a group of banks is in talks
Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees
Google's guarantees of power and lease obligations would help developer secure financing for the 1.6-gigawatt Texas project
Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model
Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it “achieves comparable performance” to Inkling — Try on Tinker Model card Hugging Face — Today, we are releasing Inkling-Small, an efficient open-weights model …
The Pentagon is already using Mythos
At a hearing, a US judge says “I don't see additional evidence” from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk — A federal judge on Thursday signaled she's become even more skeptical of the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic …