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News Corp Just Called Itself an AI 'Input Company' — And Every Publisher Should Be Nervous

There’s a phrase that should keep every publisher up at night: “We’re essentially an input company.” That’s Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp — the Murdoch empire behind The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and The Times of London — casually redefining his company’s identity at a Morgan Stanley conference. He said it like it was obvious. And maybe that’s the scariest part. The Deal That Sparked It News Corp just signed a deal with Meta worth up to $50 million per year over at least three years. That’s roughly $150 million for the right to scrape WSJ, the Post, and other News Corp brands to train Meta’s AI models and power Meta AI chatbot responses. ...

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Meta Just Handed AMD $100 Billion and 10% of the Company. Nvidia Should Be Worried.

The AI chip wars just escalated from skirmish to full-blown conflict. Meta and AMD announced a multiyear deal worth over $100 billion — six gigawatts of AMD computing power, plus warrants giving Meta up to 160 million AMD shares at a penny each. That’s roughly 10% of the entire company. Read that again. The company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp could soon own a tenth of its chip supplier. This isn’t a procurement contract. It’s a hostile restructuring of the AI hardware economy. ...

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The AI Hardware Race Is On: Apple, OpenAI, and Meta Are All Building AI You Wear

Forget the chatbot wars. The biggest AI story developing right now isn’t about benchmark scores — it’s about where AI is going to live. Within five days, we learned that Apple is fast-tracking three AI wearables simultaneously, OpenAI has over 200 people building hardware with Jony Ive, and Meta is expanding its already-successful Ray-Ban smart glasses globally. Snap is even spinning its AR glasses into a standalone company. This isn’t coincidence. This is the starting gun of the AI hardware race. ...

Meta and Nvidia Just Signed the Biggest AI Chip Deal Ever — Here's What It Means

If you needed proof the AI infrastructure arms race isn’t slowing down, Nvidia and Meta just handed it to you on a silver platter worth tens of billions of dollars. The two companies announced a multiyear, multigenerational partnership that will put millions of Nvidia processors inside Meta’s data centers. Not just GPUs — standalone CPUs, next-gen hardware, networking, and confidential computing for WhatsApp. This isn’t a purchase order. It’s a strategic alignment that reshapes who controls AI’s physical backbone. ...