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Sources: Meta is under contract to purchase approximately 1.6 GW of compute capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 18, 2026

Bloomberg: Sources: Meta is under contract to purchase approximately 1.6 GW of compute capacity from Crusoe across two data centers…

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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, which will debut this fall in the compute puck of Xreal’s Aura Android XR device (David Heaney/UploadVR)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 16, 2026

David Heaney / DownloadVR: Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, which will debut this fall in…

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Google Cloud says its SpaceX compute deal is a "short term" agreement "to ensure we have transitional capacity to meet growing customer demand" for Gemini Enterprise (Kate Conger/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 6, 2026

Kate Conger / New York Times: Google Cloud says its SpaceX compute deal is a “near-term” agreement “to ensure we…

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Ornn Compute Price Index: Hourly rent for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs reached $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by demand for agentic AI (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 13, 2026

Wall Street Journal: Ornn Compute Price Index: Hourly rent for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs hit $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two…

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An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks when scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 14, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Embarrassing Meta Delay The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

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Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B open-weight model that it says fits larger systems while using significantly less compute and training data (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 5, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Will empathy make a comeback? A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela Du, Sally…

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Hut 8 is partnering with Fluidstack to build an AI data center in Louisiana for Anthropic, backed by a 15-year, $7 billion lease, starting with 245 MW of compute capacity (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 17, 2025

Featured Podcasts Channels with Peter Kafka: “Neither team is used to losing.” Lucas Shaw on What’s Next for Netflix and…

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Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform offering "secure and fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 11, 2025

Robert Hart / The edge: Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform offering a “secure, fortified space” to run…

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Filing: Strategy suspended its Bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead increasing its USD reserve to $2.55 billion and announcing a $1 billion digital credit buyback program (James Hunt/The Block)

Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security engineering, warns that EU DMA proposals to open up Android and search could lead to a significant increase in fraud within weeks (Matt Burgess/Wired)

AI is forcing consulting firms to move from hourly billing to fixed or results-based pricing, a transition that is proving slow and difficult for the industry (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)

DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and has been tested on Gemma and Qwen (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Jefferies: Memory prices are expected to rise 40-50% in the third quarter of 2026 and 30-40% in the fourth quarter as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide significant relief in the near term (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

Browsing: compute

Sources: Meta is under contract to purchase approximately 1.6 GW of compute capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri (Bloomberg)

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, which will debut this fall in the compute puck of Xreal’s Aura Android XR device (David Heaney/UploadVR)

Google Cloud says its SpaceX compute deal is a "short term" agreement "to ensure we have transitional capacity to meet growing customer demand" for Gemini Enterprise (Kate Conger/New York Times)

Ornn Compute Price Index: Hourly rent for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs reached $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by demand for agentic AI (Wall Street Journal)

An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks when scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B open-weight model that it says fits larger systems while using significantly less compute and training data (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Hut 8 is partnering with Fluidstack to build an AI data center in Louisiana for Anthropic, backed by a 15-year, $7 billion lease, starting with 245 MW of compute capacity (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform offering "secure and fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)