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Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks  —  Yotta Data Services Pvt., the data center operator that runs India's largest cluster of Nvidia Corp. AI processors …

Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked third on Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard behind only models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)

Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked third on Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard behind only models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground  —  Microsoft has been quietly building its own image generator.  Announced Thursday by the company's AI Superintelligence team …

Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, its proposed orbital AI data center system (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)

Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, its proposed orbital AI data center system  —  Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Starcloud in filing FCC applications for AI satellites  —  Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is seeking permission …

Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech (New York Times)

New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech  —  The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder's A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus.  —  Jeff Bezos is in early discussions …

AI startups and founders have embraced "taste" as the new buzzword to make their products stand out, attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)

Kyle Chayka / New Yorker:
AI startups and founders have embraced “taste” as the new buzzword to make their products stand out, attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality  —  In the age of A.I., the term has become as much of a Silicon Valley cliché as “disruption” was in the twenty-tens.