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Atom Computing, one of nine U.S.-backed quantum computing startups, raised a $100 million Series C round led by Third Point, bringing its total funding to $300 million (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 16, 2026

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Atom Computing, one of nine U.S.-backed quantum computing startups, raised a $100 million Series C round…

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Shares of quantum computing companies jumped Thursday after the U.S. government provided grants and took equity stakes: D-Wave closed up 33%, Rigetti up 30%, IBM up 12% (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 22, 2026

Chloe Taylor / CNBC: Shares of quantum computing companies jumped Thursday after the U.S. government provided grants and took equity…

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Filing: Jensen Huang’s foundation purchased $108.3 million worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities and other nonprofit institutes (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 14, 2026

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Filing: Jensen Huang’s foundation purchased $108.3 million worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and…

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Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to recover computing” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity” (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 7, 2026

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OpenAI partners with researchers from Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia and Intel to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to facilitate large-scale computing (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 6, 2026

Nat Rubio-Licht / The deep view: OpenAI partners with researchers from Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia and Intel to detail the…

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Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Eigen AI, which optimizes the performance of chips running AI inference tasks, for $615 million in stock and cash (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 1, 2026

Dina bass / Bloomberg: Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Eigen AI, which optimizes the performance of chips running…

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Google controls about 25% of global AI computing, with about 3.8 million TPUs and 1.3 million GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify spending (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Apple after Tim Cook, OpenAI’s new Mojo, Meta’s internal tracking escape The Big Technology Podcast…

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A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and which emerged from stealth in February with a $25 million seed (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 13, 2026

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Inside the rise and fall of Sora, whose team worked separately from OpenAI’s core research team, as OpenAI shuts down Sora and redirects computing to other tasks (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 30, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “You’re Going to Have Trouble”, with Christina Warren The director’s commentary track…

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OpenAI tells investors it’s targeting about $600 billion in total computing spending by 2030, months after Sam Altman touted $1.4 billion in infrastructure commitments (CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 20, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI’s $100B Funding Round, OpenClaw Acquisition, AI Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie The Big…

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Browsing: computing

Atom Computing, one of nine U.S.-backed quantum computing startups, raised a $100 million Series C round led by Third Point, bringing its total funding to $300 million (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Shares of quantum computing companies jumped Thursday after the U.S. government provided grants and took equity stakes: D-Wave closed up 33%, Rigetti up 30%, IBM up 12% (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)

Filing: Jensen Huang’s foundation purchased $108.3 million worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities and other nonprofit institutes (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Elon Musk says SpaceX reserves “the right to recover computing” from Anthropic if its “AI engages in actions that harm humanity” (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)

OpenAI partners with researchers from Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia and Intel to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to facilitate large-scale computing (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Eigen AI, which optimizes the performance of chips running AI inference tasks, for $615 million in stock and cash (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Google controls about 25% of global AI computing, with about 3.8 million TPUs and 1.3 million GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify spending (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and which emerged from stealth in February with a $25 million seed (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

Inside the rise and fall of Sora, whose team worked separately from OpenAI’s core research team, as OpenAI shuts down Sora and redirects computing to other tasks (Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI tells investors it’s targeting about $600 billion in total computing spending by 2030, months after Sam Altman touted $1.4 billion in infrastructure commitments (CNBC)