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AMD builds the Instinct accelerators that give frontier labs an alternative to Nvidia.

AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion

The chipmaker will pay in stock for the spatial-intelligence lab, with Li joining as chief scientist.

2 min read · 28 September 2026

AMD pays to get into Anthropic's stack — and buys the software problem it actually needed to solve

Up to $5bn of AMD equity into Anthropic, two gigawatts of MI450 from 2027, and an engineering pact aimed squarely at ROCm. The money is the smaller half of the story.

3 min read · 22 July 2026