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Meta has committed to paying News Corp up to $50 million annually in a multi-year agreement for AI training data and content licensing. The deal represents Meta's continued strategy of securing high-quality publishing content for its AI models. The arrangement raises questions about the sustainability of individual content licensing deals versus industry-wide data standards.

Meta has signed a multi-billion dollar deal to rent Google's TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) chips for training its AI models, marking a significant shift away from Nvidia's dominance in AI infrastructure. The arrangement provides Meta with alternative compute capacity while signaling growing competition in the specialized AI chip market.