The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC: Nvidia is expected next week to debut the first Windows computers that use its chips as the main processor, sources confirm to Axios. Why it matters: Microsoft's first AI PC push stumbled , but Nvidia's arrival gives it a second chance, this time with the world's hottest chipmaker attached. Driving the news: Nvidia and Microsoft will unveil their joint work and the first computers running the chips at two key industry conferences — the Computex trade show in Taiwan and Microsoft's Build developer conference in San Francisco. - Nvidia-powered PCs are expected both from Microsoft's homegrown Surface brand as well as other computer makers, including Dell, sources…
The War Department signed a $9.7 billion, five-year enterprisewide contract to purchase Microsoft Services, a move expected to save the department an initial $422 million annually.
Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.
The government’s A.I. Security Institute, staffed by alumni from OpenAI and Google, is becoming a model for countries grappling with A.I.’s emerging risks.
Google's overhaul of the search bar this week washes away one of the last vestiges of the internet's halcyon era — when search tools felt empowering, social media and swiping were novel, and popular disillusionment had yet to set in. Why it matters: The AI era and the TikTok-ification of social media have produced a digital world that's responsive to the market demands of today and unrecognizable from a decade ago. In heralding the "biggest upgrade to our Search box in over 25 years," Google acknowledged that search was a model of the past and that its core product had to be more aligned with the AI age. - The blue links that colored the Google user experience for decades have been demoted to a secondary offering as zero-click answers…