Meta reportedly plans to rent out its AI compute, sending AI stocks tumbling — ‘Meta Compute’ would put company in direct competition with AWS

That budget buys a heterogeneous fleet. Meta signed a 6 GW, $100 billion agreement with AMD in February, holds GPU deals with AMD and Nvidia worth roughly $110 billion combined, has announced four generations of its MTIA…

China’s hollow-core fiber trial pushes 51.3 Tb/s over 128 miles without signal regeneration — milestone targets AI-era networking bottlenecks

On the hardware side, the researchers built a high-power amplifier using a cascaded dual-gain-unit architecture and a multi-element doping design, achieving a maximum output of 33.5 dBm (roughly 2.24 W) while maintaining…