Intel's Q3 revenue of $14.2 billion, with AI business income at $3.8 billion


NVIDIA is discussing a major deal with OpenAI, planning to provide about $25 billion in financing guarantees to support its leasing of a 10-gigawatt data center developed by SoftBank's energy subsidiary in Ohio. Including chips, the total investment in the project may exceed $50 billion, making it the largest data center in the world.
Alphabet's bet on AI startup Anthropic has paid off massively. As of June 30, its total private investment value was ~$124.3B, with Anthropic holdings worth ~$124B, making it one of its most successful investments and highlighting deep capital-compute ties between the two AI giants.....
Anthropic has integrated its self-built economic index database into Claude, an index based on real AI usage data. Users can directly ask questions on claude.ai, such as "Which professions use AI the most?", and the answers are generated directly from the index, avoiding the model from fabricating information. This achieves data-driven answers and marks the connection between Claude and the actual AI usage in the real world.
IBM's latest financial report shows revenue of $17.2 billion and net profit of $2.2 billion, but the performance fell far short of expectations. A decline in infrastructure business led to a record 25% drop in stock price in one day, and the full-year growth forecast has been downgraded. The main reason is a sharp 42% drop in mainframe sales, with rising costs squeezing budgets, and the contraction of core businesses triggering a chain reaction.
Actress Reese Witherspoon publicly urged women to learn and use artificial intelligence to narrow the gender participation gap in the AI field. However, her remarks sparked discussion, with critics pointing out that she did not adequately address the environmental costs of AI, data center issues, and algorithmic biases. A Harvard Business School study confirmed that there is indeed a significant gender gap in AI usage.