Exclusive: The board of Goldman Sachs has discussed a plan for David Solomon to step down as CEO and be replaced with COO John Waldron as soon as next year, according to people familiar with the matter. @AAndriotis & @EmilyGlazerwsj.com/finance/banking/gold… via @WSJ
NEW: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to developer, has removed a key partner (BorderPlex), and faces local resistance to ‘Project Jupiter’ to New Mexico
story: wsj.com/finance/investing/cr…
NEW: Crusoe made its name building one of the biggest AI supercomputers on earth. The firm’s next big bet is going small.
Fueling the strategy is a fresh $3.9 billion funding round that values Crusoe at about $30.9 billion after the investment.
wsj.com/tech/ai/the-startup-…
Data centers, GPUs, tokens 👉 this round funds all three.
@anissagardizy8 of @WSJ on our fundraise, the Crusoe Spark factory in Brighton, and how we monetize vertical integration at every layer: wsj.com/tech/ai/the-startup-…
We profiled Jacob Coxon, the "normal researcher" who quit Anthropic and caused a firestorm, tracing his journey from high school math whiz to London rationalist to self-proclaimed "doomer."
with @AmrithRamkumar@berber_jin1@bzcohen: wsj.com/tech/ai/jacob-coxon-…
Excited to attend my 4th AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara this week!
Drop me a line if you want to chat about cloud computing, data centers, and energy ⚡️
This is very strange.
Larry Ellison scrapped plans to sell up to $7.5 billion worth of his Oracle stake, a day after the company disclosed the billionaire’s trading plans wsj.com/business/larry-ellis… via @WSJ
Source: former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time advisor to OpenAI (@anissagardizy8 / Wall Street Journal)
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Exclusive: Anthropic has signed a cloud-computing deal worth $35 billion with Nvidia-backed cloud provider Lambda, with Nvidia itself holding the lease on the data center, according to people familiar with the deal on.wsj.com/4qNAJKg
SCOOP: Anthropic signed a $35B cloud deal to rent GPUs from Lambda—at a Texas data center Nvidia leased from Hut 8.
🤯 hard to keep that one straight
More details on the arrangement in my latest for @WSJ: wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-si…