the company’s Model Deprecations page and recent release notes, developers using older Claude 4-series models will need to migrate…
Mastercard has introduced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a new service designed to enable AI agents and machines to conduct programmatic, high-speed, always-on transactions across its global payments network. The June 10 announcement builds on Mastercard’s existing Agent Pay program…