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The semiconductor company has agreed to acquire Celestial AI in a bid to help build out its AI and cloud data center business.

Chipmaker Marvell Technology said on Tuesday it will buy semiconductor startup Celestial AI in a deal worth $3.25 billion and gave a bullish forecast for its next fiscal year.

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, has entered the large language model (LLM) arms race with the launch of QVAC Fabric LLM. Announced on Dec. 2, the system allows full LLM execution, LoRA training and instruction-tuning directly on laptops, desktops, consumer GPUs, and even smartphones.

Researchers are trying to build tiny synthetic emotions into AI that they hope will be the scaffolding of machine consciousness.

An acute global shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence and consumer-electronics companies to fight for dwindling supplies, as prices soar for the unglamorous but essential components that allow devices to store data.

AI startups are seeing record valuations, but many are building on a foundation of cheap, free-to-download Chinese AI models.

Demand for AI and consumer electronics sent Taiwan’s exports soaring 32 per cent year-on-year in the three months from July to September, pushing GDP growth for the quarter to 8.21 per cent, according to official data released last week.

The Bank of England warned that a multi-trillion dollar spending boom in artificial intelligence infrastructure financed by debt risks unraveling given “materially stretched” stock market valuations.

AI tools are now being incorporated into how student applications are screened and analyzed, admissions directors say. It can be a delicate topic, and not all colleges are eager to talk about it, but higher education is among the many industries where artificial intelligence is rapidly taking on tasks once reserved for humans.