AI is an arms race, and the US wants $9 billion in Nvidia superchips to keep up

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Nvidia's GB10 chips power modern AI models.
• The US wants $9 billion for AI superchips.
• Congress still needs to approve the funding.

The sudden -- even by tech standards -- pivot to AI hasn't just left businesses scrambling to play catch-up; even America's spy agencies are struggling to keep up.

Also: AI isn't getting smarter, it's getting more power hungry - and expensive

This is why the government has given the thumbs-up to a secret $9 billion request for superchips that will allow the CIA and NSA to keep up with what big AI players like Anthropic and OpenAI are doing.

So what are these superchips?

The latest batch of AI models needs a massive amount of computing power -- not to mention a huge supply of power and specialized cooling that comes as part of cutting-edge,...

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