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AXIOS (Nathan Bomey) - Nvidia has a blowout quarter, but Wall Street wants more

Nvidia topped revenue and earnings expectations in its latest quarter, but the stock ticked downward in extended trading Wednesday as investors maintained high expectations for the AI darling. Why it matters: The stock is widely considered a bellwether for the health of the broader AI economy, but lately it has been trailing the broader semiconductor sector in market gains. Zoom in: Nvidia posted revenue of $96.2 billion, more than doubling its year-earlier showing, while net income jumped 126% to $59.7 billion. - That exceeded S&P Capital IQ expectations of $92.1 billion in revenue and $51.2 billion in earnings for the period ended July 26. - Revenue from data centers — Nvidia's largest source of sales — rose 117%, to $89 billion. …

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NYTIMES (Sri Muppidi, Lauren Hirsch and Erin Griffith) - Anthropic Could Aim to Raise $100 Billion in Blockbuster I.P.O.

The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

How does the potential valuation of Anthropic compare to Elon Musk’s SpaceX?
Anthropic's potential $2 trillion valuation would exceed the valuation of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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What is the potential amount Anthropic could aim to raise in its initial public offering (I.P.O.)?
Anthropic could aim to raise $100 billion in a blockbuster I.P.O.
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AXIOS (Herb Scribner) - The data center fight is hitting a fever pitch. Here's how they actually work

Data centers have become the face of AI backlash, with celebrities, politicians and protesters pushing to slow their growth. Why it matters: America's sharply rising public opposition to data centers — which fuel our everyday use of the internet — could pose an existential threat to AI's growth. State of play: There are at least 4,000 data centers nationwide, with some 3,000 under construction or planned. - The centers are often big, windowless warehouses with few people in sight, and many are developed in secrecy . Driving the news: Data centers have become a focus of anti-AI sentiment, with 70% of Americans opposing their construction. - Former NFL star Jason Kelce announced a partnership between his Garage beer company and…

How are Nvidia and other companies responding to the data center fight?
Nvidia is throwing billions of dollars into funding the infrastructure. Meanwhile, Big Tech companies are working to charm local communities to ensure their projects are built.
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Which U.S. states have seen data center opposition surface in political races?
The backlash has surfaced in political races in Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas, and Ohio.
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What is the estimated water consumption of data centers?
Data centers can require 5 million gallons of water a day for cooling alone. In 2023, U.S. data centers consumed approximately 17 billion gallons of water, mostly for cooling, according to a Berkeley Lab report. Additionally, Berkeley Lab states that data centers have an indirect water footprint of about 211 billion gallons to help produce the electricity they consume.
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How do newer data centers specifically support Artificial Intelligence?
Newer data centers provide the computing power behind AI by housing servers that contain specialized chips, such as graphics processing units (GPUs), which perform the necessary calculations to train and run AI models.
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AXIOS (Emily Peck) - Why "chipflation" is here to stay

Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED ; Chart: Emily Peck/Axios Memory chip prices are skyrocketing, thanks to AI demand, and there's no end in sight. Why it matters: "Chipflation" is pushing up the prices for electronic goods like smartphones and laptops, as well as the costs for cloud storage and hardware — it also helps explain the eye-popping ascents in semiconductor stock prices. - While the overall effect on inflation may not be huge — other kinds of products get more weight in the government's measure of consumer prices — the scale of this boom is unprecedented. By the numbers: The Producer Price Index for electronic components and accessories, which measures what companies pay for semiconductor chips and other…

What term did Morgan Stanley analysts use to describe the current corporate mindset regarding tech spending despite rising costs?
Analysts coined the term "FOMP," which stands for "Fear of Missing Procurement," as a nerdier corollary to FOMO. This reflects why companies remain eager to keep spending despite the rising costs associated with chipflation.
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How has the historical price trend of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) changed in the context of the AI economy?
From 1957 to 2020, the price of a gigabyte of DRAM fell by approximately a factor of 10 every five years. However, according to a Morgan Stanley note, this downward trend no longer applies in the AI economy, and memory prices have risen more than sixfold over the past year.
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What is Apple currently doing to manage skyrocketing memory chip costs according to a Wall Street Journal report?
Apple is testing memory chips from the Chinese memory chip maker CXMT. However, the company would require White House approval to bypass rules that typically prohibit such a tie-up.
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How are AI hyperscalers like Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet affecting the supply of memory chips?
AI hyperscalers are locking up the memory supply years in advance through long-term agreements, which leaves traditional phone and PC makers to compete for a shrinking pool of supply.
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NYTIMES (Jonathan Mahler, Jim Rutenberg and Kirsten Grind) - Five Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into Larry Ellison’s A.I. Gamble

The billionaire’s company took on ominous loads of debt to build data centers around the world. The implications go far beyond Oracle.

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AXIOS (Madison Mills) - Google's Gemini delay exposes a deeper problem: employee frustration

Poor morale among employees is contributing to delayed model releases from Google's DeepMind AI lab , according to conversations with half a dozen current and former Google DeepMind employees. Why it matters: As the company's cash flow just turned negative, investors and competitors are questioning Google's standing in the AI race. State of play: Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful model in the works, is months behind, per Bloomberg , but the company did just release a series of smaller , more efficient models, garnering mixed reactions. - Top executives from competing AI labs were quick to shade the releases, with Meta's Alexander Wang saying "Gemini who?" on X , and others asking top Google leadership when more powerful models…

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NYTIMES (Eli Tan and Mike Isaac) - Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal

A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.

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NYTIMES (Adeel Hassan) - The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of the A.I. Boom

As tech giants rush to build big data centers, some residents who live near them say a constant low-frequency vibration is ruining their health and homes.

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