• Meta's $100B deal 💰, Pentagon threatens Anthropic 🏛️, chinese vibe coders 🧑‍💻

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    Meta has agreed to buy 6 gigawatts' worth of AI computing power from
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    AMD in a de=
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    Meta warrants=
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    company, for $0.=
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@REALITY to TLDR on Wed Feb 25 06:49:28 2026
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    TLDR wrote to All <=-

    Meta has agreed to buy 6 gigawatts' worth of AI computing power from
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    So, they're bartering now?




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