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Google Sold a Million Chips to Its Own Competition

Google Cloud committed up to a million TPUs to Anthropic -- maker of Gemini's closest rival -- while its own DeepMind researchers reportedly queued for compute. How big-company incentives misallocate the scarcest resource in AI, and why compute now has to be reserved years in advance.

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Consolidate Your Data, Not Your Software

The Front Line Is a Factory Floor

The Two Percent Ritual: What Automotive Cost-Down Targets Really Buy

Previous posts

Closed-Loop Procurement: What Spend Management Can Learn From Control Engineering

Introducing Source Code: The LightSource Podcast

The Buyer's Tariff Playbook: Duty Math Belongs in the BOM

What the People Building AI Agree On (and Where They Contradict Each Other)

Previous posts

Closed-Loop Procurement: What Spend Management Can Learn From Control Engineering

Introducing Source Code: The LightSource Podcast

The Buyer's Tariff Playbook: Duty Math Belongs in the BOM

What the People Building AI Agree On (and Where They Contradict Each Other)

The Tip of the Spear: What Sales' AI Boom and Bust Teaches Procurement

China Time

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Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.

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Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.

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