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Google told Meta it cannot provide all the Gemini computing capacity Meta wants. Google Cloud's backlog nearly doubled, GPU costs surged 150%, and 7 GW of planned U.S. data center capacity has been delayed. The AI compute crunch is no longer a hyperscaler problem — it's an enterprise architecture problem that demands immediate diversification.
June 28, 2026 · 14 min read
Qualcomm's $3.92 billion acquisition of Modular — maker of the Mojo language and MAX inference engine — is not a chip deal. It's a direct attack on CUDA, the software platform that has locked 4 million developers and their enterprises into Nvidia's ecosystem for nearly two decades. Combined with a reported $8-10 billion Tenstorrent acquisition, Qualcomm is assembling a $14 billion full-stack alternative for the $255 billion AI inference market. Here's how to assess your own Nvidia lock-in and plan a multi-vendor inference strategy.
June 26, 2026 · 17 min read