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Promoting Odyssey, he told TechCrunch that "everybody knows the Greeks are inside." Single-source quote, weight accordingly, but coming from the most vocal practical-effects director working at scale it's a readable signal on how studio-side creative leadership is positioning ahead of the next guild negotiations.
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The compute starts serving Anthropic traffic in late 2027 (TechCrunch). It's the largest in a run of deals over eight months: $10B with Volta in August, $5B with AMD in July, a reported $1.25B monthly from SpaceX in May, 5 additional gigawatts from Amazon in April. The lead ti...
The energy research firm forecasts US natural gas passing $10 per million BTU at certain hubs, against a current range of roughly $2 to $4.50 with Henry Hub just under $3. The collision is hyperscale datacenter demand, slowing domestic supply growth, and rising LNG exports, se...
Per a June 17 Reuters report, world-model lab Odyssey raised a $310M Series B at a $1.45B valuation, led by Natural Capital with Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT, and In-Q-Tel participating. The investor mix is the tell: a cloud buyer, a silicon vendor, and a national-security fu...
Echo Dot went $49.99 to $79.99, Echo Show 21 from $400 to $500, Fire TV Stick 4K Max from $60 to $85 over the weekend of August 23, with Amazon saying it absorbed component increases as long as it could (TechCrunch). The upstream cause is Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron redirecti...
The French startup argues the belief that GPUs suit agentic workflows poorly is a misconception, and says its Kog Inference Engine reaches up to 30x decoding speedups on standard NVIDIA and AMD datacenter GPUs with no new hardware. The approach is hardware-aware optimization o...
Per TechCrunch, Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic in building a dedicated group for hands-on enterprise implementation. The message across the majors is consistent: model access is table stakes, and the competitive fight moved to who can actually deploy the thing...
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