AI Chips

Broadcom Will Lend Anthropic $42 Billion to Lease Its Own AI Chips

Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion so the AI company can lease TPU chips that Broadcom itself helps design, per Anthropic’s IPO prospectus. The deal makes Anthropic Broadcom’s largest chip customer while Wall Street questions the circular flow of money. Full story in slides above — Sources: Reuters (via Channel News Asia), Bloomberg, Chosun Biz, October 1-3, 2026.

Google Just Put AI Chips in Space — Here's What Project Suncatcher Is Testing

Google launched the first prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher on October 1, 2026 — a fridge-size spacecraft built with Planet Labs that carries four Google TPU AI chips into orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. The test will run short Gemini workloads in space and study how the chips handle radiation, extreme temperatures, and cooling in a vacuum. Full story in slides above. Sources: Reuters, The New York Times, Gadgets Now, Memeburn (October 1, 2026). ...

AMD Buys AI Pioneer Li Fei-Fei's World Labs for $8.2 Billion

AMD agreed to acquire World Labs, the AI startup founded by renowned computer scientist Li Fei-Fei, in an all-stock deal worth $8.2 billion announced Monday. The move steps up AMD’s challenge to Nvidia in the race to power the next wave of AI. Full story in slides above — Sources: South China Morning Post, Reuters, September 28-29, 2026.

Gimlet Labs and Cerebras Team Up for AI at 3,000 Tokens Per Second

Gimlet Labs and Cerebras Systems announced a collaboration to deliver ultrafast AI inference at up to 3,000 tokens per second through the Gimlet Cloud, combining Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine with GPUs via disaggregated inference. The first Cerebras-powered Gimlet Cloud datacenter is expected online later this year. Sources: GlobeNewswire via The Manila Times and AiThority, September 28, 2026.

Google Is Launching AI Chips Into Orbit on October 1

Google said on September 24 that its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite “MVP” will fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission, currently targeting October 1 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, to test whether its AI chips can survive launch, radiation, and the thermal realities of space. Sources: The Tower Post, Aju Press, September 26, 2026.