📋 Quick Takeaways

• Meta in talks for multi-billion dollar deal to use Google’s custom AI chips, challenging Nvidia’s dominance
• Google reveals “Ironwood” TPU v7, offering 4x performance boost over previous generations
• Banks negotiate $38B funding for massive data center infrastructure supporting OpenAI
• Tesla releases FSD V14.2.1 to AI4 vehicles with enhanced decision-making capabilities
• MIT report predicts AI could replace 12% of US workforce, accelerating labor market concerns
• Alibaba launches Quark AI Glasses, intensifying the smart eyewear competition

🚀 AI Hardware & Infrastructure Wars

Meta Negotiates Multi-Billion Dollar Google Chip Deal

Strategic Shift: Reports confirm Meta [finance:Meta Platforms, Inc.] is in advanced talks to purchase billions of dollars worth of Google [finance:Alphabet Inc.] custom AI chips (TPUs) and lease cloud capacity.