Articles by Jerry Owens
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Alphabet Raises $84.75 Billion To Feed Its AI Compute Hunger : And Warren Buffett's Berkshire Is Buying In
Alphabet is raising an extraordinary amount of money to keep up with AI, and it has pulled an unexpected backer into the deal. The company announced an equity capital raise to fund its AI infrastructure — initially $80 billion, upsized to about $84.75 billion — to expand what it calls its "world-class AI compute infrastructure" in response to unprecedented customer demand.
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Claude Code Skills: Inside Anthropic's Playbook for the Nine Types That Actually Work
Anthropic has published an unusually concrete account of how its own engineers use Skills in Claude Code, the company's command-line coding agent, in a June 3 post on the Claude blog written by technical staff member Thariq Shihipar.
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BYD Confirms Four-Year Secret Humanoid Robot Program, Could Sell Through Car Dealerships
BYD, one of the world's largest electric vehicle makers, has confirmed it is building humanoid robots, joining the wave of Chinese automakers moving into embodied artificial intelligence.
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SoftBank Bets Up to €75 Billion on Nuclear-Powered AI Data Centers in France
SoftBank Group will build and operate 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in France in an investment that could reach €75 billion, founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son announced in person at the Choose France summit
