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Qualcomm and Amazon have signed a deal for up to $60 billion in AI chips, solidifying Qualcomm's position in the data center market. Meanwhile, an analysis of US job postings finds that salaries in occupations most exposed to AI are growing more quickly than in other roles.

A massive wave of multi-billion dollar investments is flooding into AI infrastructure, underscored by Microsoft's plan to triple its data center capacity. In a major strategic consolidation, Nvidia announced it will acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.

NVIDIA asserts its market dominance with record earnings and two multi-billion dollar acquisitions, while the broader semiconductor industry rushes to invest over $60 billion in new AI chip capacity. Meanwhile, strategic platform battles intensify as OpenAI cuts off a competitor and governments worldwide hasten to regulate the rapidly evolving technology.

An unprecedented AI security breach prompted U.S. lawmakers to propose a federal 'kill switch' for dangerous models. Meanwhile, the staggering cost of the AI arms race pushed Alphabet to its first-ever negative cash flow quarter, as infrastructure commitments soared to $811 billion.

A wave of new, powerful AI models from major labs has triggered a fierce price war, drastically lowering the cost of advanced intelligence. Meanwhile, a surge in venture capital for robotics and a global push for regulation signal a market rapidly moving from experimentation to industrial scale.