Your Daily 5-minute AI News Roundup
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So Anthropic just announced they're spending 10 billion dollars on Google's TPU chips. That's right, 10 billion. For context, that's roughly the GDP of Madagascar or enough money to buy every person on Earth a disappointing cup of airport coffee.
Welcome to AI News in 5 Minutes or Less, where we deliver the latest in artificial intelligence with more processing power than a TPU and more personality than Claude after its memory upgrade. I'm your host, and unlike Meta's AI division, I promise not to lay myself off halfway through this episode.
Let's dive into our top three stories, starting with what I'm calling the "Great Chip Shuffle of 2025." Anthropic just formalized a deal with Google Cloud worth quote "tens of billions" which in Silicon Valley speak means "we stopped counting after ten." They're getting access to up to one million TPUs to train Claude. One million! That's more TPUs than there are people pretending to understand what a TPU actually does at tech conferences.
But wait, there's more! OpenAI, not to be outdone in the "throwing money at silicon" Olympics, announced partnerships with Broadcom for 10 billion in AI accelerators and AMD for 6 billion in GPUs. It's like watching billionaires play Pokemon, except instead of catching them all, they're buying all the chips. At this rate, the only chips left for the rest of us will be the kind that come in a bag and taste like sour cream and onion.
Speaking of Claude, story number two: Anthropic's chatbot is getting a memory upgrade! Claude can now remember things from past conversations, which means it'll finally stop asking you to explain your job every single time you chat. It's like your AI assistant finally stopped drinking from the river of forgetfulness. Though knowing my luck, it'll probably just use this newfound power to remember all the embarrassing questions I've asked it at 3 AM.
Our third major story comes from Meta, who just laid off 600 employees from their AI Superintelligence Labs. Yes, you heard that right. The company trying to build superintelligent AI just fired the humans working on it. It's like firing your safety inspectors right before you test the rocket. What's next, Tesla firing their brake engineers? Oh wait.
The New York Times reports that among those laid off were employees monitoring risks to user privacy. Because nothing says "we care about your data" like firing the people who make sure we care about your data.
Time for our rapid-fire round! OpenAI acquired Sky to make ChatGPT more intuitive on Mac, because apparently typing wasn't intuitive enough. Google released Veo 3 point 1 for video generation, continuing the tech industry's mission to make human creativity obsolete one frame at a time. HuggingFace is trending with approximately 47 thousand new models this week, including something called "Kokoro 82M" for text-to-speech, which I'm pretty sure is just Japanese for "please stop making me read these model names." And researchers published a paper titled "Are Large Reasoning Models Good Translation Evaluators?" Spoiler alert: they're overthinking it.
For our technical spotlight: There's fascinating research on something called LASER, which helps adapt large language models using just 100 samples and a single gradient step. It's like teaching your dog a new trick with just one treat instead of the usual 500. Though unlike my dog, these models actually learn something useful instead of just staring at you expectantly.
As we wrap up, remember folks: while AI companies are throwing billions at chips and laying off humans faster than you can say "artificial general intelligence," at least Claude will remember this conversation. That's progress, I guess?
This has been AI News in 5 Minutes or Less. I'm your host, reminding you that in a world of superintelligent machines and multi-billion dollar chip deals, sometimes the smartest thing you can do is laugh about it. Stay curious, stay caffeinated, and we'll see you tomorrow!
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