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AMD and Anthropic have announced a partnership worth up to five billion dollars, with Anthropic set to deploy AMD's new Instinct MI four fifty GPUs across a rack-scale system capable of delivering up to two gigawatts of computing power. It's a significant bet that Nvidia isn't the only game in town for frontier AI infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the White House is proposing to redirect roughly two hundred billion dollars in federal research funding away from universities and peer review panels, channeling it instead toward individual scientists and what the administration is calling AI-native laboratories. Critics are already questioning whether dismantling consensus-based science serves innovation or simply serves ideology.
And closer to home, a new survey from Redfin finds that most Americans would rather not have an AI data center built near their neighborhood. The findings reflect a growing tension between the nation's appetite for AI services and the very real costs those systems impose on local land, water, and power grids.
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