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Anthropic has filed an IPO prospectus that lays out a sweeping vision for artificial intelligence while also detailing sharply rising operating costs. The filing gives the first formal public look at the company's finances, including heavy spending on computing and talent, as it prepares for one of the most closely watched AI listings. Readers are weighing whether the company's growth plans can justify its ballooning expenditures.

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to acquire World Labs, an artificial intelligence startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, in a deal valued at $8.2 billion. The acquisition gives AMD a major foothold in frontier AI research, with Li widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in modern computer vision and spatial intelligence.

Google is moving AI chips into space as part of a push toward orbital data centers, a direction also championed by Elon Musk as a way to reshape computing infrastructure. The idea is to run AI workloads on satellites powered by solar energy, reducing terrestrial energy and cooling demands. The overlap of two major tech players pursuing the same vision has put orbital data centers back at the center of industry debate.