Plus some other quantum news from the week

Progress made in lengthy negotiations

Shares jump on blockbuster deal

Microsoft shares rose eight percent following earnings call

Microsoft loses exclusive partner status, still wants some guarantees

Will be the first non-founder financial anchor for the partnership

Startup has raised $72.5m since founding in 2020

Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden question the company's ties with OpenAI and Anthropic, respectively

Stargate backer SoftBank leads investment, but there are strings attached

Fund yet to announce any investments

Will move three-quarters of its compute by end of decade

AI drives growth and hyperscalers show no sign of slowing down

Competing against Oracle, MrBeast, and others

The Chinese startup claims its model was trained for significantly less money than those developed by US labs

CEO Satya Nadella pledges to invest in country during Microsoft AI Tour in Bengaluru

Acquired double the Nvidia chips as Meta, according to Omdia  

The agreement is Google's first with an enhanced rock weathering company

As it moves further from its founding vision

AWS maintains top spot, Google and Microsoft follow

Microsoft will be both competitor and customer of the AI cloud provider

"We're not selling raw GPUs for other people to train"

Company announced plans to switch to for-profit in September 2024

Up 23 percent compared to H1 last year

Nvidia to advise the data center and energy investment effort