Google's $17B takeover of Crusoe's unfinished Wyoming AI campus

Google takes over Crusoe's unfinished Wyoming AI data center with $17 billion campus plan
Report raises due-diligence concerns over US approvals for Nvidia H200 sales to Chinese firms
METR finds Anthropic models improving about twice as fast, with AI driving most acceleration

A Eye on AI - 12:30 PM
Google is taking over Crusoe's unfinished Wyoming AI data center and plans to invest $17 billion in the campus, after Crusoe confirmed the sale. The briefing also covers a New York Times report, via The Verge, raising due-diligence concerns about US approvals for Nvidia H200 chip sales to Chinese firms, including New Matrix, which the Times tied to a blacklisted private equity firm. We look at METR's 11-week study inside Anthropic, which found the company's models improving roughly twice as fast as a year earlier and attributed most of the acceleration to AI. Plus, Meta's Muse agents get Spaces, app-connected project workspaces, and a reported Chinese intelligence plot involving Megaspeed executive Alice Huang and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The episode traces what changed in AI infrastructure, export controls, research acceleration, consumer agents and national security.

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