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AI's infrastructure bets keep getting bigger as its market mood sours

The New York Times, Nov 2 · read the original

Marvell and Lumentum announce a 115 billion dollar all-stock merger built around AI connectivity hardware, one of the industry's largest takeovers, the same week OpenAI closes an initial 11 billion dollars of a round that originally sought more than 30 billion and Anthropic's own public filing names compute and power the bottleneck on its growth.

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