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Friday, September 25, 2026

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Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.

  • AI
  • TC
  • Akamai
  • Cloud Computing
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Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic

When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is headed for smart glasses and […]

  • AI
  • a16z
  • Anthropic
  • Equity podcast
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Scaling MoE reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS with EFA and DeepEP with 40% more throughput

Learn how to scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS using Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and DeepEP. This post presents an architecture that combines Amazon EKS, EFA, and Amazon S3 and increased aggregate reinforcement learning rollout throughput by 40%…

  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
  • Technical How-to
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Accelerate multimodal RL training with SkyRL on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

Learn how to run SkyRL, an open-source reinforcement learning framework, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to post-train a Qwen3-VL-8B vision-language model with GRPO. This walkthrough covers building the container image, launching a Ray cluster from SageMaker Studio, submitting and monitoring the…

  • Advanced (300)
  • Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
  • Technical How-to
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Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off

Muse is topping the app store charts and adding users at a rapid clip, while Meta ramps up the personal AI agent's promotion across its own apps and beyond.

  • AI
  • Apps
  • Social
  • Meta
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NarrateAI: production-ready LLM quality assurance on Amazon Bedrock

NarrateAI delivers production-ready LLM quality assurance on Amazon Bedrock. This post details five techniques—adaptive pipeline orchestration, cross-account multi-model failover, real-time streaming evaluation, composite evaluation, and data accuracy verification—that reach about 99% numerical accuracy while streaming responses in real time.

  • Advanced (300)
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Technical How-to
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Deploying real-time personalized speech with Qwen3-TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI

Deploy the publicly available Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base text-to-speech model from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to a fully managed, real-time endpoint, and clone a voice from a short reference clip. Cross-lingual cloning preserves the speaker's identity across languages.

  • Advanced (300)
  • Amazon SageMaker AI
  • Technical How-to
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Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?

When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s early numbers and is headed for smart glasses and […]

  • AI
  • AI agents
  • consumer AI
  • Meta
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How Datacor built self-service rental analytics with Amazon Quick Sight

Learn how Datacor built a self-service rental analytics experience for gas and welding distributors by embedding Amazon Quick Sight dashboards and natural language querying into its TrackAbout platform, powered by an automated cross-cloud data pipeline and multi-tenant row-level security.

  • Amazon Quick Sight
  • Customer Solutions
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Multi-Region training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Qumulo

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Cloud Native Qumulo let you place training compute in one AWS Region while keeping your dataset in another. This post shares the architecture and validation results from a cross-Region training run, where a remote cluster matched…

  • Advanced (300)
  • Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
  • Customer Solutions
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Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO

Anthropic is asking its shareholders to approve a structure that would give its seven co-founders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters.

  • AI
  • Anthropic
  • In Brief
  • IPO
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Ricursive Intelligence’s Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini on when AI starts designing its own hardware

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take the Disrupt Stage to discuss closing the loop between AI and chip development. Save up to $200 on your pass before today ends.

  • AI
  • Startups
  • Ricursive Intelligence
  • TechCrunch Disrupt
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Agents can now set up your website’s security with Turnstile Spin

Misconfiguring Turnstile by skipping backend validation leaves sites exposed to bots. Turnstile Spin fixes incomplete setups by using your preferred AI coding agent to wire up server-side verification.

  • Agents
  • AI
  • Bot Management
  • Security
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