The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.
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INVESTORS AND FUNDING
A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.
Sapiom raised $35 million to cut the runtime cost of AI agents, sometimes by tenfold. Among the investors backing it is Anthropic, one of the model makers whose bills it is built to shrink.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Yann LeCun’s second attempt at a VC fund lands with $100M and Gemini’s co-lead as a partner
224 Ventures launches with more than $100 million in assets under management. Oriol Vinyals, who left DeepMind today to co-found Discovery Loop, joins as a partner alongside AIX Ventures co-founder Shaun Johnson.
GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.
The US Federal Communications Commission is drafting a ban on imports of new Chinese optical transceivers. These are the small modules that convert data into light pulses inside AI data centres, and Chinese firms make most of the world's supply. On the evidence so far, the first companies to feel the cost are American.
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