Walk into any major tech conference today and a familiar theme emerges: people celebrate new artificial intelligence (AI) milestones, but the discussion quickly shifts to the same constraint, compute.

Global investment in AI compute infrastructure has crossed half a trillion dollars. Data centres consuming the electricity output of small nations are being constructed to train the next generation of ...

xAI has taken tripled the growth rate of AI data center compute. It has gone from 5X each year to over 15X each year. This next level improvement is just the start of making the ultimate business ...

Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, your request triggers a data relay race. Information leaves memory, passes through a CPU for preprocessing, travels to a GPU for heavy computation, and then ...

On Wednesday, xAI and Anthropic announced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker buying out “all of the compute capacity at [xAI’s] Colossus 1 data center,” roughly 300MW that allowed ...

More than 60% of global AI compute capacity sits with hyperscalers, led by Google, raising new questions about control, pricing power, and access. It’s official: Google is the largest single owner of ...

The generative AI boom has, in many ways, been a privacy bust thus far, as services slurp up web data to train their machine learning models and users’ personal information faces a new era of ...

Perplexity just launched a feature that lets different AI models collaborate on the same task. Called Perplexity Computer, it taps Gemini, Grok, and ChatGPT 5.2 depending on what you need. But ...