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Jan 26, 2025
Google Bets Big on AI: $1 Billion Investment in Anthropic
In a strategic maneuver to bolster its position in the AI arena, Google has invested an additional $1 billion in Anthropic, a leading AI company and a direct competitor to OpenAI. This move, bringing Google's total investment to over $3 billion, aims to harness Anthropic's expertise in AI safety and model development. With Anthropic's valuation nearing $60 billion and its CEO's focus on developing industry-leading AI systems, Google's backing positions both companies as formidable contenders against the Microsoft-OpenAI alliance.
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Jan 26, 2025
Aravind Srinivas and Nandan Nilekani Clash Over India's AI Future!
A storm is brewing in India's tech world as Perplexity AI's CEO Aravind Srinivas openly challenges Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-founder, on India's AI strategy. While Nilekani advises startups to concentrate on AI applications, Srinivas believes developing indigenous Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for India's technological autonomy. With $1 million and personal mentorship pledged, Srinivas aims to empower local AI innovation, sparking a nationwide debate on India's role in the global AI race.
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Jan 26, 2025
Astronomers Discover 'Asteroid' Turns Out to Be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in a Celestial Comedy of Errors
A citizen scientist recently uncovered what was thought to be a new asteroid, only to reveal it as Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, launched in 2018. This identification error exposed critical gaps in deep-space tracking, spurring calls for improved transparency and system upgrades.
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Anthropic signs onto a 420 MW Nova Scotia data-centre plan
Anthropic will lease the first phase of EverWind's proposed Point Tupper campus for at least 20 years. The C$10 billion build could reach 420 MW, but grid approval and the later phase remain conditional.
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Telus’s BC AI data centre cluster is a sovereign-compute bet, not a finished build
Ottawa and Telus announced a three-site AI data centre cluster in British Columbia: Kamloops, Mount Pleasant, and downtown Vancouver. But the project is still at MOU stage, with no funding committed yet and no public pricing, GPU counts, or power capacity disclosed. For Canadian builders, the real question is whether this becomes usable domestic AI infrastructure — or just a polished policy signal that arrives after the market has already moved on.
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