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Pondero Brief: Anthropic buys 20 years of compute from a bitcoin miner

Plus GPT-5.6 Sol hits 750 tokens/sec and DeepSeek V4-Pro edges past Opus.

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Aug 14, 2026 at 10:03 PM UTC · Updated il y a 5 jours · 1 min de lecture

Pondero Brief: Anthropic buys 20 years of compute from a bitcoin miner
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$9.1B Data-center lease value

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il y a 5 jours

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Pondero Brief - AUGUST 14TH, 2026

Plus GPT-5.6 Sol hits 750 tokens/sec and DeepSeek V4-Pro edges past Opus.

Riot holds the grid permits that take years to build, so Anthropic skips the construction queue.

Riot Platforms disclosed a $9.1 billion, 20-year data-center lease alongside Q2 earnings, with Bloomberg naming Anthropic as the customer. The deal covers 191 megawatts at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus, with 96 MW online by December 2027 and the rest by June 2028, worth up to $16.1 billion with extensions.

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast at 750 tokens per second

Running on Cerebras wafer-scale chips that keep the full model weights in 44 GB of on-chip SRAM, the preview clears the memory-bandwidth wall to hit 14x standard Sol speed with the same intelligence, per OpenAI's announcement. It is OpenAI's first production-preview run on non-Nvidia silicon, aimed at real-time voice and incident response. Limited API access with a waitlist.

Microsoft 365 Copilot puts its Agent Store behind IT admin approval

Custom agents no longer reach end users until an admin approves them, closing the governance gap that stalled enterprise extensibility rollouts. The same wave added Anthropic model support inside Word for orgs running Claude. Platform teams managing Copilot at 1,000-plus seats finally control which agents ship.
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